Professor Moura was on sabbatical at MIT from September 06 through August 07 as a visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Moura gave an invited presentation at the Workshop on Multisensor Data Fusion, IEEE Globecom, on November 26 in Washington DC.
Moura gave a Seminar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on July 26 and participated in the Microsoft Faculty Summit on July 16 and 17.
He was a panel member on March 24 at the PAPS Congress, Columbia University, New York City, NY.
He gave the ECE Graduate Seminar, NC State, Raleigh, NC, on March 2, 2007 and the ECE Colloquium, Boston University, Boston, February 21, 2007.
He gave the Distinguished lecture, ECE, Iowa State University, Des Moines, IA, on January 22, 2007
and an Invited Seminar, at the Computing Research Institute, Computer Science Department, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, January 19, 2007.
He gave an Invited Seminar, at the Communication, Networking, Signal & Image Processing Seminar Series, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, January 18, 2007.
He gave an Invited Lecture at the Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities in Sensor Networks Workshop, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA, January 10, 2007.
Moura serves as President Elect of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the two year period 2006-2007, to succeed as President in 2008-2009.
Moura gave an Invited Seminar at the Stochastic Systems Group, LIDS, MIT, November 29, 2006.
He gave the ECE Graduate Seminar at the University of California Los Angeles, CA, November 21, 2006.
He was a Member of the NSF Committee of Visitors (COV), Computing and Communication Foundations Division, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), June 15-16, 2006 and chaired the subpanel of the Theoretical Foundations Cluster.
Professor Moura was elected a Fellow of the AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, see the ECE News.
Moura was a plenary speaker at the New Horizons Workshop on March 10 in Lisbon, Portugal.
He gave an invited seminar at the University of Massachusetts, Ahmerst, on March 3rd.
Moura ave an invited seminar at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, on February 24/ 2005.
Saeed Aldosari, a graduate student working on Sensor Networks, was a best student paper finalist at the ASILOMAR Conference and received a best student paper award at ICASSP'05, see the ECE, CMU news.
In March, Provost Kamlet, Dean Khosla, and Professor Moura represented CMU at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Portugal represented by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Science, Technology, and Higher Education of Portugal.
As a follow-up, Professor Moura with Professor Schlesinger and several other CMU faculty members visited Portugal May 24-27,
see news1, news2, news3, news4, news5.
Moura gave an invited lecture at the 2nd IEEE/CreateNet Workshop on BroadBand Advanced Sensor Networks (BaseNetS 2005), Boston, MA, on October 3.
He was a Panel Member on Wireless Sensor Networks –From Sensor Networks to Smart Dust, at the 16TH IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, Berlin, Germany, September 12-14, 2005.
He was an Invited Speaker and Panel Member,at the Robust Signal Processing and Stochastic Eigen-Analysis Workshop (SEA05), MIT, October 14-15, 2005.
On July 24-27, 2005, he was an Invited Speaker at the Banff International Research Station Multimedia and Mathematics Workshop, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Moura was an NSF SRC Panel Review Member of the UCLA CENS, an NSF Science and Research Center at UCLA, June 15-17, 2005.
He was an invited speaker at the 2005 ARO/AMRDEC Workshop on Information-Theoretic Image Processing on June 14-15 at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.
He gave a plenary presentation, on "Sensor Networks: Detection and Estimation Under Constraints," at the Sensor, Signal and Information Processing Workshop, Tempe, April 28-29, 2005, Tempe Mission Palms, Arizona.
Saeed Aldosari, a graduate student working on Sensor Networks, was a best student paper finalist at the ASILOMAR Conference and received a best student paper award at ICASSP'05, see the ECE, CMU news.
Moura gave an invited lecture at the National University in Singapore on March 8, 2005.
In November 2004, Professor Moura gave the Keynote Lecture on Sensor Networks: Challenges and Applications, at the III Next Wave Digital Home, Community Products, Services, and Opportunities Symposium, Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, Taiwan.
In October 2004, he was an invited speaker at the Frontiers in Optics FiO'04.
In September 2004, he was a member of the Panel on Sensor Networks - Interacting with the Real World, at the PIMRC'04, 15TH IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications.
In July 2004, he was a Plenary Speaker at the 2004 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'04) and, also in July, a Distinguished Lecturer at the IEEE Sensor and Multichannel Array Processing (SAM'04) Workshop.
Professor Moura introduced a new course in the Spring of 2004, 18-899 Algebraic Signal Processing.
Moura's research includes statistical theory of shape: Shapes provide a rich set of clues
on the identity and topological properties of an object.
In many imaging environments, the same object appears to have different shapes due to such
distortions as translation, rotation, reflection, scaling, or shearing. Also, the correspondence
between pixels of different distorted images of the same object is usually unknown. Our
work looks at shape invariants and at the geometry of the shape space addressing questions
like 'how close are two shapes' or 'how do we morph one shape into another.'
