Archive for August, 2009
Dr. Yu-Ping Wang and Dr. Hong-Wen Deng have received National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for their project, Multiscale Genomic Imaging Informatics (award number DBI-0849932). The award is effective on December 1, 2009 and expires November 30, 2010. Funding for FY 2010 will be $173,226 and $184,297 for FY 2011 .
Dr. Deb O’Bannon, has accepted UMK Provost Gail Hackett’s invitation to serve on the UMKC, Provost-level General Education Task Force as part of our continued campus wide student support efforts focused on “putting students first.” The work on general education will require developing a breadth of understanding regarding the role of general education in higher education, current issues [...]
Welcome Week provides UMKC students many activities aimed at helping new and existing students learn about the resources available to them at the university, along with opportunities to meet their classmates and professors. Each year, on the Sunday afternoon before classes start, students are invited to their academic unit to engage with faculty, staff and [...]
On September 18, 2009 Dr. Reza Derakhshani will provide a Biometrics presentation to Shawnee Mission South High School’s Human Anatomy and Physiology class. This is his second visit to South High School. He will be updating and repeating his 2008 Biometrics presentation to the this year’s 2009 class. The class roster currently lists 25 students, mostly seniors [...]
Haiyang Qian (PhD student), Student Paper Finalist, for “Optimizing Request Denial and Latency in an Agent-Based VPN Architecture,” Proc. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, pp. 248-255, April 2008. Ph.D. candidate Jung ha Hong authored a joint paper with Dr. Khosrow Sohraby, On Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Packet Aggregation Systems which [...]
Dr. Vijay Kumar will spent 8 weeks the summer as a Visiting Faculty Research Fellow at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York.
Dr. Khosrow Sohraby, Associate Dean of Research and Curators’ Professor, was appointed as Secretary for the national Executive Committee of Professional Engineers in Higher Education (PEHE) and is serving as the Chapter Director for the Western Chapter of the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers.
Dr. William Rychlewski III was nominated campus wide for the Faculty Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was commended in a letter from President Gary D. Forsee which stated: “It is apparent from the nomination materials submitted for you that you have served the University in an outstanding manner.”
Dr. Deep Medhi, Professor of Computer Science, received the Outstanding Interdisciplinary Doctoral Faculty Award, Interdisciplinary PhD Doctoral Students’ Council (IDSC) of UMKC, 2009.
The Networking and Telecommunications Research Laboratory (NeTReL) is part of the Computer Science & Electrical Engineering Department at UMKC. Our research covers performance modeling, network design, network routing, network protection and restoration, protocols, optical networking, mobile computing, wireless networking, network security, network software, sensor networks, and so on. Many of our faculty have been supported [...]
