Category: Talks
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Equation Modeling in Resting State Motor Network in Healthy Subjects, MS defense, Tejaswini Kavallappa
MSEE Thesis Defense Reliability of Structural Equation Modeling in Examining Resting State Motor Network in Healthy Subjects Tejaswini Kavallappa 3pm Monday, 16 May 2011, ITE 325 Resting state connectivity studies are of growing significance and interest in the current neuroimaging literature due to their potential in explaining various underlying brain mechanisms and, therefore, their utility…
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Group Recognition in Social Networking Systems, MS Defense by Nagapradeep Chinnam
MS Thesis Defense Group Recognition in Social Networking Systems Nagapradeep Chinnam 1:30pm Tuesday, 17 May 2011, ITE 325 Recent years have seen an exponential growth in the use of social networking systems, enabling their users to easily share information with their connections. A typical Facebook user, as an example, might have 300-400 connections which include…
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Community Detection in Twitter, MS defense by Mohit Kewalramani, 1pm Mon 5/16
MS Thesis Defense Community Detection in Twitter Mohit Kewalramani 1:00pm Monday, 16 May 2011, ITE 346 Twitter has evolved into a source of social, political and real time information in addition to being a means of mass-communication and marketing. Monitoring and analyzing information on Twitter can lead to invaluable insights, which might otherwise be hard…
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MS defense: Lohr on Semantic Light, 2:15 Thu 5/12
MS Thesis Defense Semantic Light: Building Blocks Charles Lohr 2:15pm Thursday, 12 May 2011, ITE 346 The concept of Semantic Light is simply that lighting systems can be aware of what they are lighting. This offers a number of potential advantages over conventional lighting in quality and efficiency. Semantic Light requires fine grained control of…
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MS defense: Mahale on Group Centric Information Sharing, 10am Tue
MS Thesis Defense Group Centric Information Sharing using Hierarchical Models Amit Mahale 10:00am Tuesday, 10 May 2011, ITE 346, UMBC Traditional security policies are often based on the concept of “need to know” and are typified by predefined and often rigid specifications of which principals and roles are pre-authorized to access what information. A recommendations…
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MS defense: Detection of Unsafe Action in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Video
MS defense Detection of Unsafe Action in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Video Ashwini Lahane 10:00am Thursday, 28 April 2011, ITE 346 Wellness and healthcare are central to the lives of all people. Information technology has already contributed in significant ways towards enhancement of healthcare delivery and to improving the quality of life. And it will continue to…
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Complex-valued Adaptive Signal Processing: Applications in Medical Imaging
EE Graduate Seminar Complex-valued Adaptive Signal Processing: Applications in Medical Imaging Prof. Tulay Adali Machine Learning for Signal Processing Laboratory CSEE Dept/UMBC 1-2pm Friday, 29 April 2011, ITE 237 Complex-valued signals arise frequently in applications as diverse as communications, radar, geophysics, optics, and biomedicine, as most practical modulation formats are of complex type and applications…
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MS defense: Boosting Base Station Anonymity in Wireless Sensor Networks
MS Defense Exploiting Architectural Techniques for Boosting Base Station Anonymity in Wireless Sensor Networks Zhong Ren 2:00pm Thursday, 28 April 2011, ITE 346 Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) can be deployed to serve mission-critical applications in hostile environments such as battlefield and territorial borders. In these setups, the WSN may be subject to attacks in order…
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Two bioinfomatics talks, Wed 27 April
The UMBC Biological Sciences Department will host two talks on bioinformatics on Wednesday, April 27. Bioinformatics: Illustrations from 20 years at NCB*I, Dr. Jim Ostell, NCBI, NIH, 11:00am Wednesday 27 April, BS-004 Jim Ostell is one of the founders of NCBI, he will give a general audience talk, ideal for students and faculty from Biology, CS, Chemistry,…
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MS defense: Privacy Preservation in Context-Aware Systems
MS Defense Privacy Preservation in Context-Aware Systems Pramod Jagtap 1:00pm Wednesday, 27 April 2011, ITE 210 Recent years have seen a confluence of two major trends – the increase of mobile devices such as smart phones as the primary access point to networked information and the rise of social media platforms that connect people. Their…