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Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing Professor W. Clement Karl http://mdsp.bu.edu 8 St. Mary’s St., Boston, MA 02215 617-353-1668
Research in the general areas of multidimensional and multiresolution signal and image processing and estimation and geometric-based estimation. The development of efficient methods for the extraction of information from diverse data sources in the presence of uncertainty including: • Enhanced resolution image reconstruction for Cardiac Computerized Tomography
research goal of the PCMS laboratory is the development of a framework that facilitates concurrent manufacturing through cooperation of independent decision-making entities in a manufacturing facility. This effort includes theoretical research on complex system decomposition and coordination, and applied work on software architectures and interfaces. Resources include a mixed platform of PCs and workstations available in the laboratory, and campuswide computational facilities, like Boston University Center for Computational Science parallel processing computing resources. The PCMS laboratory is the home of graduate students primarily, but not exclusively, at the doctoral level and has established collaborative projects with a number of industrial sites.
• Multisource data fusion • Nanoscale optical microscopy
Robotics, Dynamics and Control
• Biological interface estimation and tracking Multimedia Communications Laboratory
Professor Pierre DuPont 110 Cummington St., Boston, MA 02215 617-358-1232
Professor Thomas D.C. Little http://hulk.bu.edu/ 8 St. Mary’s St., Boston, MA 02215 617-353-9877
Our research group focuses on innovative ways of solving theoretical and practical problems in robotics, structural dynamics and control.
The Multimedia Communications Laboratory (MCL) at Boston University focuses on topics in ubiquitous distributed computing. Our legacy work is in the area of distributed multimedia information systems emphasizing timedependent and continuous media data such as video. Recent work targets mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and sensor networks (SNETs).
Structural BioInformatics
Production Control of Manufacturing Systems (PCMS) Laboratory Professors Michael Caramanis, Jian-Qiang Hu, James Perkins, Pirooz Vakili, I. Paschalidis
The PCMS laboratory is dedicated to research on the control and design of manufacturing systems. Algorithmic development for dynamic scheduling, stability and performance evaluation, design, and planning of production systems is a major research activity. An equally important
Professor Sandor Vajda http://structure.bu.edu/ 44 Cummington St., Boston, MA 02215 617-353-4757
The focus of this laboratory is the development and application of computational tools for the analysis of protein structure and protein-ligand interactions. Some of the particular problems we currently study are the evaluation of binding free energy in protein-protein complexes, development of efficient docking algorithms, computational solvent mapping of proteins using molecular probes to identify the most favorable binding positions, method development for fragment-based drug design, construction of an enzyme binding site database, and improving the prediction of protein active sites by homology modeling.
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