Dissertation Title: Statistical Problems in Wireless Sensor Networks.
 Advisors:
 Professor Liza Levina
 Professor George Michailidis

 Research Interests:
  • Statistical Inference on Network Data (Wireless Sensor Networks: Target Detection and Localization, Multi-Target Tracking and Diagnostics, Network Structure and Design),
  • Multivariate and Functional Data Analysis,
  • Spatio-Temporal Modeling.

    • Research Statement.
       Publications:
  • [1] N. Katenka, E. Levina, and G. Michailidis (2008).   Local Vote Decision Fusion for Target Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks.  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 56(1):329-338.

  • [2] N. Katenka, E. Levina, and G. Michailidis (2006). Robust Target Localization from Binary Decisions  in Wireless Sensor Networks.  Technometrics, in press.

  • [3] N. Katenka, E. Levina, and G. Michailidis (2006). Tracking Multiple Targets Using Binary Decisions from Wireless Sensor Networks. Technical report  #479, Dept. of Statistics, Univ.of Michigan. Submitted to the   Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) Applications and Case Studies.

  • [4] N. Katenka, E. Levina, and G. Michailidis (2007). A Cost-Efficient Approach to Wireless Sensor Network Design.  Technical report  #474, Dept. of Statistics, Univ.of Michigan. Under revision.


    •    Academic Presentations:
  • October 2008 – Graduate Program Presentation, representative of the Department of Statistics at The 11th Annual Michigan Undergraduate Math Conference, Dearborn, MI.
  • August 2008 – Paper Presentation, 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO.
  • May 2008 – Invited Talk, INTERFACE 2008, “RISK : Reality”, Durham, NC .
  • January 2008 – Poster Presentation, Workshop on Environmental Sensor Networks at SAMSI , NC.
  • June 2007 – Paper Presentation, Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Statistical Topics,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
  • March 2007 – Poster Presentation. MSSISS (Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences), MI.
  • January 2007 – Graduate student participant at Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities in Sensor Networking Workshop, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA,CA.
  • June 2006 – Invited Talk, Joint Research Conference on Statistics in Quality (JRC), Industry and Technology, Knoxville, TN.
  • April 2004 – Presentation, International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, General applications and Systems/ Intelligent technologies, Faculty of Applied Mathematic and Computer Science , Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus.