{"373841":{"#nid":"373841","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ECE Seminar (ECE 2001A\/ECE 8001A)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EMr. Tanah L. Barchichat and Mr. Sean M. Nowlan\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker\u0027s Title and Affiliation: \u003C\/strong\u003EMr. Barchichat - Division Chief, Mr. Nowlan - Research Engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeminar Title:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPart I-Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Overview\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cem\u003EPart II-History and Applications of Software Defined Radio (SDR) \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EPart I- A brief introduction of GTRI, its labs and key research contributions. The introduction exposes students to practical ECE disciplines and applications.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Part II- Modern digital signal processing (DSP) software and the proliferation and increased power of commodity computing systems and digitizers have driven the development of a software approach to wireless technology. Rather than relying on specialized hardware designed for specific wireless protocols or functions, SDR allows the computing resources of commodity processors to execute software implementations of wireless processing algorithms. This approach greatly simplifies the hardware interface to the RF spectrum and provides significant flexibility. SDR technology enables rapid prototyping and development cycles and functional reconfigurability. SDR will play a primary role in emerging dynamic spectrum access and adaptive and cognitive radio technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong class=\u0022BodyText\u0022\u003ESpeaker Bios:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMr. Tanah Barchichat\u003C\/strong\u003E earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree with Honors at Georgia Tech in 2000 and received his Master\u2019s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus on communications and electromagnetics in 2003. Mr. Barchichat has worked at the Georgia Tech Research Institute since 1996; first as a co-op then as a full time engineer in 2000. Much of Mr. Barchichat\u2019s research includes tactical radio assessments including electronic attack and signal analysis, and configuring and deploying cellular network communication systems for his customers. Currently, Mr. Barchichat oversees the Communications, Systems and Spectrum Division in the Information and Communications Lab in GTRI. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E The division is comprised of about 25 engineers who model, design, integrate and deploy Radio Frequency (RF) communication systems and networks. \u0026nbsp;Cutting edge research work includes customizing and deploying small scale commercial cellular and satellite networks, developing software defined radio applications to improve link performance and increase spectrum efficiency, implementing and integrating cellular systems in a tactical environment and modeling communication environments to test other tactical systems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EMr. Sean Nowlan\u003C\/strong\u003E graduated from Lafayette College with Honors with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2007. Mr. Nowlan earned his Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2011 with a focus on communications and signal processing. Mr. Nowlan has been with the Georgia Tech Research Institute since 2010, first working as a Tech Temp before joining the GTRI research faculty in 2011. His research includes adaptive communications systems design, waveform and RF signal generation and analysis, and distributed software-defined radio (SDR) applications, command, and control. Mr. Nowlan has experience and interests in a wide range of engineering disciplines including SDR, computer and network security, wireless communications and networking, digital signal processing, software and hardware development, and embedded systems design. Mr. Nowlan started the SDR Community of Interest (SDR-COI) at GTRI and is an active contributor to GNU Radio, an open-source software radio and signal processing suite.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeminar with Mr. Barchichat - Division Chief and Mr. Nowlan - Research Engineer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)"}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2015-02-05 17:43:10","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:20:10","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-02-11T10:05:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-02-11T10:55:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-02-11T10:55:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-02-11 15:05:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-02-11 15:55:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-02-11 15:55:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1577","name":"career"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPaul Steffes\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-3128\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:paul.steffes@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Epaul.steffes@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}