Dissertation Title: Statistical Problems in Wireless Sensor Networks.  Advisors:  Professor Liza Levina  Professor George Michailidis  Research Interests: Wireless Sensor Networks (Target Detection, Localization, Tracking and Diagnostic) Multivariate Data Analysis, Pattern Recognition Functional Data Analysis, Graph Optimization
	Publications: 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. N. Katenka, E. Levina, and G. Michailidis (2006). Robust Target Localization from Binary Decisions  in Wireless Sensor Networks.  Technical report  #452, Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of Michigan. 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
	Academic Presentations: (January 2008) Invited Poster Presentation, The Opening Workshop of the SAMSI program on Environmental Sensor Networks, Research Triangle, NC (June 2007) Presentation, Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Statistical Topics, Ann Arbor, MI (March 2007) Poster Presentation. MSSISS (Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences 2007), Ann Arbor, MI (January 2007) Graduate student participant at Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities in Sensor Networking Workshop, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (June 2006) Invited talk, Joint Research Conference on Statistics in Quality, Industry and Technology, Knoxville, TN (April 2004) Presentation. International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, General applications and Systems/ Intelligent technologies, Faculty of Applied Mathematic and Computer Science, Belarussian State University, Minsk, Belarus