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- Subject: Research Assistant in Signal Processing Postion Available
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- Date: 29 Aug 92 00:58:50 GMT
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- Research Assistantship in Signal Processing
-
- The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at
- Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania wishes to announce
- a limited number of research assistantships (tuition and stipend)
- available for graduate research in signal processing
- (specifically signal detection and estimation).
- These highly competitive positions are for important basic research
- and may be funded for three years.
- Only highly motivated students with top grades and good mathematical skills
- should apply. Students with electrical engineering degrees are desired
- and those with backgrounds in signal detection and estimation
- or statistical signal processing are preferred. Students interested
- in this opportunity should a resume with references, transcripts, and a copy
- of a technical paper or report they have written to:
-
- RA in Signal Processing
- Professor Blum
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Packard Lab # 19
- Lehigh University
- Bethlehem, PA 18015
-
- Indicate your interest a PhD or a Masters
- degree and give a brief indication of your relevant experience.
-
- All students must go through the normal graduate admissions process.
- A student could begin study in the Spring term and
- the deadline to apply for admission for the Spring term is Nov. 15.
- An application for admissions can be obtained by writing to:
-
- Graduate Admissions Office
- Whitaker Laboratory 5
- Lehigh University
- Bethlehem, PA 18015
-
- Indicate your interest in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Department.
-
- A description of the research is given below.
-
- Brief Description of Research
-
- Distributing multiple sensors over a large area
- for the purpose of detecting a signal in noise is becoming
- increasingly attractive.
- In such cases it is generally too costly to transmit all the data
- generated by each sensor to some central location for use in decision
- making.
- Schemes that provide
- acceptable performance while requiring only limited transmission capacity
- are of interest.
- Locating a detector at each sensor and transmitting
- only its decisions to a fusion center is one common approach.
- The bulk of the research work concerning the design of such distributed
- detection schemes has focused on
- signal detection problems where a complete observation
- model which categorizes the environment
- under consideration is known.
- We will pursue research to investigate distributed
- detection schemes for cases where a complete observation model is
- not available due to incomplete knowledge of the operating
- environment.
- This is an extremely practical case which has applications in
- air traffic control,
- radar weather monitoring, military radar and sonar,
- and medical diagnostic systems.
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