{"64558":{"#nid":"64558","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Four ECE Ph.D. Students Win First Prize Awards at SAIC Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFour ECE Ph.D. students won three first place awards at the 21st annual SAIC Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition, held on November 18 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center. They include Douglas Brooks, Douglas Brown, Adam Charles, and Abbie Kressner.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMr. Brooks\u0027 paper was entitled \u0022Quantifying Upper-Arm Rehabilitation Metrics for Children through Interaction with a Humanoid Robot.\u0022 The objective of this research effort is to further rehabilitation techniques for children by developing and validating the core technologies needed to integrate therapy instruction with child-robot play in order to improve upper-arm rehabilitation. His Ph.D. advisor is Ayanna Howard, an associate professor specializing in systems and controls. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMr. Brown\u0027s paper, \u0022Early Latch-up Detection of Gate Bipolar Transistor Faults in Electric Motor Drives,\u0022 looks at the increased importance of IGBT reliability due to widespread use in military and commercial applications. Advancements in early fault-detection aids the development of the Navy\u0027s next generation of integrated power systems, which increase \u0022fight through\u0022 capability and survivability by enabling near instantaneous reconfiguration of power resources following damage or equipment failure. He is advised by ECE Professor Emeritus George Vachtsevanos, who specializes in systems and controls. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper written by Mr. Charles and Ms. Kressner was entitled \u0022A Causal Locally Competitive Algorithm for the Sparse Decomposition of Audio Signals.\u0022 Recent results show that extracting information from a signal by solving a complex optimization problem can lead to better signal processing solutions. However, no good methods exist for solving this optimization in real-time as signals stream in, which is necessary for applications such as hearing aids and cochlear implants. The research in this paper presents a dynamical system that approximately solves these optimization problems for streaming audio signals in real time. Both of these Ph.D. students are advised by Christopher Rozell, an ECE assistant professor specializing in bioengineering and digital signal processing.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Four ECE Ph.D. students won three first place awards at the 21st annual SAIC Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition, held on November 18. They include Douglas Brooks, Douglas Brown, Adam Charles, and Abbie Kressner.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Four ECE Ph.D. students win first prize awards at SAIC Competition."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2011-01-17 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:15","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64559":{"id":"64559","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449176753","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:53","changed":"1475894567","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:47","alt":"Tech Tower","file":{"fid":"192020","name":"tai91269.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tai91269_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tai91269_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5836,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tai91269_0.jpg?itok=vXJA3l4n"}}},"media_ids":["64559"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12076","name":"Abbie Kressner"},{"id":"12077","name":"Adam Charles"},{"id":"12074","name":"Douglas Brooks"},{"id":"12075","name":"Douglas Brown"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"169491","name":"SAIC Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJackie  Nemeth\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Jackie  Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}