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Sensor Networks - Information Processing and Data Fusion I
Wang, I-Jeng ORGANIZER: Benmohamed, Lotfi Wang, I-Jeng
Sensor networks have found diverse applications in commercial and military environments and are being deployed for a variety of DoD and DHS applications. Sensor networking involves a number of diverse disciplines including sensor technology and signal processing, wireless communication, and distributed algorithms and information management. The two sessions focus on sensor networking research and applications with emphasis on distributed information processing and algorithms in these networks. The sessions address various technical aspects of information processing and data fusion in sensor networks. The specific topics covered include in-network processing and aggregation, distributed inference and fusion, target localization, detection and tracking, networked sensing, tasking and control, and energy efficiency and resource management.
Qing Zhao received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. From 2001 to 2003, she was a communication system engineer with Aware, Inc., Bedford, MA. She returned to academe in 2003 as a postdoctoral research associate with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. In 2004, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis where she is currently an assistant professor. Her research interests are in the general area of signal processing, communication systems, wireless networking, and information theory. Qing Zhao received the 2000 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award. She is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and an elected member of the Signal Processing for Communications technical committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She is the lead guest editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue on “Resource-Constrained Signal Processing, Communications, and Networking” and a co-editor of a book on “Wireless Sensor Networks: Signal Processing and Communications Perspectives” to be published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Lotfi Benmohamed joined the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in 2003 as a Senior Research Scientist. After receiving his Ph.D. from The University of Michigan in 1993, he joined the Performance Analysis Department of Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ, where he worked on control, design, and management of ATM and IP networks with emphasis on algorithms for congestion control and network design. His current research interests also include control and routing in sensor networks and mobile Ad-hoc networks. I-Jeng Wang is a Principal Professional Staff with JHU/APL and a Research Assistant Professor in the JHU CS department. He joined JHU/APL in 1997. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue in 1996. He was a postdoctoral researcher with the Institute for Systems Research at University of Maryland from 1996 to 1997. He has led several major R&D projects funded by DoD sponsors including DARPA and ARL. His current research focuses on distributed information processing and control in sensor networks. Andreas Terzis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. He joined the faculty in January 2003. Dr. Terzis received his Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA in 2000 and held various position in the industry before joining Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Terzis heads the Hopkins InterNetworking Research (HiNRG) Group conducting research in Sensor Networks and Network Security. Dr. Terzis received the NSF CAREER award in 2006.