Sep 1, 2009: Dr. Xuan Hung Le joined the iCONS group as a Post-Doc to conduct research on Secure Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare Applications.

Oct, 2007: Dr. Sankar was invited to serve on the International Program Committee of the IASTED International Conference on Telehealth (Telehealth 2008) to be held in Baltimore, USA from April 16-18, 2008. More details can be found at (http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-618.html)

Sep 1-9, 2007: Dr. Sankar presented a series of invited lectures at several universities in South Korea including Kunsan National University, Wonkwang University, and Chonbuk National University. He also presented a special invited seminar for the Society of Mobile Technology of South Korea and was an invited keynote speaker at the ISIS 2007. During this visit he held meetings with several key university administrators including the President (Dr. H. Y. Lee), Vice-President of Planning Affairs (Dr. T. S. Park), and the Dean of Engineering (Dr. E. G. Na) of Kunsan National University to explore opportunities for mutual collaboration on research and educational activities.

• Advances in Biometric Technology and Research, Sponsored by the Society of Mobile Technology, Kangnam University, Yongin, South Korea, September 7, 2007.

   

• Wireless Sensor Networks: Anatomy, Future Vision, and Challenges,Invited Speaker (Special Session), 8th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (ISIS 2007), Sokcho, South Korea, September 6, 2007.

   

• Energy Conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju South Korea, September 4, 2007.

   

• Coexistence of Wireless Technologies: A Case Study, Wonkwang University, Iksan, South Korea, September 4, 2007.

   

• Wireless Sensor Networks: Anatomy - Applications - Challenges, Kunsan National University, Kunsan, South Korea, September 3, 2007.

   

Aug 16, 2007: Dr. Sankar joined the Editorial Board of Research Letters in Signal Processing, Hindawi Publishing Corporation by invitation. More details can be found at (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/rlsp/editors.html)

Aug, 2007: Ismail Butun and Shengdi Chen joined the iCONS research Ph.D and M.S. programs, respectively

Aug, 2007: Dr. Sankar was invited to serve in the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE WCNC (Networking Track) to be held in Las Vegas, NV, USA from March 31-April 3, 2008.

July 18, 2007: Dr. Sankar presented an invited lecture on the "Energy Efficient Routing for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks" at Amrita University, Coimbatore, India. He toured the university and met with the President of the University and department heads to discuss future collaboration.

Feb, 2007: Dr. Inho Ra, Professor at Kunsan National University, South Korea joined the iCONS research group as a visiting research faculty.

Jan 9, 2007: Dr. Sankar was Invited to serve the technical program committee of The Sixth Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2007), Corfu, Greece, June 13-15, 2007. More details can be found at (http://www.ionio.gr/~okon/medhocnet07/)

Jan, 2007: Yongxue Yu joined the iCONS research Ph.D. program.

Jan, 2007: Dr.Sankar becomes the Founding Chair of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Chapter, Florida West Coast Section (FWCS)

Nov/Dec, 2006: Dr.Sankar was a Keynote Speaker (Invited) for the Fourth IASTED International Conference on Communications. Internet, and Information Technology (CIIT 2006) at St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Nov. 29 -Dec. 1, 2006. More details can be found at (http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2006/vi/ciit-programmain.htm)

Aug, 2006: Dr.Sankar was invited to serve on the International Program Committee of the IASTED International Conference on Telehealth (Telehealth 2007) to be held in Montreal, Canada from May 30- June 1, 2007. (http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-564.html)

Aug, 2006: Paper “Speaker Detection and Localization in Meeting Videos” coauthored by Tanmoy Islam and Dr. Ravi Sankar has been awarded as the best student paper in the Signal, Speech and Image Processing Track at the International Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong Kong, August 20-24, 2006.

Jul 25, 2006: Dr. Sankar was nominated for inclusion in the Marquis Who’s Who in America, 61st Edition, 2007.

Dec 15, 2005: iCONS group members end of semester party.

Oct 24, 2005: Dr. Sankar was invited to serve on the International Program Committee of the IASTED International Conference on Telehealth (Telehealth 2006) to be held in Banff, Canada from July 03- 05, 2006. (http://www.iasted.org/)

Aug 29, 2005: David Seebran joined the iCONS research Ph.D. program.

July 27, 2005: Dr. Sankar was invited to serve on the Program Committee of the International Pervasive Healthcare Conference to be held in Salzburg, Austria, March 2006. (http://www.pervasivehealth.org)

July 18, 2005: Dr. Sankar presented an invited lecture on the “State-of-the-Art Research in Wireless Networking and Signal Processing Technologies” at Bannari Amman Insitute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, India. He toured the university and met with the Chairman of the Bannari Amman Group, Principal, and the Chairs of the Departments to discuss about hosting international conference in India and future collaboration between the universities.

June 3, 2005: Kelvin Rojas presented “Distributed Source Coding for Sensor Networks” and Nick Sapankevych presented “Linear and Nonlinear Prediction Techniques: Application to Financial Forecasting” for their Ph.D. qualifier exam.

May 20, 2005: Dr. Sankar presented invited lecture on “Cutting Edge Research in Wireless Communication Networking and Signal Processing” including Biometric Technology Research and Improving Ad Hoc Network Performance Using Cross Layer Processing" at Kunsan National University, Gunsan, South Korea. He toured the university and met with the President Dr. Haejung Lim to discuss about future collaboration between the two universities.

May 16-19, 2005: Dr. Sankar attended ICC 2005 at Seoul, South Korea. He presented a paper on “Improving Ad Hoc Network Performance Using Cross Layer Information Processing” and chaired a session: Power Aware Techniques in Sensor Networks II.