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Research areas
The BiITComm Laboratory is a
research facility located in room SH 007 in the Electrical
Engineering Department at the Illinois Institute of
Technology. Current research efforts are in the areas of
Communications, Information Theory and Bioinformatics
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Communications
In the Communications area several projects are under
way in Space Time coding, Multiple Input Multiple Output
communication systems, Wireless Sensor Networks and
Advanced Modulation formats for bandwidth and power
efficient communications. These projects involve
collaboration with researchers in NEC Laboratories,
Lucent Technologies and other faculty members in the
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Bioinformatics
The rapid
advances in both genomic data acquisition and
computational technology have encouraged development and
use of engineering based methods in the field of genetic
data analysis. Techniques from engineering fields such
as information theory, communications, coding theory,
signal processing, machine learning, and various
statistical methods are now being actively researched
for use in gene and regulatory sequence identification.
Current trends in research are becoming
interdisciplinary in nature; familiar merges are
communication with networks, secure communications and
others. A relative new field is the use of communication
engineering ideas for understanding genetic information.
This has been promoted by the increased availability of
genetic data. Current projects in our lab deal with
developing and implementing computational methods
based on Communication and Information Theory for
identification and annotation of the functional elements
in the genomes of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms.
Work focuses on applying principles of source and
channel coding theory, information theory and pattern
recognition to analyze and model genetic structures. The
research involves collaboration with faculty of the
Biology Department and National Center for Food Safety
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Our future research will expand our collaboration with
industry and research centers across the nation.
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