Emil Jovanov

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
301 Sparkman drive, 213 EB
Huntsville, AL 35899
U.S.A.

Voice: 256-824-5094; Fax: 256-824-6803

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Spring 2008 Office Hours: Tuesday 5:15 - 6:45 PM, Thursday 10:00-11:30, and by appointment.

Curriculum vitae, full version PDF file updated April, 2008.

Course Related Information

Fall 2008:

CPE 495-01: Computer Engineering Design I, and PDF format

CPE 621: Advanced Embedded Systems.

MSP430 reference material and program examples.

Publications

List of Books and journal papers
Conference papers. On-line papers.

Research Interests

Wireless and sensor networks, low-power and embedded systems, ubiquitous and mobile computing, biomedical signal processing, telemedicine, parallel and distributed processing.

• Presentation at 3rd IEEE-EMBS Internation Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors (ISSS-MDBS 2006), September 2006: Wireless System Integration, Issues and Applications, and Demo.
  Data set collected during presentation, with Matlab procedures for signal extraction and processing.
• Research seminar: Wireless body area networks for ambulatory health monitoring (with prototype demonstration) by Chris Otto.
  Presentation slides and flier.
• An Implementation of the WBAN Health Monitoring Protocol for ZigBee Compliant TinyOS Messaging.
• Wireless Technology and System Integration in Body Area Networks for m-Health Application.
  Presentation at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Melbourne, Australia, September 2005.
• A wireless body area network of intelligent motion sensors for computer assisted physical rehabilitation,
  Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, March 1, 2005, 2:6, 2005.
• Wireless Body Area Network of Intelligent Sensors for physiological monitoring.
  Poster and demonstration at TinyOS Technology Exchange, Berkeley, February 11, 2005.
• Digital guardian angel, article in The Huntsville Times (May 22, 2001), part #1, part #2, and part #3.
• Hierarchical Digital Signal Processing for E-med systems. (2001).
• Real Time Heart Monitoring Using Low Power DSP (DSPS'99 paper) or image.

• High performance network coordinator ZigBee Advanced Processing Platform with Compact Flash interface
  (with John Gober and Reggie McMurtrey).
• Wireless Intelligent Heart and Activity Monitor based on Telos wireless platform, ZigBee Body Area Network,
  and custom developed ECG_Telos daughter board (with Chris Otto and Aleksandar Milenkovic).
  Intelligent daughter board developed with the CPE495 senior design team: John Gober, Reggie McMurtrey, Steven Linthicum. Fall 2004.
• Reconfigurable SpO2 sensor and the low-power reconfigurable processing platform.
  Developed with the senior design team #1 (Shane Basham, Drake Clark, and David Kelley) - Fall 2003.
• Extremely low power computing - apple computers (2003).
• Wireless Breathing Sensor.
• Biomedical Wireless Intelligent SEnsor WISE early days (2000).

• Visualization of brain evoked potentials (Trivector visualization).
• Visualization of sources of brain electrical activity.
• You can download demo version of the program
• Multi Modal Virtual Reality Viewer of Brain Electrical Activity
• TEMPO (Topographic EEG Mapping PrOgram), source code available at Sourceforge.net

• Brainwave Entrainment and Beyond: Toward Holistic Approach, Brainwave Entrainment to External Rhythmic Stimuli: Interdisciplinary Research and Clinical Perspective, Stanford University, May 2006.
• Spectral Analysis of Heart Rate Variability during Very Slow Yogic Breathing, presentation slides from IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Shanghai, China (September 2005).
• Rehabilitation of hearing impaired using DSP based hearing aid,
  with Djordje Kostic, Ranko Vukovic, Veselin Vracar, and Srba Tomanic (1994).
• On the Methodology of EEG analysis During Altered States of Consciousness (1995).