Winter 2014 — Compendium
Published: “RSSI Based Indoor Localization for Smartphone Using Fixed and Mobile Wireless Node,” COMPSAC, (2013), pp 110-117, with Roger Smith, Department of Facilities Services; M. Gani and Casey O’Brien. Published: “Toward Collective Intelligence for Fighting Obesity,” COMPSAC, (2013), pp 690-695, with Ivor Addo and William Chu. Published: “Toward Improving Reliability of Computational RFID Based Smart Healthcare Monitoring Systems,” ICOST, (2013), pp 211-217, with Farzana Rahman. Presented: see entry for Dr. Norah Johnson, College of Nursing.
Dr. Naveen Bansal Professor
Grant: see entry for Dr. Brian Schmit, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering. Published: see entry for Dr. Gholamhossein Hamedani, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science.
Dr. Dennis Brylow Associate Professor
Dr. Laura Matthew
Dr. Phillip Naylor Professor
Reviewed: Ann Laura Stoler’s Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination, Choice, Vol. 51 (November 2013), p 506. Reviewed: Martin Evans’ Algeria: France’s Undeclared War, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 45, No. 4 (November 2013), pp 815-818.
Dr. Julius Ruff Professor
Reviewed: Reynaud Abad’s La Grâce du Roi: Les Lettres de Clémence de Grande Chancellerie au XVIII Siècle, H-France Review, Vol. 13, No. 161 (October 2013).
Dr. Peter Staudenmaier Assistant Professor
Presented: “Preparation for Genocide: The Center for the Study of the Jewish Problem in Trieste, Italy, 1941-1944,” New Scholars/New Research on the Holocaust, University of Toronto, Toronto, Oct. 7, 2013.
Dr. Michael Wert Associate Professor
Published: Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan, (November 2013), Harvard University Asia Center. Published: “Chapter 11: Inner and East Asia, 400–1200;” Published: “Chapter 13: Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200-1500;” Published: “Chapter 21: East Asia in Global Perspective;” The Earth and its Peoples: A Global History (October 2013), R. Bulliet, P. Crossle, D. Headrick, S. Hirsch and L. Johnson (editors), Cengage Learning.
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, STATISTICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE Dr. Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed Professor
Grant: $76,869, “American Indian m-health Smoking Dependence Study,” National Institutes of Health. Grant: $55,051, “Efficacy of m-Health Self-Management Intervention,” National Institutes of Health. Grant: $25,960, “mPeer: Mobile Detection of High Risk Behavior in Veterans — A Sociotechnical Systems Approach,” Medical College of Wisconsin. Published: “Considerations in Designing Human-Computer Interfaces for Elderly People,” QSIC (2013) pp 372-377, with Drew Williams, research assistant, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science; Mohammad Alam and William Chu. Published: “Elderly Safety: A Smartphone Based Real Time Approach,” ICOST, (2013), pp 134‑142, with Mohammad Alam, Weiqiang Wang and William Chu. Published: “Identifying Phases of Gait and Development of Walking Model from Pressure and Accelerometer Data and Its Ramifications in Elderly Walking,” ICOST, (2013), pp 273-279, with Ferdaus Kawsar, Jahangir Majumder, and William Chu. Published: “iPrevention: Toward a Novel Real-time Smartphone-based Fall Prevention System,” SAC, (2013), pp 513-518, with Akm Majumder, Farzana Rahman, Ishmat Zerin and William Ebel, Jr. Published: “PriGen: A Generic Framework to Preserve Privacy of Healthcare Data in the Cloud,” ICOST, (2013), pp 77-85, with Farzana Rahman, Ji-Jiang Yang and Qing Wang.
Grant: $844,254, “CS10K: Collaborative Research: Priming the PUMP — Preparing the Upper Midwest for Principles of Computer Science,” National Science Foundation, with Dr. Marta Magiera, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science; and Dr. Heidi Schweizer, Center for Teaching and Learning, Office of the Provost. Published: “XinuPi: Porting a Lightweight Educational Operating System to the Raspberry Pi,” WESE 2013: Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Education, (October 2013), with undergraduate student Farzeen Harunani, and undergraduate student Tyler Much.
Dr. Serdar Bozdag Assistant Professor
Published: “Genomic Analysis of Stress Response Against Arsenic in Caenorhabditis elegans,” PLoS ONE, ( July 2013), with J. Lewis, I. Patel, J. Lee, R. Sprando and H. Cinar.
Dr. Anne Clough Professor
Grant: $10,063, “Innovative Biomarkers to Predict Radiation Lung Injury,” National Institutes of Health. Grant: see entry for Dr. Said Audi, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering. Grant: see entry for Dr. Taly GilatSchmidt, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering. Presented: see entry for Dr. Said Audi, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering.
Dr. John Engbers Assistant Professor
Awarded: Project NExT fellow, MAA/AMS, August 2013.
Dr. Rong Ge
Assistant Professor
Grant: $300,000, “Collaborative Research: II-NEW: Marcher — A Heterogeneous High Performance Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education in Green Computing,” National Science Foundation. Published: “Effects of Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling on a K20 GPU,” International Conference on Parallel Processing, (October 2013), with undergraduate student Ryan Vogt, graduate student Jahangir Majumder, graduate student Arif Alam, Martin Burtscher and Ziliang Zong. Published: “Improving Performance and Energy Efficiency of Matrix Multiplication via Pipeline Broadcast,” IEEE Cluster, (September 2013), with graduate student Longxiang Chen, Zizhong Chen, Ziliang Zong and Dong Li. Published: “Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Multicore Systems with Bounded Resources,” 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, (August 2013), with Jonathan Bush, Xin Li and Zizhong Chen. Published: “Power and Energy Characteristics of MapReduce Data Movement,” International Green Computing Conference 2013, ( June 2013), with Ziliang Zong and Zizhong Chen. Presented: “Effects of Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling on a K20 GPU,” 42nd International Conference on Parallel Processing, Lyon, France, Oct. 1, 2013. Organized: Workshop, International Workshop on Poweraware Algorithms, Systems and Architectures, October 2013 to October 2014. Served: Committee Member, International Workshop on DataIntensive Scalable Computing Systems, August to November 2013.
Dr. Gholamhossein Hamedani Professor
Published: “Characterizations of Certain Continuous Distributions,” Multiscale Signal Analysis and Modeling, (2013), pp 297-316, Springer. Published: “Characterizations of Certain Recently Introduced Distributions,” JSTA, Vol. 12 (2013), pp 11-20. Published: “Characterizations of Continuous Distributions Based on Conditional Expectation of Generalized Order Statistics,” Communications in Statistics — Theory and Methods, Vol. 42 (2013), pp 3,608-3,613, with M. Ahsanullah. Published: “Characterizations of Distributions of Ratio of Certain Independent Random Variables,” JAMSI, Vol. 9 (2013), pp 15-25. Published: “Characterizations of Distributions of Ratio of Rayleigh Random Variables,” PJS, Vol. 29 (2013), pp 369-376. Published: “Concept of SubIndependence,” Contemporary Topics in Mathematics and Statistics with Applications, (2013), Chapter 13, pp 185-198, Asian Books.
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