C1  Emerging Challenges in Reliability, Distributed Sensing, and Signal Processing

Wednesday, January 6  08:20-12:00  Room 1B51

Session Chairs:  Jean-Francois Chamberland, John Volakis

08:20  C1-1  An Efficient Finite Element Scheme for Simulating Subsurface Wireless Telemetry in Well Logging Applications

Jiefu Chen*

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX


08:40  C1-2  HIGH DATA RATE MULTI-PATH TRANSMIT/RECEIVE SYSTEM WITH ON-SITE CODING

Dimitrios Siafarikas*, Elias A. Alwan, John L. Volakis

ECE Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio


09:00  C1-3  NOTIONS OF PARALLEL COMPUTING AS A MEANS OF ENABLING SHORT DESIGN CYCLES IN RF-BASED INFERENCE SYSTEMS

Austin A. Taghavi*, Jean-Francois Chamberland, Gregory H. Huff

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX


09:20  C1-4  DATA PROCESSING SOFTWARE FOR GEOPHYSICAL DATA FROM SATELLITE

Yuriy Shpadi1, Pavel Inchin1, Anatoly Streltsov*2

1Scientific Space Systems Laboratory, Institute of Space Technique and Technology, Almaty, Almatinskaya oblast, KAZAKSTAN
2Department of Physical Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL 32114


09:40  C1-5  SPACE RADIATION ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF CUBESAT AVIONICS COMPONENTS

James M. Byrne*

Aeronautics and Astronautics - Space Systems Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA


10:20  C1-6  EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF DIGITAL BEAMFORMER PERFORMANCE WITH ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNA ARRAYS USING ON-SITE CODING

Satheesh Bojja Venkatakrishnan*, Elias A. Alwan, John L. Volakis

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus


10:40  C1-7  LEVERAGING RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS AND MACHINE LEARNING IN INFERENCE TASKS BASED ON WI-FI METADATA

Travis Taghavi*, Jean-Francois Chamberland, Gregory H. Huff

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station


11:00  C1-8  CARDIAC RATE ESTIMATION USING CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR AND ULTRA WIDEBAND RADAR AT DIFFERENT DISTANCES

Haofei Wang1, Lingyun Ren*2, Krishna Naishadham3, Aly E. Fathy2

1School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, CHINA
2Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
3School of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta


11:20  C1-9  SEARCH ALGORITHM COMPARISON FOR FAST OPTIMIZATION OF POWER AMPLIFIER LOAD IMPEDANCE AND INPUT POWER

Joseph Barkate*1, Charles Baylis1, Alexander Tsatsoulas1, Zach Hayes1, Larry Cohen2, Robert Marks1

1Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems Program, Baylor Universtity, Waco, Tx
2Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC


11:40  C1-10  VERTICALLY INTEGRATED RESEARCH IN RECONFIGURABLE LIQUID-METAL RF DEVICES

Kevin J. Cho*, Scott K. Clemens, Savath Saepoo, Kent J. Sarabia, Sasha S. Yamada, George B. Zhang, Matthew M. Moorefield, Ryan C. Gough, Aaron T. Ohta, Wayne A. Shiroma

Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu Hawaii