This document provides information about the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT). CEWIT conducts research across various technology areas through multiple research divisions. It is located in a new 100,000 square foot research facility on the campus of Stony Brook University. CEWIT has partnerships with industry, national labs, and academic institutions. It focuses on strategic areas such as healthcare, energy, and cybersecurity. Some of CEWIT's research projects include virtual colonoscopy, superconductor chip design, and activity recognition for assisted living.

2. Research and Development Park
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CEWIT
Bio Medical
Technology
Mezzanine

3. CEWIT
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CEWIT
Bio Medical
Technology
Mezzanine

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CEWIT
Bio Medical
Technology
Mezzanine

5. CEWIT Mission
 Conduct first-class interdisciplinary
research and development in wireless
and information technology
 Foster new enterprise development
 Address skilled technology worker
shortage

6. R&D Divisions
 Network Technologies
 Software Systems
 Communications and Devices
 Systems and Infrastructure
 Medical Devices and Technologies
 Smart Energy

7. Facility
 100,000 square-foot, state-of-the-
art building
 40 new research laboratories
 7,000 square-foot incubator space
 First building in Stony Brook
University Research and
Development Park

8. Facility
 State-of-the-art Data Center
 Direct 500Mbps Internet Connection with
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redundancy
20Gbps backbone over CAT7a & fiber
optical network cabling
100% WiFi, WiMax Coverage
VoIP Unified Communication
Private Enterprise Computing Cloud and
Storage Cloud

9. Interdisciplinary R&D
Computer
Science Electrical &
Applied
Mathematics &
Computer
Statistics
Engineering
Mechanical
Medicine
Engineering
Health
Technology
Management
CEWIT
Material
Science &
Engineering
Biomedical
Psychology
Technology & Engineering
Society

10. Strategic Focus Areas
Imaging and visual computing
Intelligent information systems
Sensor networks and mobile computing
Cyber security
Cloud computing
High performance computing
Homeland security
 Smart grid
 Wireless medicine
 Biomedical informatics
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11. Worldwide Partnerships
 Industry – large, medium and small scale enterprises
 National research laboratories
 Domestic and foreign academic institutions
 High-tech startups
 CEWIT Korea

12. Advisory Boards
 Industry Advisory Board
 Medical Advisory Board
 Scientific Council
 Technology Council

13. Accomplishments
 Over $160 million in industry commitments matching $50
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million state capital award
More than 320 projects completed with industry partners
More than 210 projects completed with federal agencies
123 invention disclosures, 36 US patents issued, 12
licenses
More than 680 research publications
4 new startups companies based on CEWIT innovations

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CEWIT Korea
Sister organization in Songdo, Incheon Free
Economic Zone (IFEZ)
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Established to commercialize technologies and
spur economic growth
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Collaborations between US and Korean
academic and industrial organizations
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Focus on smart energy, transportation,
collaborative networking, transparent
computing, visual computing, and healthcare
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Emphasize fast design, agile development, and
short time-to-market

15. Advanced Energy Center (AEC)
 Broad based interdisciplinary research programs
 State-of-the-art laboratories to develop advanced
energy technologies
 Full scale demonstration, benchmarking and testing
facilities for smart grid development
 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum
building

17. Virtual Colonoscopy
 Volume rendering to generate view of colon wall
 Virtual view similar to optical colonoscopy view
Virtual
Optical
Virtual
Optical
 “CT virtual colonoscopy … is an accurate screening method …
and compares favorably with optical”
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New England Journal of Medicine, 2003

18. Immersive Gigapixel Display –
The Reality Deck
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Massive Immersive Visualization Environment.
308 LCD Displays – a total of 1.2 billion pixels worth of resolution,
rivaling the acuity of the human ocular system.
85 high end workstations with multiple Graphics Processing
Units (GPUs) drive the displays and offer massive computational
and visualization capabilities.
Development of novel interaction techniques via Motion
Tracking, Gestures, etc.

19. GigaPixel Image
 President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
 Shanghai, 272 Gigapixels
 London
 Paris
 Prague, Strahov Library

20. Designing Architecture and Fastest
Superconductor Chips @ SBU
 Prof. Mikhail Dorojevets: Ultra High Speed Computing Lab, ECE Dept.
 Developing architecture and new design techniques for 20-50 GHz
superconductor processors
 Designing experimental superconductor chips in collaboration with the
U.S. companies and Japanese Universities and foundries
The first-ever 20
GHz 8-bit
superconductor IC
designed, fabricated
and demonstrated
operation in a joint
SBU-Hypres, Inc.
project (April 2011)
 20 GHz 8-bit processor datapath chip:
 Development of an architecture and cell-level design @SBU
 A joint project with Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, NY)
 30 GHz 16-bit processor (international project):
 Development of an architecture and complete chip design @SBU
 A joint project with Japanese Universities at Yokohama and Nagoya,
and superconductor foundry at Tsukuba (Japan)
 Successful experimental demonstrations in 2011
 20 GHz 8-bit processing unit

21. Computer-Aided Remote Diagnosis
of Acute Chest Pain

22. Computer Augmented
Rehabilitation a person’s
 Games are likely to engage
attention
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Traditional training/exercises are often boring
and repetitive
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sustained success
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Progression to increasingly difficult levels
 Games can aid the management of pain
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Cognitive tasks and attention distractions can
block the perception of pain
 “Wiihabilitation”

23. CEWIT Biostatistics &
Bioinformatics Labs
 Collaboration with BNL, CSHL, NYU, Albert Einstein,
UCLA, WUSTL, and Univ. of Colorado.
 Collaboration with Computer Sciences,
Anesthesiology, Biomedical Engineering,
Hematology, Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacology,
Psychology, Psychiatry, and Radiology.
 Imaging Informatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics,
Geo-statistics

24. Biostatistics/Bioinformatic
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s Genome-wide association studies of single nucleotide
polymorphism (SNP) on nicotine addiction (BNL/WUSTL)
 Network analysis of SNPs and risk analysis of SNPs on nicotine
addiction. Below are the SNP networks of controls, nicotine
addicted subjects and the combined groups.
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25. Prevention of Lost Personal
Items in Long Term Care
Facilities
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Primary points of loss
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On food trays after meals -> Equip dining hall attendants with wearable reader
modules
In sheets and clothes going to laundry -> Install RFID enabled portals in laundry path
Additional readers at strategic points such as garbage disposal

26. Specimen Tracking
Send
Print tag
and label
Permanents
collection
Enter specimen
details
Fresh and Frozen,
Hand Carried
Receive
Reconcile
Read Specimen
details
Send the specimen to destination
Track at all times over Wifi.

27. Home of the Future
 Apartment in CEWIT
building with sensors and
RFID readers
 Modeling and recognizing
human activity from sensor
data
 Responding to the
environment
 Applications: assisted living,
home care, chronic disease
management, preventive
care

28. Large-Scale News/Blog
Analysis scale text analysis system which tracks
Lydia is a large
millions of entities in the news across newspapers and blogs
on an ongoing daily basis.

29. Energy Efficient Utility
Monitoring/Metering
Internet
System Architecture
Broadband connection
DSL/Cable
WiFi router
ZigBee-based water meter
WiFi
ZigBee-based electric meter
Control Box
ZigBee
ZigBee-based gas meter
Water
utility
Company
servers
Electrical utility
Gas utility
Company
Company
servers
servers

30. Minimizing “Light Pollution” from
Windmill Farm Using WiFi Mesh
Network

31.  Cyber-Security
 Regulatory Compliance
 Privacy and Data Confidentiality
 Interoperability and Standards
 Transparent Infrastructure Scalability
 New Energy Efficient Designs
 Application Deployment Mechanisms
 Economic Modeling of new Market
 Portability for Legacy IT in Clouds

32. Smart Grid
 Fundamental technologies
that will drive the Smart Grid
 Integrated communications
 Sensing and measurement
 Cybersecurity
 Data management and
visualization

33. Smart Transit
 Real-time Tracking of Buses
 Wi-Fi access
 Real-time Content Delivery

34. Visit Us Online at
www.cewit.org