Speech and Language Technical Committee Winter 2022 Newsletter
Speech and Language Processing
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2 PhD Positions in High Performance Computing for AI (e.g. Language and/or computer vision applications)
Saarland University is a campus university that is internationally recognized for its strong research programmes. Fostering young academic talent and creating ideal conditions for teaching and research are a core part of the university’s mission. As part of the University of the Greater Region, Saarland University enables students and staff to share and exchange knowledge and ideas between disciplines, between universities and across borders.
Cognitive Opportunistic Navigation in Private Networks With 5G Signals and Beyond
A receiver architecture is proposed to cognitively extract navigation observables from fifth generation (5G) new radio (NR) signals of opportunity. Unlike conventional opportunistic receivers which require knowledge of the signal structure, particularly the reference signals (RSs), the proposed cognitive opportunistic navigation (CON) receiver requires knowledge of only the frame duration and carrier frequency of the signal. In 5G NR, some of these RSs are only transmitted on demand, which limits the existing opportunistic...
Secret Key Generation Using Short Blocklength Polar Coding Over Wireless Channels
This paper investigates the problem of secret key generation from correlated Gaussian random variables in the short blocklength regime. Short blocklengths are commonly employed in massively connected IoT sensor networks in 5G and beyond wireless systems. Polar codes have previously been shown to be applicable to the secret key generation problem, and are known to perform well for short blocklengths in the channel coding context. Inspired by these findings, we propose an explicit protocol based on polar codes for generating secret keys in the short blocklength regime.
Private 5G Networks: Concepts, Architectures, and Research Landscape
A private fifth generation (5G) network is a dedicated 5G network with enhanced communication characteristics, unified connectivity, optimized services, and customized security within a specific area. By subsuming the advantages of both public and non-public 5G networks, private 5G networks have found their applications across industry, business, utilities, and the public sector.
Guest Editorial Advanced Signal Processing for Local and Private 5G Networks
The papers in this special section focus on advanced signal procesing for local and private 5G mobile communication netwworks. The papers describe the latest advances in emerging private 5G networks from the perspective of signal processing to advance its theoretical underpinnings and practical applications. Some enterprises, factories and other potential users have ultra-stringent communications performance requirements in terms of throughput, latency, reliability, availability, and device density, which cannot be met by 4G long term evolution (LTE) radio features.
Postdoctoral Position in Neuroimaging Data Analysis and Fusion/latent Variable Methods
Postdoctoral position in neuroimaging data analysis and fusion
Start date: Summer 2022
Duration: One to four years (initial appointment is for one year)
Machine Learning for Signal Processing Laboratory (http://mlsp.umbc.edu) at University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Call for EIC Nominations: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Editor-in-Chief
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing seeks applicants for the position of Editor-in-Chief. The EIC term is three years, nonrenewable. The Steering Committee of the Transactions on Mobile Computing invites applications, which should be sent to Cathy Martin by 1 March 2022.
Internet of Things Magazine Management Committee
Representative: Y.-W. Peter Hong (12/31/25)
Distinguished Lecture: Yuejie Chi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Lecture Date: March 23, 2022 -- Virtual Lecture
Chapter: North New Jersey Chapter
Chapter Chair: Alfredo Tan
Topic: Policy Optimization in Reinforcement Learning: A Tale of Preconditioning and Regularization
