Center for Communications and signal Processing

Seminars and Technical Tours

Dr. Ken Christensen
“The Energy Efficient Internet: Ongoing Work”
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, USF
April 18, 2008

Scientific/Technical Tour
Medical Imaging at Moffitt Cancer Center
March 26, 2008

Dr. Don Hilbelink
“Clinical and Research Applications for 3D Visualization of Medical Images”
College of Medicine
University of South Florida
Feb. 15, 2008

Dr. Edward A. Eikman
“Clinical Diagnostic Imaging Today”
College of Medicine and Moffitt Center
University of South Florida
Feb. 1, 2008

Dr. Lawrence Dunleavy
“Transistor and Amplifier Modeling Methods for Radio Frequency and Microwave Applications”
University of South Florida, and Modelithics, Inc.
November 16, 2007

Mr. Philip Bennardo
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
"NASA's Constellation Program: Beyond the Space Shuttle in 2010”
November 2, 2007

Dr. Ryoko Hayashi
“Case Studies of Information Technology on Computational Material Design”
Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
October 24, 2007

Dr. Yasushi Inoguchi
“High speed audio fingerprint detection using FPGAs”
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
October 23, 2007

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Some of the Distant-Past Visitors (let us reminisce)
Dr. Robert Lucky
Dr. Richard Gitlin
Dr. James Kaiser
Dr. Ronald Schafer
Dr. Earl Swartzlander
Dr. John Proakis
Dr. Ronald Crochiere
Dr. Larry Greenstein
Dr. Carl-Erik Sundberg
Dr. Hants Schussler (Germany)
Dr. Claude Gueguen (France)
Dr. Ulrich Heute (Germany)

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Dr. Vinay Gupta
University of South Florida
“Materials Characterization Using Polarized Light”
August 23, 2007

Dr. A. David Snider
University of South Florida
“USFKAD: An Expert System for the Partial Differential Equations of Waves, Diffusion, and Statics
(and an interactive discussion on the Fluorescence Diffusion equation)”
July 6, 2007

Dr. Hao Zheng
University of South Florida
“Scalable model checking: a formal approach to concurrent system verification”
June 28, 2007

Dr. Srinivas Katkoori
University of South Florida
“High-level Crosstalk Estimation and Optimization in CMOS VLSI Design
(and an introduction to automatic synthesis by the AUDI system)"
June 14, 2007

Dr. Yasushi Inoguchi
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Japan)
“High speed audio watermark detection using FPGAs"
Nov. 14, 2006

Dr. Emanuel Donchin
University of South Florida
"Talking of the Top of Your Head: Brain Computer Interface Research"
Oct. 20, 2006
(Held in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Center of Excellence in Telemedicine)

Dr. Phil Vernon
General Electric Medical Systems
“Advanced Medical Imaging and Fusion of Multi-Modal Data at General Electric Medical Systems"
Oct. 16, 2006
(Other participants from GE Medical Systems were: Dr. Karthik Kuppusamy,
Ms. Deborah.simone, and Mr. Yale Grayson)

Dr. Jing Wang
University of South Florida
“Resonating RF MEMS Technology for Low-Power Wireless Communications”
Oct. 6, 2006

Dr. Joseph Mitola, III
MITRE Corporation
"Cognitive Radio Ontologies: An Introduction and Current Research in the Field"
March 20, 2006

Dr. Shekhar Bhansali
University of South Florida
"A Virtual Tour of the BioMEMS and Microsystems Laboratory"
March 8, 2006

Mr. Philip Bennardo
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
"NASA Past, Present and Future, An Agency Overview"
November 18, 2005

Dr. Guifang Li
University of Central Florida
"Advances in Optical Communication"
October 12, 2005

Dr. Marco Ottavi
Northeastern University, and University of Rome, Italy
"Memory Architectues for Quantum Cellular Automata"
May 13, 2005

Ms. Amy Houts Gilfriche,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
"The Science and Technology of the Hubble Space Telescope"
Feb. 16, 2005

Dr. Brent A. Myers
Conexant Corporation
Analog CMOS VLSI Solutions for Modern Wireless Data Communication IC's
Nov. 12, 2004

Dr. R. Kasturi
University of South Florida
Advanced Research in the Computer Science and Engineering Department
Oct. 1, 2004

Dr. D. Morel
University of South Florida
Advanced Research in the Electrical Engineering Department
Oct. 1, 2004

Mr. George Ellis
University of South Florida
“Short Messaging Systems” (Meeting on advances in SMS systems; Attendees: G. Ellis,
R. Sankar, H. Arslan, and V. K. Jain)
Sept. 24, 2004

Prof. Lajos Hanzo,
University of Southampton, UK
"Adaptive Modulation, Coding, Transmit Diversity and
Networking for Next Generation Wireless Systems"
Oct. 10, 2003

Dr. Ravi Athale
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
Photonic Information Processing
April 4, 2003

Mr. Rodney Grubbs
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Live HDTV downlink from the International Space Station
March 28, 2003

Lt. Colonel Robert B. Heathcock,
Joint Tactical Radio System, US Army
"A Software Defined Radio Based on a Common Architecture"
February 24, 2003

Technical Tour:
Tour of WUSF-TV's Advanced Twenty-First Century Facilties and Operation
November 22, 2002

Dr. Brent A. Myers,
Director of Advance Product Development
Intersil Corporation
"System on Chip Integration Considerations for Wireless Local Area Network Implementations"
November 7, 2002

Dr. Dennis Killinger, Distinguished Professor,
Physics Department, USF
"A Optical and Laser Sensors for Chemical Detection"
March 1, 2002

George Ellis, Associate Vice-President,
Information Technology, USF
"USF's Telecommunication and Networking Infrastructure, and a Vision of the Future"
March 2, 2001

Dr. Kwame Boakye
Harris Corporation
Telecommunications/Boadcast Convergence and Technology Implications
Dec. 8, 2000

Douglas Gardner, Dir. of Engineering
Digital Lightwave, Inc.
"Broadband Optical Fiber Communication"
November 28, 2000

Dr. K. J. Christensen
"Introduction to Network Software Development"
March 24, 2000

Technical Tour:
WUSF-TV (USF's Public Television Station)
October 1, 1999

Prof. P. Lala
"Introduction to Logic Synthesis and Test"
February 20, 1998

Technical Tour:
Engineering Operations/R&D at Group Technologies
January 30, 1998
Place: Group Technologies, Inc., Tampa, Florida

Mr. Geoff Phillips
Vice-President, Harris Corporation
"Multimedia Development at Harris Corporation"
January 16, 1998