Category: Research

  • MS defense: Fast Fullchip Transient Response Estimation Technique

    MS thesis defense A Fast Fullchip Transient Response Estimation Technique Sushmita K. Rao 11:00am Monday, 25 July 2011, ITE 346 Circuit Simulation has long been a dependable technique for design engineers for functional testing before a circuit is taken to silicon. But as we move into very deep sub-micron technologies, chips are becoming more complex…

  • PhD defense: Temporal Frame Comparison Function for the Metacognitive Loop

    Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Finding a Temporal Frame Comparison Function for the Metacognitive Loop Dean Earl Wright III 9:00am Wednesday 26 July 17 August 2011, ITE325 UMBC The field of Artificial Intelligence has seen steady advances in cognitive systems. However, many of these systems perform poorly when faced with situations outside of their training. And as…

  • MS defense: Mitigating Coverage Loss in Wireless Sensor Networks

    MS Thesis Defense Distributed Approach for Mitigating Coverage Loss in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor networks Kavin Rathinam Kasinathan 10:00am 15 July 2011, ITE 325b In a heterogeneous wireless sensor network, nodes with different sensing capabilities are dispersed throughout an area of interest. Nodes with similar capabilities are not necessarily collocated. When a node fails, the area…

  • Clinical-Genomic Analysis for Disease Prediction, MS defense

    MS Thesis Defense Clinical-Genomic Analysis for Disease Prediction Darshana Dalvi 10:00am 6 July 2011, ITE 346 Recent advances in genomic research have generated vast amounts of information that can help identify individuals who differ in their susceptibility to a particular disease or response to a specific treatment. This information may offer solutions for the treatment…

  • Talk: Passive House; what is it and how does it work?

    Passive House; what is it and how does it work? Brian Uher, ECORE Living 4:00pm Wednesday 20 July 2011 MD Clean Energy Technology Incubator, UMBC South Campus Brian Uher will discuss the engineering and design principles behind Passive House – a rigorous building performance standard that ECORE Living is deploying in the Mid-Atlantic region. The…

  • Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Marc Olano

    Dr. Marc Olano is the director of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department's Game Development Track and has been pursuing research in computer graphics and computer hardware for more than twenty years. Currently, he is working at Firaxis Games on texture compression for the Civilization V video game and collaborating with Dr. Erle Ellis…

  • Faculty research profile: Dr. Tim Oates

    Dr. Tim Oates, associate professor of computer science, does research in the field of machine learning and is interested in understanding the development of the human brain. Dr. Oates is also fascinated by the idea of making robots that are capable of learning and exhibiting human characteristics.  “I don’t know if we’ll ever have androids…

  • CSEE Department celebrates faculty research

    The UMBC CSEE Department will be publishing a series of short research profiles describing the research activities of its faculty and students. The first features Professor Marie desJardins and the work of her Multi-Agent, Planning and Learning Lab at UMBC, where she works on developing A.I. solutions to real world problems. Dr. desJardins is especially…

  • Talk: Metabolic Profile in Personalized Medicine, Dr. Eddy Karnieli, 6/22

    Metabolic Profile in Personalized Medicine Eddy Karnieli, MD Director, Institute of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism RAMBAM Health Care Campus Haifa 31096, ISRAEL 2:00pm Wednesday, 22 june 2011, ITE 325b, UMBC Personalized Medicine is revolutionizing the medical world. Understanding and integrating genetic and molecular information with traditional clinical knowledge is the hallmark of this transformation. Currently,…

  • MS defense: Image Classification and Automated Extraction of Collocated Actin/Myosin Regions

    MS Thesis Defense Image Classification and Automated Extraction of Collocated Actin/Myosin Regions Ronil S. Mokashi 10:00am Friday, 17 June 2011, ITE 325b This study illuminates the aspects of cell migration, which is central to many biological processes. To understand cell migration we examine the relationship between local cytoskeletal features and local morphology. We demonstrate this…