Postdoctoral Research Associate

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Dr. Won-Jae Yi (Connect via Linkedin)
Postdoctoral Research Associate and Project Coordinator of ECASP Research Laboratory
Laboratory Manager and Adjunct Faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • M.S. in Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • B.S. in Computer Engineering (cum laude), Illinois Institute of Technology

Research Interests
  • Wireless Sensor Network and Android Platforms
  • IoT, Embedded Computing, Data Fusion and Analysis
  • Motion Detection and Posture Assessment using Multiple Body Sensors

Publications
  1. Communication and Computation Architectures for Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things
    Ph.D. Dissertation, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2017 - LINK

  2. Mobile Android Sensor System for Real-Time Patient Monitoring and Healthcare Application
    Master's Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2012 - LINK

  3. Design Flow of Neural Network Application for IoT based Fall Detection System
    W.-J. Yi, B. Wang, B. Fernandes dos Santos, E. Fonseca Carvalho, J. Saniie
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK (accepted)

  4. Design Architecture for Patient Centered Real-time Mobile Health Monitoring System
    W.-J. Yi, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    Smart Sensors and Deep Learning Solutions for Future Intelligent Systems: New Requirements for Software to Silicon, Springer - LINK (In print)

  5. Architecture of a Protocol Standard for Cohesive Home Automation Device Interactions
    T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    Smart Sensors and Deep Learning Solutions for Future Intelligent Systems: New Requirements for Software to Silicon, Springer - LINK (In print)

  6. Computer Vision and Text Recognition for Assisting Visually Impaired People using Android Smartphone
    H. Jiang, T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2017 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  7. Patient Centered Real-Time Mobile Health Monitoring System
    W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks - LINK

  8. Security Assessment for Personal Health Data Management System
    P. Wu, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  9. Managing Quality of Service in Wireless Body Area Networks using CoAP
    E. Monsef, M. Gonzalez, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  10. 6LoWPAN-enabled Fall Detection and Health Monitoring System with Android Smartphone
    W.-J. Yi, O. Sarkar, T. Gonnot, E. Monsef, J. Saniie
    2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  11. Home Automation Device Protocol (HADP): A Protocol Standard for Unified Device Interactions
    T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, E. Monsef, J. Saniie
    Advances in Internet of Things - LINK

  12. Robust Framework for 6LoWPAN-based Body Sensor Network Interfacing with Smartphone
    T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, E. Monsef, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  13. Design Flow of Wearable Heart Monitoring and Fall Detection System using Wireless Intelligent Personal Communication Node
    W.-J. Yi, O. Sarkar, S. Mathavan, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  14. Sensor Network for Extended Health Monitoring of Hospital Patients
    T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, E. Monsef, P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Point-Of-Care Technologies Conference - LINK

  15. An Application-Agnostic Quality of Service Framework For Wireless Body Area Networks
    E. Monsef, T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Point-Of-Care Technologies Conference - LINK

  16. Wearable Sensor Data Fusion for Remote Health Assessment and Fall Detection
    W.-J. Yi, O. Sarkar, S. Mathavan, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  17. Design Flow of a Wearable System for Body Posture Assessment and Fall Detection with Android Smartphone
    W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE International Technology Management Conference - LINK

  18. Wireless Sensor Network for Structural Health Monitoring using System-on-Chip with Android Smartphone
    W.-J. Yi, S. Gilliland, J. Saniie
    IEEE SENSORS 2013 - LINK

  19. System Architecture and Design Flow of Smart Mobile Sensing Systems
    W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    Journal of Sensor Technology - LINK

  20. Mobile Ultrasonic Signal Processing System using Android Smartphone
    W.-J. Yi, S. Gilliland, J. Saniie
    IEEE 56th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems - LINK

  21. Smart Mobile System for Body Sensor Network
    W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2013 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  22. System Architecture of Intelligent Personal Communication Node for Body Sensor Network
    W.-J. Yi, S. Niu, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2013 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - LINK

  23. Mobile Sensor Data Collector using Android Smartphone
    W.-J. Yi, W. Jia, J. Saniie
    IEEE 55th International Midwest Symposium in Circuits and Systems - LINK

  24. 3D Image Reconstruction and Human Body Tracking using Stereo Vision and Kinect Technology
    W. Jia, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie, E. Oruklu
    2012 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

Recent Graduates

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Thomas Gonnot (Connect via Linkedin)

Education
  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Engineering Diploma with Speciality in Embedded Systems, ENSEA, France

Research Interests
  • Image Processing
  • Robotics and Machine Learning

Publications
  1. Hardware/Software Co-Design Partitioning Algorithm for Machine Vision Applications
    Ph.D. Dissertation, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2017 - LINK

  2. Design Architecture for Patient Centered Real-time Mobile Health Monitoring System
    W.-J. Yi, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    Smart Sensors and Deep Learning Solutions for Future Intelligent Systems: New Requirements for Software to Silicon, Springer - LINK (In print)

  3. Architecture of a Protocol Standard for Cohesive Home Automation Device Interactions
    T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    Smart Sensors and Deep Learning Solutions for Future Intelligent Systems: New Requirements for Software to Silicon, Springer - LINK (In print)

  4. Image to Audio Frequencies Modulation for Visually Impaired People
    Winner of the Best Student Paper Competition (3rd place)
    T. Gonnot, M. Mikuta, J. Saniie
    2017 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  5. Computer Vision and Text Recognition for Assisting Visually Impaired People using Android Smartphone
    H. Jiang, T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2017 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  6. End-to-End Wireless Digital Communication System of FPGA Based Software Defined Radio
    T. Dang, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2017 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  7. Real-Time Face Detection and Recognition in Complex Background
    X. Zhang, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    Journal of Signal and Information Processing - LINK

  8. Integrated Machine Vision and Communication System for Blind Navigation and Guidance
    T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  9. Design Flow of Vehicle License Plate Reader Based on RGB Color Extractor
    Y. Jia, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  10. 6LoWPAN-enabled Fall Detection and Health Monitoring System with Android Smartphone
    W.-J. Yi, O. Sarkar, T. Gonnot, E. Monsef, J. Saniie
    2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  11. Home Automation Device Protocol (HADP): A Protocol Standard for Unified Device Interactions
    T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, E. Monsef, J. Saniie
    Advances in Internet of Things - LINK

  12. Reconfigurable Ultrasonic Testing System Development Using Programmable Analog Front-End and Reconfigurable System-on-Chip Hardware
    P. Govindan, V. Vasudevan, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    Circuits and Systems - LINK

  13. Design Flow of Motion Based Single Camera 3D Mapping
    G. Yang, Z. Zhou, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  14. Robust Framework for 6LoWPAN-based Body Sensor Network Interfacing with Smartphone
    T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, E. Monsef, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  15. Acceleration of Ultrasonic Data Compression Using OpenCL on GPU
    B. Wang, P. Govindan, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  16. Multidimensional Representation of Ultrasonic Data Processed by Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Using OpenCL High-Level Synthesis
    S. Gilliland, C. Boulet, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  17. Sensor Network for Extended Health Monitoring of Hospital Patients
    T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, E. Monsef, P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Point-Of-Care Technologies Conference - LINK

  18. An Application-Agnostic Quality of Service Framework For Wireless Body Area Networks
    E. Monsef, T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Point-Of-Care Technologies Conference - LINK

  19. Embedded and Modular Video Processing Design Platform
    T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  20. Platform Independent GUI for Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Hardware
    C. Boulet, E. Rovira, S. Gilliland, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  21. User Defined Interactions Between Devices on a 6LoWPAN Network for Home Automation
    T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE International Technology Management Conference - LINK

  22. Image Sensing System for Navigating Visually Impaired People
    T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    IEEE SENSORS 2013 - LINK

  23. 3D Ultrasonic Signal Compression Algorithms for High Signal Fidelity
    P. Govindan, T. Gonnot, S. Gilliland, J. Saniie
    IEEE 56th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems - LINK

  24. Performance Evaluation of FPGA based Embedded ARM Processor for Ultrasonic Imaging
    Winner of the Best Student Paper Competition (1st place)
    S. Gilliland, P. Govindan, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2013 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  25. HW/SW Co-design for Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Platform
    P. Govindan, S. Gilliland, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2013 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  26. Design Flow for Complex Scene Visual Object Tracking and Avoidance System
    T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2013 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - LINK

  27. System Architecture of Intelligent Personal Communication Node for Body Sensor Network
    W.-J. Yi, S. Niu, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2013 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - LINK

  28. Performance Analysis of Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Hardware Platform
    P. Govindan, S. Gilliland, A. Kasaeifard, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2013 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - LINK

  29. Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Hardware (RUSH) Platform for Real-Time Ultrasonic Imaging Applications
    P. Govindan, S. Gilliland, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

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Pramod Govindan (Connect via Linkedin)

Education
  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Master in VLSI & Microelectronics, VLSI & Microelectronics
  • B. Tech in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Govt. Engineering College, India

Research Interests
  • Ultrasonic Signal Processing
  • 3D Ultrasonic Signal Compression Algorithms
  • Hardware/Software Codesign

Publications
  1. 3D Compression Algorithms and System-on-Chip Design for Ultrasonic Imaging Applications
    Ph.D. Dissertation, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2015 - LINK

  2. Performance Analysis of System-on-Chip Architectures for Ultrasonic Data Compression
    B. Wang, P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    2016 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  3. Architecture of the Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Hardware Platform
    S. Gilliland, P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    IET Circuits, Devices and Systems - LINK

  4. Hardware and Software Architectures for Computationally Efficient Three-dimensional Ultrasonic Data Compression
    P. Govindan, B. Wang, P. Ravi, J. Saniie
    IET Circuit and System - LINK

  5. Ultrasonic Chirplet Echo Parameter Estimation Using Time-Frequency Distributions
    P. Govindan, A. Kasaeifard, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  6. Reconfigurable and Programmable System-on-Chip Hardware Platform for Real-time Ultrasonic Testing Applications
    P. Govindan, B. Wang, P. Wu, I. Palkov, V. Vasudevan, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  7. Sparse Deconvolution of Ultrasound NDE Echoes Accounting for Pulse Variance
    R. Demirli, J. Lu, P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  8. Reconfigurable Ultrasonic Testing System Development Using Programmable Analog Front-End and Reconfigurable System-on-Chip Hardware
    P. Govindan, V. Vasudevan, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    Circuits and Systems - LINK

  9. Processing Algorithms for Three-Dimensional Data Compression of Ultrasonic Radio Frequency Signals
    P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    IET Signal Processing - LINK

  10. Design and Evaluation of Reconfigurable Ultrasonic Testing System
    V. Vasudevan, B. Wang, P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  11. Acceleration of Ultrasonic Data Compression Using OpenCL on GPU
    B. Wang, P. Govindan, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  12. Hardware-Software Co-design of 3D Data Compression for Real-time Ultrasonic Imaging Applications
    P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  13. Dynamically Reconfigurable Analog Front-End for Ultrasonic Imaging Applications
    V. Vasudevan, P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  14. Sensor Network for Extended Health Monitoring of Hospital Patients
    T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, E. Monsef, P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Point-Of-Care Technologies Conference - LINK

  15. Reconfigurable Analog Front-End System for Ultrasonic SoC Hardware
    V. Vasudevan, P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  16. 3D Ultrasonic Signal Compression Algorithms for High Signal Fidelity
    P. Govindan, T. Gonnot, S. Gilliland, J. Saniie
    IEEE 56th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems - LINK

  17. Performance Evaluation of FPGA based Embedded ARM Processor for Ultrasonic Imaging
    Winner of the Best Student Paper Competition (1st place)
    S. Gilliland, P. Govindan, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2013 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  18. Performance Evaluation of 3D Compression for Ultrasonic Nondestructive Testing Applications
    P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    2013 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  19. HW/SW Co-design for Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Platform
    P. Govindan, S. Gilliland, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2013 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  20. Performance Analysis of Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Hardware Platform
    P. Govindan, S. Gilliland, A. Kasaeifard, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2013 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - LINK

  21. Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Hardware (RUSH) Platform for Real-Time Ultrasonic Imaging Applications
    P. Govindan, S. Gilliland, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

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Ehsan Monsef (Connect via Linkedin)

Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Master of Computer Science and Networking, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
  • B.S. in Software Engineering and Computer Networks, Shiraz Azad University, Iran

Research Interests
  • Computer Networks
  • Game Theories
  • Network Systems Engineering

Publications
  1. Modeling and Performance Analysis of Distributed Computer Networks with Differentiated Services
    Ph.D. Dissertation, Illinois Institute of Technology - LINK

  2. Managing Quality of Service in Wireless Body Area Networks using CoAP
    E. Monsef, M. Gonzalez, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  3. 6LoWPAN-enabled Fall Detection and Health Monitoring System with Android Smartphone
    W.-J. Yi, O. Sarkar, T. Gonnot, E. Monsef, J. Saniie
    2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  4. Convergence Properties of General Network Selection Games
    E. Monsef, A. Keshvarz-Haddad, E. Ayafar, J. Saniie, M. Chiang
    IEEE INFOCOM 2015 - LINK

  5. Home Automation Device Protocol (HADP): A Protocol Standard for Unified Device Interactions
    T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, E. Monsef, J. Saniie
    Advances in Internet of Things - LINK

  6. A Repeated Game Approach for Interference Mitigation of Priority-Based Body Area Networks
    E. Monsef, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  7. Robust Framework for 6LoWPAN-based Body Sensor Network Interfacing with Smartphone
    T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, E. Monsef, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  8. Sensor Network for Extended Health Monitoring of Hospital Patients
    T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, E. Monsef, P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Point-Of-Care Technologies Conference - LINK

  9. An Application-Agnostic Quality of Service Framework For Wireless Body Area Networks
    E. Monsef, T. Gonnot, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Point-Of-Care Technologies Conference - LINK

  10. Remotely Accessible Computer Network Laboratory with Hands-on Experience
    E. Monsef, S. Gilliland, T. Anjali, J. Saniie
    2014 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

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Spenser Gilliland (Connect via Website, Linkedin)
Education
  • M.S. in Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Baylor University

Research Interests
  • Linux based System-on-Chip Design
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays for High Speed Signal Processing
  • Hardware/Software Codesign
  • Computer Architecture

Publications
  1. S. Gilliland, "System-on-chip for research in ultrasonic signal processing and imaging applications", Master's Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2012 - LINK

  2. J. Saniie, E. Oruklu, S. Gilliland, S. Aslan, "Reconfigurable Ultrasonic Smart Sensor Platform for Nondestructive Evaluation and Imaging Applications", (Invited Book Chapter) S. Nihtianov and A. Estepa, Smart Sensors and MEMS: Intelligent Devices and Microsystems for Industrial Applications, Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2013 - LINK

  3. S. Gilliland, J. Saniie, F. Martinez, "Analysis of Library Functions for FPGA Compute Accelerators", 2017 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  4. S. Gilliland, J. Saniie, F. Martinez, "Implementation of Elementary Functions for FPGA Compute Accelerators", 2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  5. S. Gilliland, P. Govindan, J. Saniie, "Architecture of the Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Hardware Platform", IET Circuits, Devices and Systems - LINK

  6. S. Gilliland, C. Boulet, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie, "Multidimensional Representation of Ultrasonic Data Processed by Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Using OpenCL High-Level Synthesis", 2014 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  7. C. Boulet, E. Rovira, S. Gilliland, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie, "Platform Independent GUI for Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Hardware", 2014 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  8. E. Monsef, S. Gilliland, T. Anjali, J. Saniie, "Remotely Accessible Computer Network Laboratory with Hands-on Experience", 2014 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  9. W.-J. Yi, S. Gilliland, J. Saniie, "Wireless Sensor Network for Structural Health Monitoring using System-on-Chip with Android Smartphone", IEEE SENSORS 2013, Nov. 3-6, 2013 - LINK

  10. W.-J. Yi, S. Gilliland, J. Saniie, "Mobile Ultrasonic Signal Processing System using Android Smartphone", IEEE 56th International Midwest Symposium in Circuits and Systems, Aug. 4-7, 2013 - LINK

  11. P. Govindan, T. Gonnot, S. Gilliland, J. Saniie, "3D Ultrasonic Signal Compression Algorithms for High Signal Fidelity", IEEE 56th International Midwest Symposium in Circuits and Systems, Aug. 4-7, 2013 - LINK

  12. S. Gilliland, P. Govindan, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie, "Performance Evaluation of FPGA based Embedded ARM Processor for Ultrasonic Imaging", 2013 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Jul. 21-25, 2013 - LINK Winner of the Best Student Paper Competition (1st place)
  13. P. Govindan, S. Gilliland, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie, "HW/SW Co-design for Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Platform", 2013 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, May 9-11, 2013 - LINK

  14. P. Govindan, S. Gilliland, A. Kasaeifard, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie, "Performance Analysis of Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Hardware Platform", 2013 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, pp. 1550-1553, May 6-9, 2013 - LINK

  15. P. Govindan, S. Gilliland, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie, "Reconfigurable Ultrasonic System-on-Chip Hardware (RUSH) Platform for Real-Time Ultrasonic Imaging Applications", 2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Oct. 7-10, 2012 - LINK

  16. S. Gilliland, J. Saniie, S. Aslan, "Linux based reconfigurable platform for high speed ultrasonic imaging", IEEE 55th International Midwest Symposium in Circuits and Systems, pp. 486-489, Aug. 5-8, 2012 - LINK

Ph.D. Students

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Boyang Wang (Connect via Linkedin)
Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering

Education
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • B.E. in Information Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Research Interests
  • ZYNQ System Design for Signal Processing
  • Optimizing Hardware Design for DWT Compression Algorithm
  • Ultrasonic System Design

Publications
  1. Reconfigurable Ultrasonic Signal Processing System Solution based on ZYNQ Platform Master's Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2015 - LINK

  2. Fetal Electrocardiogram Recognition using Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network
    B. Wang, J. Saniie
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK (accepted)

  3. Software Defined Ultrasonic System for Communication through Solid Structures
    B. Wang, J. Saniie, S. Bakhtiari, A. Heifetz
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK (accepted)

  4. Design Flow of Neural Network Application for IoT based Fall Detection System
    W.-J. Yi, B. Wang, B. Fernandes dos Santos, E. Fonseca Carvalho, J. Saniie
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK (accepted)

  5. Architecture of an Ultrasonic Experimental Platform for Information Transmission Through Solids
    B. Wang, J. Saniie, S. Bakhtiari, A. Heifetz
    2017 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  6. Ultrasonic Flaw Detection based on Temporal and Spectral Signals Applied to Neural Network
    B. Wang, J. Saniie
    2017 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  7. Ultrasonic Target Echo Detection using Neural Network
    B. Wang, J. Saniie
    2017 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  8. Performance Analysis of System-on-Chip Architectures for Ultrasonic Data Compression
    B. Wang, P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    2016 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  9. Ultrasonic Signal Acquisition and Processing Platform based on Zynq SoC
    B. Wang, J. Saniie
    2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  10. Hardware and Software Architectures for Computationally Efficient Three-dimensional Ultrasonic Data Compression
    P. Govindan, B. Wang, P. Ravi, J. Saniie
    IET Circuit and System - LINK

  11. Reconfigurable and Programmable System-on-Chip Hardware Platform for Real-time Ultrasonic Testing Applications
    P. Govindan, B. Wang, P. Wu, I. Palkov, V. Vasudevan, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium - LINK

  12. Design and Evaluation of Reconfigurable Ultrasonic Testing System
    V. Vasudevan, B. Wang, P. Govindan, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  13. Acceleration of Ultrasonic Data Compression Using OpenCL on GPU
    B. Wang, P. Govindan, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

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Guojun Yang (Connect via Linkedin)
Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering

Education
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • B.S. in Automation Engineering, Beijing Information Science & Technology University, China

Research Interests
  • 3D Reconstruction Based On Single Video Camera

Publications
  1. Video Feature Detection and Matching for Structure from Motion System
    Master's Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2015 - LINK

  2. Indoor Navigation System using Acoustic Cuing for Visually Impaired People
    G. Yang, J. Saniie
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK (accepted)

  3. Emotion Recognition using Deep Neural Network with Vectorized Facial Features
    G. Yang, J. Saumell y Ortoneda, J. Saniie
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK (accepted)

  4. Autonomous Indoor Pathfinding using Neural Network in Complex Scenes
    V. Vasudevan, G. Yang, J. Saniie
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK (accepted)

  5. AR Marker Aided Obstacle Localization System for Assisting Visually Impaired
    X. Yu, G. Yang, S. Jones, J. Saniie
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK (accepted)

  6. Real-time Color-based Sorting Robotic Arm System
    Y. Jia, G. Yang, J. Saniie
    2017 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  7. Indoor Navigation for Visually Impaired using AR Markers
    G. Yang, J. Saniie
    2017 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  8. Eye Tracking using Monocular Camera for Gaze Estimation Applications
    G. Yang, J. Saniie
    2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  9. Design Flow of Motion Based Single Camera 3D Mapping
    G. Yang, Z. Zhou, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    2015 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

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Xin Huang
Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering

Education
  • M.E. in Sensor Technology, Coburg University of Applied Science, Germany
  • M.S. in Precision Instrument and Machinery, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
  • B.S. in Communication Engineering, Zhengzhou University, China

Research Interests
  • Wireless Sensor Network
  • Digital Signal Processing

Publications
  1. Applying EMAT for Ultrasonic Communication through Steel Plates and Pipes
    X. Huang, J. Saniie, S. Bakhtiari, A. Heifetz
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK (accepted)

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Xin Zhang (Connect via Linkedin)
Pursuing Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

Education
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, China

Research Interests
  • Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition
  • Human-computer Interaction
  • Digital Signal and Image Processing

Publications
  1. Real-Time Face Detection and Recognition in Complex Background
    X. Zhang, T. Gonnot, J. Saniie
    Journal of Signal and Information Processing - LINK

Xinrui Yu
Pursuing Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Education
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • B.E. in Electronics Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Research Interests
  • Digital Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition
  • Medical Imaging
  • Machine Learning

Publications
  1. AR Marker Aided Obstacle Localization System for Assisting Visually Impaired
    X. Yu, G. Yang, S. Jones, J. Saniie
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK (accepted)

Master & Undergraduate Students

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Vignesh Vasudevan (Connect via Linkedin)
M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Education
  • B.Tech. in Electrical, Electronics and Communications, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India

Research Interests
  • Machine Vision for the Classification of Small Objects using a Robotic Arm
  • Indoor Navigation for the Visually Impaired using AR Markers on an Android Device

Publications
  1. Autonomous Indoor Pathfinding using Neural Network in Complex Scenes
    V. Vasudevan, G. Yang, J. Saniie
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK (accepted)

Scott Jones (Connect via Linkedin)
Pursing M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Education
  • M.A. in Psychology, Rice University
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering, The University of Tulsa

Research Interests
  • Ultrasonic Imaging and Communications
  • Image Processing and Machine Vision
  • Sensors for the Visually Impaired
  • Machine Learning

Publications
  1. AR Marker Aided Obstacle Localization System for Assisting Visually Impaired
    X. Yu, G. Yang, S. Jones, J. Saniie
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK (accepted)

Visiting Scholars

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Mbene Dieng (Connect via Linkedin)

Education
  • Pursing M.S. in Electronics Engineering, IT and Telecommunications, ENSEA Graduate School, France

Research Interests
  • IoT based Smart Mobile Sensing System
  • Wireless Sensor Network
  • Home Automation System
  • Voice Recognition System
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Ryasse Hadja Ismail (Connect via Linkedin)

Education
  • Pursing M.S. in Electrical and Computer Science Engineering with Specialty in Embedded Systems, ENSEA Graduate School, France
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Computer Science with Specialty in Industrial Automation System, Institute of Technology of Ville d'Avray, France

Research Interests
  • IoT
  • Home Automation System
  • Android Platforms
  • Hardware/Software Co-design
Eliott Vigouroux

Education
  • Pursing M.S. in Electrical and Computer Science Engineering with Specialty in Embedded Systems, ENSEA Graduate School, France
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Computer Science with Specialty in Industrial Automation System, Institute of Technology of Cergy-Pontoise, France

Research Interests
  • IoT
  • Home Automation System using Android and Arduino Platforms
  • Embedded Systems
  • Computer Science

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