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Speakers Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering Bede Liu’s research interests are in watermarking, data hiding, video compression and analysis. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University and the M.E.E. and D.E.E. degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Prior to joining the Princeton faculty in 1962, his industrial associations included Bell Laboratories, Allen B. DuMont Laboratory, and Western Electric Company. He has been a visiting professor at the National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica (Beijing). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and was President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (1982) and a member of the IEEE Board of Directors (1984, 1985). He received the IEEE Centennial Medal (1984) and the Millennium Medal (2000), the ASSP Society Technical Achievement Award (1985) and the ASSP Society Award (2000), the CAS Society Education Award (1988), the Video Technology Best Paper Awards (1994 and 1996) and the Mac Van Valkenburg Award (1997). Dr. Liu was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for his contribution to the analysis and implementation of digital signal processing algorithms. Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Systems Biology, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Eberhard Voit's research interests are in biomedical systems, metabolic pathways, biochemical systems theory and s-systems. He did his graduate work at the Universitat zu Koln, receiving his Ph.D. in 1981. Voit was named the David D. Flanagan Chair in Biological Systems in 2005. Other awards include Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar (2004), Health Science Foundation Scholar (1990), and Medical University of South Carolina Key 100 Member (1988). Voit wrote Computational Analysis of Biochemical Systems: A Practical Guide for Biochemists and Molecular Biologists in 2000 and co-authored Pathway Analysis and Optimization in Metabolic Engineering in 2002 with N.V. Torres. Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Sanjoy K. Mitter received his Ph.D. degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, in 1965. He had previously worked as a research engineer at Brown Boveri & Co. Ltd., Switzerland (now ASEA Brown Boveri) and Battelle Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. He taught at Case Western Reserve University from 1965 to 1969 and joined MIT in 1969, first as a Visiting Professor and then in 1970 as Associate Professor Mitter's research has spanned the broad areas of Systems, Communication and Control. Although his primary contributions have been on the theoretical foundations of the field, he has also contributed to significant engineering applications, notably in the control of interconnected power systems, character recognition, and automatic recognition and classification of electrocardiograms. His current research interests are theory of stochastic dynamical systems, nonlinear filtering, stochastic and adaptive control; mathematical physics and its relationship to system theory; image analysis and computer vision; and structure, function and organization of complex systems. Professor Mitter has served on several advisory committees and editorial boards for IEEE, SIAM, AMS, NSF and ARO. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Optimization; Random and Computational Dynamics; Sankhya and the Ulam Quarterly and Editor-at-Large for Communications in Information and Systems. He is a fellow of the IEEE and was the recipient of the 2000 IEEE Control Systems Award. In 1988 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He was elected a Foreign Member of Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in 2003.
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 Roger Brockett
An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Roger Brockett has been an ISR affiliated faculty member since our beginning in 1985. He is the founder of the Harvard Robotics Laboratory and currently directs the Center for Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures with ISR's P.S. Krishnaprasad and Professor J. Baillieul of Boston University. His research interests lie in intelligent machines, dynamical systems and computation, tactile sensing, pulse mode computation, and motion control and motor networks. Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Pravin Varaiya is Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1975 to 1992 he was also Professor of Economics at Berkeley . From 1994 to 1997 he was Director of the California PATH program, a multi-university research program dedicated to the solution of California 's transportation problems. His current research is concerned with communication networks, transportation, and hybrid systems. He has taught at MIT and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Varaiya has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Miller Research Professorship. He received an Honorary Doctorate from L'Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, and the Field Medal of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is on the editorial board of several journals, including "Discrete Event Dynamical Systems" and "Transportation Research---C". He has co-authored three books and more than 250 technical papers. The second edition of "High-Performance Communication Networks" (with Jean Walrand) was published by Morgan-Kaufmann in 2000. "Structure and interpretation of signals and systems" (with Edward Lee) was published by Addison-Wesley in 2003. Varaiya is a member of the Board of Directors of Sensys Networks. Senior Vice President of Engineering Rajiv Laroia is the founder of Flarion Technologies, a company recently acquired by QUALCOMM. Today Laroia serves as Senior Vice President of Engineering for the company. He is an expert in OFDMA, CDMA, TDMA and other cellular multiple access technologies and is intimately familiar with current and next generation of wireless standards including IS-95, UMTS, CDMA 2000, IS-136, GSM and EDGE. Dr. Laroia has a very broad background that spans wireless communication, data transmission, information theory, VLSI design and architecture, analog mixed-signal and RF circuit design, high-speed AD/DA data converters, speech image and video compression. He is well known and respected in the professional and academic community and is regularly invited for seminars at top universities. Prior to launching Flarion, Dr. Laroia was with Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories since 1992 when he joined the prestigious Mathematical Sciences Research Center. In 1997, he became head of Bell Labs' Digital Communications Research Department in the Wireless Research Center where he and his team started to develop FLASH-OFDM technology based wireless data system. His years at Bell Labs have generated numerous publications and over 35 patents (granted and applied) with total patent licensing revenue in excess of $25 million. He received his Ph.D. and Master's degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1992 and 1989 and a bachelor's degree in 1985 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi-all in electrical engineering. Parts of his Ph.D. research are taught in advanced communication courses in most prominent universities. His thesis also contributed to V.34, the ITU voice-band modem international standard and led to a patent that has generated over $2 million for the University of Maryland, College Park. He was the recipient of the Best Graduate Student of the Year Award at the University of Maryland in 1992. From 1994 to 1997 he was the associate editor for IEEE transactions on information theory. Dr. Laroia is a Fellow of the IEEE. |
