- Date: July 3, 2015
MERL Contacts: Daniel N. Nikovski; Yebin Wang; Stefano Di Cairano; Arvind Raghunathan; Avishai Weiss Brief - MERL researchers presented 10 papers at the American Controls Conference, in Chicago, USA. The ACC is one of the most important conferences on control systems in the world. Topics ranged from theoretical, including new algorithms for Model Predictive Control and Co-Design, to applications including spacecraft control and HVAC systems.
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- Date: July 21, 2013
Where: IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting
Research Areas: Electric Systems, Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Fast Frequency and Phase Estimation in Three Phase Power Systems" by Chen, Z., Sahinoglu, Z. and Li, H. was presented at the IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting.
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- Date: June 17, 2013
Where: American Control Conference (ACC)
MERL Contacts: Scott A. Bortoff; Stefano Di Cairano; Yebin Wang; Arvind Raghunathan Brief - The papers "Sub-optimal Control Design of a Semi-active Vibration Reduction System" by Wang, Y. and Utsunomiya, K., "Adaptive Estimation of State of Charge for Lithium-ion Batteries" by Fang, H., Wang, Y., Sahinoglu, Z., Wanda, T. and Hara, S., "Vehicle Yaw Dynamics Control by Torque-based Assist Systems Enforcing Driver's Steering Feel Constraints" by Zafeiropoulos, S. and Di Cairano, S., "Speed Profile Optimization for Optimal Path Tracking" by Zhao, Y. and Tsiotras, P., "Real-Time Energy-Optimal Trajeactory Generatin for a Servo Motor" by Zhao, Y., Wang, Y., Bortoff, S.A. and Ueda, K., "Global Optimization of Multi-period Optimal Power Flow" by Gopalakrishnan, A., Raghunathan, A.U., Nikovski, D., Biegler, L.T. and "Semismooth Equation Approach to Network Utility Maximization (NUM)" by Bai, L. and Raghunathan, A.U. were presented at the American Control Conference (ACC).
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- Date: May 26, 2013
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
MERL Contacts: Dehong Liu; Jianlin Guo; Anthony Vetro; Petros T. Boufounos; Jonathan Le Roux Brief - The papers "Stereo-based Feature Enhancement Using Dictionary Learning" by Watanabe, S. and Hershey, J.R., "Effectiveness of Discriminative Training and Feature Transformation for Reverberated and Noisy Speech" by Tachioka, Y., Watanabe, S. and Hershey, J.R., "Non-negative Dynamical System with Application to Speech and Audio" by Fevotte, C., Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R., "Source Localization in Reverberant Environments using Sparse Optimization" by Le Roux, J., Boufounos, P.T., Kang, K. and Hershey, J.R., "A Keypoint Descriptor for Alignment-Free Fingerprint Matching" by Garg, R. and Rane, S., "Transient Disturbance Detection for Power Systems with a General Likelihood Ratio Test" by Song, JX., Sahinoglu, Z. and Guo, J., "Disparity Estimation of Misaligned Images in a Scanline Optimization Framework" by Rzeszutek, R., Tian, D. and Vetro, A., "Screen Content Coding for HEVC Using Edge Modes" by Hu, S., Cohen, R.A., Vetro, A. and Kuo, C.C.J. and "Random Steerable Arrays for Synthetic Aperture Imaging" by Liu, D. and Boufounos, P.T. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- Date & Time: Tuesday, April 23, 2013; 12:00 PM
Speaker: Prof. Joe Santos, MIT Sloan Abstract 
A "local innovation" and a "global innovation" should not be distinct because of their use or market (which could be universal or worldwide in both cases) but rather because of where they came to be: a "global innovation" is an innovation from the World; a "local innovation" is an innovation from one place. Most innovations around us, be it product innovations, technology or process innovations, and business model or strategy innovations, are "local". I will argue that as the World become more global, the likelihood and value of "local innovations" will diminish and that "global innovations" are fast becoming more relevant in shaping company performance. But "global innovations", unlike "local innovations", do not just occur through some mix of creativity, serendipity and entrepreneurship. The process of "global innovation" must be managed -- and this applies particularly to breakthrough innovations. My presentation demonstrates such propositions and covers the critical challenges faced by those who manage global innovation. I will also present some solutions from our research on this matter over the last fifteen years or so.
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- Date: November 15, 2012
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The article "Joint Voltage and Phase Unbalance Detector for Three Phase Power Systems" by Sun, M., Demirtas, S. and Sahinoglu, Z. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
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- Date: March 25, 2012
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
MERL Contacts: Dehong Liu; Jonathan Le Roux; Petros T. Boufounos Brief - The papers "Dictionary Learning Based Pan-Sharpening" by Liu, D. and Boufounos, P.T., "Multiple Dictionary Learning for Blocking Artifacts Reduction" by Wang, Y. and Porikli, F., "A Compressive Phase-Locked Loop" by Schnelle, S.R., Slavinsky, J.P., Boufounos, P.T., Davenport, M.A. and Baraniuk, R.G., "Indirect Model-based Speech Enhancement" by Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R., "A Clustering Approach to Optimize Online Dictionary Learning" by Rao, N. and Porikli, F., "Parametric Multichannel Adaptive Signal Detection: Exploiting Persymmetric Structure" by Wang, P., Sahinoglu, Z., Pun, M.-O. and Li, H., "Additive Noise Removal by Sparse Reconstruction on Image Affinity Nets" by Sundaresan, R. and Porikli, F. and "Depth Sensing Using Active Coherent Illumination" by Boufounos, P.T. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- Date: March 8, 2012
Where: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The article "Persymmetric Parametric Adaptive Matched Filter for Multichannel Adaptive Signal Detection" by Wang, P., Sahinoglu, Z., Pun, M.-O. and Li, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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- Date: May 23, 2011
Where: IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon)
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Low Complexity STAP via Subspace Tracking in Compound-Gaussian Environment" by Wang, P., Pun, M.O. and Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at the IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon).
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- Date: May 22, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos Brief - The papers "Compressive Sensing for Over-the-Air Ultrasound" by Boufounos, P.T., "Privacy Preserving Probabilistic Inference with Hidden Markov Models" by Pathak, M., Rane, S., Sun, W. and Raj, B., "Saturation-robust SAR Image Formation" by Wei, D. and Boufounos, P.T. and "Scale-Invariant GLRT in Stochastic Partially Homogeneous Environments" by Wang, P., Sahinoglu, Z., Pun, M.-O., Li, H. and Himed, B. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- Date: March 1, 2011
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Knowledge-Aided Adaptive Coherence Estimator in Stochastic Partially Homogeneous Environments" by Wang, P., Sahinoglu, Z., Pun, M.-O., Li, H. and Himed, B. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
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- Date: February 10, 2011
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The article "Improving Range Accuracy of IEEE.802.15.4a Radios in the Presence of Clock Frequency Offsets" by Sahinoglu, Z. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: January 17, 2011
Where: IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT)
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Extended Kalman Filter Based Grid Synchronization in the Presence of Voltage Unbalance for Smart Grid" by Sun, M. and Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT).
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- Date: December 6, 2010
Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jinyun Zhang; Toshiaki Koike-Akino Brief - The papers "Multi-hop Localization Using Mobility (MLM) in Mixed LOS/NLOS Environments" by Takenaka, T., Sahinoglu, Z., Bhatti, G.M., Zhang, J., Mineno, H. and Mizuno, T., "Two-Step Low-Complexity Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP)" by Pun, M.-O., Sahinoglu, Z., Shah, S., Hara, Y. and Wang, P. and "High-Order Super-Block GLRT for Non-Coherent Grassmann Codes in MIMO-OFDM Systems" by Koike-Akino, T. and Orlik, P. were presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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- Date: September 22, 2010
Where: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Fundamental Limits and Improved Algorithms for Linear Least-Squares Wireless Position Estimation" by Guvenc, I., Gezici, S. and Sahinoglu, Z. was published in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.
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- Date: September 19, 2010
Where: International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)
MERL Contact: Koon Hoo Teo
Research Area: Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Off-Grid Portable EV Charging Network Management with Dynamic Energy Pricing" by Sahinoglu, Z., Tao, Z. and Teo, K.-H. was presented at the International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC).
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- Date: September 6, 2010
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
MERL Contact: Koon Hoo Teo
Research Area: Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Electric Vehicles Network with Nomadic Portable Charging Stations" by Li, Z., Sahinoglu, Z., Tao, Z. and Teo, K.H. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: June 22, 2010
Where: IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "A Modified Beacon-Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Emergency Response Applications" by Mehta, A., Bhatti, G.M., Sahinoglu, Z., Viswanathan, R. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC).
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- Date: May 23, 2010
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Demodulate-and-Forward Relaying with Higher Order Modulations: Impact of Channel State Uncertainty" by Annavajjala, R., Maaref, A. and Zhang, J., "Enhanced Position Estimation via Node Cooperation" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Gezici, S., "A Complete Characterization of an Optimal Timer Based Selection Scheme" by Shah, V., Mehta, N.B. and Yim, M.H.R., "Clustering Based Fractional Frequency Reuse and Fair Resource Allocation in Multi-cell Networks" by Fu, W., Tao, Z., Zhang, J. and Agrawal, D.P., "Subcarrier Spreading for ICI Mitigation in OFDM/OFDMA Systems" by Gao, W., Duan, C. and Zhang, J., "Prioritized Broadcast Contention Control in VANET" by Ye, F., Yim, M.H.R., Guo, J., Zhang, J. and Roy, S., "Adaptive Probabilistic Decision-based Energy Saving Strategy for the Next Generation Cellular Wireless Systems" by Fu, W., Tao, Z., Zhang, J. and Agrawal, D.P. and "Congestion Control to Achieve Optimal Broadcast Efficiency in VANETs" by Ye, F., Yim, M.H.R., Zhang, J. and Roy, S. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: December 14, 2009
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Performance Analysis of Beacon-Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 MAC for Emergency Response Applications" by Mehta, A., Bhatti, G.M., Sahinoglu, Z., Viswanathan, R. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS).
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- Date: February 15, 2009
Where: Proceedings of the IEEE
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "UWB Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks" by Zhang, J., Orlik, P., Sahinoglu, Z., Molisch, A.F. and Kinney, P. was published in Proceedings of the IEEE.
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- Date: December 1, 2008
Where: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - The article "Two-Step Time of Arrival Estimation for Pulse-Based Ultra-Wideband Systems" by Gezici, S., Sahinoglu, Z., Molisch, A.F., Kobayashi, H. and Poor, H.V. was published in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.
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- Date: November 30, 2008
Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Jinyun Zhang; Koon Hoo Teo Brief - The papers "Routing with Probabilistic Delay Guarantees in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks" by Brand, M., Maymounkov, P. and Molisch, A.F., "Delay-Energy Tradeoffs in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks with Partial Channel State Information" by Brand, M. and Molisch, A.F., "Low-Complexity Hybrid QRD-MCMC MIMO Detection" by Peng, R., Teo, K.H., Zhang, J. and Chen, R.-R., "Adaptive Soft Frequency Reuse for Inter-cell Interference Coordination in SC-FDMA based 3GPP LTE Uplinks" by Mao, X., Maaref, A. and Teo, K.H., "Impact of Mobility on the Behavior of Interference in Cellular Wireless Networks" by Yarkan, S., Maaref, A. and Teo, K.H. and "Modified Beacon-Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 MAC for Lower Latency" by Bhatti, G., Mehta, A., Sahinoglu, Z., Zhang, J. and Viswanathan, R. were presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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- Date: September 10, 2008
Where: IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB)
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Ultra-wideband Range Estimation: Theoretical Limits and Practical Algorithms" by Guvenc, I., Gezici, S. and Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB).
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- Date: May 27, 2008
Where: Cambridge University Press
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
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