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PAST
MEETING
Wednesday,
May 3rd, 2006
Opportunities
and Challenges of
Wireless Sensor Networks
Presented by: Professor
Martin Haenggi, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame.
Presented Jointly
with: the Circuits and Systems Society's
Distinguished Lecturer Program
Abstract:
The strategy of deploying large numbers of inexpensive sensing
nodes that are wirelessly connected has significant advantages compared
to traditional methods to gather information: high spatial resolution,
robustness, uniform coverage, stealth, small energy consumption,
and low overall cost. Hence the combination of sensors, low-power
computers, and radios into wireless sensor networks offers enormous
opportunities for almost all scientific disciplines. However, populating
our world with networks of sensors in a scalable and resource-efficient
way is rather challenging and requires a fundamental understanding
of many technical issues that transcend the traditional disciplinary
boundaries. We will discuss the technical challenges and approaches
to overcome them. In doing so, we will highlight the current activities
in sensor network research as well as its interdisciplinary nature.
This is the second of a three lecture series. The
first lecture was presented on Oct. 19, 2005 and is available on
line.
Biography:
Martin Haenggi was born in 1969, in Zurich, Switzerland. He received
the Dipl. Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in electrical engineering from the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in 1995. In 1995, he
joined the Signal and Information Processing Laboratory at ETH as
a Teaching and Research Assistant. Between 1996 and 1998, he continued
his studies and earned the Dipl. NDS ETH (post-diploma) degree in
information technology. In 1999, he completed his Ph.D. thesis on
the analysis, design, and optimization of cellular neural networks.
After a postdoctoral year at the Electronics Research Laboratory
at the University of California in Berkeley, he joined the faculty
of the electrical engineering department at the University of Notre
Dame as an assistant professor in January 2001.
He is a senior member of the IEEE, a professional member of the
ACM and the ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education), and
a reviewer for numerous international journals and conferences.
Recently he joined the Editorial Board of the Elsevier Journal of
Ad Hoc Networks. For both his M.Sc. and his Ph.D. theses, he was
awarded the ETH medal, and he received an NSF CAREER award in 2005.
His scientific interests include networking, wireless communications,
and dynamical systems, with an emphasis on ad hoc and sensor networks.
His publications include 3 book chapters, 21 journal publications,
and 36 conference papers.
Place:
Bowe
Bell & Howell [Company directions]
760
S Wolf Rd, Wheeling, IL 60090 [Mapquest directions]
"Da
Vinci" conference room
Attendance:
Members: 7
Guests: 7
Total: 14
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