Bo Zhang, THU - Multi-Granular Computing and its Application
Leonard Aldeman, USC - The Tiniest Treasure Chest

Day 1: April 30th, 2008

Track I: Biomimetics, Bioinformatics & Biometrics

>> Xueong Zhang, THU - Some New Challenges for  Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
>> Xianghong Jasmin Zhou, USC - Mining High-Throughput Data in Functional Genomics
>> Ted Berger, USC - Brain Computer Interfaces - Implantable Biomimetic Microelectronics as Neural Prostheses for Los Cognitive Function
>> Tao Jiang, THU/UCR - Finding Regulatory Motifs from both DNA Sequences and Gene Expression Data
>> Kirk Shung, USC - Development of High Frequency Ultrasonic Imaging Systems
>> Lizhu Zhou, THU - Out-of-Core Coherent Closed Quasi-Clique Mining from Large Dense Graph Databases
>> Ellis Meng, USC: Polymer-based MEMS for Biomedical Applications 

Track II: Microelectronics & Nanotechnology

>> Yi Luo, THU - Research Activities of State Key Lab on Integrated Optoelectronics
>> Chong-Wu Zhou, USC - Recent Advances in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
>> Jun Xu, THU - Study of Biaxual Strained Silicon CMOS Device and its Characterization
>> Jia Grace Lu, USC - Electrical and Mangetic Properties of Nanowires
>> Zhiping Yu, THU - From Full Chip to Atomistic Simulation: Challenges for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) in CMOS-Plus Era
>> Dan Dapkus, USC - Optoelectronics at USC
>> Wei Chei, THU - Measurement of Substrate and Process Dependance of Losses in Superconducting Thin Film Resonators

Track III: Wireless Communications

>> Wang Jiang, THU - Overviews of FuTURE Project & Trial Systems
>> Solomon Golomb, USC - On the History of Wireless Telephony
>> Jianhua Lu, THU - Fundamental Research on Multi-Domain Collaboration for Broadband Wireless Communications
>> Urbashi Mitra, USC - Advanced Wireless Communications for Uncertain Channels
>> Jian Song, THU - Time-Domain Synchronus OFDM Technology and its Applications
>> Michael Neely, USC - Network Scheduling with the Wireless Broadcast Advantage

>> Jun Li, THU - From Packet to Flow: Network Security Algorithm
>> Viktor Prasanna, USC - Optimizing Application Performance on Multi-Core Processors
>> Xiahong Guan, THU - Optimization-Based Routing and Walvelenght Assignment in Optical Networks
>> Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC - Next Generation Wireless Networks
>> Zhisheng Niu, THU - Collaborative Radio Resource Management in Multiple Radio Environments
>> Alan Willner, USC - Physical-layer Challenges in Stable, High-Capacity Optical Communication Networks

 Track II: Computations and System Control

>> Priya Vashishta, USC - High Performance Computing for Billion Atom Simulations of Nanosystems
>> Mingsheng Ying, THU - Predicate Transformer Semantics of Quantum Programs
>> Jim Moore, USC - Quantifying Economic Loses from Travel Following a Metropolitan Earthquake
>> Donghua Zhou, THU - Network-based Fault Detection for Discrete Time
>> Joe Qin, USC - Systems and Control in Micro- and Nano-Scale Manufacturing
>> Zuo Zhang, THU - Data-driven Modeling and Analysis for Urban Transportation Systems with Mixed Traffic Flows
>> Michael Safonov, USC - Control and Transportation Systems

Track III: Signal Processing, Vision and Databases

>> Krishna Nayak, USC - Non-invasive Imaging: Advances in MRI
>> Shri Narayanan, USC - Speech Processing Advances: Focus on Language Learning and Assessment
>> Maosong Sun, THU - The Progress of NLP-related Research at Tsinghua University
>> Gerard Medioni, USC - Object Detection and Tracking in Video
>> Wang Jianmin, THU - A Trustworthy JAVA Runtime Environment Based on Software Watermark
>> Jay Kuo, USC - Techniques for Duplicate Video Copy Detection