PhD Proposal Review: Enhancements for Monte Carlo Light Modeling Method and Its Applications in Near-infrared-based Brain Techniques Yaoshen Yuan Location: Microsoft Teams Link Abstract: Studying light propagation in biological tissues is critical for developing biophotonics techniques and its applications. Monte Carlo (MC) method, a stochastic solver for radiative transfer equation, has been recognized as the […]

PhD Proposal Review: A Systems Approach to Spectrum Sharing and Multi-antenna Operation for Emerging Networks Carlos Bocanegra Location: TBD Abstract: The demands on wireless connectivity and sensing are ever-increasing, fueled by both emerging applications and an exponential growth in the number of connected devices. Availability of new spectrum in the sub-6GHz bands is limited, which […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Active Recursive Bayesian Classification (Querying and Stopping) for Event Related Potential Driven Brain Computer Interface Systems Aziz Kocanaogullari Location: Remote (contact akocanaogullari@ece.neu.edu) Abstract: Recursive Bayesian classification (RBC) requires optimal latent variable estimation in the presence of noisy observation to achieve real-time sequential decision making. Active RBC introduced in this dissertation attempts to […]