Currently Dr. Wang and her collaborators hold major research grants from:
NSERC (discovery, CHRP, and strategic)
Discovery: PI, “Multimedia
Fingerprinting Against Collusion-Attack", $115,000, Apr. 2005 - Apr. 2010.
SPG (Strategic Project Grant):
Co-applicant, “Enabling technologies for secure and reliable wireless body area
sensor networks”, with Victor Leung (PI), David Michelson, and Richard Yu
(Carleton University), Oct. 2008 – Oct. 2011.
Summary: Professors
Victor Leung (PI), David Michelson, Jane Wang, and Richard Yu (Carleton
University) have been awarded an NSERC Strategic Project Grant of $615,100 over
three years for the project, “Enabling technologies for secure and reliable
wireless body area sensor networks”. Wireless body area sensor networks
(WBASNs) consist of multiple sensor nodes capable of sampling, processing, and
communicating one or more vital signs (e.g., heart rate, brain activity, blood
pressure, oxygen saturation) and/or environmental parameters (location,
temperature, humidity, light) over extended periods. The overall goal of this project
is to contribute to the development of the channel models, protocol designs,
security methods, cross-layer designs and sensor data processing techniques
that will make WBASNs more secure, reliable, and effective and thereby make
their widespread deployment practical and commercially viable. The project team
will work closely with collaborators from Neil Squire Society and Defence
Research and Development Canada, and collaborate with industry partners
including Nokia, Agilent Technologies, Ascalade Communications, and Western
Clinical Engineering.
SPG: Co-applicant,
"RFID-based sensor networks for detecting and tracking mobile
targets," with Vincent Wong (PI), Ian Blake, Lutz Lampe, Victor Leung, and
Shahriar Mirabbasi, Oct. 2008 – Oct. 2011.
Summary: Professors
Vincent Wong (PI), Ian Blake, Lutz Lampe, Victor Leung, Shahriar Mirabbasi, and
Jane Wang have been awarded $679,000 over three years for the project
"RFID-based sensor networks for detecting and tracking mobile targets." The overall goal of this project is to
contribute to the development of low-power integrated circuit design, data
fusion and tracking algorithms, localization techniques, cooperation protocol
design, as well as privacy and security mechanisms for advanced radio frequency
identification (RFID) systems with sensing capabilities. The industrial partners include four Canadian
companies from British Columbia: Guard RFID Solutions Inc., Kintama Research
Corp., SST Wireless Inc., and Wireless 2000 Inc.
SPG: Co-applicant,
"Information management and security in media-sharing social
networks," with Rabab Ward (PI) and Vicky H. Zhao (
Summary: Professors
Rabab Ward (PI), Z. Jane Wang, and H. Vicky Zhao (University of Alberta) have
been awarded an NSERC Strategic Project Grant of $470,400 over three years for
the project, “Information management and security in media-sharing social
networks”. In the past decade, we have experienced enormous media creation, use
and sharing, and digital media has profoundly changed our daily life. However,
the production and use of multimedia at such an unprecedented scale also poses
new challenges to the scalable and reliable sharing of multimedia over large
and heterogeneous networks, and demands effective management of enormous amount
of unstructured media, and it also raises critical issues of protecting
intellectual property of multimedia. The overall goal of this project is to
establish a multimedia management and security framework to provide effective
management, secure and reliable sharing of digital media in large-scale social
networks by investigating both fundamental technologies and system design
methodologies. The project team will closely collaborate with industry partners
including BroadbandTV, TELUS, Microsoft Research and Thomason Research.
CHRP: Co-applicant, "Making
the connection: Methods to infer functional connectivity in brain
studies", CHRP program of NSERC/CIHR (with M. McKeown, R. Abugharbieh, and
F. Beg), $344,000, Apr. 2006 to Apr. 2009.
Summary: Our specific aims are to
determine the effects of medication (L-Dopa) and to isolate disease effects from
compensatory mechanisms in PD across 3 main domains: Connectivity, Spatial
Extent of activity, and Temporal Dynamics. This joint initiative between UBC,
SFU and UNC represents a new collaboration between clinician-scientists in
research and treatment of PD; scientists with expertise in brain segmentation
and shape analysis, as well as network modeling & statistical inference. The proposed research consists of the
following technical components: 1.) Extend the newly developed dynamic causal
models (DCM) for brain effective connectivity; 2.) Provide quantitative
analysis of the spatial characteristics of fMRI activation; 3.) Determine the
sensitivity of network models are misspecification of manually-drawn ROIs; and 4.)
Expand Blind Source Separation (BSS) methods to the EEG data to infer transient
synchronization between brain areas.
National Parkinson's Foundation (NPF)
Co-applicant, “A Failure of
multi-tasking: the combination of postural perturbations and reaching puts PD subjects at risk
for falling", National Parkinsons Foundation (NPF) (with Mark Carpenter (PI), Martin McKeown,
Meeko Oishi), $90,000, Aug. 2007 to Aug. 2010.
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR)
Co-applicant, Co-applicant, "Monitoring
and Control of Abnormal Brain Dynamics", MSFHR Team Start-up Grant (with
M. McKeown (PI), M. Oishi, K. Murphy, E. Cretu, S. Fels), $225,000, 2007 to
2010.
