Smart and Connected World

Exciting advances in intelligent, interconnected technologies are influencing engineering research and design across a broad range of application areas. Within Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI, we have organized our Smart and Connected world research into four sub-areas: CyberPhysical Systems, Robotics, Energy and Sustainability and Systems Engineering. Details of our ongoing research in these areas are found below.

CyberPhysical Systems

Including applications in: autonomous vehicle navigation and communication, software-defined radio, wireless communications, digital signal processing, computer engineering, logic synthesis, radio frequency and microwave applications.

	Interests	Media (Videos, Photos, Academic Papers)
Rick Brown spinlab	Digital Signal Processing, Estimation and Detection, Statistical Learning, Wireless Communications, Information Theory, Software-Defined Radio	Manuscript on "Channel State Information"
Jim Duckworth	Embedded Systems, Logic Synthesis, Indoor Localization
Hossein Hakim	Digital Signal Processing, Machine Learning
Xinming Huang Embedded Computing Lab	Autonomous Vehicles, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Wireless Communications	Traffic Light Detection & Recognition
Susan Jarvis	Embedded Systems, Digital Signal Processing
Zain Navabi	Embedded Systems, Testing Methodologies
Kaveh Pahlavan Center for Wireless Information Network Studies	Localization for IoT and Smart World	Localization Challenges
Alex Wyglinski Wireless Innovation Laboratory	Autonomous Vehicles, Digital Signal Processing, Software Defined Radio, Wireless Communications, Networking	Cars Could Follow the Flight of the Bumblebee

Robotics

Including applications in: autonomous sailboats, robotic control.

Faculty	Interests	Media (Videos, Photos, Academic Papers)
	Jie Fu Personal Website	Reactive Robotic Systems, Multi-robot Coordination, Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems and Design of Adaptive Semi-Autonomous Systems
	Bill Michalson	Navigation and Tracking, High Performance Embedded Computer Systems

Faculty

Interests

Media (Videos, Photos, Academic Papers)

Jie Fu

Personal Website

Reactive Robotic Systems, Multi-robot Coordination, Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems and Design of Adaptive Semi-Autonomous Systems

Bill Michalson

Navigation and Tracking, High Performance Embedded Computer Systems

Energy & Sustainability

Including applications in: renewable energy, power electronics, power systems and quality.

	Interests	Media (Videos, Photos, Academic Papers)
Stephen Bitar	Power Electronics
Alex Emanuel	Power Systems, Power Quality, High Voltage Devices, Distribution Systems Control	Distribution Feeder Upgrade Deferral through use of Energy Storage Systems
Fred Looft	Energy / Sustainability
Yousef Mahmoud Renewable Energy Innovation Lab	Solar / Wind / Renewable Energy, Power Electronics, Energy Conversion, Smart Cities, Sustainability Engineering, Power Systems	Renewable Energy & Power Systems
Maqsood Mughal	Scalable Synthesis of Nanostructured Thin Film Materials, Photovoltaics	Morphological and Compositional Analysis of Electrodeposited Indium Sulfide Films
John Orr	Power Systems, Sustainability Engineering, Smart Grids	WPI Wind Turbine Project

Systems Engineering

Including applications in: systems thinking, modeling and simulation.

	Interests	Media (Videos, Photos, Academic Papers)
Shamsnaz Bhada	Digitized, Machine Readable Policies in Health Care, Single Source of Truth in Complex Systems, System Diagnostics, Analytics / Evolution, Human diversity in Engineering
Thomas Gannon	Systems-of-Systems Modeling, High Reliability and Fault Tolerant Systems, High Performance Systems Architectures	Using Systems Thinking to Solve Real-World Problems
Hossein Hakim	Data Analytics, Financial Engineering
Fred Looft	M.S. Degree Capstone Projects