Computer Communication Networks
- Unified services digital wireless personal communication networks.
- Multiple access communication networks.
- Local and Metropolitan Area Broadband networks.
- Data transmission over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks.
- Centralized and distributed systems for multimedia information broadcasting over communication networks.
- Scheduling for multimedia servers.
- Scheduling for Data Broadcasting over IP and Wireless Networks.
- High-Speed Network Processors.
- Low-power encryption and authentication devices for networking environments.
- Development of wireless network protocols capable to support the transmission of time sensitive information.
- Design, modeling and simulation of large scale networks.
- Study, performance evaluation and operational improvement of centralized and distributed systems for the distribution of multimedia content over communication networks.
- Development of scheduling methods for multimedia servers supporting heterogeneous requests and guaranteed quality of service (QoS).
- Study and implementation of communication networks for:
- Transmission of data, image, speech, and video (Multimedia) in IP networks, wireless networks, high speed networks and satellite links.
- Internet Communications.
- Video-on-demand services over IP networks.
- Information distribution for applications in the areas of Telemedicine, Tele-Control, Telemetry, Tele-work, etc.
- Mobile Multimedia communications over third and fourth generation wireless networks.
Natural Language Processing
- Speech processing and recognition, Natural Language understanding.
- Speech Coding.
- Speech Synthesis.
- Acoustic and Language Modeling.
- Robust speech recognition and adaptation.
- Telephone and Internet Applications of speech recognition, natural language understanding.
- Machine Translation.
- Multimodal Interfaces.
- Development of a continuous speech, large vocabulary, speaker independent speech recognition system.
- Services for automated transcription of audio and video signals.
- Development of algorithms for speech coding and recognition over mobile networks.
- Routing of telephone calls.
- Automated transactions over the telephone.
- Automatic dictation.
- Automation of directory Services.
- Voice portals.
- Machine translation services.
Digital Communications
- Convex optimization and applications in optimal cross-layer resource allocation at the physical and admission control layers.
- Cooperative and opportunistic communications.
- Information theory and applications in wireless communications.
- CDMA code design.
- Software-Defined Radio (SDR).
- Development of coding algorithms for high speed mobile networks.
- Design, modeling and simulation of wireless links.
- Study, evaluation and operational improvement of mobile communication receivers.
- Signal detection in cooperative and non-cooperative multiple-user systems.
- Source /call localization estimation in wireless communication networks.
- Study and implementation of:
- Radio and Satellite Communications.
- Third Generation Mobile Communications and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) networks.
- New Services over third generation, wireless communication networks (UMTS).
- FPGA-based devices for Ultra-WideBand (UWB) baseband processing.
- Low-Power Low-Cost Ethernet Switch.
- High-end Multi-tuple Classification Devices.
- Low-cost Bluetooth Access Points (BTAP).
Signal Processing for Telecommunications
- Sensor array processing and beamforming for multi-antenna reception and transmission.
- Perturbation theory and applications in performance analysis of communication systems.
- Computational geometry and applications in CDMA.
- Space-time processing.
- Multi-linear algebra, multi-way analysis and applications in blind signal and parameter estimation.
- Source separation and localization of multiple radio signals.
Space-time data analysis and modeling
- Development of sparse geostatistical models
- Local, scalable models for big geoscientific data
- Statistical analysis of patterns in space-time data
- Applications of statistical physics in spatial data analysis
- Applications of machine learning to environmental data
- Statistical applications of stochastic differential equations
- Conditional simulations and risk assessment
- Analysis of neuroscience data
Applications in Biomedical Systems
- Health telematics.
- Processing and analysis of Biomedical signals and images
- Classification of biomedical markers
- Knowledge organization through ontologies
- GRID computing
- Genomic analysis
- Survival analyis
- Parallel Architectures for Biological Applications
- Intregrated Devices for the Control of MicroArrays
Applications in Camera Systems
- Real-time video acquisition, analysis and communication
- Panoramic image generation
- Use of DSPs for parallel processing
Applications in Design of Integrated Circuits (IC) and Systems
- Design of transceiver front-end ICs for multi-GHz wireless communications
- Design of base-band processing circuitry
- Design of integrated sensor circuitry
- Electrical wide-band characterization and modeling of integrated circuits and devices.