Kieran Parsons

- Phone: 617-621-7529
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
Senior Principal Research Scientist,
Senior Team Leader,
Deputy Director -
Education:
Ph.D., University of Bristol, UK, 1996 -
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Kieran's Quick Links
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Biography
Kieran spent 12 years in Canada working at Nortel, BelAir Networks and AMCC on the system design of several wireless and optical technologies, including early work on electronic dispersion compensation for optical links. His research interests include optical communications network architecture and digital signal processing algorithms for coherent optical communications.
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Recent News & Events
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NEWS Jianlin Guo recently delivered an invited talk at 2022 6th International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Automation Engineering Date: December 15, 2022 - December 17, 2022
MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Philip V. Orlik; Kieran Parsons
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Machine LearningBrief- The performance of manufacturing systems is heavily affected by downtime – the time period that the system halts production due to system failure, anomalous operation, or intrusion. Therefore, it is crucial to detect and diagnose anomalies to allow predictive maintenance or intrusion detection to reduce downtime. This talk, titled "Anomaly detection and diagnosis in manufacturing systems using autoencoder", focuses on tackling the challenges arising from predictive maintenance in manufacturing systems. It presents a structured autoencoder and a pre-processed autoencoder for accurate anomaly detection, as well as a statistical-based algorithm and an autoencoder-based algorithm for anomaly diagnosis.
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NEWS MERL's Quantum Machine Learning Technology Featured in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Press Release Date: December 2, 2022
MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons; Pu (Perry) Wang; Ye Wang
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Sensing, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Human-Computer InteractionBrief- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced its development of a quantum artificial intelligence (AI) technology that automatically optimizes inference models to downsize the scale of computation with quantum neural networks. The new quantum AI technology can be integrated with classical machine learning frameworks for diverse solutions.
Mitsubishi Electric has confirmed that the technology can be incorporated in the world's first applications for terahertz (THz) imaging, Wi-Fi indoor monitoring, compressed sensing, and brain-computer interfaces. The technology is based on recent research by MERL's Connectivity & Information Processing team and Computational Sensing team.
Mitsubishi Electric's new quantum machine learning (QML) technology realizes compact inference models by fully exploiting the enormous capacity of quantum computers to express exponentially larger-state space with the number of quantum bits (qubits). In a hybrid combination of both quantum and classical AI, the technology can compensate for limitations of classical AI to achieve superior performance while significantly downsizing the scale of AI models, even when using limited data.
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced its development of a quantum artificial intelligence (AI) technology that automatically optimizes inference models to downsize the scale of computation with quantum neural networks. The new quantum AI technology can be integrated with classical machine learning frameworks for diverse solutions.
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Awards
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AWARD Best Paper Award of 2022 IPSJ Transactions on Consumer Devices & Systems Date: March 27, 2023
Awarded to: Yukimasa Nagai, Takenori Sumi, Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik, Hiroshi Mineno
MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Philip V. Orlik; Kieran Parsons
Research Areas: Communications, Signal ProcessingBrief- MELCO/MERL research paper “IEEE 802.19.3 Standardization for Coexistence of IEEE 802.11ah and IEEE 802.15.4g Systems in Sub-1GHz Frequency Bands” has won the Best Paper Award of the 2022 IPSJ Transactions on Consumer Devices and Systems. The Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) award was established in 1970 and is conferred on the authors of particularly excellent papers, which are published in the IPSJ journals and transactions. Our paper was published by the IPSJ Transaction on Consumer Device and System Vol. 29 in 2021 and authors are Yukimasa Nagai, Takenori Sumi, Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik and Hiroshi Mineno.
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AWARD MERL researchers presented 5 papers at the 2016 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), including one "Top Scored" paper Date: March 24, 2016
Awarded to: Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Keisuke Kojima, David S. Millar, Kieran Parsons, Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Takashi Sugihara
MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Signal ProcessingBrief- Five papers from the Optical Comms team were presented at the 2016 Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) held in Anaheim, USA in March 2016. The papers relate to enhanced modulation formats, constellation shaping, chromatic dispersion estimation, low complexity adaptive equalization and coding for coherent optical links. The top-scored paper studied optimal selection of coding and modulation sets to jointly maximize nonlinear tolerance and spectral efficiency.
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Research Highlights
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MERL Publications
- "AutoHLS: Learning to Accelerate Design Space Exploration for HLS Designs", International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), August 2023.BibTeX TR2023-097 PDF
- @inproceedings{Ahmed2023aug2,
- author = {Ahmed, Md Rubel and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
- title = {AutoHLS: Learning to Accelerate Design Space Exploration for HLS Designs},
- booktitle = {International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)},
- year = 2023,
- month = aug,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-097}
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, - "Joint Software-Hardware Design for Green AI", International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), August 2023.BibTeX TR2023-096 PDF
- @inproceedings{Ahmed2023aug,
- author = {Ahmed, Md Rubel and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
- title = {Joint Software-Hardware Design for Green AI},
- booktitle = {International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)},
- year = 2023,
- month = aug,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-096}
- }
, - "MPTCP Evaluation for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks", International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, July 2023.BibTeX
- @inproceedings{Sakaguchi2023jul,
- author = {Sakaguchi, Naotaka and Sumi, Takenori and Nagai, Yukimasa and Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Orlik, Philip V.},
- title = {MPTCP Evaluation for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks},
- year = 2023,
- month = jul
- }
, - "Rateless Coding for Multi-Hop Broadcast Transmission in Wireless IoT Networks", IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2023.BibTeX TR2023-073 PDF
- @inproceedings{Guo2023jun,
- author = {Guo, Jianlin and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Pu and Parsons, Kieran and Orlik, Philip V. and Shanmuga Sundaram, Jothi Prasanna and Sumi, Takenori and Nagai, Yukimasa},
- title = {Rateless Coding for Multi-Hop Broadcast Transmission in Wireless IoT Networks},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)},
- year = 2023,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-073}
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, - "DeepEAD: Explainable Anomaly Detection from System Logs", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2023.BibTeX TR2023-050 PDF
- @inproceedings{Wang2023may,
- author = {Wang, Xinda and Kim, Kyeong Jin and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran},
- title = {DeepEAD: Explainable Anomaly Detection from System Logs},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
- year = 2023,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-050}
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- "AutoHLS: Learning to Accelerate Design Space Exploration for HLS Designs", International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), August 2023.
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Videos
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MERL Issued Patents
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Title: "Frequency Modulated Image Reconstruction"
Inventors: Millar, David; Wang, Pu; Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.
Patent No.: 11,346,932
Issue Date: May 31, 2022 -
Title: "Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) System for Producing Profilometry Measurements of a Specimen"
Inventors: Millar, David; Yurdakul, Celalettin; Wang, Pu; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 11,262,184
Issue Date: Mar 1, 2022 -
Title: "Reference-Free Nonlinearity Correction for FMCW-Based Sensing Systems"
Inventors: Wang, Pu; Millar, David; Lin, Chungwei; Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.
Patent No.: 10,969,465
Issue Date: Apr 6, 2021 -
Title: "Loose Optical Fiber Tethering Of Multiple Satellites"
Inventors: Parsons, Kieran; Weiss, Avishai; Orlik, Philip V.; Di Cairano, Stefano
Patent No.: 10,892,826
Issue Date: Jan 12, 2021 -
Title: "Optical Ring circuit with electrical filter"
Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Teng, Min; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Lin, Chungwei; Parsons, Kieran; Gotoda, Mitsunobu; Akiyama, Koichi
Patent No.: 10,838,282
Issue Date: Nov 17, 2020 -
Title: "System and Method for Short Block Length Distribution Matching"
Inventors: Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Kojima, Keisuke
Patent No.: 10,749,554
Issue Date: Aug 18, 2020 -
Title: "Pilot-Aided Carrier Phase Estimation for Optical Communications"
Inventors: Millar, David; Pajovic, Milutin; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 10,554,309
Issue Date: Feb 4, 2020 -
Title: "Short Block Length Distribution Matching Algorithm"
Inventors: Millar, David; Fehenberger, Tobias; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 10,541,711
Issue Date: Jan 21, 2020 -
Title: "Distribution Matcher"
Inventors: Millar, David; Fehenberger, Tobias; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Kojima, Keisuke
Patent No.: 10,516,503
Issue Date: Dec 24, 2019 -
Title: "Optical Signal Transmitter and Optical Signal Encoder Using Constant Modulus Formats, and Method for Generating Modulation Codes"
Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Yoshida, Tsuyoshi; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Millar, David; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 10,320,486
Issue Date: Jun 11, 2019 -
Title: "Partition Based Distribution Matcher for Probabilistic Constellation Shaping"
Inventors: Millar, David; Fehenberger, Tobias; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 10,069,519
Issue Date: Sep 4, 2018 -
Title: "Frequency Domain Equalizer for Optical Communications"
Inventors: Millar, David; Paskov, Milen; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Kojima, Keisuke
Patent No.: 9,917,712
Issue Date: Mar 13, 2018 -
Title: "Methods for Compensation of Cross-Polarization Modulation (XPolM) Impairments in Coherent Optical Communications"
Inventors: Pajovic, Milutin; Parsons, Kieran; Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke
Patent No.: 9,906,308
Issue Date: Feb 27, 2018 -
Title: "Resource Aware Routing in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,900,824
Issue Date: Feb 20, 2018 -
Title: "Synchronized Multi-Sink Routing for Wireless Networks"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,826,493
Issue Date: Nov 21, 2017 -
Title: "Optical Signal Transmitter and Optical Communication System Using Constant Modulus Formats, and Method for Generating Modulation Codes"
Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Yoshida, Tsuyoshi; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Millar, David; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,806,739
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2017 -
Title: "Fast Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) Computation for Decoding High-Order and High-Dimensional Modulation Schemes"
Inventors: Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,749,089
Issue Date: Aug 29, 2017 -
Title: "Energy Efficient Management of Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless Networks"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Liu, Kaikai; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,736,771
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2017 -
Title: "Method for Generating Constant Modulus Multi-Dimensional Modulations for Coherent Optical Communications"
Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,621,275
Issue Date: Apr 11, 2017 -
Title: "Adaptive Error Correction Code for Optical Super-Channels"
Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran; Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki
Patent No.: 9,584,256
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2017 -
Title: "Tracking of Occluded Navigation Satellite Signals"
Inventors: Kim, Kyeong-Jin; Osechas, Okuary; Kniazev, Andrei; Parsons, Kieran; Sahinoglu, Zafer
Patent No.: 9,476,990
Issue Date: Oct 25, 2016 -
Title: "Inter-Channel Interference Management for Optical Super-Channels"
Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Millar, David; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,432,124
Issue Date: Aug 30, 2016 -
Title: "Discovering Stable Routes in Wireless Networks"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Yang, Xin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,407,559
Issue Date: Aug 2, 2016 -
Title: "Optical Channel Data Unit Switch with Distributed Control"
Inventors: Duan, Chunjie; Bhatti, Ghulam M.; Parsons, Kieran; Koguchi, Kazuumi; Kametani, Soichiro
Patent No.: 9,246,748
Issue Date: Jan 26, 2016 -
Title: "Passive Synchronization in Wireless Networks"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,226,253
Issue Date: Dec 29, 2015 -
Title: "Method for Clustering Devices in Machine-to-Machine Networks to Minimize Collisions"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,225,606
Issue Date: Dec 29, 2015 -
Title: "Method for Separating Multi-Component Signals"
Inventors: Sahinoglu, Zafer; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,190,955
Issue Date: Nov 17, 2015 -
Title: "Method for Discovering Neighboring Nodes in Wireless Networks"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 9,148,845
Issue Date: Sep 29, 2015 -
Title: "Adaptively Coding and Modulating Signals Transmitted Via Nonlinear Channels"
Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Duan, Chunjie; Kojima, Keisuke
Patent No.: 9,077,508
Issue Date: Jul 7, 2015 -
Title: "Methods for Energy Efficient Reoptimization of Optical Networks"
Inventors: Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.
Patent No.: 8,891,967
Issue Date: Nov 18, 2014 -
Title: "Methods for Determining Energy Efficient Optical Routes"
Inventors: Yim, Man Hei Raymond; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 8,634,714
Issue Date: Jan 21, 2014 -
Title: "Iterative Carrier Phase Compensation in Coherent Fiber Optic Receivers"
Inventors: Duan, Chunjie; Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.
Patent No.: 8,498,544
Issue Date: Jul 30, 2013 -
Title: "Adaptive Cross-Polarization Modulation Cancellers for Coherent Optical Communication System"
Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Liu, Cheng
Patent No.: 8,472,809
Issue Date: Jun 25, 2013 -
Title: "Cross-Free High-Dimensional Constellations for Dual-Polarized Non-Linear Fiber-Optic Communications"
Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
Patent No.: 8,433,205
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013 -
Title: "Method for Performing Soft Decision Decoding of Euclidean Space Reed-Muller Codes"
Inventors: Orlik, Philip V.; Yim, Man Hei Raymond; Parsons, Kieran; Tarokh, Vahid; Zhang, Jinyun
Patent No.: 8,245,116
Issue Date: Aug 14, 2012
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Title: "Frequency Modulated Image Reconstruction"