Goldman Sachs Tech Talk

Goldman Sachs will be hosting a series of events on campus this Thursday, November 14. Some of these will be invite-only and others open to all students interested. You can apply for our private Coffee Chats using the application link below. Our public Tech Talk and Engineering Networking Reception registration links can be found below as well.

Those who were selected to participate in our private Coffee Chats will receive an email with the exact time and location 24 hours prior to their scheduled time.

ECE Research Day

The annual ECE Research Day will be held on Friday, December 6, from 11 am - 1 pm in the Richard Weeks Hall of  Engineering 4th floor hallway. The event will be attended by faculty, members of industry, alumni and students. This event is a great opportunity to present your research projects, share your creative ideas, and network with your peers.

WINLAB Researchers win Best Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

Professor Wade Trappe and Research Scientist Andrey Garnaev have won the Best Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC) for their paper, "An Eavesdropping and Jamming Dilemma when the Adversary might be Subjective." IEEE WCNC is the world premier wireless event that brings together industry professionals, academics, and individuals from government agencies and other institutions to exchange information and ideas on the advancement of wireless communications and networking technology.
 
The abstract for the award winning paper is below.
 
Wireless networks are susceptible to malicious attacks, especially those involving jamming and eavesdropping. To maintain secure and reliable communication under such threats, different anti-adversary strategies have been proposed to mitigate the adversary impact. In this paper, we consider a sophisticated adversary with the dual capability of either eavesdropping passively or jamming any ongoing transmission, and investigate a new aspect to consider when designing an anti adversary strategy: how uncertainty about whether the rival is rational or subjective could impact the strategies. To model such uncertainty, we formulate a Bayesian Prospect Theory (BPT) extension of the game between a user and an adversary who chooses between an eavesdropping attack and a jamming attack against the user. Meanwhile the user chooses against which of the threats to apply the corresponding best response strategy. Uniqueness of the BPT equilibrium strategies is proven and they are found in closed form. 
 
Congratulations to Wade and Andrey on this recognition!

Dario Pompili named ACM Distinguished Member

Associate Professor Dario Pompili has been selected for the honor of  2019 ACM Distinguished Member for “Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing.”
 
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named 62 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field. All 2019 inductees are longstanding ACM members and were selected by their peers for a range of accomplishments that have contributed to technologies that underpin how we live, work and play. 
 
The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes up to 10 percent of ACM worldwide membership based on professional experience as well as significant achievements in the computing field. To be nominated, a candidate must have at least 15 years of professional experience in the computing field, 5 years of continuous professional ACM membership, and have achieved a significant level of accomplishment, or made a significant impact in the field of computing, computer science and/or information technology. In addition, it is expected that a Distinguished Member serves as a mentor and role model, guiding technical career development and contributing to the field beyond the norm.
 
You can read the ACM news release here.
 
Congratulations to Dario on this recognition of outstanding professional achievement.

ECE Researchers win Best Paper Award at the 2019 ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems

Associate Professor Dario Pompili and ECE Ph.D. students Zhuoran Qi and Xueyuan Zhao have won the Best Paper Award at the 2019 ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (ACM WUWNet), which was held in Atlanta, GA for their paper titled "Range-extending Optical Transceiver Structure for Underwater Vehicles and Robotics."

WUWNet is a premier venue for sharing state-of-the-art research and development of underwater networks and systems, bringing together leading scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs from a broad range of backgrounds relevant to underwater sensing, communications, networking, robotics, systems, and applications. The winners were presented with an award certificate and a USD 300 prize.

The abstract of the award winning paper is below.

Abstract: An underwater optical communication link provides high-speed data transfer between water surface buoys/ships and underwater vehicles for robotics applications. However, currently such optical links are severely limited by the coverage range due to the high attenuation of light in the water environment as well as by the scattering problem. A new optical transceiver structure is proposed to significantly extend the coverage range by several folds, targeting to solve this coverage bottleneck problem for high-speed data transfer. The proposal is a new optical transceiver structure with hybrid nonlinear pulse position modulation and time-frequency spreading. This new scheme is able to boost the range coverage by several folds, and was verified via thorough bit-level computer simulations using realistic models tailored for the optical channel propagation environments. The proposed structure can be integrated into the existing underwater vehicles and robots to enable the next-generation range-extended and high-speed optical links for oceanic explorations.

Congratulations to Dario, Zhuoran and Xueyuan on this recognition!

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