Electrical & Computer Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering

The College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University

José Moura

Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor – ECE,  BME ;  Affiliated Faculty – DSSC
Department Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office B20 Porter Hall
Telephone (412)-268-6341
Fax (412)-268-3890
Email
Website http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~moura/
Assistant Carolyn Patterson

Research Interests

Signal Processing and Telecommunications

Professor Moura works in statistical signal processing and telecommunications. He has interests in video, wireless communications, wavelet-based processing, and detection in high-density recording. Two current research thrust areas are the following:

Content-Based Video Processing

Efficient methods are developed to manipulate, edit, store or transmit video. Rather than representing video in terms of pixels and frames, we describe it by the video contents, which include background and foreground moving objects, such as cars or walking humans.

Robust Detection and Classification

In numerous applications, the detection and classification of a pattern is desirable. Patterns are distorted by noise and other artifacts. Professor Moura's group designs wavelets that are robust to these distortions, and apply these methods to wireless digital and to focusing radar images as in synthetic aperture radar (SAR).

Spiral: Optimized Portable Library of Signal Processing Algorithms

This project combines signal processing algorithms with artificial intelligence and learning methods, compiler technologies and computer architecture design to develop a library of optimized implementations of signal processing algorithms that is portable across a number of high-performance computing platforms.

In the News

  • Moura Named Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of Engineering
  • Moura Elected to National Academy of Engineering
  • Franchetti Receives Funding To Develop Safer Software Technologies
  • Moura Earns 2012 IEEE Signal Processing SPS Society Award
  • Alum Wins Young-Investigator-of-the-Month Award
  • Ilic Leads Team Developing Smart Grid Models, Tools for Low-Cost Green Islands
  • Alum Named President of Intel in Brazil
  • Moura To Receive SPS Technical Achievement Award
  • Moura Named University Professor
  • O'Donoughue Wins Best Student Paper Award at Acoustical Conference
  • ECE Grad Student Wins Three External Scholarships
  • Four ECE Faculty Win College Awards
  • O'Donoughue Wins Best Student Paper
  • Spiral Among NSF "Discoveries" Featured Projects
  • Paper Among Top 100 Cited by IEEE Xplore
  • Computer Generation of Commercial Libraries Becomes a Reality
  • AsSadhan selected as a King Abdullah Scholar
  • ECE Professors Participate in Microsoft Faculty Summit
  • Three ECE Faculty Selected for College of Engineering Awards
  • ECE Graduate Research a Winner in Best Student Paper Competition
  • Moura To Direct Information & Communication Technologies Institute at CMU
  • New Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research Launched
  • Moura, Siewiorek, and Towe Elected AAAS Fellows
  • Carnegie Mellon's Collaborative Research is Driving Force Behind Revolutionary New Tool for Writing Software Codes
  • Aldosari wins best student paper award at ICASSP
  • Moura Selected for President Elect of the IEEE SPS
  • Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking Hosts 3rd Annual Spring Review
  • Moura Appointed Chair of IEEE Transactions Committee and Member of IEEE Periodicals Committee

    • José Moura

    Carnegie Mellon, 1986

    Research Area

    Signals/Controls

    Keywords

    Communications, statistical signal/image, video, and multimedia processing, wavelet transforms

    Education

    Agregacão, 1979
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Technical University of Lisbon

    DSc, 1975
    Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    MS, 1973
    Electrical Engineering
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    EE, 1973
    Electrical Engineering
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Licenciado EE, 1969
    Electrical Engineering
    Technical University of Lisbon