Careers
in the Academy:Mason
Program for Ph.D.
Students
International Summer School on
High-Performance Computing
Seminar:Bioengineering Dept.:Mar 6, 12pm
Ariela
Sofer, Edward Huang, and Abbas Zaidi Receive Funding from
Pohang University
Arun
Sood and Duminda Wijisekera Receive Funding from the Cyber
Security Research
Alliance
Careers
in the Academy:Mason
Program for Ph.D. Students
Mason’s
Center for Teaching and Faculty Excellence is now accepting
applications for
its PROV 701 program, Preparing for Careers in the Academy. This
program is
geared towards advanced PhD and MFA students who are interested in
joining the
academic ranks after graduation.
International
Summer School on
High-Performance Computing
International
Summer School 2014 on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences
(sponsored by
the National Science Foundation)
Graduate
students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Europe,
Canada, Japan
and the United States are invited to apply for the fifth
International Summer
School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences, to be held
June 1-6, 2014,
in Budapest, Hungary. The summer school is sponsored by the
European Union
Seventh Framework Program’s Partnership for Advanced Computing in
Europe
Implementation Phase project (PRACE-3IP), U.S. National Science
Foundation’s
Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)
project, RIKEN
Advanced Institute for Computational Science (RIKEN AICS), and
Compute/Calcul
Canada.
Leading
American, Canadian, European and Japanese computational scientists
and HPC technologists
will offer instruction on a variety of topics, including:
Access
to EU, U.S., Japanese and Canadian HPC-infrastructures
HPC
challenges by discipline (e.g., bioinformatics, computer
science, chemistry,
and physics)
HPC
programming proficiencies
Performance
analysis & profiling
Algorithmic
approaches & numerical libraries
Data-intensive
computing
Scientific
visualization
The
expense-paid program will benefit advanced scholars from European,
U.S.,
Canadian and Japanese institutions who use HPC to conduct
research. Interested
students should apply by March 9, 2014. Meals, housing, and travel
expenses
will be paid for the selected participants. Applications from
students in all
science and engineering fields are welcome. Preference will be
given to
applicants with parallel programming experience and a research
plan that will
benefit from the utilization of high performance computing
systems.
Title:
Functional Near Infrared
Spectroscopy: Basic Principles and Applications to Aerospace,
Medicine, and
Clinical Life-saving Solutions
Speaker: Hasan Ayaz,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Drexel
University
Thursday,
March 6, 2014 12:00
PM ENGR
3507
Abstract
Functional
near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an emerging brain monitoring
technology
that relies on optical techniques to detect changes in cortical
hemodynamic
responses to sensory, motor, or cognitive activation. It was
originally
developed for clinical monitoring of tissue oxygenation but
evolved into a
useful tool for neuroimaging studies, and better understanding of
human brain
function. The fNIRS technology is a portable, safe, affordable and
negligibly
intrusive system that uses specific wavelengths of light,
irradiated through
the scalp, to enable noninvasive measurement of localized
concentration changes
of deoxygenated hemoglobin (deoxy-Hb) and oxygenated hemoglobin
(oxy-Hb).
Consistent with the neuroergonomic approach, fNIRS sensor can
allow capturing
brain at work in naturalistic environments during everyday tasks.
This
presentation will introduce fNIRS technology principles, latest
system designs,
and signal processing approaches. The second part of the
presentation will
review our recent fNIRS applications ranging from human computer
interaction to
medical devices, including cognitive workload assessment of
operators,
synthetic speech perception (sound quality and neural correlates),
brain
computer interfaces for control and communication.
Bio
Hasan
Ayaz, PhD is an Assistant Research Professor in Biomedical
Engineering. He
received his BSc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at
Bogazici
University with high honors and MSc. and PhD degrees in Biomedical
Engineering
and studied Functional Near Infrared (fNIR) Spectroscopy. Research
interests
include brain computer interfacing and human performance
assessment using
optical brain sensors. Experienced in software development,
computer graphics,
user interface design and embedded system development.
Ariela Sofer, Edward Huang, and Abbas
Zaidi Receive Funding from Pohang University
Ariela
Sofer, Edward Huang, and Abbas Zaidi of the Systems Engineering
&
Operations Research Department received $100K from Pohang
University of Science
and Technology for their project, “A
Case Study: Designing an Electric Power Plant Using Model-Based
Systems
Engineering Techniques.”
Arun
Sood and Duminda Wijisekera Receive
Funding from the Cyber Security Research Alliance
Arun
Sood and Duminda Wijisekera of the Computer Science Department and
the International
Cyber Center received $60K from the Cyber Security Research
Alliance for their
project, “A Survey and Taxonomy on the Roots of Trust in
Cyber-Physical Systems.”
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