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Georgios Giannakis, PhD
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota
Director of the Digital Technology Center
Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Donna E. Shalala Student Center, Senate Room 302
1300 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146
Abstract
We live in an era of data deluge. Pervasive sensors collect massive amounts of information on every bit of our lives, churning out enormous streams of raw data in various formats. Mining information and learning from unprecedented volumes of data promises to limit the spread of epidemics and diseases, identify trends in financial markets, learn the dynamics of emergent social-computational systems, and also protect critical infrastructure including the smart grid and the Internet’s backbone network. While Big Data can be definitely perceived as a big blessing, big challenges also arise with large-scale datasets. This talk will overview challenges and opportunities emerging in the analytical and algorithmic foundations that are widely referred to as Data Science, and Network Science, the latter for data residing on graphs formed by agents that are interconnected (or networked) either physically or through their interdependencies.
Georgios Giannakis, PhD, received his diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Ntl. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece, 1981. From 1982 to 1986 he was with the Univ. of Southern California (USC), where he received his MSc. in Electrical Engineering, 1983, MSc. in Mathematics, 1986, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engr., 1986. He was with the U. of Virginia from 1987 to 1998, and since 1999 he has been a professor with the U. of Minnesota, where he holds a Chair in Wireless Communications, a University of Minnesota McKnight Presidential Chair in ECE, and serves as director of the Digital Technology Center. His general interests span the areas of communications, networking and statistical signal processing – subjects on which he has published more than 450 journal papers, 750 conference papers, 25 book chapters, two edited books and two research monographs (h-index 143). Current research focuses on data science and network science with applications to social, brain, and power networks with renewables. He is the (co-) inventor of 33 patents issued, and the (co-) recipient of 9 best journal paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) and Communications Societies. He also received Technical Achievement Awards from the SP Society (2000), from EURASIP (2005), and the inaugural IEEE Fourier Tech. Field Award (2015). He is a Fellow of EURASIP, and has served the IEEE in various posts including that of a Distinguished Lecturer.
The NEES Equipment Site at the University of Nevada, Reno is a multiple-shake-table facility (with three identical biaxial and one six degree-of-freedom shake-tables) that is suitable for conducting research on long, spatially distributed, structural and geotechnical systems. The facility is operational and managed as a national shared-use NEES equipment site, with teleparticipation capabilities, to provide new earthquake engineering research testing capabilities for large structural systems through 2014.
Our undergraduates now study programming with robots as teaching aids. Each robot uses an Arduino base and takes wireless instructions from an Android-enabled phone on top. Here's the first 8 of our army, with their designers and trainers. Left to right: Professor Mark Handley, Nikola Gvozdiev, Maciej Gryka, and Dr Dean Mohammedally.
Within the CAVE (CAVE Automated Virtual Environment), 3D immersive visuals can produce reactions similar to those people would experience in real-life situations. This lets researchers test behaviour in extreme situations in a safe context.
Within the CAVE (CAVE Automated Virtual Environment), 3D immersive visuals can produce reactions similar to those people would experience in real-life situations. This lets researchers test behaviour in extreme situations in a safe context.
Middle and High School Students and their parents attend the Electrical & Computer Engineering Workshop as part of Discover Engineering on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on August 1, 2019.
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Middle and High School Students and their parents attend the Electrical & Computer Engineering Workshop as part of Discover Engineering on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on August 1, 2019.
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Graduates from the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Colorado State University's Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering at the Spring 2022 Commencement. May 14, 2022
Middle and High School Students and their parents attend the Electrical & Computer Engineering Workshop as part of Discover Engineering on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on August 1, 2019.
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Kaitlyn Bunker, Electrical and Computer Engineering, First Place, Posters, presented by Howard Haselhuhn of GSG,
Title: High Dimension Droop Control for Wind Resources in DC Microgrids
Graduate Research Colloquium 2014 at Michigan Technological University
Amy LaViers, graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), is working on a project involving an "automaton" robotic dance.
Chen Xudong, Chairman and General Manager, Greater China, IBM, People's Republic of China, Pascale Fung, Chair Professor, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China, Emilija Stojmenova Duh, Minister of Digital Transformation of Slovenia, Wang Guan, Chairman, Learnable.ai, People's Republic of China, Zhang Ya-Qin, Chair Professor and Dean, Tsinghua University, People's Republic of China, and Cathy Li, Head, AI, Data and Metaverse; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum speaking in the Generative AI: Friend or Foe? session at the at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 27 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Arena. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Faruk Pinjo
Middle and High School Students and their parents attend the Electrical & Computer Engineering Workshop as part of Discover Engineering on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on August 1, 2019.
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Brandon Lucia, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Amy LaViers, graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), is working on a project involving an "automaton" robotic dance.
Within the CAVE (CAVE Automated Virtual Environment), 3D immersive visuals can produce reactions similar to those people would experience in real-life situations. This lets researchers test behaviour in extreme situations in a safe context.
Gareth Mitchell, Lecturer, Broadcast Communication, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Tim Kwang Ting Cheng, Dean of Engineering; Chair Professor of Electronics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, Shen Shaojie, Assistant Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, Guillermo Gallego, Department Head; Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, Jana Rosenmann, Senior Vice-President; Head, Unmanned Aerial Systems, Airbus Defence and Space, Germany and Stephen Creamer, Director, Air Navigation Bureau, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Montreal during the Session on “The New Drone Economy with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology”. At the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People's Republic of China 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Faruk Pinjo
Pablo graduated in Computer Engineering from the Technion (Haifa, Israel), and worked developing TCP/IP routers since 1987.
In 1993 he co-founded Alvarion, one of the first companies to release WIFI products, going through a successful IPO in NASDAQ in March 2000. He was VP of Research and Development in Tel Aviv Headquarters, and later in Latin America.
Since 2005 Pablo is Partner at Prosperitas Capital Partners, currently the only Venture Capital Fund in Uruguay, where he manages a Portfolio of over 20 high tech companies.
In 2010 Pablo joined Globant, the fastest growing software company in Latin America as Director of Innovation Consulting and Country Manager for Uruguay. He has been one of the authors of the Wifi Specification (IEEE P802.11), and holds a US patent in “Fast roaming Algorithm’s for Frequency Hopping Networks".
Lately, Pablo advised to the Uruguayan Government on the Wireless Deployment of the Ceibal Project (One Laptop per Child). Pablo has been an active member of the Board for Endeavor Uruguay, being Chairman of the board from 2003 to 2006, and Vice-Chairman from 2007 to 2009.
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Necmiye Ozay troubleshoots with EECS Graduate Student Research Assistant Petter Nilsson at Mcity Test Facility in Ann Arbor, MI. on September 13, 2017.
Ozay’s group designs algorithms that can take information about the rules of the road, the specs of the car, and the laws of physics and then produce a program that enables the car to drive itself safely. Unlike programming designed for specific models of cars in particular locations, this more general way to program a self-driving car can work for different vehicles in different countries.
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