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FAISAL KALEEM

Assistant Professor (Teaching)

Electrical & Computer engineering

Florida International University

Miami, Florida 33174

A. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

Institution and Location Degree Year Field of Study

Florida International University Ph.D 2012 Electrical Engineering

Florida International University MS 1999 Electrical Engineering

N.E.D. University of Eng. & Tech., Pakistan BS 1994 Electrical Engineering

B. APPOINTMENTS

2010—Present Assistant Professor (Teaching), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

2000—2010 Sr. Lecturer, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems, College of

Business, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

1998—2000 Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

1994—1996 Senior Development Engineer, Precision Technology (pvt.) Ltd., Karachi, Pakistan.

C.1. RELATED PRODUCTS

1. A. Mehbodniya, F. Kaleem, K. Kang Yen, and F. Adachi, “Wireless network access selection

scheme for heterogeneous multimedia traffic”, Institution of Engineering and Technology,

DOI: 10.1049/iet-net.2012.0188 IET Digital Library, http://digitallibrary.

theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/iet-net.2012.0188.

2. F. Kaleem, A.Mehbodniya, K. K. Yen, and F. Adachi, “A Fuzzy Preprocessing Module for

Optimizing the Access Network Selection in Wireless Networks,” Advances in Fuzzy Systems,

vol. 2013, Article ID 232198, 9 pages, 2013

3. F. Kaleem, A. Mehbodniya, K. K. Yen, F. Adachi, “Dynamic target wireless network selection

technique using fuzzy linguistic variables,” China Communications, vol.10, no.1, pp.1,16, Jan.

2013.

4. A. Mehbodniya, F. Kaleem, K. K. Yen, F. Adachi, “A Fuzzy Extension of VIKOR for Target

Network Selection in Heterogeneous Wireless Environments,” Article in Press, Physical

Communications, Elsevier, February 2013.

5. F. Kaleem, A. Mehbodniya, K. K. Yen, F. Adachi, “A Modularized NAT Selection Scheme for

Dynamic Multi-Traffic Multi-Tier Network Architectures,” International Journal of Advanced

Intelligence, vol.4, no.1, pp. 109-132, December 2012

C.2. OTHER SELECTED PRODUCTS

1. F. Kaleem, A. Mehbodniya, K. K. Yen, F. Adachi, “A Fuzzy MADM Ranking Approach for

Vertical Mobility in Next Generation Hybrid Networks,” International Conference on Ultra

Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems (ICUMT), October 2012.

2. F. Kaleem, A. Mehbodniya, K. K. Yen, F. Adachi, “Application of Fuzzy TOPSIS Method for

Weighting the System Attributes in Overlay Networks,” The 14th Asia-Pacific Network

Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS), September 2012.

3. F. Kaleem, A. Mehbodniya, K. K. Yen, F. Adachi, “Application of FVIKOR Method to

Prioritization of Wireless Networks with Multiple Attributes,” IEEE International Symposium

on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), September 2012.

4. F. Kaleem, A. Mehbodniya, K. K. Yen, F. Adachi, “A Dynamic Weighting of Attributes in

Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Using Fuzzy Linguistic Variables,” IEEE International

Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), August 2012.

5. F. Kaleem, A. Mehbodniya, K. K. Yen, F. Adachi, “A FAHP Weighting Scheme for System

Attributes in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks,”, IEEE Vehicular Technology (VTS) Asia

Pacific Wireless Communications Symposium (APWCS), August 2012.

D. HONORS, AWARDS, MEMBERSHIPS, AND SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

1. Established relationship with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and US Secret Service

(USSSS) to work on a joint project related to Mobile Malware. Verizon donated 50

smartphones and data service (approximate cost $26,000) in support of the project.

2. Working as a Co-PI, secured $35,000 in funding to establish FPL I-Lab for Smart Grid related

research including cyber-security.

3. Proposed, designed and taught several undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of Digital

Forensics, Mobile Malware and Cyber Security.

4. Chairperson, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society,

Miami Section, 2011—Present.

5. Member, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2000—Present.

6. Member, University Technology committee at Florida International University since 2007.

7. Recipient of University wide Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008.

8. Recipient of numerous teaching awards including best professor and best course awards

(security) since 2001.

9. Certified Trainer for various industry renowned certifications in the area of Networking,

Programming, Databases, and Security.

10. Member Board of Directors Miami-Dade Public Library Systems.

11. Member Board of Directors Miami-Dade Community Relations Board (CRB).

12. Information Technology consultant since 2002.

13. Faculty Advisor of various student clubs at Florida International University.

14. Member Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu and Golden Key International Honor Societies.

15. Member FBI-InfraGard.

16. Member USSSS sponsored Miami Electronic Crimes Task Force (MECTF).

COLLABORATORS & OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Collaborators

Dr. Hai Deng (Florida International University)

Dr. Ismail Guvenc (Florida International University)

Dr. Arif Islam (Florida International University)

Graduate Advisors

Dr. Kang K. Yen, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida

International University.

Biographical Sketch: Ismail Guvenc

A. Professional Preparation

• B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2001), Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

• M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2003), Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2006), Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

B. Appointments

• 2012–Present: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International

University, Miami, FL.

• 2006–2012: Research Engineer, DOCOMO Innovations, Inc., Palo Alto, CA.

• Jan.–Aug. 2005: Research Intern, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA.

C.1. Five Related Products

1. D. L. Perez, X. Chu, and I. Guvenc, “On the Expanded Region of Picocells in Heterogeneous

Networks”, IEEE J. Sel. Topics in Sig. Processing (JSTSP), vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 281-294, June

2012. [10 Google Scholar citations]

2. I. Guvenc, “Capacity and Fairness Analysis of Heterogeneous Networks with Range Expansion

and Interference Coordination”, IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 1084-1087, Nov.


3. D. Lopez-Perez, I. Guvenc, G. de la Roche, M. Kountouris, T. Q. S. Quek, “Enhanced Inter-Cell

Interference Coordination Challenges in Heterogeneous Networks,” IEEE Wireless Commun.

Mag. (Special Issue on Heterogeneous Networks), vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 22-30, June 2011. [109

Google Scholar citations]

4. D. L. Perez, I. Guvenc, and X. Chu, “Mobility Management Challenges in 3GPP Heterogeneous

Networks”, IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 70–78 Dec. 2012.

5. M. E. Sahin, I. Guvenc, H. Arslan, “Opportunity Detection for OFDMA Based Cognitive Radio

Systems with Timing Misalignment,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 8, No. 10, pp.

5300-5313, Oct. 2009. [12 Google Scholar citations]

C.2. Five Other Significant Products

1. I. Guvenc, M. R. Jeong, F. Watanabe, and H. Inamura, “A Hybrid Frequency Assignment for

Femtocells and Coverage Area Analysis for Co-Channel Operation”, IEEE Commun. Lett., vol.

12, no. 12, pp. 880-882, Dec. 2008. [140 Google Scholar citations]

2. I. Guvenc and Z. Sahinoglu, “Threshold Based TOA Estimation for Impulse Radio UWB Systems”,

in Proc. IEEE International Conf. UWB (ICU), Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 420-425, Sept.


3. Z. Sahinoglu, S. Gezici, and I. Guvenc, “Ultra-wideband Positioning Systems”, Cambridge University

Press, June 2008. [189 Google Scholar citations]

4. I. Guvenc, Z. Sahinoglu, and P. V. Orlik, “TOA Estimation for IR-UWB Systems with Different

Transceiver Types”, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 1876-


5. I. Guvenc and C.-C. Chong, “A Survey on TOA Based Wireless Localization and NLOS Mitigation

Techniques,” IEEE Commun. Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 107–124, July


D. Synergistic Activities

• Editor, IEEE Communications Letters (2010-Present) and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

(2011-Present).

• Lead guest editor for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (May

2010, Special Issue on Femtocell Networks), lead guest editor for IEEE Communications Magazine

(May 2013 and June 2013, Feature Topic Issue on Heterogeneous and Small Cell Networks

(HetSNets)), and guest editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing (June

2012, Special Issue on Signal Processing in Heterogeneous Networks for Future Broadband Wireless

Systems).

• Co-authored/co-edited three books for Cambridge University Press: “Small Cell Networks:

Deployment, PHY Techniques, and Resource Management” (April 2013), “Reliable Communications

for Short-Range Wireless Systems” (April 2011), and “Ultra-Wideband Positioning

Systems- Theoretical Limits, Ranging Algorithms, and Protocols” (August 2008).

• Member of Technical Program Committee (TPC) for over 40 international conferences, Technical

Symposium Co-chair of WCSP-2013, Steering Committee Member of HetSNets-2013, Workshop

Co-chair of IOFC-2013, Workshop Co-chair of HetSNets-2012, Steering Committee Member of

FEMnet-2011, Workshop Co-chair of HETnet-2011, Workshop Co-chair of FEMnet-2010, Local

Arrangements Chair of ICCCN-2009, and Sponsorship Co-chair of ICCCN-2008.

• Judge, South Florida Regional Science and Engineering Fair, Miami Dade College – North

Campus (Jan. 2013), and Scholarly Forum at Graduate Student AppreciationWeek, Engineering

Session, Florida International University (Mar. 2013).

E. Collaborators and Other Affiliations

• Collaborators (past 48 months): Alphan Sahin (USF), Bahadir Celebi (USF), Balkan

Kecicioglu (Intel), Cenk Erturk (USF), Chia-Chin Chong (Huawei), David Lopez Perez (Bell

Labs), Fredrik Gunnarsson (Ericsson), Fujio Watanabe (DOCOMO Innovations), Guillaume de

la Roche (Mindspeed Technologies), Hisham Mahmoud (Qualcomm), Ibrahim Demirdogen (Airvana),

Huseyin Arslan (USF), Marios Kountouris (Supelec), Mehdi Bennis (University of Oulu),

Moo-Ryong Jeong (DOCOMO Innovations), Mustafa E. Sahin (Reverb Networks), Sayandev

Mukherjee (DOCOMO Innovations), Sinan Gezici (Bilkent University), Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore

University of Technology and Design), Walid Saad (University of Miami), Xiaoli Chu

(Sheffield University), Zafer Sahinoglu (MERL).

• Co-editors (past 24 months): David-Lopez Perez (Bell Labs), Dong In Kim (Sungkyunkwan

University), Eric G. Larsson (Linkoping University), Guillaume de la Roche (Mindspeed Technologies),

Harish Viswanathan (Bell Labs), Marios Kountouris (Supelec), Robert Heath (UT

Austin), Merouane Debbah (Supelec), Sinan Gezici (Bilkent University), Tony Q. S. Quek (Singapore

University of Technology and Design), Ulas C. Kozat (DOCOMO Innovations), Zafer

Sahinoglu (MERL).

• Graduate Advisors: Huseyin Arslan, University of South Florida (Ph.D. Advisor) and Chaouki

Abdallah, University of New Mexico (M.S. Advisor).

JEAN H. ANDRIAN

Associate Professor






Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada BS 1979 Electrical Engineering

Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada MS 1982 Engineering Physics

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL PhD 1985 Electrical Engineering

B. APPOINTMENTS

2010 – Present: Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Electrical & Computer

Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL

1991 – 2010: Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Florida

International University, Miami, FL

1985-1991: Electrical & Computer Engineering, Florida International University,

Miami, FL


1. O. Granados, J. Andrian, “Quasi-Orthogonal Space Time Block Coding using Polynomial

Phase Modulation,” ISRN Communications and Networking Journal, 2011.

2. Kefeng Tan, Jean Andrian, Hao Zhu, Frank Condocia, Chi Zhou, “A Novel Spectrum

Encoding MIMO Communication System”, Wireless Personal Communications Journal, vol.

52, 147-163, 2010.

3. O. Granados, J. Andrian, “Space-Time Block Coding with Symbol-Wise Decoding for

Polynomial Phase Modulated Signals” in Proc. Wireless Telecommunications Symposium

(WTS), New York, NY, 2011.

4. Kefeng Tan, Zhiwen Wan, Hao Zhu, and Andrian Jean, “CODE: Cooperative Medium

Access for Multirate Wireless Ad Hoc Network”, in Proc. IEEE SECON, 2007.

5. Kefeng Tan, Andrian Jean, Candocia, F.M. and Zhou, C., “An Enhanced Wavelet Domain

Communication System (EWDCS) with Nonstationary Interference Avoidance Capability,”

in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Montreal, Canada, Sep, 2006.


1. Tosmate Cheocherngngarn, Jean Andrian, Deng Pan, “Analyzing the Energy Efficiency on

a Deployement of Multicast Switch in Green Data Center Network”, International Journal

of Research and Reviews in Computer Science, Vol.3, No 4, 1774-1781, August 2012.

2. Tosmate Cheocherngngarn, Jean Andrian, Deng Pan, “Deployment of a Hybrid Multicast

Switch in Energy-Aware Data Center network: a Case of Fat-Tree Topology”, to appear in

ISRN Communications and Networking, August 2012.

3. Chen Liu, Roland Duarte, Omar Granados, Jie Tang, Shaoshan Liu and Jean Andrian,

“Critical Path Based Hardware Acceleration for Cryptosystems”, International Journal of

Advancements in Computing Technology (IJACT), vol. 4, no. 1, pp.438-452, 2012.

4. Chen Liu, Omar Granados, Rolando Duarte, Jean Andrian, “Energy Efficient Architecture

Using Hardware Acceleration for Software Defined Radio Components”, Journal of

Information Processing Systems, vol. 8, no. 1,133-143, March 2012.

5. J. Wang, A. Barreto, N. Rishe, J. Andrian, and M. Adjouadi, “A Fast Incremental Multilinear

Principal Component Analysis Algorithm”', International Journal of Innovative Computing,

Information and Control, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 6019—6040, Oct. 2011.

D. HONORS, AWARDS, MEMBERSHIPS, AND SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

1. Graduate Program Director, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Florida

International University, Miami, FL (2001-2006 and 2009-2012).

2. Associate Chair, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Florida International

University, Miami, FL (2010 - Present).

3. Chair of the University Doctoral Advising Status (DAS), Florida International University,

Miami, FL (2009)

4. Member of the Engineering College Faculty Council, Florida International University,

Miami, FL (2009-2010)

5. Search and Screen Committee Member, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,

Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2010.


Collaborators

Dr. Chi Zhou (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Graduate Advisors: Dr. C. M. Van Vliet, University of Miami (Ph.D. Advisor) and Dr. Arthur

Yelon, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Canada (M.S. Advisor).

ARMANDO B. BARRETO, Ph.D.

Professor

Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering (courtesy appointment)

Director, Digital Signal Processing Laboratory


10555 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL., 33174, Room EC-3981

Phone: (305) 348-3711 Fax: (305) 348-3707 email: [email protected]

(a) Professional Preparation

Institution Major/Area Degree & Year

National Autonomous University

of Mexico (UNAM)

Electrical-Mechanical

Engineering

(BSEE equivalent), 5/1987


Miami, FL. USA

Electrical Engineering MSc, 8/1989

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL., USA

Electrical Engineering PhD, 5/1993

UF McKnight Brain Institute Digital Signal Processing of the

Electroencephalogram

Post-Doctoral Associate

5/1993 – 2/1994

(b) Appointments

2010 - Present Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Florida International Univ.

2003 - Present (Courtesy) Appointment, Biomedical Engineering Dept., Florida International Univ.

2000 - 2010 Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Florida International Univ.

1999 - 2003 Associated Faculty, Biomedical Engineering Institute, Florida International University

1994 - Present Director, Digital Signal Processing Laboratory, Florida International University

1994 - 2000 Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Florida International University

1992 - 1994 Research Engineer, NeuroDimension, Inc., Gainesville, FL.

(c) Products

1. Ren, P., Barreto A., Gao Y. and Adjouadi M., (2013) “Affective Assessment by Digital Processing of

the Pupil Diameter”, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Vol. 4, Issue 1 pp 2–14.

2. Ren, P., Barreto, A., Gao, Y. and Adjouadi, M., (2012) “Comparison of the Use of Pupil Diameter and

Galvanic Skin response Signals for Affective Assessment of Computer User”, Biomedical Sciences

Instrumentation, Vol. 48, ISA Vol. 490, 2012. ISSN: 0067-8856

3. Gao Y., Barreto A. and Adjouadi M.,(2009), “Detection of Sympathetic Activation through

Measurement and Adaptive Processing of the Pupil Diameter for Affective Assessment of Computer

Users”, American Journal of Biomedical Sciences. 1(4), pp. 283 – 294.

4. Chin, C. A., Barreto A. and Adjouadi M., (2009), “Integration of EMG and EGT Modalities for the

Development of an Enhanced Cursor Control System” International Journal on Artificial Intelligence

Tools, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 399- 414.

5. Chin, C. A., Barreto, A., Cremades, J.G. and Adjouadi, M.,(2008), “Integrated Electromyogram and

Eye Gaze Tracking Cursor Control System for Computer Users with Motor Disabilities”, Journal of

Rehabilitation Research and Development. Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 161-174.

1. Huang, J., Barreto, A., Alonso, M. and Adjouadi, M. (2012) “Contrast Improvement in Pre-

Compensation of Ocular Aberrations for Computer Users”, Biomed. Sciences Inst., Vol. 48.

2. You X., Adjouadi M., Guillen M., Ayala M., Barreto A., Rishe N., Sullivan J., Dlugos D., VanMeter

J.,Morris D., Donner E., Bjornson B., Smith M. , Bernal B., Berl M. and Gaillard W., (2011) “Sub-

patterns of language network reorganization in pediatric localization related epilepsy: A multisite study”.

Human Brain Mapping, 32: 784-799.

3. Gao Y., Barreto A. and Adjouadi M., (2009) “Comparative Analysis of Noninvasively Monitored

Biosignals for Affective Assessment of a Computer User”, in book: IFMBE Proceedings, Vol. 24,

McGoron, Li and Lin (Editors). Pp. 255-260, ISBN:978-3-642-01696-7. Springer, Heidelberg, 2009.

4. Verhoef T., Lisetti C., Barreto A., Ortega F., Van der Zant T. and Cnossen F., (2009) “Bio-sensing

for Emotional Characterization without Word Labels”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

LNCS 5612, pp. 693–702.

5. Barreto, A., Zhai, J, Rishe, N. and Gao, Y.,(2007), “Measurement of Pupil Diameter Variations as a

Physiological Indicator of the Affective State in a Computer User”, Biomedical Sciences

Instrumentation, Vol. 43, pp. 146-151.

(d) Synergistic Activities

1. Established the FIU Digital Signal Processing Laboratory, and created the course: EEL-5757: Real-

Time DSP Implementations, to combine the teaching, practice and research of Digital Signal

Processing.

2. Directed DSP research applied to the development of practical DSP-based alternative humancomputer

interface, with emphasis on assistive technologies.

(e) Collaborators & Other Affiliations

1. Collaborators and Co-Editors (In alphabetical order)

Malek Adjouadi, Florida International University Simon Harper, University of Manchester

Yi Deng, Florida International University Xudong He, Florida International University

Torsten Felzer, Darmstadt University of Technology Sakhrat Khizroev, Florida International University

William Gaillard, George Washington University Jose Principe, University of Florida

Vicki Hanson, University of Dundee Naphtali Rishe, Florida International University

2. Graduate Advisors and Postdoctoral Sponsors

- MSEE Advisor: Dr. Wunnava Subbarao, Electrical Engineering Department, FIU (now retired).

- Ph. D. Advisor and Post-Doctoral Supervisor: Dr. Jose Principe, University of Florida

3. Thesis (Ph D Dissertation) Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor. (9 PhD Graduates)

Jian Huang (Doctoral Graduation 8/13) – Post-Doctoral Associate, DSP Lab, FIU, Miami (FL)

Peng Ren (Doctoral Graduation 5/13) - Asst. Professor, Univ. Electronic Sc. & Tech. of China (Chengdu)

Ying Gao (Doctoral graduation 12/09) - Tenure-track Asst. Professor U. Wisconsin, Platteville (WI)

Kenneth J. Faller (Doctoral graduation 6/09) – Tenure-Track Asst. Professor, CSU-Fullerton (CA)

Miguel Alonso, Jr. (Doctoral graduation 5/07)– Associate Professor Miami-Dade College (FL)

Craig Chin (Doctoral graduation 11/06)– Tenure-track Asst. Professor Southern Polytechnic State U.

(GA)

Jing Zhai (Doctoral graduation 6/06)- Algorithm Engineer Applied Biosystems (Foster City, CA)

Chao Li (Doctoral graduation 5/06)- Tenure-track Assistant Professor Florida A&M University (FL)

Navarun Gupta (Doctoral graduation 11/03)- Associate Professor Univ. of Bridgeport (CT)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

NAME

Shekhar Bhansali

POSITION TITLE

Professor and Chair

Education/Training

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE YEAR(s) FIELD OF STUDY

Malaviya Regional Engineering College,

Jaipur, India

B.E.(Honors) 1987 Metallurgical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India M. Tech. 1991 Aircraft Production

Engineering

Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology,

Melbourne, Australia

Ph. D. 1997 Electrical Engineering

Professional Experience

2011-Present Alcatel-Lucent Professor and Chairperson, Florida International University, Miami Florida

2008-2011 Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

2004-2008 Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida,

Tampa, FL

2000-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Nanomaterials and

Nanomanufacturing Research Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

1998-2000 Senior Research Associate/Research Assistant Professor, Department of ECE & CS,

University of Cincinnati, OH

1996-1998 STA Fellow, National Research Laboratory of Metrology, Tsukuba, Japan

1996-1996 Lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of

Technology, Melbourne Australia

1988-1992 Management Trainee/Engineer, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore, India

Research Interests

MEMS sensors and system, nanostructures, bioMEMS, structure property relationships in nanostructures

and thin films

Professional Recognition

� William R. Jones Most Valuable Mentor Award, Florida Education Fund, 2011

� Outstanding Dissertation award to student Praveen K. Sekhar, USF 2009

� Mentor of the Year, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2009.

� Best paper award to student Dorielle Tucker, Annual NSBE Conference 2008

� Outstanding Dissertation award to student Shyam Aravamudham, USF 2008

� NSF CAREER Award, 2003-2009

� USF Office of Research Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award, 2004

Relevant Publications

1. S. Aravamudhan, J. Singleton, P. A. Goddard, S. Bhansali, “Magnetic Characterization of Ni-Fe

Nanowire Arrays: Effect of Template Material and Magnetic Field during Electrodeposition.”

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 42, 115008, 2009

2. R. Vasic, J. S. Brooks, E. Jobiliong, S. Aravamudhan, K. Luongo, and S. Bhansali, “Dielectric

Relaxation in Nanopillar NiFe-Silicon Structures in High Magnetic Fields,” Current Applied

Physics, 7, 34–38, 2007.

3. H.J. Cho, S. Bhansali, C.H. Ahn, “Electroplated Thick Magnet Arrays With Controlled Direction Of

Magnetization For MEMS Applications”, Journal of Applied Physics, 87 (9), 2000, 6340-6342

4. J.-W. Choi, C.H. Ahn, S. Bhansali, , and H.T. Henderson, “A New Magnetic Bead-Based Filterless

Bio-Separator for Integrated Bio-Molecule Detection Systems”, Sensors and Actuators B, 68: (1-3)

2000, pp34-39

5. R. Agarwal, S. Samson, S. Bhansali, “Fabrication of vertical mirrors using plasma etch and

KOH:IPA polishing,” J. Micromech. Microeng. 17, 26-35, 2007.

Other Significant Publications

1. Eric Huey, Sunil K. Arya, Subramanian Krishnan, Abhishek Dey, Shekhar Bhansali. Optimized

growth and integration of silica nanowires into interdigitated microelectrode structures for biosensing.

Sensors & Actuators: B, 2011. Accepted

2. Manju Venugopal, Sunil K. Arya, Shekhar Bhansali. A Realtime and Continuous Assessment of

Cortisol in ISF Based on Impedance Electrochemical Spectroscopy, Sensors and Actuators A 172

(2011) 154–160.

3. P.Khanna, N.Ramachandran, J.Yang, J.Wang, A.Kumar, M.Jarozeski and S. Bhansali,

“Nanocrystalline diamond microspikes increase the efficiency of ultrasonic cell lysis in a microfluidic

lab-on-a-chip”, Diamond and Related Materials, 18, 24, 2009, 606-610.

4. S. Arya, S. Bhansali, “Lung Cancer and Its Early Detection Using Biomarker-Based Biosensors”,

Chemical Reviews, 2011, 111, 6783–6809.

5. S. Aravamudhan, A. Kumar, S. Mohapatra, S. Bhansali “Sensitive Estimation of Total Cholesterol in

Blood using Au Nanowires based Micro-Fluidic Platform,” Biosensors & Bioelectronics 22 (9-10),

2138-2144, 2007.

Synergistic Activities

� 2004-2011 Director Alfred P. Sloan Minority Ph.D. Fellowship program

� 2004-2011 Director NSF: Bridge to the Doctorate program

� 2001-2011 Participation in Research of Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program since

� Partnering with community colleges and K-12 schools in the Tampa Bay area to develop awareness

of MEMS/Nanotechnology

� 1999-to date Member, Review Panels and Site Review Teams, Various directorates, National Science

Foundation

Ph.D. advisers: Prof. D.K. Sood, and Prof. R.B. Zmood (RMIT) (retired)

Post-Doctoral Advisers: Profs. C.H. Ahn, H.T. Henderson, (U Cincinnati) Prof. A. Umeda (NRLM,

Japan)

Collaborators: V.K. Jain (USF), D.K. Sood (RMIT-Australia), V. Mishra (NCSU), J. Muth (NCSU),

R.T. Short (SRI International), T. Weller (USF), M. Nanjundan (USF), R. Iyengar (FIU), C. Phelan

(Moffitt), S. Sundaram (Draper Labs), M. Venugopal (GT), Y. Goswami (USF), E. Stefanakos (USF)

Past and Present Post Doctoral Fellows: Sang-Chae. Kim (‘05-’07, RFMD-NC), Sheetal Patil (‘06-’07,

IIT Bombay), Senthil Sambandam (’03-’06, Fisk University), Vedvyas Mangasuli (’03-’04), Rakesh Joshi

(’07 – ’08, USF), Niranjan Ramgir (’06 – ’08, Humboldt Germany), Sunil Arya (‘09), Chornukor (‘09), S.

Krishnan (’09-’11), Shankar Koiry (‘11-), Yuichi Tomyzawa (12), Ajeet Kaushik (‘11-present).

Past Graduate Students: Ph.D. Shyam Aravamudhan (Georgia Tech) Abdur Rahman (Clemson) Rahul

Agarwal (IMEC, Belgium), Colleen Spiegel (Clean Fuel Cell Systems), Sathyaharish Jeedigunta (Intel),

Praveen Kumar Sekhar (LANL), Subramanian Krishnan (CERC) Puneet Khanna (USF), Anne Shearrow

Al-Akhir Rogers (Ph.D), Dorielle Price (Ph. D), M.S - 40 students.

Current Graduate Students: Rudraskandan Ratnadurai (Ph.D), Kevin Luongo (Ph.D), Michael Celestin

(Ph.D), Frank Alexander (Ph.D),Abhay Vasudev(Ph.D), Justin Boone (Ph.D), Eric Huey (Ph.D).

Aparajita Singh (PhD), Syed Khalid Pasha (PhD), Avigyan Datta (PhD), Patrick Roman (PhD)

Current/Former REU: Joseph Register, Joseph Johns, Angela Aker, Ryan Alkire, Clarice Richardson,

Juan Jackson, Carnell Hunter, Hayde Silva, Jean Weatherwax, Oltion Tase, Sheila Jean, Howard Baylis, 6

REU students. Adrian Martin, Nocolas Narena, Andrez Felipe, Justin Kalap.

Current/Former RET: Mark Oliver

Biographical Sketch: Hai Deng

Professional Preparation:

The University of Texas at Austin Electrical Engineering Ph.D., 2000

Beijing Institute of Technology, China Electrical Engineering MS, 1990

Anhui University, China Electrical Engineering BS, 1987

Appointments:

2009 – Present Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida

International University, Miami, Florida.

2004 – 2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, the University of North Texas,

Denton, TX.

2001 – 2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, the University of New

Orleans, New Orleans, LA.

2000 – 2001 Senior Staff Engineer/Scientist and Project Leader, Motorola Inc., Austin, TX, and a

project leader in VLSI chip design for multimedia signal processing at Motorola Inc.

1990 – 1996 Principal Design Engineer and Deputy Chief Engineer in Signal Processing, the Beijing

Institute of Radio Measurement, Beijing, China .

Publications (Total: 78)

Five Publications Most Closely Related to Proposed Project:

1. H. Deng and B. Himed, “Orthogonal netted radar systems,” IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems

Magazine, (in press).

2. H. Deng and B. Himed, “A virtual antenna beamforming (VAB) approach for radar systems by using

orthogonal coding waveforms,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. vol. 57, no.2, Feb.

2009.

3. H. Deng, “Polyphase coding signal design for orthogonal netted radar systems,” IEEE Transactions on

Signal Processing, vol. 52, no. 11, November 2004.

4. H. Deng, “Discrete-frequency coding waveform design for netted radar systems,” IEEE Signal

Processing Letters, vol.11, pp. 179-182, no. 2, February 2004

5. H. Deng, “Synthesis of binary sequences with good auto-correlation and cross-correlation properties

by simulated annealing.” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol.32, pp. 98-107,

Jan.

1996.

Five Other Significant Publications:

1. H. Deng, B. Himed and M. C. Wicks, “Concurrent extraction of target range and Doppler information

by using orthogonal coding waveforms,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, pp. 3294-

3301,

July 2007.

2. H. Deng, B. Himed and M. C. Wicks, “Image feature-based space-time processing for ground moving

target detection,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 13, no.4, April 2006.

3. H. Deng and H. Ling, “An efficient wavelet preconditioner for iterative solution of three-dimensional

electromagnetic integral equations.” IEEE Transactions on. Antennas and Propagation, vol. 51, pp.654-

660, no. 2, March 2003.

4. H. Deng, “Effective CLEAN algorithms for performance-enhanced detection of binary coding radar

signals,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 52, pp. 72-78, no.1, January 2004.

5. M. Varanasi, O. Garcia, P. Guturu, H. Deng, X. Li, and S. Fu, “Work in progress: An innovative

electrical engineering program integrating project-oriented and lifelong learning pedagogies,” Proc.

of 36th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2006.

Synergistic Activities:

1. Senior Member, the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2001 – present.

2. NASA Summer Faculty Fellowship, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 2011.

3. Associate Editor, the Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2006 – present.

4. US Naval ONR Summer Faculty Research Fellow, SPAWAR-San Diego, Summer 2006.

5. Leading the efforts in designing and developing two generations of high-performance radar signal

processing system for multifunction phased array radars from 1990 to 1996.

6. Was promoted to be the Senior Engineer (equivalently Associate Professor) rank by the Chinese

government in 1994.

7. The four-time recipients of prestigious Chinese Science and Technology Advance Awards from 1991-

1996 due to “his outstanding contributions to the design and development of phased array radar.

8. The recipient of the special allowances for outstanding Chinese scientists from 1995 to 1996.

9. The member of the Electrical Engineering Curriculum Committee at Florida International University

since 2009.

10. One of the key contributors to the Learning-to-learn (L2L) engineering teaching philosophy

developed at University of North Texas from 2004 to 2009.

11. The Chair of the Electrical Engineering Curriculum Committee and a member of the Engineering

Curriculum Committee at the University of North Texas, 2004 – 2009.

12. The Chair of the Electrical Engineering Curriculum Committee, a member of the Engineering

Curriculum Committee, the ABET and Institution Effectiveness Representative in Electrical

Engineering, and the faculty advisor of the IEEE student branch at the University of New Orleans,

2002 – 2004.

Collaborators and Co-Editors:

C. Baker (Australian National Univ.), D. Charalampidis (UNO), J. Frost (Signal Labs), S. FU (UNT), K.

Hahn (Mac-B), B. Himed (AFRL, Wright-Patterson), D. Huang (Arizona State Univ.), I. Kelly (Sprint),

X.R.

Li (UNO), P. F. Wang (Naval SPAWAR-San Diego), Y. X. Wang (UCLA), and M. C. Wicks (AFRL,

Rome)

Graduate Advisor:

Dr. Hao Ling, L. B. Meaders Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the

University of Texas at Austin.

Thesis Advisees:

H. James (NRL, Slidell, LA), L. Hoffman (NASA), O. Adamo (UNT), A. Groff (HP), T. Le (UNT), S. L.

Jiang (NJUST, China), S. Girard (Raytheon), K. Vijaya (FIU) and L. Guo (FIU).

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Osama A. Mohammed, PhD

Professor and Director of Energy Systems Research Laboratory

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, EC-3983

Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174 USA

http://www.energy.fiu.edu

Professional Preparation:

1983 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

1981 M.S. Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

1977 B.S. Electrical Engineering (First Class Distinction & Honors), Zagazig University, Egypt

Appointments:

1991 – present Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical and

Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

2002 –2006 Associate Chairman and Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

1987 – 1991 Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical and


1983 – 1987 Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical and


1978-1983 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

Honors: Florida International University Outstanding Research Award, 2012, IEEE Cyril Venotte

Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award, IEEE PES 2010, Elected Fellow of IEEE, 1996,

Elected Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES), 2008.

Products: More than 300 journal articles, major conference papers and book chapters. (*Indicates

supervised student or post-doc)

Five Products Related to the Proposed Project

� *Salehi, V. ; *Mohamed, A. ; *Mazloomzadeh, A. ; Mohammed, O. A.; , “Laboratory-Based Smart

Power System, Part I: Design and System Development,” Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on , Vol. 3,

no.3, pp 1394-1404, Sept.2012

� *Salehi, V. ; *Mohamed, A. ; *Mazloomzadeh, A. ; Mohammed, O. A.; , “Laboratory-Based Smart

Power System, Part II: Control, Monitoring, and Protection,” Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on ,

Vol.3, no.3, pp.1405-1417, Sept.2012 .

� *Mohamed, A.; *Salehi, V.; Mohammed, O. A. “Real-Time Energy Management Algorithm for

Mitigation of Pulse Loads in Hybrid Microgrids,” Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on, Vol. 3, no. 4,

pp. 1911-1922, Dec. 2012.

� *Amin, M.M. ; Mohammed, O.A. “Development of High-Performance Grid-Connected Wind

Energy Conversion System for Optimum Utilization of Variable Speed Wind Turbines,” IEEE

Transactions on Sustainable Energy, Vol.2, no.3, pp.235-245, July 2011

� *M. Amin and O. A. Mohammed, “DC-Bus Voltage Control Technique for Parallel-Integrated

Permanent Magnet Wind Generation Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 26,

no. 4, pp. 1140-1150, Dec. 2011.

Five Other Products

� *A. Mohamed, *M. Elshaer, O. A. Mohammed, “Control Enhancement of Power Conditioning Units

for High Quality PV Systems,” Elsevier Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 90, pp. 30-41, Sept.

2012.

� *M. Amin and O. A. Mohammed, “A Three-Phase High Frequency Semi-Controlled Battery

Charging Power Converter for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” Journal of Power Electronics, Vol.

11, no. 4, pp. 490-498, July 2011

� *Sarikhani, A. ; Mohammed, O. A. , “HIL-Based Finite-Element Design Optimization Process for

the Computational Prototyping of Electric Motor Drives,” Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on,

Vol. 27, no.3, pp. 737-746, 2012

� Mohammed, O. A.; *Khan, A. A. ; *El-Tallawy, A. M. ; *Nejadpak, A. ; Roberts, M. J. “A Wavelet

Filtering Scheme for Noise and Vibration Reduction in High-frequency Signal Injection-Based

Sensorless Control of PMSM at Low Speed,” IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 27, no.

2, pp. 250-260, Jun. 2012,

� *Sarikhani and O. A. Mohammed, “Multi-Objective Design Optimization of Coupled PM

Synchronous Motor-Drive Using Physics-Based Modeling Approach,” IEEE Transactions on

Magnetics, Vol.47, no. 5, pp.1266-1269, May 2011.

Five Synergistic Activities

• Editor of IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE

Transactions on Industry Applications

• Chair IEEE/PES Electric Machinery Committee, 2005-2006. Chairman of International Steering

Committee for IEEE IEMCD. Was general chair for IEEE IEMDC 2009, IEEE CEFC 2006 and IEEE

ISAP-1996. Consumer Advisory Board, Florida Power & Light Company, 1988-1990

• Given numerous invited lectures, seminars and short course around the world over the past 20 years.

Recently lectured on “ Smart Grid Applications and Wide Area Monitoring Systems,” Los Alamos

National Labs, August 2011; lectured on “Dynamic Source Commitment Schemes and Wide Area

Measurement Systems for AC Distribution Networks Involving Hybrid Renewable Energy Assets for

Smart Power Grid Applications,” Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida, April 2011;

lectured on “Energy Link Integration and Wide Area Measurement Systems for AC Distribution

Networks Involving Hybrid Renewable Energy Assets for Smart Grid Applications,” University of

Waterloo, ON, Canada, December 2011; lectured on “Smart Grid Research and Related Educational

Activities,” at Okayama University, Okayama, Japan November, 2012.

• Developed several recent new courses in the energy systems area including sustainable energy, power

systems operations and control as well as intelligent systems applications. Developed the Energy

Systems Laboratory with its significant Smart Grid Test Bed. Developed many experiments for handson

involvement in power system operation and control with hardware-in-the-loop.

• Selected professional organization activities: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE,

Rank of Fellow); Applied Computational EM Society (Rank of Fellow); American Society of

Engineering Education (ASEE, Rank of Member).

Collaborators & Other Affiliations

Collaborators and Co-Editors (Within 4 Years): S. Sudhoff (Purdue), L. Mili ( VA Tech), L. Parsa

(RPI), M. El-sharkawi (U. Washington), M. Shahidapour (IIT), A. Elsherbini (Olemiss), L. Kempel (U.

Michigan), M. Rahman (MUN, Canada), S. Pekarek (Purdue), H. Tolyiat (TAM), P. Krien (UIUC), D.

Lowther (McGill U.), M. Salama (U. Waterloo),); J. Farah (FPL), M. Roberts (NSWCCD), W. Saad

(UM),

J. Heinzel (ONR), A. Islam (FIU); N. Takahashi (Okayama U., Japan), J. Sykulski ( U. Southampton,

UK), M. Chertkov (LANL), B. Fahimi (UTD).

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors: N. A. Demerdash, Virginia Tech.

Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor (Within 5 Years): V. Salehi (Utility Analysics),

A. Sarikhani (Whirlpool), Mahmoud Amin (Manhattan College), A. Khan (Chrysler), N. Abed (Southern

California Edison), S. Ganu (Ariva), M. Elshaer ( Delphi), R. Merchant (Mertech), A. Rosales (NSWC),

S. Liu (American Oil Well) , Z. Liu (American Oil Well), M. Nayeem (VELCO).

NEZIH PALA

Assistant Professor






Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey BS 1996 Physics

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, MS 1999 Electrical Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, PhD 2002 Electrical Engineering

B. APPOINTMENTS

2008 - Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer engineering, Florida International University,

Miami, FL

2002 – 2007 Research Scientist, Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc., Troy, NY

2002 – 2008 Visiting Scholar, Department of ECSE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

1998 – 2002 Research Assistant, Department of ECSE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY


1. A. Sevincer, A. Bhattarai, M. Bilgi, M. Yuksel and N. Pala, "LIGHTNETs: Smart LIGHTing and

Mobile

Optical Wireless NETworks – A Survey", IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Volume: PP,

Issue 99, pp. 1-22, (2013) DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2013.032713.00150

2. V. V. Popov, N. Pala, and M. S. Shur, "Room Temperature Terahertz Plasmonic Detection by Antenna

Arrays of Field-Effect Transistors", Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters, Vol. 4, 1015–1022,

(2012),

doi:10.1166/nnl.2012.1442.

3. M. Bilgi, A. Sevincer, M. Yuksel, and N. Pala, “Optical Wireless Localization", Wireless Networks,

18,

215–226, (2012), DOI: 10.1007/s11276-011-0396-x.

4. A. Sevincer, M. Bilgi, M. Yuksel, and N. Pala, "Multi-Transceiver Free-Space-Optical Communication

Structures (demo)", ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

(MobiCom), Chicago, IL, September 2010.

5. M. Bilgi, M. Yuksel, and N. Pala, "3-D Optical Wireless Localization", Proceedings of IEEE

GLOBECOM

Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC), Miami, FL, December 2010,

DOI:10.1109/GLOCOMW.2010.5700097.


1. M. Karabiyik, C. Al-Amin, and N. Pala, “Deep Sub-wavelength Multimode Tunable In-Plane

Plasmonic

Lenses Operating at Terahertz Frequencies”, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology,

Accepted

2. M. Karabiyik, C. Al-Amin, and N. Pala, "Graphene-Based Periodic Gate Field Effect Transistor

Structures

for Terahertz Applications", Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters, Vol. 5, 754–757, (2013),

3. A. V. Muravjov, D. B. Veksler, V. V. Popov, O. V. Polischuk, N. Pala, X. Hu, R. Gaska, H. Saxena, R.

E.

Peale, and M. S. Shur, “Temperature dependence of plasmonic terahertz absorption in grating-gate

gallium-nitride transistor structures”, Applied Physics Letters, 96, 042105 (2010)

4. R. E. Peale, H. Saxena, W. R. Buchwald, G. Aizin, A. V. Muravjov, D. B. Veksler, N. Pala, X. Hu, R.

Gaska, M. S. Shur, Grating-gate tunable plasmon absorption in InP and GaN based HEMTs, in

Proceedings of SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference, san Diego, CA, August (2009)

5. N. Pala, D. Veksler, A. Muravjov, W. Stillman, R. Gaska, M. S. Shur, “Resonant Detection and

Modulation of Terahertz Radiation by 2DEG Plasmons in GaN Grating-Gate Structures”, IEEE Sensors

2007 The 6th IEEE Conference on Sensors, Atlanta, GA October 28-31, 2007, pp. 570 – 572

D. HONORS AWARDS AND SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

1. NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, February 2010, Multi-element

Plasmonic

Devices for Tunable THz Detection

2. Paper of the Month: N. Pala, M. Shur, “Plasmonic THz detectors for biodetection”, Electronics

Letters,

vol. 44, no. 24, pp. 1391-1392, December 2008.

3. MRS Best Paper Award, MRS Fall Meeting, November 29- December 3 1999, Boston.

4. Memberships

o Eta Kappa Nu,

o Tau Beta Pi,

o Sigma Xi.

o Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Electron Device

Society

o Member of The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

o Member of Material Research Society (MRS)

5. Professional Services

o Member of Conference Program Committees of SPIE Optics East Nanosensing: Materials

and Devices, 2004, 2005, 2006.

o Member of Conference Program Committees of SPIE International Symposium on Defense,

Security + Sensing; Micro-Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications, 2010, 2011

o Referee for Electronics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics,

Fluctuation and Noise Letters, Applied Surface Science


Collaborators

Dr. Michael Shur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Dr. Xi-Cheng Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Dr. Remis Gaska, Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. Columbia, SC

Dr. Robert E. Peale, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Dr. Wojciech Knap, GES CNRS-Universite Montpellier2, Montpellier, France

Dr. Saif Islam, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA

Dr. Gang Quan

Professional Preparation

Ph. D. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame,

Notre Dame, IN, USA, Jan 2002

Dissertation: System level Design Techniques for Real-Time Embedded

Systems

M.S. Information System, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),

Beijing, China, Aug. 1994

Thesis: The Development of Human-Computer Interactive Interpretation

and Mapping System for Remote Sensing Images

B.E. Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Jul. 1991

Distinction

National Science Foundation Career Award, 2006

The Most Influential Papers of 10 Years Design, Automation, and Test in Europe

Conference (DATE), 2007. (Three papers were selected each year between 1998-2007

from over 200 papers in each proceedings.)

Best paper award, from 38th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference

Appointments

July 2009 – present Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department, Florida International University

Jan. 2002 to present Assistant professor in Computer Science & Engineering

Department, University of South Carolina

Aug. 1997 to Jan. 2001 Research/Teaching assistant in Computer Science &

Engineering Department, University of Notre Dame

Apr. 1994 to Jul. 1997 Software engineer in Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Products

Most Relevant Products:

1. Ming Fan, V. Chaturvedi, S. Sha, G. Quan, An Analytical Solution For Multi-Core

Energy Calculation With Consideration Of Leakage and Temperature Dependency,

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2013 (to

appear)

2. H. Huang, V. Charteveti, G. Quan, J. Fan, M. Qiu, “Throughput Maximization for

Periodic Real-Time Systems under the Maximal Temperature Constraint”, ACM

Transactions on Embedded System Design and Systems, 2013 (to appear)

3. H. Huang, M. Fan and G. Quan, “Leakage and Temperature Aware Energy Minimization

Scheduling for Hard Real-Time Systems”, Journal on Sustainable Computing:

Informatics and Systems, 2013 (to appear).

4. Bowles and G, Quan, "An FPGA-Based Embedded System Design Laboratory for the

Undergraduate Computer Engineering Curriculum", 2009 American Society for

Engineering Education, 2009

5. H. Huang, G. Quan, J. Fan, M. Qiu, “Throughput Maximization for Periodic Real-Time

Systems under the Maximal Temperature Constraint “, IEEE/ACM Design Automation

Conference (DAC), 363-368, 2011.

� Other Significant Products:

1. Ming Fan, Gang Quan, Harmonic-Aware Multi-Core Scheduling For Fixed-Priority Real-

Time Systems, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing System,

2013 (to appear)

2. G. Quan, V. Chaturvedi, “Feasibility Analysis for Temperature-Constraint Hard Realtime

Periodic Tasks”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol 6, No. 3, pp.

329 – 339, Aug 2010.

3. S. Li, S. Ren, Y. Yu, X. Wang, and G. Quan, “Profit and Penalty Aware Scheduling for

Real-Time On-line Services”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2012

4. L. Niu and G. Quan, “Energy minimization for real-time systems with (m,k)-guarantee”,

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems. 14(7), 717-729, 2006

5. G. Quan and X. Hu, “Energy efficient DVS schedule for fixed-priority real-time

systems,” ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Vol. 6, No. 4, 31

pages, September 2007


� Program Vice Chair GreenCom 2013, IEUC 2008, publicity chair RTAS 2008

� Technical program committee member: ICCD’2012, RTCSA’2012, SAC ‘2009, 2010,

2011, FCST-2011,IEUC’2007,2009,2011, ASP-DAC’2005,2009, GVLSI’2005, etc

� Technical reviewer for TVLSI, TCAD, TC, TPDS, DAC, ICCAD, ICCD, RTSS, CODES,

etc.

Collaborators

� Dr. Xiaobo Sharon Hu, associate professor of the Dept. of CSE, University of Notre

Dame. Co-author for a number of published papers.

� Dr. Shangping Ren, associate professor of the Dept. of CS, Illinois Institute of

Technology. Collaborator in an NSF project and co-author for a number of published

papers.

Students

� Students graduated: Vivek Chaturvedi (Ph.D), Guanglei Liu (Ph.D), H. Huang (Ph.D), L.

Niu (Ph.D.), Mohan Shivashanker(M.S), S. Devarkal (MS), B. Govindarajan (MS), W.

Wiles (M.S), L. Saurabh(M.E.)

� Currently supervising: Liu Shuo (Ph.D. student), Fan Ming (Ph.D. student), Qiushi, Han,

(Ph.D. student), Gustavo Chaparro (Ph.D. student), Shi Sha (Ph.D. student).

Shaolei Ren

Assistant Professor

School of Computing and Information Sciences


Miami, FL 33199

Phone: (305) 348-2032

Fax: (305) 348-3549

Email: [email protected]

Homepage: http://www.cs.fiu.edu/∼sren/

Professional Preparation

• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 09/2002 — 07/2006

B.E. in Electronics Engineering

• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 09/2006 — 08/2008

M.Phil. in Electronic and Computer Engineering

• University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States 09/2008 — 06/2012

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Appointment

• Florida International University, Miami, FL 08/2012 — Present

Assistant Professor in School of Computing and Information Sciences

Joint appointment with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Products

Most Relevant Products

1. S. Ren and Y. He, “COCA: Online Distributed Resource Management for Cost Minimization and

Carbon Neutrality in Data Centers,” International Conference for High Performance Computing,

Networking,

Storage, and Analysis (SuperComputing, acceptance rate: 92/457=20%), 2013.

2. H. Mahmud and S. Ren “Online Capacity Provisioning for Carbon-Neutral Data Center with Demand-

Responsive Electricity Prices,” IFIP WG7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance,

Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation (Performance, acceptance rate: 17/65=26%), 2013.

3. A. Kishwar, S. Ren, V. Turnewitsch, and A. V. Vasilakos, “Credibility Optimization and Power

Control

for Secure Mobile Crowdsourcing,” Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing

(Allerton), 2013.

4. M. A. Islam, S. Ren and G. Quan, “Online Energy Budgeting for Virtualized Data Centers,” IEEE

International Symposium on Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication

Systems (MASCOTS, acceptance rate: 44/163=26%), 2013.

Other Significant Products

1. S. Ren, Y. He, S. Elnikety, and K. McKinley, “Exploiting Processor Heterogeneity in Interactive

Services,” USENIX International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC, acceptance rate:

16/73=21%), 2013.

2. M. A. Islam, S. Ren, N. Pissinou, H. Mahmud, and A. V. Vasilakos, “Distributed Resource

Management

in Data Center with Temperature Constraint,” International Green Computing Conference (IGCC,

acceptance rate: 16/65=24%), 2013.

3. S. Ren, Y. He, and F. Xu, “Provably-Efficient Job Scheduling for Energy and Fairness in

Geographically

Distributed Data Centers,” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

(ICDCS, acceptance rate: 71/515=13%), 2012.

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4. S. Ren and M. van der Schaar, “Dynamic Scheduling and Pricing in Wireless Cloud Computing,”

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 99, no. PrePrints, pp. 1, 2013. (Conference

version appeared at IEEE Infocom 2013)

5. S. Ren, J. Park, and M. van der Schaar, “Entry and Spectrum Sharing Scheme Selection in Femtocell

Communications Markets,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 218-

232, Feb. 2013. (Conference version appeared at IEEE Infocom 2011)


Selected Awards

- Best Paper Award in 8th International Workshop on Feedback Computing 2013

Co-located with USENIX ICAC and ATC

- Emerging Leaders in Multimedia and Signal Processing 2010

For research in signal processing and optimization, 10 in total and selected by IBM T.J. Watson Research

- Best Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Communications 2009

10 out of 2000+ submissions

Technical Reviewer for Selected IEEE/ACM Journals

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE

Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal

of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions

on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and

Systems II, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE

Communications Letters, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

Collaborators & Other Affiliations

Collaborators and Co-Editors: Kishwar Ahmed (FIU), Antonio Cianfrani (Sapienza), Philip A. Chou

(Microsoft Research), Sameh Elnikety (Microsoft Research), Fangwen Fu (Intel), Yuxiong He (Microsoft

Research), Atiqul Islam (FIU), Byung-Gook Kim (Yonsei), Jang-Won Lee (Yonsei), Khaled Ben Letaief

(HKUST), Shuo Liu (FIU), Hasan Mahmud (FIU), Kathryn McKinley (Microsoft Research), Jaeok Park

(Yonsei), Niki Pissinou (FIU), Marco Polverini (Sapienza), Gang Quan (FIU), Shangping Ren (IIT),

Mihaela

van der Schaar (UCLA), Thanos Vasilakos (NTUA), Fei Xu (Microsoft), Ming Zhao (FIU), Yu Zhu

(Fudan)

Graduate Advisors: Prof. Khaled Ben Letaief (HKUST), Prof. Mihaela van der Schaar (UCLA)

Graduate Students Advised (3 in total): Kishwar Ahmed (FIU), Atiqul Islam (FIU), Hasan Mahmud

(FIU)

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