Yanjun Yan
Ph.D.

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• Statistical signal processing, applied in detection and estimation, tracking, fusion, wireless communications, and pattern recognition
• Prognostics and diagnostics, applied in wind energy systems
• Swarm intelligence, such as Particle Swarm Optimzation (PSO)
• Biometrics, especially on face recognition

• Yanjun Yan, Jifeng Ru and Akhilesh Shrestha. "Improving Altitude Estimation of Primary Returns from Two Radars," Proceedings of The 56th ATCA (Air Traffic Control Association) Annual Conference, National Harbor, MD, Oct, 2011. bibtex
• Mahendra Mallick, Lyudmila Mihaylova, Sanjeev Arulampalam and Yanjun Yan. "Angle-only Filtering in 3D Using Modified Spherical and Log Spherical Coordinates," Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Information Fusion, Chicago, US, July 5-8, 2011. pdf, bibtex
• Xiang Ye, Yanjun Yan and Lisa Ann Osadciw. "Learning Decision Rules by Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for Wind Turbine Fault Diagnosis," Proceedings of Annual Conference of the PHM (Prognostics and Health Management) Society 2010, Portland, OR, Oct 10-14, 2010. pdf, bibtex
• M. Mallick, Y. Yan, S. Arulampalam, A. Mallick. "Connection between Differential Geometry and Estimation Theory for Polynomial Nonlinearity in 2D," Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Information Fusion, EICC Edinburgh, UK, July 26-29, 2010. pdf, bibtex
• Weihua Gao, Yanjun Yan and Lisa Osadciw, Chunjie Duan and Cheng Li. "A Two Stage PAPR Reduction Method on Frequency Redundant OFDM System," Proceedings of 25th Queen's Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC 2010), Kingston, Canada, May 12-14, 2010. pdf, bibtex
• Xiang Ye, Weihua Gao, Yanjun Yan and Lisa Osadciw. "Multiple tests for wind turbine fault detection and score fusion using two-level multidimensional scaling (MDS)," Proceedings of 2010 SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Evolutionary and Bio-Inspired Computation: Theory and Applications IV, Orlando, FL, Apr. 2010. pdf, bibtex
• Lisa Ann Osadciw, Yanjun Yan, Xiang Ye, Glen Benson and Eric White. "Wind Turbine Diagnostics based on Power Curve Using Particle Swarm Optimization," book chapter in Wind Power Systems: Applications of Computational Intelligence, Springer, 2010. pdf, bibtex
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Density Estimation using a New Dimension Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm," Swarm Intelligence, vol. 3, no. 4, 2009, pp. 275-301. pdf, bibtex
• Yanjun Yan, Ganapathi Kamath, Lisa A. Osadciw, Glen Benson, Paul Legac, Peter Johnson, and Eric White. "Fusion for Modeling Wake Effects on Wind Turbines," Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, Seattle,Washington, July, 2009. pdf, bibtex
• Xiang Ye, Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Yanjun Yan, and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Unsupervised Learning and Fusion for Failure Detection in Wind Turbines," Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, Seattle,Washington, July, 2009. pdf, bibtex
• Yanjun Yan, Lisa A. Osadciw, Glen Benson, and Eric White. "Inverse Data Transformation for Change Detection in Wind Turbine Diagnostics," Proceedings of 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Delta St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, May, 2009. pdf, bibtex
• Yanjun Yan, Ganapathi Kamath and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Feature Selection Optimized by Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for Face Recognition," 2009 SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Conference on Biometric Technology for Human Identification V, Orlando, FL, Apr. 2009. pdf, bibtex
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Varying Dimensional Particle Swarm Optimization," Proceedings of 2008 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, Sep, 2008. pdf, bibtex
• Yanjun Yan, Lisa A. Osadciw and Pinyuen Chen. "Confidence Interval of Feature Number Selection for Face Recognition," Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 17, no. 1, Jan 2008. pdf, bibtex
• Yanjun Yan, Rajani Muraleedharan, Xiang Ye and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Contourlet Based Image Compression for Wireless Communication in Face Recognition System," Proc. IEEE-ICC 2008, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May, 2008. bibtex
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Intelligent Three Step Sampling Design for Face Recognition," 2008 SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Conference on Biometric Technology for Human Identification V, Orlando, FL, Mar. 2008. bibtex
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Bridging Biometrics and Forensics," Proc. IS&T and SPIE Electronic Imaging 2008, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2008. bibtex
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Distributed Wireless Face Recognition System," Proceedings of IS&T and SPIE Electronic Imaging 2008, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2008. bibtex
• Yanjun Yan, Rajani Muraleedharan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Ant System based Flexible and Cost Effective Routing for Wireless Face Recognition," Proceedings of IEEE-CCNC 2008, 5th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 2008. bibtex
• Rajani Muraleedharan, Yanjun Yan, and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Detecting Sybil Attacks in Image Sensor Network Using Cognitive Intelligence," Proceedings of 1st ACM Workshop on Sensor and Actor Networks SANET'07. ACM Press, pp. 59-60. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Sep. 2007. bibtex
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Fusion for Component based Face Recognition," Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, Mar. 2007. bibtex
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Sampling Design for Face Recognition," SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, vol. 6202, Orlando, FL, Apr. 2006. bibtex
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Contourlet based Image Recovery and De-noising through Wireless Fading Channels," Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, Session: FA6, Mar. 2005. pdf, bibtex
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Intra-difference based Segmentation and Face Recognition," Proc. SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security: Security, Law Enforcement and Defense, vol. 5404, Orlando, FL, Apr. 2004. pdf, bibtex
• Xiaodong Zhao, Shuguo Wang, Yanjun Yan and Lining Sun. "Algorithm of capturing at a moving body for a free-floating space manipulator based on trajectory planning," Journal of Astronautics (in Chinese), vol. 3, 2002, pp. 48-51.
• Norio Baba, Naoyuki Inoue and Yan Yanjun. "Utilization of Soft Computing Techniques for Constructing Reliable Decision Support Systems for Dealing Stocks," Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Hawaii, May, 2002.

• Yanjun Yan. "Confidence Interval of Feature Number Selection for Face Recognition,” Statistics Colloquium, Carnegie Building room 313, Syracuse University. Apr. 2, 2008.
• Yanjun Yan, Ganapathi Kamath, and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Automatic Identification of Wake Effects on Wind Turbines," 2009 Nunan Research Day Poster Presentations, Syracuse, NY, Apr. 2009. poster
• Xiang Ye, Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Yanjun Yan, Lisa Osadciw. "Failure Detection by Fusing Wind Speed Difference between Wind Turbines," 2009 Nunan Research Day Poster Presentations, Syracuse, NY, Apr. 2009.
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Demonstration of a New Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm in Density Estimation for Wind Turbine Diagnostics," 2008 AGEP Academic Excellence Symposium, Syracuse, NY, June 2008.
• Yanjun Yan, Xiang Ye and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Artificial Intelligence based Wind Turbine Diagnostics and Prognostics," 2008 Nunan Research Day Poster Presentations, Syracuse, NY, Apr. 2008.
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Feature Selection for Wireless Face Recognition Sensor Network," Proc. 7th IEEE Upstate New York Workshop on Communications, Sensors and Networking, Syracuse, NY, Nov. 2007 (Sergio Servetto Memorial Best Student Poster Award).
• Rajani Muraleedharan, Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Constructing an Efficient Wireless Face Recognition System by Swarm Intelligence," 2007 AGEP Academic Excellence Symposium, Syracuse, NY, June 2007.
• Yanjun Yan and Lisa A. Osadciw. "Appearance based Face Recognition System with Mobility," 2007 Nunan Research Day Poster Presentations, Syracuse, NY, Apr. 2007.

• BEN/ELE352 "Digital Signal Processing" (undergraduate level), Spring 2007, 2008
• BEN/ELE351 "System and Signal Analysis" (undergraduate level), Fall 2007
• ELE755 "Digital Image Processing" (graduate level), Summer 2007
• ELE601 "Applications of Complex Function Theory" (graduate level), Fall 2006
• ELE291/292 "Electrical Enginnering Laboratory I & II" (undergraduate level), Fall 2005, Spring 2006
• ELE651 "Digital Communications" (graduate level), Spring 2004
• ELE551 "Communication Systems" (senior and graduate level), Fall 2003

• Helped develop the syllabus. Prepared and gave some lectures.
• Gave a lecture impromptu when the professor was sick. Tutored MATLAB programming.
• Taught three or two recitation sessions weekly. Supervised three four-hour lab sessions weekly.
• Selected assignment problems. Designed MATLAB assignments.
• Held office hours. Made assignment solutions. Graded lab reports, assignments, and tests.
• Updated independent course websites or blackboard.syr.edu. Answered questions through emails.

• ELE856 Digital Image Processing: Multi-Resolution-Analysis by Wavelets and LPA, report slides
• ELE851 Detection and Estimation: Detection of Sinusoidal Signals with Unknown Parameters, report amend
• ELE791 Remote Sensing: PCA and PC Neural Network in Classification, slides1 slides2
• ELE756 Random Process: PSD Estimation Using Periodogram, Subspace Methods For Harmonic Models
• ELE659/759 Digital Signal Processing: Time-Frequency Signal Representations, report slides
• ELE751 Wireless Communications: Compare Error Coding and Diversity (problem description)
• ELE651 Digital Communications: Equalization of WLAN by Zero-Forcing Filter
• ELE551 Communication Systems: Essential Bandwidth Study

• MAT751 Multivariate Statistical Analysis: PCA Subspace Extraction
• MAT651/652 Probability and Statistics: Randomization and Bootstrapping, slides
• STT690 Independent Study on Bootstrap
• APM625 Sampling Techniques
• APM630 Regression Analysis: Modeling based on Regression, Transformation and Weighted Least Squares, Influence and Multicollinearity Diagnostics, Nonlinear Regression
• APM635 Multivariate Statistical Methods: Factor, Discrimination, Cluster, Canonical Correlation Analysis
• MAT653 Statistical Simulation and Nonstandard Data Analysis: Practical Solutions to Behrens-Fisher Problem, report slides

• "The One Thing Holding You Back: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Connection" by Raphael Cushnir
• "Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life" by Byron Katie
• "You and your research" by Richard Hamming.
• "How can we pursue a Ph.D. degree without regrets?" by Dr. Minh N. Do.
• "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." by Winston Churchill
• "Take Control" by Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

  The only way to control your own life is to take responsibility for it. Yes, there are always circumstances to blame. Yes, there are those who would hold you back. Yes, there are things beyond your control. Take responsibility anyway. People who achieve greatness, believe that whatever happens to them, they are responsible for it. It may seem unfair, yet it is ultimately liberating. Whining will get you nowhere. Stepping up and taking responsibility, puts you in control. Take responsibility. Even if it's not your fault, it's your life. Even if it's not your assignment, it's your job. You have a choice. You can always find someone, or something, to blame, and thereby allow circumstances and other people to control your life. Or, you can step up and take responsibility, no matter what. That puts you firmly in control, and gives you the power to live your life the way you choose.