Founder and Director

Dr. Jafar Saniie, IEEE Life Fellow for contributions to ultrasonic signal processing for detection, estimation, and imaging
Founder and Director of ECASP Research Laboratory
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 Filmer Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jafar Saniie received his B.S. degree with high honors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1974. He received his M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering in 1977 from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1981 from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. In 1981, Dr. Saniie joined the Department of Applied Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland, to conduct research in photothermal and photoacoustic imaging. Since 1983 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology where he is the Filmer Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Founder and Director of Embedded Computing and Signal Processing (ECASP) Research Laboratory

Dr. Saniie's research interests and activities are in ultrasonic signal and image processing, ultrasonic software-defined communication, artificial intelligence and machine learning, statistical pattern recognition, estimation and detection, data compression, time-frequency analysis, embedded digital systems, system-on-chip hardware/software co-design, Internet of things, computer vision, and deep learning, and ultrasonic nondestructive testing and imaging. Dr. Saniie’s research activities have been supported by DOE, ONR, NSF, ANL, University of Chicago, and EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) to conduct research in the area sensors, signal processing for detection, estimation, imaging, and system-on-chip design, ultrasonic communications for secure networking, thermal tomography, and nondestructive testing. Dr. Saniie has been a Technical Program Committee member of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium since 1987 (The Chair of Sensors, NDE and Industrial Applications Group, 2004-2013), Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (1994-2020), the Lead Guest Editor for the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (UFFC) Special Issue on Ultrasonics and Ferroelectrics (August 2014), the IEEE UFFC Special Issue on Novel Embedded Systems for Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing (July 2012), and Special Issue on Advances in Acoustic Sensing, Imaging, and Signal Processing published in the Journal of Advances in Acoustics and Vibration, 2013. Dr. Saniie was the General Chair of the 2014 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium in Chicago. He has served as the IEEE UFFC Ultrasonics Awards Chair since 2018. He served as the Ultrasonics Vice President of the IEEE UFFC Society (2014-2017).

He has over 490 publications and has supervised 39 Ph.D. dissertations, and 28 MS Theses to completion. Dr. Saniie received the 2006 Outstanding Faculty Award for Excellence and Contributions to Computer Engineering Program, and the 2007 Armour College of Engineering and the University (Illinois Institute of Technology) Excellence in Teaching Award.

ECE Department Newsletters, Department Chair, Professor Jafar Saniie, 2017-2024
Thesis and Dissertation
  • Ultrasonic Signal Processing: System Identification and Parameter Estimation of Reverberant and Inhomogeneous Targets
    Ph.D Dissertation, Purdue University, August 1981 - PDF
  • System Identification of Ventilation Inhomogeneity by Multibreath Washout
    Master's Thesis, Case Western Reserve University, August 1977 - PDF

Research Project Coordinator

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Dr. Won-Jae Yi (Connect via Linkedin)
Research Project Coordinator of ECASP Research Laboratory
Associate Teaching Professor of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Won-Jae Yi received his B.S. (2010), M.S. (2012), and Ph.D. (2017) in Computer Engineering, all from the Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech). He began his career at Illinois Tech in 2017 as the Undergraduate Laboratory and Computing Facilities Supervisor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2018, he started teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses as an Adjunct Professor. In 2022, he was appointed Assistant Teaching Professor, and he currently serves as an Associate Teaching Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Also, he is the Undergraduate Laboratory and Computing Facilities Supervisor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Tech.

His research interests are in the field of Internet of Things, wireless body sensor networks, wearable devices for health monitoring systems, FPGAs and SoCs, cyber physical system and data security, low-powered wireless personal area network systems and protocols, information processing and data fusion for IoT based embedded systems, artificial intelligence and edge computing. Also, he has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Tech including Software Engineering, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing, and Microcomputer Assembly Language.

In Spring 2023, Yi received the 2023 Bauer Family Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. (LINK)
Publications
  1. IoT-Enabled Smart Bike Helmet with an AI-Driven Collision Avoidance System
    J. Solus, M. Rakotondraibe, X. Yu, W.-J. Yi, M. Gromov, J. Saniie
    2023 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  2. Application of Machine Learning and Image Recognition for Driver Attention Monitoring
    M. Tailor, J. Ali, X. Yu, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2023 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  3. Design Flow and Implementation of an AI-Enabled Smart Guidance System for Art Galleries
    A. Belloso Esteban, M. Silvestre Delgado, X. Yu, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2022 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  4. Indoor Navigation System for Visually Impaired People using Computer Vision
    A. Leyte Fraga, X. Yu, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2022 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  5. Soccer Player Recognition using Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision
    C.-A. Diop, B. Pelloux, X. Yu, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2022 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  6. Internet of Things Smart Farming Architecture for Agricultural Automation
    A. Sanchez-Mompo, H. Barbier, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2021 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  7. Design Flow and Implementation of an IoT Smart Power Socket
    C. Mateo, F. Almagro, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2021 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  8. Near-Ultrasonic Communications for IoT Applications using Android Smartphone
    Y. Hornych, J. Canada Toledo, B. Wang, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2020 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  9. Design Flow of Wireless Body Sensor Network for Human Activity Classification using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Neural Network
    S. Gupta, B. Wang, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2020 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  10. IoT Framework for 3D Body Posture Visualization
    D. Arnold, X. Li, Y. Lin, Z. Wang, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2020 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  11. Design Flow of Wearable Internet of Things (IoT) Smart Workout Tracking System
    J. Toledo, D. Arnold, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2019 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  12. Home Surveillance System using Computer Vision and Convolutional Neural Network
    X. Zhang, W.-J. Yi, J. Saniie
    2019 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology - LINK

  13. 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

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

  15. 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

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

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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

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

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

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

  31. 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

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

  33. 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

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

Research Collaborator

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Dr. 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