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Page 1: 2015 Annual Convention ProceedingsTaiwan University, the 2008 Connecticut Medal of Technology, the 2006 SIA (Semiconductor Industry Association) University Researcher Award, the 2005

美洲中國工程師學會大紐約分會美洲中國工程師學會大紐約分會美洲中國工程師學會大紐約分會美洲中國工程師學會大紐約分會

Chinese Institute of Engineers – USA

Greater New York Chapter

(CIE-USA/GNYC)

http://www.cieusa-gnyc.org

Saturday, October 17, 2015

2015 Annual Convention

Proceedings

Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel Flushing, New York

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Chinese Institute of Engineers – Greater New York Chapter (http://www.cieusa-gnyc.org)

2015 CIE – USA / GNYC Annual Convention

CIE-USA/GNYC 2015 Annual Convention Program

Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel, Flushing, NY 11354

Theme: Expanding the Economy through Education, Research,

and Entrepreneurship

以以以以教育教育教育教育、、、、研究研究研究研究、、、、與與與與創業創業創業創業來擴展來擴展來擴展來擴展經濟經濟經濟經濟

Saturday, October 17, 2015

12:00 PM Registration

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Phoenix Ballroom

2:00 PM - 2:10 PM

Opening Remarks

Dr. C. Eric Wu (吳振藩) - Convention Chair

State of the Institute

Dr. Tien-Jen Cheng (鄭天人)- President, CIE-USA/GNYC

Plenary Session

Chair – Dr. Kun-Lung Wu (吳坤龍)Manager, IBM Research

Prof. Tso-Ping Ma (馬佐平) Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yale University

Member of US National Academy of Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, Academia Sinica

“From Transistors, Integrated Circuits, to Nanoelectronics: Past, Present, and Future”

Poster Announcement

Chair – Dr. Hsinyu Tsai (蔡欣妤)-- Manager, IBM Research

2:10 PM Tea & Coffee Break

2:20 PM - 3:50 PM

Parallel Session

Session I – Science and Technology

(Boardroom East)

Chair – Dr. Chung-Hsun Lin (林崇勳) – Globalfoundries

Dr. Kai Zhao (趙凱) - Senior Engineer, Globalfoundries

“State of Art CMOS Technology”

Dr. Shu-Jen Han (漢述仁) – Manager, IBM Research

“Can Carbon Replace Silicon to Extend Moore’s Law?”

Dr. Josephine Chang - RSM, IBM Research

“Physical Analytics”

Prof. Kuan-Neng Chen (陳冠能) – Dept. of Electronics Engineering, NCTU

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“3D IC and Heterogeneous Integration: A Game Changer to Semiconductor, or Not?” Session II – Education and Leadership

(Boardroom West)

Chair – Prof. Yuying Gosser (仇玉英) – The City University of New York

Prof. Andy S. Zhang (張紹勁) - The City University of New York

“Providing Valuable ‘Working’ Experience to College and High School Students through Engaging Hands-on Mechatronics/Robotic Design Activities”

Mr. Chin-Sung Lin – Eleanor Roosevelt High School

“Project-Based STEM Education in High School Context”

Ms. Jie Zhang - Principal, Stuyvesant High School

“Stuyvesant HS curriculum -- Preparation for College STEM Major Students”

Session III Entrepreneurship and IP Law

(Phoenix Ballroom, 2:20 – 4:30 pm)

Chair – Mr. Fred Yan (顏為民) – Analyst, Education Testing Service

Dr. Steve Sun (孫中平) - Chief Executive Officer, GENEWIZ

“Science, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship around Genomics”

Mr. Mitchell Dong - Managing Director, Pythagoras Investment Management

“From Entrepreneurship to Investor: Lessons Learned the Hard Way!”

Dr. John A. Blaho – Director, Academic-Industrial Research, CUNY

“Enabling Entrepreneurship: The Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program”

Dr. Jianming Jimmy Hao (郝建明) -- Attorney At Law, Fox Rothschild LLP

“Intellectual Property (IP) in Entrepreneurship”

3:50 PM Tea & Coffee Break

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Parallel Sessions

Session IV – Research in Cognitive, Assistive Technology, and

Social Media (Boardroom East)

Chair – Prof. Yingli Tian (田英利) - Professor, Electrical Engineering CCNY

Dr. Ying Li (李瑛) – RSM, IBM Research

“Creative Design of Color Palettes for Product Packaging”

Prof. Zhigang Zhu (朱志剛) -Professor, Computer Science, CCNY, CUNY

“Selected Advances in Biomedical Optics and Photonics”

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Prof. Zhixiong Chen (陳志雄) - Professor, Math and Computer Science, Mercy College

“A Survey of Quality of Postings in the Internet Social Media” Session V – Biomedical Science and Health

(Boardroom West)

Chair - Prof. Bingmei Fu (傅冰梅) – CCNY, CUNY

Dr. Guang Li (李光) - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

“Optical Surface Imaging in Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery”

Prof. Yi-Xian Qin (欽逸仙) - Stony Brook University

“Mechanobiology in Bone Adaptation”

Prof. Jie Wei (魏杰)- Professor, CCNY, CUNY

“Automatic cell quantification and classifications in brain micro-vessels” Session VI –Robotics

(Phoenix Terrace)

Chair - Prof. Jingang Yi (易勁剛) – Rutgers University

Prof. Yi Guo (郭翌) - Stevens Institute of Technology

“Ocean Robotics for Environmental Monitoring”

Prof. Jingang Yi (易勁剛) - Rutgers University

“Robotics Research Activities at Rutgers University”

Prof. Jizhong Xiao (肖繼忠) - The City University of New York

“3D Scene Reconstruction with Micro Ariel Vehicle (MAV) and Mobile Device”

Session VII – Poster Presentation

(Ballroom Hallway 2:10 PM – 5:30 PM)

Co-Chair: Dr. Hsinyu Tsai (蔡欣妤) - Manager, IBM Research

Co-Chair: Dr. Chung-Hsun Lin (林崇勳) – GLOBALFOUNDRIES

5:30 PM Social

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Phoenix Ballroom

Banquet

MC – Mr. Chiao-Wei Lee (李僑韋)

Welcome Address – Dr. Tien-Jen Cheng (鄭天人) – President

Presentation by Scholarship Recipients

Dr. Howard Chen (陳浩)—HS Scholarship Committee Chair

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Keynote Speech

Prof. Chih-Kung Lee (李世光)

Distinguished Professor, Inst. Of Appl. Mech./Dept. Eng. Sci. & Ocean Eng, National Taiwan University

“Driving Economic Development by Interdisciplinary Research and Collaborative Education”

Awards Ceremony

Chair – Dr. Yew-Huey Liu (劉玉慧) Award Committee Chair

Distinguished Service Award

Prof. Chih-Kung Lee (李世光)

Distinguished Professor, Inst. Of Appl. Mech./Dept. Eng. Sci. & Ocean Eng, National Taiwan University

Distinguished Achievement Award

Prof. Tso-Ping Ma (馬佐平) Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yale University

Member of US National Academy of Engineers, Chinese Academy of Science and Academia Sinica

Distinguished Achievement Award

Dr. Donald Tang (唐道南) Retired Senior Manager, IBM Research

Institute Service Award

Dr. Yew-Huey Liu (劉玉慧) CIE-USA/GNYC President (2014)

High School Student Scholarship Session

Chair – Dr. Howard Chen (陳浩) HS Scholarship Committee Chair

9:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Phoenix Ballroom

Entertainment

Chair – Mr. Fred Yan (顏為民) – Committee Chair

Hai-Tien Chorus (海天合唱團)

Conductor: Pi-Chu Hsiao (指揮:蕭璧珠)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: CIE-USA/GNYC Thanks All Committee Members for

Their Dedication and Hard Work That Make This Convention Possible.

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Chinese Institute of Engineers, USA/GNYC

2015 Annual Convention

Sheraton Hotel, Flushing, New York

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Plenary Session (1:00pm-2:00pm – Phoenix Ballroom)

Session Chair

Dr. Kun-Lung Wu ((((吳坤龍吳坤龍吳坤龍吳坤龍)))) IBM Research

Plenary Speaker

Prof. Tso-Ping Ma ((((馬佐平馬佐平馬佐平馬佐平) Yale University

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Plenary Session

Session Chair

Dr. Kun-Lung Wu (吳坤龍吳坤龍吳坤龍吳坤龍)

Manager, Data-Intensive Systems and Analytics Group IBM T. J. Watson Research Center 1101 Kitchawan Road Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 [email protected]

Biography:

Dr. Wu is the Manager of the Data-Intensive Systems and Analytics Group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He is also the Development Manager of the IBM Streams SPL Language, Compiler, Programming Model and Research Team, IBM Analytics Platform. The combined team currently engages in the research and product development of the IBM Streams product -- a real-time analytics platform for large-scale, distributed stream processing. In addition, his group studies various research issues in Big Data systems and analytics -- including programming language and model for stream processing; automatic exploitation of data parallelism for streaming applications; fault tolerance and application resiliency in stream computing; advanced graph analytic algorithms for stream applications; parallel streaming algorithms for exploiting multicore processors; job management and scheduling, resource management and system optimization for Big Data systems. An IBM Master Inventor, Dr. Wu is also a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the ACM. From 2000 to 2004, he was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He also served as an organizing or program committee member for many international conferences and workshops. He has received several IBM awards, including an IBM Corporate Environmental Affair Excellence Award, an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, a Research Division Award, and many Invention Achievement Awards. He has published extensively in various journals and refereed conferences, and received several best paper awards. He also holds or has applied for over 75 patents.

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Plenary Speaker Prof. Tso-Ping Ma (馬佐平教授馬佐平教授馬佐平教授馬佐平教授)

T.P. Ma is Raymond J. Wean Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yale University, where he has been a faculty member since 1977. He also serves as a Co-Director of Yale Center for Microelectronics, and a Co-Director of the Yale-Peking Joint Center for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology. He was Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University between 1991 and 1995, and between 2001 and 2007.

He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in USA, an elected foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an elected Academician of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and a Life Fellow

of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE). [4 院院士:美國國家

工程院士,中科院外籍院士,臺灣中央研究院院士,美國電機及電子工程院終身院

士]

In 1974 he graduated from Yale University with a Ph.D. degree in engineering and applied science and went to IBM, where he did research work on advanced silicon device technology and ionizing radiation effects in MOS devices before he joined Yale University faculty in 1977. His research and teaching at Yale have focused on semiconductors, MOS interface physics, ionizing radiation and hot electron effects, advanced gate dielectrics (including high-k gate dielectrics), flash memory device technology, and ferroelectric thin films for memory applications. For his contributions to the science and technology of CMOS technology over the years, he has received the 2015 Yale Science and Engineering Award for “Advancement of Basic and Applied Science”, the 2014 Outstanding Alumnus Award from National Taiwan University, the 2008 Connecticut Medal of Technology, the 2006 SIA (Semiconductor Industry Association) University Researcher Award, the 2005 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award, a 2005 Pan Wen-Yuan Research Award, a 1998 IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport Award, and the 1991 Connecticut Yankee Ingenuity Award. He is an Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin University, and National Chiao Tung University, and an Honorary Guest Professor at Peking University, and Tsinghua University.

Plenary Session Speech Topic:

“From Transistors, Integrated Circuits, to Nanoelectronics: Past,

Present, and Future”

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Convention Chair

Dr. C. Eric Wu (吳振藩吳振藩吳振藩吳振藩)

RSM, Scalable Systems

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 1101 Kitchawan Road Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 [email protected]

Biography: Dr. C. Eric Wu received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Michigan State University. He is a RSM at Scalable Systems Department, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, working on research and development to enable advanced technologies for IBM Power systems. His expertise include operating systems, software-defined networks, and computer architecture. Most recently Dr. Wu and his teammates developed the world’s first immortal operating system. It is an AIX Operating System that can resurrect itself in less than 3 seconds after an OS crash. Thus all applications, except the one causing the OS crash, continue to run after the crash without checkpoint-restart or reboot. Dr. Wu has authored or co-authored over 60 technical papers in published journals or conference proceedings. He received Best Paper Awards in 2012 International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, and 1996 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing. He also received Outstanding Paper Award in 1997 International Symposium on High Performance Computing. Dr. Wu has published 11 US patents and received numerous IBM awards. He is a senior member of IEEE. He has been actively involved in community activities. He was a volunteer, counselor, and board member at the Northern Westchester Chinese School (NWCS). In 2013 Dr. Wu was elected a Board of Director for CIE-USA GNYC. He served as the secretary of the Board in 2014. Dr. Wu is the Vice President of CIE-USA GNYC.

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Program Chair:

Dr. Jizhong Xiao (肖繼忠)

Professor of Electrical Engineering The City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center Convent Ave and 140th Street New York, NY 10031 [email protected]

Biography:

Dr. Jizhong Xiao is Professor and PhD program advisor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the City College, City University of New York (CCNY/CUNY City College), as well as a doctoral faculty member of the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at CUNY Graduate Center. He received his Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University in 2002, Master of Engineering degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 1999, M.S, and B.S. degrees from the East China Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China, in 1993 and 1990, respectively. Dr. Xiao started the Robotics Research Program at the City College in 2002 as the Founding Director of CCNY Robotics Lab. With his leadership, the robotics research has become one of the most active and well-funded research directions in the EE department of CCNY. His current research interests include robotics and control, cyber-physical systems, autonomous navigation and 3D simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), real-time and embedded computing, assistive technology, multi-agent systems and swarm robotics. His research is funded by grants from NSF, ARO, DoT and Google. He has published more than 150 research articles in peer reviewed journal and conferences and win many best paper/best video awards. Dr. Xiao received the NSF CAREER Award in 2007, the CCNY Outstanding Mentoring Award in 2011, and Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Germany in 2013~2015. Dr. Xiao has served the robotics community in various roles of many conferences, such as exhibition chair, finance chair, program committees, and served as guest editor and reviewers for major robotics journals and conferences. He is a senior member of IEEE.

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Chinese Institute of Engineers, USA/GNYC

2015 Annual Convention

Sheraton Hotel, Flushing, New York

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Session I

Science and Technology (2:20pm-3:50pm – Boardroom East)

Session Chair

Dr. Chung-Hsun Lin ((((林崇勳林崇勳林崇勳林崇勳)))) GLOBALFOUNDRIES

Session Speakers

Dr. Kai Zhao (趙凱趙凱趙凱趙凱) GLOBALFOUNDRIES

Dr. Shu-Jen Han (漢述仁漢述仁漢述仁漢述仁 ) IBM Research

Dr. Josephine Chang IBM Research

Prof. Kuan-Neng Chen (陳冠能陳冠能陳冠能陳冠能) NCTU

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Session I: Science and Technology

Session Chair

Dr. Chung-Hsun Lin (林崇勳林崇勳林崇勳林崇勳)

Advanced Technology Development Group Globalfoundries 400 Stone Break Rd. Extension Malta, NY 12020 [email protected]

Biography:

Dr. Chung-Hsun Lin received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. His Ph.D. work on FinFET compact modeling with colleagues at UC Berkeley led to the world first and only industrial standard FinFET SPICE model – BSIM-CMG. After graduation, he joined IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member in the area of CMOS technology and device modeling. He then managed both Exploratory Device Research group and 14nm SOI FinFET development device group. He made significant contribution to IBM 22nm SOI technology and 14nm SOI FinFET Technology in the area of power-performance optimization and technology qualification for IBM high performance server product. He joined GLOBALFOUNDRIES Advanced Technology Development Group in 2015, where his department is responsible for GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ overall 14/10/7nm device development effort. Dr. Lin has authored or coauthored more than 70 technical papers and holds more than 88 US patents. He received an IBM Corporate Award for contribution to 22nm Technology and a Research Division Award for contribution to 14nm FinFET Technology. He was elected IBM Master Inventor in 2012 for outstanding contribution to corporate IP portfolio. He was selected as Best of IBM 2015 Honoree for outstanding contribution to the company.

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State of art CMOS technology: challenges and opportunities

Session Speaker: Kai Zhao

Dr. Kai Zhao (赵凯赵凯赵凯赵凯)

Senior device engineer Advanced Technology Development GLOBALFOUNDRIES. INC 2070 Route 52, Hopewell Junction, NY [email protected]

Biography:

Dr. Zhao received his B.S. and M.S degree in modern physics from University of Science and Technology of China, Ph.D. in physics from University of California, San Diego. In 2008, he joined IBM research center in Yorktown Heights as a postdoc and started his journey of leading edge technology research and development. In 2010, he joined IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center, which now merged as GLOBALFOUNDRIES Advanced Technology Development Group. Since then, he has been working as a member in device team, developing state of art CMOS technology nodes through 32nm, 22nm and currently 14nm.

Abstract:

While CMOS scaling trend is approaching to its limit, the research and development work of leading edge technology nodes continues to be full of fun and excitement. This presentation will first give a quick overview of some key highlights of the most recent state of art CMOS technology nodes from planer Gate First technology to the latest FINFET with Replacement Metal Gate. Then, it will also discuss, while the CMOS technology continues to advance, what are the key challenges and opportunities along the road to deliver superior power performance while ensuring chip yield and reliability.

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Can Carbon Replace Silicon to Extend Moore's Law?

Session Speaker:

Dr. Shu-Jen Han (漢述仁漢述仁漢述仁漢述仁)

Manager, Nanoscale Science and Technology IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 [email protected]

Biography:

Dr. Shu-Jen Han holds a Ph.D. in Materials Sci. & Eng. and Ph.D. minor in Electric Eng. from Stanford University (2007), a M.S. from Stanford University (2003), and a B.S. from National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan (1999). His group’s current research focuses on low-dimensional nanomaterials and nanotechnology, and heterogeneous integration to develop novel devices and circuits. His group is recognized for demonstrating the world’s most advanced graphene circuit as well as the smallest carbon nanotube transistors that could outperform Silicon. He has authored or co-authored over 70 technical publications, including more than 10 in Science and Nature series. His research has been featured by media including CNET, BBC, MIT Technology Review, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. He has been appointed as IBM Master Inventor with over 50 issued US patents and over 30 pending. He received IEDM Roger A. Haken Best Paper Award, multiple IBM Invention Awards, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and IBM Research Division Award for his contributions in carbon nanoelectronics.

Abstract:

In the last four decades, we have witnessed a tremendous information technology revolution originating from the relentless scaling of Si CMOS devices. However, the conventional homogeneous scaling of silicon devices has become very difficult due to the unsatisfactory electrostatic control. As we look forward to the technology nodes with sub-10 nm channel length, non-Si based channel materials will be required to provide continuous carrier velocity enhancement. This talk discusses two promising carbon nanomaterials and their applications that are actively investigated at IBM Research: single-walled carbon nanotubes for high performance logic and graphene for high-frequency analog electronics. I will cover the recent advances in experimental works that reveal the potential of these technologies, as well as a discussion that highlights most significant challenges from technology points of view, and provides perspectives on the future of carbon based nanoelectronics.

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Physical Analytics

Session Speaker:

Dr. Josephine Chang

Research Staff Member IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 1101 Kitchawan Rd, Yorktown Heights, NY [email protected]

Biography:

Dr. Chang earned her Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. Her graduate research was on organic semiconductor devices for low-cost, large area, flexible applications such as e-textiles and chemical vapor sensing.

She is a research staff member in the physical analytics group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Science and Technology division. She has worked on a number of next generation switching devices, including finFETs, nanowires, carbon nanotubes, qubits, and piezoelectronic transistors.

Abstract:

Relying on physics-based models to supplement insights from statistical relationships, physical analytics plays an important role at the juncture of big data and IoT. In this talk, we will review the fundamental principles behind physical analytics and give examples of its application in agriculture, energy, building management, environmental monitoring and other fields.

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3D IC and Heterogeneous Integration: A Game Changer to

Semiconductor, or Not?

Session Speaker:

Professor Kuan-Neng Chen (陳冠能陳冠能陳冠能陳冠能)

Professor of Department of Electronics Engineering Associate Dean of International Semiconductor Technology National Chiao Tung University [email protected]

Biography:

Professor Kuan-Neng Chen received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and his M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering, both from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is currently Professor of Department of Electronics Engineering and Associate Dean of International College of Semiconductor Technology in National Chiao Tung University. Dr. Chen is also currently Consultant of Industrial Technology and Research Institute (ITRI), and Adjunct Research Staff Member at National Chip Implementation Center (CIC). Prior to faculty position, he was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Chen has received four NCTU Distinguished Faculty Awards (2011-2015), three NCTU Outstanding Industry-Academia Cooperation Achievement Awards, CIEE Outstanding Professor Award, EDMA Outstanding Service Award, Adventech Young Professor Award, and five IBM Invention Achievement Awards. He has authored >200 publications, holds >60 patents, and has given >70 invited talks worldwide. Dr. Chen starts three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D IC) research since 2000. His current research interests are three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D IC), heterogeneous integration, and advanced packaging technology.

Abstract:

3D IC can enhance chip performance, functionality, and device packing density. It has been treated as an attractive option to overcome barriers in device scaling, interconnect and packaging. With key technologies of 3D IC, advanced applications using heterogeneous integrations become feasible in IoT and health markets. Since 3D IC and heterogeneous integration may involve different advanced technologies and products, integration among schemes, circuit design choices, and cost structure still require optimization. This presentation includes an overview of 3D IC and heterogeneous integration, key technologies, and current and possible applications. In addition, current challenges and goals of bringing 3D IC and heterogeneous integration into the advanced semiconductor market are discussed.

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Chinese Institute of Engineers, USA/GNYC

2015 Annual Convention

Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel, Flushing, New York

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Session II

Education and Leadership (2:20pm-3:50pm –Boardroom West)

Session Chair

Professor Yuying Gosser (仇玉英仇玉英仇玉英仇玉英) City University of New York

Session Speakers

Prof. Andy S. Zhang ((((張紹勁張紹勁張紹勁張紹勁)))) The City University of New York

Mr. Chin-Sung Lin Eleanor Roosevelt High School

Ms. Jie Zhang Stuyvesant High School

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Session II: Education and Leadership

Session Chair:

Dr. Yuying Gosser (仇玉英仇玉英仇玉英仇玉英)

Research Assistant Professor Director of Student Research and Scholarship The Grove School of Engineering, The City College of New York, CUNY 160 Convent Avenue, Steinman Hall, Rm 2M1 [email protected]

Biography:

Professor Yuying Gosser earned her Doctorate in Physical Chemistry from Brown University, Providence, RI. She studied Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy and did research on multi-dimensional hetero-nuclear NMR for protein structure determination in Yale University and Rockefeller University and appointed as an associate research scientist in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

She joined the City College of New York in 2002 and established the HHMI sponsored Gateway Laboratory for undergraduate research training in Structural Biology, and as a member of HHMI supported national Genomics Education Partnership (www.GEP.wustl.edu), she developed the computer-lab based research-oriented course of Genomics and Bioinformatics. Since 2008 she has been the Director of Student Research and Scholarship at the Grove School of Engineering and the Executive Editor of the Journal of Student Research (www.ccnyosrs.org).

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Providing Valuable “Working” Experience to College and

High School Students through Engaging Hands-on

Mechatronics/Robotic Design Activities

Session Speaker:

Professor Andy S. Zhang, Ph.D. (张绍劲先生张绍劲先生张绍劲先生张绍劲先生)

Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology NYC College of Technology/CUNY 186 Jay Street V524, Brooklyn, NY 11201 [email protected]

Biography:

Dr. Zhang earned his Doctorate in Engineering from the Graduate Center of City University of New York. He is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology of NYC College of Technology/CUNY. He currently serves as the Director of the Mechatronics Technology Center (MTC) which was funded by a grant from National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technology Education (ATE) division. MTC serves as a platform to teach mechatronic technology and for college and high school students to engage in hands-on multidisciplinary design activities.

Abstract:

One of the problems that many engineering graduates face when looking for their first job is: do you have experience? Employers prefer graduates with relevant experience to those without. Why is experience so important to employers? Can students accumulate “working” experience while studying in college? This presentation discusses the use of design projects inside and outside of classrooms to help students gain “working” experience and skills through hands-on design activities that simulate the actual design activities that occur in the industry. Faculty members from the Mechanical Engineering Technology and Computer Engineering Technology departments were involved in creating multidisciplinary design projects. The design projects give students new insights into what they learn in their coursework and provide students the valuable experiences in analytical skills, concurrent engineering approach, people skills, and management skills needed for the students when looking for employment.

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Project-Based STEM Education in High School Context

Session Speaker:

Mr. Chin-Sung Lin Science Teacher Eleanor Roosevelt High School 411 East 76th Street, New York, NY 10021 [email protected]

Biography:

Mr. Chin-Sung Lin earned his MSEE from Polytechnic University, NY. He was a senior hardware engineer designing HDTV at Philips Research. Since 2005, Mr. Lin started teaching STEM classes at Information Technology High School. He earned his MST from Pace University, and is certified to teach math, physics and technology education. He is passionate to share the excitement of innovative problem solving with students through project-based learning. Mr. Lin began teaching at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in 2010. He currently holds classes in computational thinking, physics, robotics & engineering design, and advanced STEM research. Besides teaching, Mr. Lin conducts research in the field of assistive technology for the visually impaired. He is currently a Research Participant (RP) at City College, NY under NSF-EFRI REM program.

Abstract:

Through a short video clip of high school STEM projects, I would like to discuss issues and opportunities of STEM education in high school context. STEM Education Issues:

1) Limited exposure and resource. 2) The great divide between the STEM and the non-STEM worlds. 3) Lack of novel, powerful tools to communicate STEM. 4) In need of affordable and sustainable STEM curriculum.

STEM Education Opportunities:

1) Promote computer literacy and engineering problem solving as basic education. 2) Expand STEM exposure through project-based learning. 3) Create novel educational activities, tools and platforms. 4) Develop dynamic STEM curriculum through research connection and mentoring.

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Stuyvesant HS curriculum -- Preparation for College STEM

Major Students

Session Speaker:

Ms. Jie Zhang

Principal, Stuyvesant High School 345 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10282 [email protected]

Biography:

Jie Zhang is the principal of Stuyvesant High School, one of the best high schools in New York City. Born and raised in China, Jie was one of six million students who took the national college entrance exam in 1978, and was accepted to Tongji University. After earning her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, she left her homeland to continue her education in New York. She received a master’s degree in applied mathematics and became a high school mathematics teacher in the New York City public school system. From 2001 to 2012, she worked as an administrator in several capacities.

In August 2012, Jie became the principal of Stuyvesant High School. Since then, she has been proudly leading the faculty and staff of Stuyvesant High School to serve over 3,000 top students in New York City.

Abstract:

The majority of Stuyvesant High School students are from new immigrant family with very different culture background. We make great effort to create an inclusive learning environment, so students and teachers respect each other’s culture and tradition.

In addition to offering rigorous curriculum at high school level, we offer Advanced Placement courses at College level in all disciplines. We also encourage and help students, regardless gender, color, race and ethnicity difference, to join many extra-curriculum programs, such as FIRST Robotics competition, Intel science project completion, NYC Science and Engineering Fair, just name a few. Many students take summer intern positions in universities, medical research institutions, hospitals and companies, where they gain scientific knowledge, technical skills, and leadership skills for solving real-world problems.

We are fully aware the importance of leadership skill for students to achieve their career goal. Our College advisors provide guidance and help students to apply for the colleges/universities best matching their career goal, academic background and potential. Each year, the majority of Stuyvesant graduating seniors are accepted to the college/university of their choice with scholarships.

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Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel, Flushing, New York

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Session III: Entrepreneurship and LP Law

(2:20pm-4:30pm – Phoenix Ballroom)

Session Chair

Mr. Fred Yan (顏為民顏為民顏為民顏為民) Educational Testing Service

Session Speakers

Dr. Steve Sun (孫中平孫中平孫中平孫中平) CEO, GENEWIZ

Mr. Mitchell Dong Managing Director, Pythagoras Investment Management

Dr. John Blaho CUNY

Dr. Jianming Jimmy Hao (郝建明郝建明郝建明郝建明) Attorney At Law, Fox Rothschild

LLP

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Session III: Entrepreneurship and IP Law

Session Chair:

Mr. Fred Yan (顏為民顏為民顏為民顏為民)

Principal Research Data Analyst Research Division Educational Testing Service [email protected]

Biography:

Fred Yan: is a Principal Research Data Analyst in the Research Division of Educational Testing Service. Besides working on various data analysis projects in education and testing fields, he had been a key contributor to a diagnostic test scoring software system. After graduating from Tianjin University with a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Mechanics, Fred obtained a master’s of science degree in Civil Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, focusing on Computational Fluid Mechanics. He also completed course requirements for a master’s in Computer Science in NJIT. Fred had been a student member of CIE in the 1990s, and has been actively involved in CIE-GNYC Executive Committee since 2006, acting as a member of the Board of Directors and as secretary. He had been the vice chair of CIE-GNYC annual convention from 2011-2015.

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Science, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship around Genomics

Session Speaker:

Dr. Steve Sun (孙中平孙中平孙中平孙中平)

Steve Sun, PhD Chief Executive Officer GENEWIZ 111 Corporate Boulevard South Plainfield, NJ 07080

Biography:

Dr. Sun is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of GENEWIZ. GENEWIZ

is a global leader in R&D genomics services that enable research scientists within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agriculture, environmental and clean energy, academic, and government institutions to advance their discoveries. Customers rely on our unique and proprietary genomics technologies and services, backed by our specialized experts in DNA sequencing, gene synthesis, molecular biology, high throughput sequencing, bioinformatics, and GLP regulatory-compliant services.

Dr. Sun was also a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year®

Award in the Service category for New Jersey in 2010. Dr. Sun serves on the Advisory Board of the Commercialization Center of Innovative Technology under The State of New Jersey Economic Development Authority.

Dr. Sun earned his Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China,

and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Sun did his post-doctoral research at the Rockefeller University. Starting GENEWIZ was his first job.

Abstract:

Discovery of the double helix structure of DNA marks the beginning of molecular biology in 1953. Completion of the human genome sequencing project 50 years after is such a milestone achievement that makes genomics the most active research area in life sciences ever since. Bio-engineering started with recombinant DNA technology in 1970s, which led to the birth of biotech industry in 1980s. I’d like to take this opportunity to share with the follow Chinese engineers the advancement and impact of genomics as a scientist, engineer and entrepreneur myself.

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From Entrepreneurship to Investor:

Lessons Learned the Hard Way!

Session Speaker:

Mr. Mitchell Dong Managing Director Pythagoras Investment Management [email protected]

Biography:

Mitchell Dong is an entrepreneur and has started over a dozen companies over 40 years. While most of these companies have failed, a few have been very successful, which he attributes to being opportunistic and lucky. The companies have been in many diverse fields such as quantitative hedge funds which traded uranium and electric power, and solar and hydropower plant development. His current start-ups include company which trades bitcoin and invests in bitcoin companies. Mitchell graduated from Harvard in 1975 with an AB degree in economics and completed the Harvard Business School OPM program in 1997. He mentors students interested in entrepreneurship.

Abstract:

From entrepreneurship to investor: lessons learned the hard way! After you start, build and sell your company, you need to learn to invest the proceeds of your exit. The skill set of an entrepreneur is very different from the skills necessary to be a good investor, as the speaker has learned the hard way. The speaker will share stories on how fortunes are made and lost, as well as how to evaluate and pick startup projects and teams to invest.

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Enabling Entrepreneurship: The Innovation Corps (I-Corps)

Program

Session Speaker:

John A. Blaho, Ph.D.

Director Academic-Industrial Research Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research City University of New York

Biography: John A. Blaho, Ph.D. is the CUNY Director for Industrial-Academic Research. He has been responsible for creating/maintaining productive Sponsored Research Projects between Industrial entities and CUNY research faculty, and is currently working to increase the amount of faculty entrepreneurial activities. Dr. Blaho was trained as a chemical engineer, received his Ph.D. in biochemistry, and was the PI of an academic research lab at the University of Chicago and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine for over 25 years. Subsequently, he served a CSO function at a biotech company in Princeton, NJ. Since joining CUNY, he has led the creation of two new NSF IUCRC centers at the City College of CUNY and has served as the Industrial Mentor for 3 CUNY NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) teams – all three subsequently formed NYS companies and are currently supported by NSF SBIR/STTR grants. Dr. Blaho led the creation of and serves as the Training Director and Co-PI of the NYC Regional Innovation NSF I-Corps Node (NYCRIN). Finally, Dr. Blaho is the lead of the CUNY Innovation Hot Spot for the NYC Regional Economic Development Council of Empire State

Abstract: There is now universal recognition that new, productive start up companies are a major driver of regional economic development. Accordingly, the Federal and many State governments in the US are dramatically increasing resources and assistance to nurture these nascent industrial entities. This presentation will begin with a brief overview of the national SBIR/STTR grant program. The discussion will then proceed with a description of the exciting new Innovation Corps (I-Corps) process and how it is changing the entire SBIR/STTR competitive process. Finally, the discussion will end with an overview of all of the new opportunities New York State has recently developed that benefit start up companies, including STARTUP NY and the NYS Certified Incubator and Innovation Hot Spot programs. The goal of this presentation is to describe the numerous opportunities that are currently available to start up companies, particularly in the NYC region.

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Intellectual Property (IP) in Entrepreneurship

Dr. Jianming Jimmy Hao (郝建明郝建明郝建明郝建明)

Jianming Jimmy Hao, Ph.D., J.D. Attorney At Law 997 Lenox Drive, Building 3 Princeton Pike Corporate Center Lawrenceville NJ 08648-2311 [email protected]

Biography: Jimmy is a member of the Intellectual Property Department of Fox Rothschild LLP, a national law firm with more than 650 attorneys practicing in 22 offices. Jimmy focuses his practice in all fields of intellectual property law, with particular emphasis in worldwide acquisition and enforcement of patents in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device arts. Jimmy also has experience in preparing patentability, infringement and validity opinions, negotiating and drafting license agreements, and freedom to operate and intellectual property due diligence reviews. Jimmy has provided legal representation to several notable business transactions, including Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc’s acquisition of Synageva BioPharma ($8.4 billion), and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company’s acquisition of Amira Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ($475 million). With a doctoral degree in molecular and cell biology, Jimmy has prepared and prosecuted patent applications and counseled clients on inventions relating to technologies including molecular biology; developmental biology; stem cells; tissue engineering; immunology; antibodies; vaccines; CRISPR/Cas genome editing, anti-sense technology; RNAi; protein, gene and cell-based therapies; diagnosis or treatments for various disorders; small molecule pharmaceuticals; MRI imaging; transgenic plant; genomics; proteomics; bioinformatics; chip-array technologies; biomaterials; drug discovery; and herbal medicine

Prior to his legal career, Jimmy conducted research on neural and heart development at Columbia University as a graduate student. During his time at Columbia University, Jimmy’s Ph. D. thesis was awarded With Distinction. He later held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School where he conducted research on oncology, immunology, stem cells and hematopoiesis.

Abstract: Intellectual Property (IP) is important for anyone to protect his or her ideas. For entrepreneurs, IP is even more critical since it helps new ventures transform their innovation potential and creativity into market value and competitiveness. The many benefits of IP include: IP rights provide protection against a competitor directly copying the idea, thereby helping entrepreneurs to recover their costs in developing the idea; IP rights help businesses maintain their long-term competitive edge; IP as an asset helps convince financial institutions and investors to invest in a business, enabling more money to be raised for development; IP gives consumers confidence that products meet appropriate standards and quality; Profit from IP via licensing or franchising ideas to others without risk. There are several ways for entrepreneurs to protect their ideas. Entrepreneurs should take advantages of these protections and avoid pitfalls.

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Session IV

Research in Cognitive, Assistive Technology, and Social Media (4:00pm-5:30pm –Boardroom East)

Session Chair

Chair – Prof. Yingli Tian (田英利田英利田英利田英利) City College of New York

Session Speakers

Dr. Ying Li (李瑛李瑛李瑛李瑛) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Prof. Zhigang Zhu (朱志剛朱志剛朱志剛朱志剛) CCNY, CUNY

Prof. Zhixiong Chen (陳志雄陳志雄陳志雄陳志雄) Mercy College

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Social Media

Session Chair:

Prof. Yingli Tian (田英利田英利田英利田英利))))

Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering The City College and Graduate School City University of New York Convent Ave. at 140th Street New York, NY 10031 [email protected]

Biography:

Dr. YingLi Tian is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York and the Department of Computer Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She received her PhD from the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and her BS and MS from TianJin University, China. After she held an associate professor position in National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Dr. Tian joined the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University as a postdoctoral fellow from 1998 to 2001. She focused on automatic facial expression analysis. From 2001 to 2008, Dr. Tian was a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Her research focused on moving object detection, tracking, and event and activity analysis for video surveillance. She was one of the inventors of the IBM Smart Surveillance Solutions (SSS) product and was leading the video analytics team. She received several IBM Invention Achievement Awards and the IBM Outstanding Innovation Achievement Award due to her contributions to IBM SSS. She is an Associate Editor of Computer Vision and Image Understanding. Dr. Tian has published about 160 papers in journals and conferences and has filed more than 30 patents. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM. Her current research focuses on a wide range of computer vision problems from video analysis, assistive technology to multimodal affection recognition and scene understanding, etc.

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Creative Design of Color Palettes for Product Packaging Dr. Ying Li (李瑛李瑛李瑛李瑛)

Research Staff Member IBM T. J. Watson Research Center 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 [email protected]

Biography:

Dr. Ying Li received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Wuhan University, China and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 1993, 1996, and 2003, respectively. Since March 2003, Dr. Li has been with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member. She is currently with the Consumer Modeling Group. Dr. Li’s research interests include digital image processing, multimedia content analysis and management, pattern recognition, computer vision, business analytics and service management, and computational creativity.

Dr. Li has authored or co-authored around 60 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers including ACM MM, ICME, ICPR, SCC, SOLI, CSVT, IEEE Multimedia and PRL, as well as 6 book and book chapters on various multimedia and computer vision related topics. She currently holds 46 US patents. Dr. Li has been serving on the Technical Program Committee of dozens of IEEE and ACM conferences such as ICME, ICIP, ICASSP, SCC, SOLI and ACM Multimedia, as well as on the Program Committee of various IEEE conferences and workshops. Dr. Li is currently an IEEE Senior Member.

Abstract: This presentation describes our latest work on assisting CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) companies with their product packaging designs by providing color palettes that are visually appealing, novel and consistent with desired marketing messages for a particular brand and product. Specifically, we start by mining a large collections of images of different products and brands to learn about all the colors and color combinations that frequently appear among them. Meanwhile, a color-message graph is constructed to represent messages conveyed by different colors as well as to capture the interrelationship among them. Knowledge from both color psychology and information sources like Thesaurus are extensively exploited in this case. Now, given a particular product and brand to be designed for its packaging, along with the company's desired marketing message, we apply a computational method to generate quintillions of novel color palettes that can be used for the design. This process will leverage existing palettes used by same products of different brands or different products of the same brand, take in optional color preferences from users, identify then utilize the right colors to convey the desired marketing message. Finally, we rank the palettes based on assessment of their visual aesthetics, novelty and the way that different messages of the same palette interact with each other, so as to guide human designers to choose the right ones. Our initial demonstrations of this work to colleagues of subject matter have received very positive feedback. We are now exploring opportunities to collaborate with them to validate this technology in a controlled experimental setting.

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Multimodal Perception with Human-Machine Collaboration

Session Speaker:

Prof. Zhigang Zhu (朱志剛朱志剛朱志剛朱志剛)

Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Computer Science Grove School of Engineering The City College of New York and The CUNY Graduate Center http://www-cs.ccny.cuny.edu/~zhu/

Biography: Dr. Zhigang Zhu is currently a Herbert G. Kayser Chair Professor of Computer Science, at City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is Director of the City College Visual Computing Laboratory (CCVCL). Previously he was Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research interests include 3D computer vision, multimodal sensing, virtual/augmented reality, video representation, and various applications in assistive technology, education, environment, robotics, surveillance and transportation. He has published over 140 technical papers in the related fields. His research has been supported by NSF, DoD, and industry. He is an Associate Editor of the Machine Vision Applications Journal and has been a Technical Editor of the ASME/IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics.

Abstract: In this presentation we will first give a very brief overview of the research activities in the City College Visual Computing Lab in multimodal and multi-view sensing, and then we will focus on our human-machine collaboration approach for multimodal and alternative perception for visually impaired people. Our research explores how the brain processes sensory information and performs navigation tasks, with the following three threads: (1) Determination of the multimodal information needed by visually impaired people to perform wayfinding. (2) Understanding of motor skill acquisition through in vivo measurements of brain activity and movement performance. (3) Development of a sensorimotor model through man-machine co-learning. If time permits, we will also present some most recent results on indoor modeling and crowd assisted navigation using smartphones. Joint work with Prof. Tony Ro and Prof. Yingli Tian at The CUNY City College and Graduate Center, and members in the CCVCL, including Dr. Hao Tang, Dr. Tao Wang, Dr. Molina Edgardo, Mr. Wai L. Khoo, Mr. Feng Hu, Mr. Greg Olmschenk, Ms. Farnaz Abtahi, Mr. Martin Goldberg and Mr. Wei Li, among others.

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A Survey of Quality of Postings in the Internet Social Media

Session Speaker:

Dr. Zhixiong Chen (陳志雄陳志雄陳志雄陳志雄)

Dept. of Math & CS, Mercy College 555 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 [email protected]

Biography:

Dr. Chen’s research interests are on data exploration and data security in the areas of Internet Social Media and Services Computing. He has published over 40 peer reviewed journal and conference papers, and served as program chairs, committee members in various IEEE conferences. He holds CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and is a senior member of both IEEE and ACM. Dr. Chen is the chair of the department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences and professor at Mercy College, New York. He worked as a senior research scientist in the IBM Research over 6 years and an assistant professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University for 3 years. Dr. Chen is also the president of the Services Society, a non-for-profit institution whose mission is to promote collaboration between academia and practitioners. He is also the 2016 President-elect of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology, one of the largest professional Chinese organizations in the US. Dr. Chen holds a PhD in Mathematics and MS in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh and BS and MS in Mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Abstract:

Internet social media lacks a layer of quality control to any postings. Assessing trustworthiness of such postings is being studied by exogenous signals such as hyperlink structure. Recent research is also on endogenous signals such as correctness of factual information. The implication of such collection of signals points to the need of quality control to the contents from their authors and commentators as well. In this talk, I like to share our recent study on the eco-system of quality control on postings in the Internet Social Media. A layer is proposed and added to the abstract content providers and consumers. We would like to show that properly conducted quality control is a vehicle to help improve the trustworthiness of postings.

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Session V

Biomedical Science and Health (4:00pm-5:30pm –Boardroom West)

Session Chair

Prof. Bingmei Fu (傅冰梅傅冰梅傅冰梅傅冰梅) The City University of New York

Session Speakers

Dr. Guang Li (李光李光李光李光) Memorial Sloan Kettering Center

Prof. Yi-Xian Qin (钦逸仙钦逸仙钦逸仙钦逸仙) Stony Brook University

Prof. Jie Wei (魏杰魏杰魏杰魏杰) The City University of New York

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Session Chair:

Professor Bingmei Fu (傅冰梅傅冰梅傅冰梅傅冰梅)

Professor of Biomedical Engineering The City College of the City University of New York 160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10331 [email protected]

Biography:

Prof. Bingmei Fu received her B.S., M.Eng. from the Department of Modern Mechanics of the University of Science and Technology of China in 1985 and 1988, respectively. Then she worked as an assistant professor for one year in Southwest Jiaotong University before she came to the U.S. in 1989. She had been working with Dr. Sheldon Weinbaum to develop transport models for the inter-endothelial cleft and received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the City University of New York in 1995. After working with Dr. Roy Curry on in vivo single microvessel permeability for three years as a NIH postdoctoral fellow in the School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, she joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1998 as an assistant professor and was promoted to a tenured associate professor in early 2004. She moved to the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the City College of the City University of New York in the fall of 2004 and was promoted to a full professor in 2010. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a Council member of the World Association of Chinese Biomedical Engineers. Prof. Fu's major research activities involve modeling nano and micro transport phenomena in the microcirculation such as in transvascular, transcellular and transinterstitial processes, in vivo animal studies on understanding structural mechanisms of microvessel permeability related diseases and developing drug delivery strategies to the brain through the blood-brain barrier and the cerebrospinal fluid.

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Optical Surface Imaging in Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Session Speaker:

Dr. Guang Li (李光李光李光李光)

Associate Attending Physicist Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10065 [email protected]

Biography:

Dr. Li earned his PhD from Duke University, Durham, NC, and did his post doctoral training at National Cancer Institute, NIH. He is certified in Therapeutic Radiologic Physics by American Board of Radiology and licensed by New York State in therapeutic radiological physics. He is a member of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

He is an Associate Attending Physicist in Department of Medical Physics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. His research interest includes stereotactic radiosurgery, image-guided radiation therapy, treatment planning and motion management, using four dimensional computed tomography (4DCT), 4D magnetic resonance imaging (4DMRI), and 4D optical surface imaging (4DOSI). His work on clinical 4D motion monitoring was recognized as the Best in Physics in AAPM 2014.

Abstract:

This presentation focuses on the “Optical Surface Imaging in Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) of Brain Metastasis” and discusses the use of real-time motion monitoring for SRS during treatment of metastatic brain lesions. Many forms of cancer spread into the brain, such as melanoma, lung and breast cancer. Developed in early 1950’s, SRS is an accurate mechanical system to determine the tumor location inside the brain for treatment planning to effectively ablate the tumor cells using high-dose radiation. The system fixes patient’s skull onto a metal frame invasively using 4 screws and immobilizes the head on treatment couch for treatment. SRS is commonly used to extend patient’s life span without surgery. To release patient from the invasive fixation process, we have developed a non-invasive frameless SRS procedure to replace the frame-based SRS at Memorial Hospital, where we treat more than 300 SRS patients per year. The new procedure is based on 3D image guidance to localize a tumor for treatment planning, 3D image registration for tumor alignment, and 4D motion monitoring during treatment. Non-invasive immobilization systems are studied and applied. Patient positioning is setup using cone-beam computed tomography prior to SRS and monitored using 4DOSI throughout treatment. We have replaced the frame-based SRS by using frameless SRS to gain improved patient comfort.

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Mechanobiology in Bone Adaptation

Dr./Professor Yi-Xian Qin (钦逸仙钦逸仙钦逸仙钦逸仙)

Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794 [email protected]

Biography: Dr. Yi-Xian Qin is Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), and the Director of Orthopaedic Bioengineering Research Laboratory at Stony Brook University, and a founding faculty member of BME. He is co-appointed as Professor at Orthopaedics, Physiology and Biophysics, and Electrical Engineering at Stony Brook. His research has been focused on musculoskeletal tissue regeneration and translation through physical regulation and characterization of tissue quality, as well as evaluating the mechanisms responsible for tissue remodeling. The laboratory is currently interested in the areas of bone tissue engineering, mitigation of bone loss, implant fixation, bone fluid flow controlled bone remodeling and cellular activities, promotion of fracture healing and regeneration, and ultrasonic diagnostics and therapeutics for osteopenia and fracture. The lab has extensive experience in cellular culture and mechanistic evaluation, various in vivo models, and ultrasound imaging. His work has been continuously funded by NIH, DOD, NASA/NSBRI, and industries for the last two decades. He has being served as reviewer for NIH since 1999 in various Study Sections, e.g., Standing Members for MTE and AMS and co-chaired SBIT/STTR. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medicine and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and Member of the International Astronautics Academy (IAA). He served as Chair of the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Special Int. Group of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), and President of ICMRS/ICHTS.

Abstract:

Mechanotransduction has demonstrated potentials for tissue adaptation in vivo and in vitro. Although a wide range of studies have been done, mechanism for this mechanical effect on bone regeneration is unknown and still under active investigation. A potential mechanism, by which bone cells may sense mechanotransductive signals, is through deformation and streaming of bone cells and their surface structures, to trigger osteogenesis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of mechanobiology in bone remodeling and osteogenesis, and use various methodology to determine the morphological and biological responses of bone stem cells to fluid flow and mitigate osteopenia. Loading induced bone fluid flow (BFF) creates a pressure gradient that further influences the magnitude of the mechanotransductory signals. Our group has recently introduced a novel, non-invasive BFF stimulation and found its beneficial effects on bone structural quality in a rat hindlimb suspension model. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have the abilities of self-renewal and differentiation into the cells that form tissues such as bone. It was indicated that MSCs responded to fluid flow stimulation is sensitive to the temporal components of the loading

and to longitudinal optimized time domain.

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Automatic cell quantification and classifications in brain

micro-vessels

Session Speaker:

Professor Jie Wei (魏杰魏杰魏杰魏杰)

Associate Professor of Computer Science City College of New York 160 Convent Ave. New York, NY 10031 [email protected]

Biography: Professor Wei earned his B.Sc in University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China; M.Sc in Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Ph.D in Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, all in computer sciences. He is now an associate professor in the Dept. of Computer Science, the City College of New York. His research is on machine learning, multi-modal computing and medical imaging. His research is supported by the NSF, NIH and Air Force Research Lab.

Abstract: To target tumor hematogenous metastasis and to understand how leukocytes cross the micro-vessel wall to perform immune functions, it is necessary to elucidate the adhesion location and transmigration pathway of tumor cells and leukocytes on/across the endothelial cells forming the micro-vessel wall. We developed an algorithm to classify and quantify cell adhesion locations from microphotographs taken from the experiments of tumor cell/leukocyte adhesion in individual micro-vessels. The first step in is to identify the micro-vessel by a novel gravity-field dynamic programming procedure. Next, an anisotropic image smoothing suppresses noises without unduly mitigating crucial visual features. After an adaptive thresholding process further tackles uneven lighting conditions during the imaging process, a series of local mathematical morphological operators and Eigen analysis identify tumor cells or leukocytes. Finally, a novel double component labeling procedure categorizes the cell adhesion locations. This algorithm has generated consistently encouraging performances on microphotographs obtained from in vivo experiments for tumor cell and leukocyte adhesion locations on the endothelium forming the micro-vessel wall. Compared with human experts, this algorithm used 1/500-1/200 of the time without having the errors due to human subjectivity. Our automatic classification and quantification method provides a reliable and cost efficient approach for biomedical image processing.

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2015 Annual Convention

Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel, Flushing, New York

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Session VI

Robotics (4:00pm-5:30pm –Phoenix Terrace)

Session Chair

Prof. Jingang Yi (易劲刚易劲刚易劲刚易劲刚) Rutgers University

Session Speakers

Prof. Yi Guo (郭郭郭郭翌翌翌翌) Stevens Institute of Technology

Prof. Jingang Yi (易劲刚易劲刚易劲刚易劲刚) Rutgers University

Prof. Jizhong Xiao (肖肖肖肖繼中繼中繼中繼中) The City University of New York

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Ocean Robotics for Environmental Monitoring

Session Speaker:

Dr. Yi Guo (郭郭郭郭翌翌翌翌)

Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030 [email protected]

Biography:

Dr. Yi Guo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, where she joined in 2005 as an Assistant Professor. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from University of Sydney, Australia, in 1999. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2000 to 2002, and a visiting Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida from 2002 to 2005. Her research interests are mainly in autonomous mobile robotics, nonlinear systems and control, and control of multi-scale complex systems. Dr. Guo directs Robotics and Automation Laboratory at Stevens, and has published extensively in the field of robotics and automation. She is currently a member of the editorial board of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. Dr. Guo is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Abstract:

The deep water horizon oil spill has posed great challenges to both robotics and ocean engineering communities. The challenges motivate us to consider utilizing advanced robotic techniques to monitor and track the propagation of oil plumes. I will present our recent research advances in distributed tracking of dynamic ocean plume by multi-robotic systems. Different from existing work on static level curve tracking that replies purely on gradient information, the transport model of pollution source is explicitly considered using the advection-diffusion model. An estimation and control framework is proposed, and the robots communicate in a nearest-neighbor topology to cooperatively track and patrol along the plume propagating front. Simulation results based on a robotic simulator, the Field Robotics Lab Vehicle Software, will be shown. I will also present our recent experimental testing at Makai Research Pier in Hawaii.

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Robotics Research Activities at Rutgers University

Session Chair and Speaker:

Dr. Jingang Yi (易劲刚易劲刚易劲刚易劲刚)

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Rutgers University 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 [email protected]

Biography:

Professor Jingang Yi received the B.S. degree from Zhejiang University in 1993, the M.Eng. degree from Tsinghua University, China, in 1996, and the M.A. and the Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001 and 2002, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA. His research interests include autonomous robotic and vehicle systems, dynamic systems and control, mechatronics, automation science and engineering, with applications to biomedical systems, transportation systems and civil infrastructures. Prof. Yi has received many prestigious awards, including the 2014 ASCE Charles Pankow Award for Innovation, the 2013 Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, and the 2010 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on

Automation Science and Engineering, the IFAC journal Control Engineering Practice, the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Conference Editorial Board (since 2008). Prof. Yi is currently the Chair of the Mechatronics Technical Committee in ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division. He has also participated various organizing roles in many international conferences sponsored by IEEE and ASME.

Abstract:

In this talk, I will review recent robotics research activities at the Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM) Lab at Rutgers University. These research activities and projects represent many current research trends in robotics and automation and mechatronics areas. In the first part of the talk, I will discuss our research in the autonomous robotics and navigation areas, such as human-inspired autonomous aggressive driving for active vehicle safety control, autonomous robotic technologies for non-destructive bridge deck inspection and rehabilitation, etc. In the second part of the talk, I will present our studies on understanding and control of physical human-robot interactions and its potential applications in healthcare and rehabilitation engineering for human postural disability patients. I will also report some other projects in robotics and automation areas at the RAM Lab at Rutgers.

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3D Scene Reconstruction with Micro Ariel Vehicle

(MAV) and Mobile Device

Session Speaker:

Dr. Jizhong Xiao (肖继忠肖继忠肖继忠肖继忠)

Professor of Electrical Engineering The City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center Convent Ave and 140th Street New York, NY 10031 [email protected]

Biography:

Dr. Jizhong Xiao is Professor and PhD program advisor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the City College, City University of New York (CCNY/CUNY City College), as well as a doctoral faculty member of the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at CUNY Graduate Center. He received his Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University in 2002, Master of Engineering degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 1999, M.S, and B.S. degrees from the East China Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China, in 1993 and 1990, respectively. He started the Robotics Research Program at the City College in 2002 as the Founding Director of CCNY Robotics Lab. With his leadership, the robotics research has become one of the most active and well-funded research directions in the EE department of CCNY. His current research interests include robotics and control, cyber-physical systems, autonomous navigation and 3D simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), real-time and embedded computing, assistive technology, multi-agent systems and swarm robotics. His research is funded by grants from NSF, ARO, DoT and Google. He has published more than 150 research articles in peer reviewed journal and conferences and win many best paper/best video awards. Dr. Xiao received the NSF CAREER Award in 2007, the CCNY Outstanding Mentoring Award in 2011, and Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Germany in 2013~2015. Dr. Xiao has served the robotics community in various roles of many conferences, such as exhibition chair, finance chair, program committees, and served as guest editor and reviewers for major robotics journals and conferences. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Abstract:

CCNY Robotics Lab is one of the pioneering groups investigating the use of RGB-D sensors in MAV navigation, 3D mapping and localization. In this talk, I will introduce the recent progress at CCNY Robotics Lab in 3D scene reconstruction using MAV, RGB-D sensor and Google mobile device. The presentation will include RGB-D measurement model, depth image bias compensation, trajectory estimation and place recognition for SLAM loop closure, and a hybrid data structure for dense map reconstruction.

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Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel, Flushing, New York

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Session VII

Poster Presentation

(2:10pm – 5:30pm Ballroom Hallway)

Session Co-Chairs

Dr. Hsinyu Tsai ((((蔡欣妤蔡欣妤蔡欣妤蔡欣妤)))) IBM Research

Dr. Chung-Hsun Lin ((((林崇勳林崇勳林崇勳林崇勳)))) GLOBALFOUNDRIES

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Session VII: Poster Presentation

Session Chair

Dr. Hsinyu Tsai (蔡欣妤蔡欣妤蔡欣妤蔡欣妤)

Research Staff Member Manager of Advanced Lithography Group TJ Watson Research Center, IBM 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown, NY [email protected]

Biography:

HsinYu (Sidney) Tsai received her Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011, studying super-resolution optical lithography and imaging combining photo-chromic films and diffractive optics. After joining the IBM T. J Watson Research Center, Sidney focuses on next generation lithography for circuit applications using directed self-assembly (DSA) patterning. Her main research activities include sub-30nm pitch pattern transfer with DSA, device integration for FinFET fabrication, and design technology co-optimization.

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Coordinated Jamming and Communications in an MC-CDMA System

Poster Presenter:

Yujue (Joyce) Ren

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Email: [email protected] Advisor: Yu-Dong Yao Email: [email protected]

Biography: YUJUE finished her first two years of college at Beijing Institute of Technology, one of China’s best and universities in technology and engineering. Getting herself into a competitive school as she did was already a challenging task, but it did not stop her from facing bigger challenges. In 2013, across the ocean, she began her journey at SIT in Hoboken, New Jersey. Currently she is holding a GPA of 3.8, making her one of the most talented and hardworking among fellow students. In order to get a more globalized perspective of the engineering world, as well as its business side, this summer she traveled to Italy for a two-week program “Entrepreneurial Analysis of Engineering Design” at University of Naples Federico II. During the past few years, Yujue put substantial effort into academic studies and researches. In addition to the excellent GPA, her potential started to show since the very beginning of her college life. The first award was given for her grit that she so fearlessly displayed during the military training. Then as a freshman, the title “Excellent Student” was granted to her, and more inspiringly, Yujue was a three-time receiver of People’s Scholarships. In 2013, she along with her team members designed an innovative device for blind people, which uses laser to detect obstacles and then avoid them. Her leadership skills were evidenced by positions she held on the student committee, in charge of student life and publicity. To start her junior year, Yujue flew all the way to America’s Garden State. These two years at Stevens Institute of Technology turned out to be even more rewarding. Academic records can speak of her learning capability. The multiple projects she has worked on further enhanced her hands-on abilities as well as engineering techniques. For the first project she completed at Stevens, not only did she come up with a logo for the robot, programed it with SolidWorks, but she built it with a CNC machine. With experience and some expertise, she then worked as lab assistant in the class Engineering Design 5. The following are other projects she was involved in that are worth mentioning: • Cognitive Radio • Park Sightseeing Simulation

• License Plates Extraction • Mapping System

• Hazardous Environmental Monitoring System Apparently Yujue’s work may all be put into everyday use and could benefit a large number of people. But besides all the knowledge she has acquired as a future engineer, she is also a kind young woman that cares for the society as a whole. She is always striving to help those around her in many ways. Her previous volunteer work to help handicapped people is strong proof that she, just as every dedicated engineer out there, views her mission as making the world a better place.

Abstract: Cognitive radio is an intelligent radio which can automatically detect frequency bands in a wireless spectrum. It then changes its transmission or reception parameters so that communication will be more efficient. Compared to other radios, this cognitive radio can avoid interference because its spectrum sensing can scan frequency bands to see whether or not they are occupied. Just as anything else, there is a chance of detecting errors. This research is focusing on the issue of locating available frequency bands quickly and accurately. The project utilizes Matlab GUI to simulate cognitive radio environment, try different spectrum sensing methods to detect an available band, and try to find a sensing method which can increase the efficiency of the cognitive radio network and optimize the usage of spectrum in wireless communications systems for both military and civilian application scenarios. Also, based on simulation, this project can analyze factors which influence the interference of frequency bands.

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Coordinated Jamming and Communications in an MC-CDMA

System

Poster Presenter:

Huaxia Wang

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Email: [email protected] Additional authors: Rensheng Wang, and Lei Shen Advisor: Yu-Dong Yao Email: [email protected]

Biography:

Huaxia Wang received his B.Eng. degree in Information Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2012. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, USA. His research interests include wireless communications, cognitive radio networks, and data mining.

Abstract:

A coordinated jamming and communications (CJamCom) technique for degrading enemy user transmission performance in a multi-carrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) system is introduced. A linear minimum mean square error (MMSE) algorithm with jamming matrix estimation in single-tone jamming is presented. Furthermore, a blind linear MMSE multi-user detection algorithm in multi-tone jamming is investigated. Simulation results show that friendly users are able to achieve reliable communications while the transmission performance of enemy users are significantly degraded.

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Performance Improvement of Cognitive Radio Network with

Transmit Beamforming

Poster Presenter:

Yu Zhou

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Email: [email protected] Advisor: Yu-Dong Yao Email: [email protected]

Biography:

Yu Zhou received her Bachelor Degree of Software Engineering from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China in 2011 and the Master Degree of Financial Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, US in 2013. She is currently working toward her Pd.D. degree in computer engineering in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. Her research includes data mining and cognitive radio networks.

Abstract:

Reducing interference to primary users while achieving high throughput for secondary user transmissions is a critical issue in an underlay cognitive radio network. In this poster, we explore the use of beamforming at secondary user transmitters. Two power allocation schemes, fixed transmit power allocation (FTPA) and adaptive transmit power allocation (ATPA) are investigated considering scenarios with/without beamforming. The use of beamforming is shown to significantly improve the throughput for secondary transmissions while maintaining satisfactory interference protection levels for primary users.

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Indoor SLAM and Assistive Wayfinding

to help the Visually Impaired

Poster Presenter: Bing Li Department of Electrical Engineering, CCNY Email: [email protected] Additional authors: J. Pablo Muñoz: [email protected] Xuejian Rong: [email protected] Prof. Yingli Tian [email protected] Advisor: Prof. Jizhong Xiao: [email protected]

Biography:

Bing Li is a fourth-year PhD student in the department of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York, CCNY Robotics Lab, under the advisement of Dr. Jizhong Xiao. He received his M.E, and B.E. degree from Beihang University and Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China, in 2009 and 2006 respectively. His current research interests include robotics, sensor fusion, indoor simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and assistive wayfinding. He has published more than 10 research articles in peer reviewed journal and conferences.

Abstract:

According to the factsheets (Aug. 2014) of the World Health Organization (WHO), 285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide (among which 39 million are blind). To improve the ability of the visually-impaired and the blind to access and explore the unfamiliar environment. We proposed and implemented the novel Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) to to create the 2D grid map online, and localize the user globally in the building. With the topological/grid map, our system is able to navigate the user to the destination with dynamic obstacle detection. The software is built as an user-friendly App in the portable Google Tango Android tablet. With the Voice/Audio HCI (Human Computer Interface), the App is able to augment the mobility capabilities of the blind users in the indoor dynamic environment.

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A Deep-Learning Approach to Facial Expression Recognition

with Candid Images

Poster Presenter: Wei Li

CUNY City College, Email: [email protected] Additional authors: Min Li, Alibaba. Inc, [email protected] Zhong Su, IBM China Research Lab, [email protected] Advisor: Zhigang Zhu Email: [email protected]

Biography: Wei Li is a Ph.D student at CUNY City College. He is advised by Prof. Zhigang Zhu. His research topic includes computer vision, deep learning, human computer interaction and assistive technology for visually impaired people. Wei Li obtained his Bachelor and Master degree from Beijing University of Aeronautic and Astronautic. He majored in Instrument Science in Bachelor study and worked on 3D image processing for his Master degree. During his master study, he published 3 papers and 4 patents in the area of 3D image processing theory and application which is applied into manufacturing industry. He also won the Chinese National Award for Graduate Students in 2013 and graduated with honor. After graduation from Beijing University of Aeronautic and Astronautic, Wei joined Visual Computing Lab in the fall of 2013 and advised by Prof. Zhigang Zhu. Wei has wide interests in research area including deep learning, face recognition, emotion detection, and human computer interaction. Wei now focused on combining deep learning and video emotion detection to find a better way to recognize people’s emotion from real-time video. Wei is also good at applying research results to practical scenario. He developed a real-time emotion detection system which can tell the expression of people in high accuracy to help visually impaired people, he also extend the application and develop a facial emotion based game in both webpage and smart phone version. Wei participated in a lot of academic activity. He worked as a intern at IBM China research Lab in summer 2014. He also acted as a reviewer for ACVR2014, ACVR 2015, WACV2014 and WACV 2015.

Abstract: Facial expression is important in social interaction. For example, for visually impaired people,

without being able to see the expression of other people, the social interaction would be significantly limited. In some other applications such as in TV or show businesses, knowing their audience’s real-time expressions when watching the TV programs or shows may obtain more meaningful feedback for their producers. All these require the recognition of facial expressions in real-time using candid (non-posed) images. In order to evaluate the performance in real-time can- did facial expression recognition, we have created a candid image facial expression (CIFE) dataset, with seven types of expression in more than 10,000 images gathered from the Web. To achieve the goal of recognizing facial expression from candid images, we propose to use deep learning methods. For comparison, two baseline approaches are designed, using two popular feature extraction methods, LBP and SIFT, respectively. In our learning- based approach, we propose to use convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which in the past have been proved to be effective in image classification. Compared with the feature based approach, since the features are automatically learned from images, we expect that the CNN-based approach would be much more effective in recognition. Our experiments show that the CNN-based approach is very effective in candid image expression recognition, significantly outperforming the baseline approaches, by a 20% margin. As a summary, this paper has the following contributions: 1) A Candid Images Facial Expression dataset, CIFE, is created from online images. 2) A convolutional neural network based approach was proposed for facial expression recognition, which has been shown to be effective in recognizing facial expression of candid images.

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A High-Resolution Map and Top Sites for Tidal Power along

NJ/NY Coast

Poster Presenter: Ke Qu

Department of Civil Engineering, City College, CUNY Email: [email protected] Advisor: Hansong Tang Email: [email protected]

Biography:

2012-Present, PHD, Environmental Water Resources, CE, The City College of New York. 2011-2012, MS, Environmental Water Resources, CE, The City College of New York. 2009-2011 MS, Fluid Mechanics, School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University. 2005-2009, BS, Flight Vehicle Environment & Life-Supporting System Engineer, School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University.

Abstract:

The first and a crucial step in development of tidal power, is a reliable survey of temporal and spatial distribution of tidal energy along coastlines. This project first reviews the advance in assessment of tidal energy, in particular marine hydrokinetic (MHK) energy, and discusses involved challenges and necessary approaches, and then it makes a thorough survey as an illustrative case study on distributions and top sites of MHK energy within the Might-Atlantic-Bight (MAB) with emphasis on the New Jersey (NJ) coastlines. In view of the needs in actual development of tidal power generation and sensitivity of tidal power to flow speed, a high-resolution and detailed modeling is desired. Data with best available accuracy for coastlines, bathymetry, tributaries, etc. are used, meshes as fine as 20m and less for the whole NJ coast are generated, and the unstructured grid finite volume coastal ocean model (FVCOM) and high performance computing (HPC) facilities are employed. Besides comparison with observation data, a series of numerical tests have been made to ensure reliability of the modeling results. A detailed tidal energy distribution and a list of top sites for tidal power are presented. It is shown that indeed sea-level-rise (SLR) affects the tidal energy distribution significantly. With SLR of 0.5 m and 1m, tidal energy in NJ coastal waters increases by 21% and 43%, respectively, and the number of the top sties tends to decrease along the barrier islands facing the Atlantic Ocean and increase in the Delaware Bay and the Delaware River. Based on the high resolution simulation results, this project makes a thorough search for potential sites for actual tidal power generation along the entire shore lines of NJ and partial coast of New York, with special attention to locations near transportation infrastructures, and it evaluates their power density, surface area, water depth, distance to environmentally sensitive zones, etc. A list of 32 top sites are identified along the coastlines, and, among them, 21 sites with total surface area of 13 km2 are located in the near shore regions of NJ, and many sites are found next to its bridges. Another 10 favorable sites are also picked up near ports, docks, and marinas in NJ. An estimate indicates that 3.95×105 kW of tidal power could be extracted from the 21 sites. Analysis shows that sea-level-rise could substantially change tidal energy at the identified sites, and it is a factor that has to be taken into account in site selection. On the basis of these results, the approaches for a high-resolution survey for MHK energy are summarized and their future development is discussed.

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Confined Entry Nuclear Canister Inspection Rover

Poster Presenter:

Qing Tian Chen

Electrical Engineering, Mini-Circuits Scholar, CCNY Email: [email protected] Additional authors: Jonathan Liu [email protected] Advisor: John (Jizhong) Xiao Email: [email protected]

Biography:

Qing Tian, Chen is a Grove School of engineering student at City College of New York (CCNY). He is a Junior majoring in Electrical engineering and recipient of the Grove minicircuit scholarship. As an engineer, he has a great passion on Robotics field. He start joining FIRST Robotic Team since high school year, and now he has being promoted to be the president of CCNY FIRST robotics club for three years He also have the entrepreneurial spirit, builded his startup at CCNY Zahn Innovation Center, making an indoor air quality monitoring and cleaning device, hope one day this device will change the way people making their health decision. Jonathan Liu is a senior studying Mechanical Engineering and is a recipient of the Grove Minicircuit scholarship. With a strong belief in the future of technology, he has studied robotics and automation since 2011. Liu has experience in robotic arms, rovers, and a large variety of sensors.

Abstract:

This project proposes to develop an inspection and delivery method for dry cask storage systems used to store used nuclear fuel. These dry casks require periodic inspection of the internal storage canister integrity in order to ensure safe long term storage. However, successful inspection poses considerable difficulties which are complicated by the hazards of radioactive material. The Confined Entry Nuclear Canister Inspection Rover (CENCIR) is designed to traverse through tight spaces inside storage casks in order to gain access to inspect the surface of the steel canister. The project aims to design, develop, and test robotic delivery systems and nondestructive examination methods in accordance with American Society of Mechanical Engineering codelevel inspections for final inspection results that will be acceptable to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) Maintains Normal

Microvascular Permeability by Preserving Endothelial Surface

Glycocalyx

Poster Presenter: Lin Zhang

Department of Biomedical Engineering, CUNY Email: [email protected] Additional authors: Jie Fan, Min Zeng, John M. Tarbell, CUNY Fitz-Roy E. Curry, UC Davis Advisor: Bingmei M. Fu Email: [email protected]

Abstract: To test the hypothesis that the plasma phospholipid S1P contributes to the maintenance of normal vascular permeability by protecting the endothelial surface glycocalyx (ESG) of blood vessels, we quantified the ESG in post-capillary venules of rat mesentery by immunostaining the heparan sulfate (HS) in the presence and absence of S1P. HS is the most abundant component of the glycosaminoglycans of vessels. We also measured permeability to albumin (P) in the presence and absence of S1P and with metalloproteinase (MMP) inhibitors to MMP-9 and -13, as well as with a generic MMP inhibitor. Rats (SD, 250-300g) were anesthetized, the mesentery was gently taken out from the abdominal cavity and arranged on the surface of a glass coverslip for the measurement. A 25-50µm diameter post-capillary venule was cannulated by a theta micropipette. After 20 min perfusing with 1% fatty acid free bovine serum albumin with and without 1 µM S1P through one lumen of the micropipette, the perfusion was switched to that additionally containing 20 µg/ml FITC-anti-HS and lasted for ~2.5h under 40C superfusate. After washing away the free dye, images of vessels with labeled FITC-anti-HS were collected and quantified by NIH Image J. In the absence of S1P, the intensity of FITC-anti-HS was only ~11% of that in the presence of S1P (n=3, p<0.001), and the P was 6.5-fold that of in the presence of S1P (n=8, p<0.001). Similar results were observed with MMP inhibition. These results are in consistent with in vitro measurements [6] and conform to the hypothesis.

Reference 1. Adamson, RH, Clark, JF, Radeva, M, Kheirolomoom, A., Ferrara, KW and Curry, F.E., Am. J. of Physiol. H1011-1017, 2014. 2. Cai, B., Fan, J., Zeng, M., Zhang, L, and Fu, B.M. J. of Appl. Physiol., 113:11141-1153, 2012. 3. Curry, F., Clark, JF, and Adamson RH. Am. J. Physiol. H825-834, 2012. 4. Fu, BM and Shen S., Am. J. Physiol. H2124-2135, 2003. 5. Yen, W, Cai, B, Zeng, M, Tarbell, JM and Fu, BM, Microvas. Res. 83: 337-346, 2012. 6. Zeng, Y., Adamson, RH, Curry, FE and Tarbell, JM. Am. J. of Physiol. H363-372, 2014.

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Omnidirectional Vision Based Assistive Localization for the

Visually Impaired Using an iPhone

Poster Presenter: Feng Hu

Student at the Graduate Center of CUNY Email: [email protected] Additional authors: Jianting Zhang, CUNY [email protected] Advisor: Prof. Zhigang Zhu, [email protected]

Biography: Feng Hu is a Computer Science PhD student at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is supervised by the Herbert G. Kayser Professor Dr. Zhigang Zhu. His research interests include computer vision, image and video processing, 2D/3D based indoor localization, assistive technology, and video surveillance. He obtained his Bachelor degree majoring in Automation from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2009. He obtains his Master degree majoring in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012. Since 2012, he is a research assistant in Prof. Zhigang Zhu’s Visual Computing Lab in the City College of New York. His current research project is vision-based indoor localization for the visually impaired using 2D images (iPhone + GoPano lens; Google Glass) and 3D depth information (Google Project Tango tablet) under the support of National Science Foundation “Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation" program. He is an IEEE member and reviewer of CVIU, ACVR, ICTAI, ACM MM, etc.

Abstract: Localization and navigation in indoor environments such as school buildings, museums etc., is one of the critical tasks a visually impaired person faces for living a convenient and normal social life. Despite a large amount of research have been carried out for robot navigation in robotic community, and several assistive systems are designed for blind people, efficient and effective portable solutions for visually impaired people are not yet available. In this paper, we intend to build an easy to use and robust localization and navigation system for visually impaired people, using a portable omnidirectional lens on a mobile phone camera. The system consists of a mobile vision front end with a portable panoramic lens mounted on a smart phone, and a remote GPU-enabled server. Compact and effective omnidirectional video features are extracted and represented in the smart phone front end, and then transmitted to the server, where the features of an input image or a short video clip are used to search a database of an indoor environment via image-based indexing to find both the location and the orientation of the current view. To deal with the high computational cost in searching a large database for a realistic navigation application, data parallelism and task parallelism properties are identified in database indexing, and computation is accelerated by using multicore CPUs. Experiments on synthetic data and real data are carried out to demonstrate the capacity of the proposed system, with respect to real-time response and robustness. Our system has the following characteristics that make it an appropriate assistive technology for the visually impaired navigation in the indoor context. (1) No extra requirements are needed on hardware except a daily used smart phone and a portable lens, which is simple, inexpensive and easy to operate. Neither extra power supply is needed. (2) A cloud computing solution is utilized. Only compact features of a video clip need to be processed in the front end and then be transmitted to a server, which guarantees a real-time solution while saving a lot of bandwidth. Different from transmitting an original image or a video clip, which will cost a lot of mobile traffic and may need a long communication time, our method only transfers essential scene features, usually less than one percent of the original data and thus has very low communication cost and little transmitting time. (3) The system is scalable. Majority of localization and navigation algorithms are executed in the cloud server part, and image/video databases are stored in the cloud part too. This efficiently makes good use of the storage and computation power of the server and do not occupy too much of smart phone’s resources. This also implies that the solution can scale up very well for a large database. (4) Parallelism in both data and tasks can be explored, since data parallelizing can be applied in both spatial and temporal dimensions of the video data, the localization algorithms can be accelerated by using many-core GPUs, and thus significantly reducing computational time.

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Transcoding 3D Content to Blind People

Poster Presenter:

Huang Zou

Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), CUNY Email: [email protected] Advisor: Hao Tang Email: [email protected]

Biography:

My name is Huang Zou. I’m a third-year computer science student at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). My research interests include PC game development and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). I participated NSF-REM summer research program at City College of New York, 2014. My research project is transducing rich 3D geometry to visually impaired, under the supervision of Dr. Hao Tang. I have had some experiences on Android programming and Java programming. I will graduate from BMCC in fall 2015 and will transfer to SUNY Stony Brook University.

Abstract:

Many sensory substitution systems have been studied to convey information of one sensory

modality (e.g., visual perception) into another. There are various visual substitution

approaches, such as, tactile-visual substitution, tactile-auditory substitution, and auditory-

vision substitution. But these systems need extra special devices, and some of them require

a lot of training. Furthermore, it is still very challenging to enable visually impaired people

to precept the rich information of the surrounding environment, such as color, 3D and other

object attributes, using existing sensory substitution methods.

In this project, we proposed a novel sensory substitution approach using a smartphone, to

render “haptic images” of an unknown 3D environment. Assuming a scene consists of a

number of planar surfaces in 3D, upon rendering the planar surfaces on the smartphone

screen, blind users can “precept” different planar surfaces by touching the smartphone

screen. Important information such as the position, distance, color, size, and shape of each

surface is conveyed to user by haptic feedback.

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Radiation Hardness of InGaAs Nanowire Gate-All-Around

MOSFETs

Poster Presenter:

Shufeng Ren

Yale University Email: [email protected] Additional authors: Mengwei Si, Purdue University [email protected] Kai Ni, Vanderbilt University [email protected] Sungjae Chang, Yale University [email protected] Xiao Sun, Yale University [email protected] Enxia Zhang, Vanderbilt University [email protected] Daniel M. Fleetwood, Vanderbilt University [email protected] Peide Ye, Purdue University [email protected] Sharon Cui, Yale University [email protected] Advisor: T.P. Ma Email: [email protected]

Biography:

Shufeng Ren is currently a 5th year PhD candidate in Professor T.P. Ma's lab in Yale University. His thesis focuses on electrical characterizations as well as radiation effects on novel MOS device with high-k dielectrics, including conventional amorphous high-k oxides and expitaxial crystalline oxides, on high carrier mobility channel materials (such as III-V compound, Ge, etc). Shufeng received IBM PhD Fellowship Award in 2013. He has conducted industry R&D interns at IBM Albany Nanotech on 10nm and 7nm CMOS technology nodes developments. Shufeng Ren graduated from National University of Singapore as an Electrical Engineering major with 1st Class Honors degree. He received Singapore Ministry of Education Scholarship throughout his college years. He has participated and contributed to research works including CMOS strain engineering, photovoltaics, LED, etc.

Abstract:

Radiation hardness of CMOS devices is a reliability concern for harsh environment applications. As CMOS technology is approaching the sub-10 nm node with the possible adoption of EUV lithography, device fabrication processes can also cause radiation damage. Therefore, it is essential to understand radiation effects in future-generation device candidates, such as InGaAs nanowire (NW) gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFETs. Our work indicates that the NW channel thickness and forming gas anneal can strongly affect the radiation hardness of InGaAs NW MOSFETs.

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Magnetically Augmented Rotational System

MARS - From Concept to Realization

Poster Presenter:

Nuggehalli M. Ravindra (Ravi) Interdisciplinary Program in Materials Science & Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Email: [email protected] Collaborators: Tien See Chow & Yan Liu Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Biography:

N.M. Ravindra (Ravi) is Professor of Physics & Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Materials Science and Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology. He was the Chair of the Physics Department & Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Materials Science and Engineering at NJIT from 2009 to 2013.

Ravi is the Editor-in-Chief of Emerging Materials Research [http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/serial/emr].

Before joining NJIT in 1987, he had been associated with Vanderbilt University, the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC), North Carolina State University, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP- Trieste), Politecnico di Torino, CNRS associated labs in Paris and Montpellier. Ravi holds a PhD in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.

Abstract:

Magnetically Augmented Rotational System (MARS) is proposed as a novel approach for a variety of energy related applications. Its implications in the form of contactless gears are demonstrated as alternative approaches to a number of scenarios in mechanical engineering. Examples of applications in windmills, small turbines, wheel chairs and electric vehicles are described.

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2016 Asian American Engineer of the

Year (AAEOY) Award Banquet

Hosted by CIE-USA/GNYC and CIE-USA National Council Saturday, March 12, 2016

Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ 2 Albany St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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