Kieran Parsons

Kieran Parsons
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  • Biography

    Kieran spent 12 years in Canada working at Nortel, BelAir Networks and AMCC on the system design of several wireless and optical technologies, including early work on electronic dispersion compensation for optical links. His research interests include optical communications network architecture and digital signal processing algorithms for coherent optical communications.

  • Recent News & Events

    •  NEWS    Jianlin Guo delivered a keynote in IEEE ICC 2024 Workshop
      Date: June 13, 2024
      Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
      MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Philip V. Orlik; Kieran Parsons; Pu (Perry) Wang
      Research Areas: Communications, Machine Learning, Signal Processing
      Brief
      • Jianlin Guo delivered a keynote titled "Private IoT Networks" in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2024 Workshop "Industrial Private 5G-and-Beyond Wireless Networks", held in Denver, Colorado from June 9-13. The ICC is one of two IEEE Communications Society’s flagship conferences.

        Abstract: With the advent of private 5G-and-Beyond communication technologies, private IoT networks have been emerging. In private IoT networks, network owners have full control on the network resource management. However, to fully realize private IoT networks, the upper layer technologies need to be developed as well. This keynote presents machine learning based anomaly detection in manufacturing systems, innovative multipath TCP technologies over heterogeneous wireless IoT networks, novel channel resource scheduling in private 5G networks and efficient wireless coexistence of the heterogeneous wireless systems.
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    •  EVENT    MERL Contributes to ICASSP 2024
      Date: Sunday, April 14, 2024 - Friday, April 19, 2024
      Location: Seoul, South Korea
      MERL Contacts: Petros T. Boufounos; François Germain; Chiori Hori; Sameer Khurana; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Jonathan Le Roux; Hassan Mansour; Kieran Parsons; Joshua Rapp; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern
      Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Sensing, Machine Learning, Robotics, Signal Processing, Speech & Audio
      Brief
      • MERL has made numerous contributions to both the organization and technical program of ICASSP 2024, which is being held in Seoul, Korea from April 14-19, 2024.

        Sponsorship and Awards

        MERL is proud to be a Bronze Patron of the conference and will participate in the student job fair on Thursday, April 18. Please join this session to learn more about employment opportunities at MERL, including openings for research scientists, post-docs, and interns.

        MERL is pleased to be the sponsor of two IEEE Awards that will be presented at the conference. We congratulate Prof. Stéphane G. Mallat, the recipient of the 2024 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing, and Prof. Keiichi Tokuda, the recipient of the 2024 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.

        Jonathan Le Roux, MERL Speech and Audio Senior Team Leader, will also be recognized during the Awards Ceremony for his recent elevation to IEEE Fellow.

        Technical Program

        MERL will present 13 papers in the main conference on a wide range of topics including automated audio captioning, speech separation, audio generative models, speech and sound synthesis, spatial audio reproduction, multimodal indoor monitoring, radar imaging, depth estimation, physics-informed machine learning, and integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). Three workshop papers have also been accepted for presentation on audio-visual speaker diarization, music source separation, and music generative models.

        Perry Wang is the co-organizer of the Workshop on Signal Processing and Machine Learning Advances in Automotive Radars (SPLAR), held on Sunday, April 14. It features keynote talks from leaders in both academia and industry, peer-reviewed workshop papers, and lightning talks from ICASSP regular tracks on signal processing and machine learning for automotive radar and, more generally, radar perception.

        Gordon Wichern will present an invited keynote talk on analyzing and interpreting audio deep learning models at the Workshop on Explainable Machine Learning for Speech and Audio (XAI-SA), held on Monday, April 15. He will also appear in a panel discussion on interpretable audio AI at the workshop.

        Perry Wang also co-organizes a two-part special session on Next-Generation Wi-Fi Sensing (SS-L9 and SS-L13) which will be held on Thursday afternoon, April 18. The special session includes papers on PHY-layer oriented signal processing and data-driven deep learning advances, and supports upcoming 802.11bf WLAN Sensing Standardization activities.

        Petros Boufounos is participating as a mentor in ICASSP’s Micro-Mentoring Experience Program (MiME).

        About ICASSP

        ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing. The event attracts more than 3000 participants.
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  • Research Highlights

  • MERL Publications

    •  Li, Z., Lowy, A., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Malin, B., Wang, Y., "Analyzing Inference Privacy Risks Through Gradients In Machine Learning", ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-141 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Li2024oct,
      • author = {Li, Zhuohang and Lowy, Andrew and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Malin, Bradley and Wang, Ye}},
      • title = {Analyzing Inference Privacy Risks Through Gradients In Machine Learning},
      • booktitle = {ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = oct,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-141}
      • }
    •  Liu, J., Lowy, A., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Wang, Y., "Efficient Differentially Private Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) workshop (Next Generation of AI Safety), July 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-104 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Liu2024jul,
      • author = {Liu, Jing and Lowy, Andrew and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye}},
      • title = {Efficient Differentially Private Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) workshop (Next Generation of AI Safety)},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = jul,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-104}
      • }
    •  Hase, R., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Parsons, K., "Variational Randomized Smoothing for Sample-Wise Adversarial Robustness", arXiv, July 2024.
      BibTeX arXiv
      • @article{Hase2024jul,
      • author = {Hase, Ryo and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Parsons, Kieran}},
      • title = {Variational Randomized Smoothing for Sample-Wise Adversarial Robustness},
      • journal = {arXiv},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = jul,
      • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11844}
      • }
    •  Nagai, Y., Guo, J., Rolfe, B.A., Yano, K., Sumi, T., Parsons, K., Orlik, P.V., Wang, P., "Sub-1 GHz Band Wireless Coexistence Study for OFDM Systems in IEEE 802.19.3a", Workshop on Smart Radio for IoT Era (SRIoT), July 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-090 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Nagai2024jul,
      • author = {Nagai, Yukimasa and Guo, Jianlin and Rolfe, Benjamin A. and Yano, Kazuto and Sumi, Takenori and Parsons, Kieran and Orlik, Philip V. and Wang, Pu}},
      • title = {Sub-1 GHz Band Wireless Coexistence Study for OFDM Systems in IEEE 802.19.3a},
      • booktitle = {Workshop on Smart Radio for IoT Era (SRIoT)},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = jul,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-090}
      • }
    •  Sun, Y., Guo, J., Parsons, K., Nagai, Y., "Improve Federated Learning Stability for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction", International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (UCIFN), July 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-094 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Sun2024jul,
      • author = {Sun, Youbang and Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa}},
      • title = {Improve Federated Learning Stability for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (UCIFN)},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = jul,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-094}
      • }
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  • MERL Issued Patents

    • Title: "Coherent Optical Sensor with Sparse Illumination"
      Inventors: Millar, David; Atalar, Okan; Kojima, Keisuke; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Wang, Pu; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 12,154,194
      Issue Date: Nov 26, 2024
    • Title: "Active Cross-Technology Neighbor Discovery"
      Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Wang, Pu; Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.; Nagai, Yukimasa; Sumi, Takenori
      Patent No.: 12,063,707
      Issue Date: Aug 13, 2024
    • Title: "Method and System for Training a Neural Network for Generating Universal Adversarial Perturbations"
      Inventors: Wang, Ye; Aeron, Shuchin; Rakin, Adnan; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Moulin, Pierre; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 12,063,620
      Issue Date: Aug 13, 2024
    • Title: "SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS"
      Inventors: Kim, Kyeong-Jin; Song, Hao; Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 12,058,721
      Issue Date: Aug 6, 2024
    • Title: "SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DUAL CODING CONCATENATION IN PROBABILISTIC AMPLITUDE SHAPING"
      Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Skvortcov, Pavel
      Patent No.: 12,057,983
      Issue Date: Aug 6, 2024
    • Title: "SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS"
      Inventors: Kim, Kyeong-Jin; Song, Hao; Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 12,010,678
      Issue Date: Jun 11, 2024
    • Title: "Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis in Factory Automation System using Pre-Processed Time-Delay Neural Network with Loss Function Adaptation"
      Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Liu, Bryan; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Wang, Ye; Kim, Kyeong-Jin; Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.
      Patent No.: 12,007,760
      Issue Date: Jun 11, 2024
    • Title: "System and Method for Active Carrier Sense Based CSMA/CA for IEEE 802.15.4 System to Avoid Packet Discard Caused by Interference"
      Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Nagai, Yukimasa; Sumi, Takenori; Wang, Pu; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 11,985,705
      Issue Date: May 14, 2024
    • Title: "Frequency Modulated Image Reconstruction"
      Inventors: Millar, David; Wang, Pu; Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.
      Patent No.: 11,346,932
      Issue Date: May 31, 2022
    • Title: "Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) System for Producing Profilometry Measurements of a Specimen"
      Inventors: Millar, David; Yurdakul, Celalettin; Wang, Pu; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 11,262,184
      Issue Date: Mar 1, 2022
    • Title: "Reference-Free Nonlinearity Correction for FMCW-Based Sensing Systems"
      Inventors: Wang, Pu; Millar, David; Lin, Chungwei; Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.
      Patent No.: 10,969,465
      Issue Date: Apr 6, 2021
    • Title: "Loose Optical Fiber Tethering Of Multiple Satellites"
      Inventors: Parsons, Kieran; Weiss, Avishai; Orlik, Philip V.; Di Cairano, Stefano
      Patent No.: 10,892,826
      Issue Date: Jan 12, 2021
    • Title: "Optical Ring circuit with electrical filter"
      Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Teng, Min; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Lin, Chungwei; Parsons, Kieran; Gotoda, Mitsunobu; Akiyama, Koichi
      Patent No.: 10,838,282
      Issue Date: Nov 17, 2020
    • Title: "System and Method for Short Block Length Distribution Matching"
      Inventors: Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Kojima, Keisuke
      Patent No.: 10,749,554
      Issue Date: Aug 18, 2020
    • Title: "Pilot-Aided Carrier Phase Estimation for Optical Communications"
      Inventors: Millar, David; Pajovic, Milutin; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 10,554,309
      Issue Date: Feb 4, 2020
    • Title: "Short Block Length Distribution Matching Algorithm"
      Inventors: Millar, David; Fehenberger, Tobias; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 10,541,711
      Issue Date: Jan 21, 2020
    • Title: "Distribution Matcher"
      Inventors: Millar, David; Fehenberger, Tobias; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Kojima, Keisuke
      Patent No.: 10,516,503
      Issue Date: Dec 24, 2019
    • Title: "Optical Signal Transmitter and Optical Signal Encoder Using Constant Modulus Formats, and Method for Generating Modulation Codes"
      Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Yoshida, Tsuyoshi; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Millar, David; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 10,320,486
      Issue Date: Jun 11, 2019
    • Title: "Partition Based Distribution Matcher for Probabilistic Constellation Shaping"
      Inventors: Millar, David; Fehenberger, Tobias; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 10,069,519
      Issue Date: Sep 4, 2018
    • Title: "Frequency Domain Equalizer for Optical Communications"
      Inventors: Millar, David; Paskov, Milen; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Kojima, Keisuke
      Patent No.: 9,917,712
      Issue Date: Mar 13, 2018
    • Title: "Methods for Compensation of Cross-Polarization Modulation (XPolM) Impairments in Coherent Optical Communications"
      Inventors: Pajovic, Milutin; Parsons, Kieran; Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke
      Patent No.: 9,906,308
      Issue Date: Feb 27, 2018
    • Title: "Resource Aware Routing in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks"
      Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 9,900,824
      Issue Date: Feb 20, 2018
    • Title: "Synchronized Multi-Sink Routing for Wireless Networks"
      Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 9,826,493
      Issue Date: Nov 21, 2017
    • Title: "Optical Signal Transmitter and Optical Communication System Using Constant Modulus Formats, and Method for Generating Modulation Codes"
      Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Yoshida, Tsuyoshi; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Millar, David; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 9,806,739
      Issue Date: Oct 31, 2017
    • Title: "Fast Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) Computation for Decoding High-Order and High-Dimensional Modulation Schemes"
      Inventors: Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 9,749,089
      Issue Date: Aug 29, 2017
    • Title: "Energy Efficient Management of Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless Networks"
      Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Liu, Kaikai; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 9,736,771
      Issue Date: Aug 15, 2017
    • Title: "Method for Generating Constant Modulus Multi-Dimensional Modulations for Coherent Optical Communications"
      Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 9,621,275
      Issue Date: Apr 11, 2017
    • Title: "Adaptive Error Correction Code for Optical Super-Channels"
      Inventors: Kojima, Keisuke; Parsons, Kieran; Millar, David; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki
      Patent No.: 9,584,256
      Issue Date: Feb 28, 2017
    • Title: "Tracking of Occluded Navigation Satellite Signals"
      Inventors: Kim, Kyeong-Jin; Osechas, Okuary; Kniazev, Andrei; Parsons, Kieran; Sahinoglu, Zafer
      Patent No.: 9,476,990
      Issue Date: Oct 25, 2016
    • Title: "Inter-Channel Interference Management for Optical Super-Channels"
      Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Kojima, Keisuke; Millar, David; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 9,432,124
      Issue Date: Aug 30, 2016
    • Title: "Discovering Stable Routes in Wireless Networks"
      Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Yang, Xin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 9,407,559
      Issue Date: Aug 2, 2016
    • Title: "Optical Channel Data Unit Switch with Distributed Control"
      Inventors: Duan, Chunjie; Bhatti, Ghulam M.; Parsons, Kieran; Koguchi, Kazuumi; Kametani, Soichiro
      Patent No.: 9,246,748
      Issue Date: Jan 26, 2016
    • Title: "Passive Synchronization in Wireless Networks"
      Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 9,226,253
      Issue Date: Dec 29, 2015
    • Title: "Method for Clustering Devices in Machine-to-Machine Networks to Minimize Collisions"
      Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 9,225,606
      Issue Date: Dec 29, 2015
    • Title: "Method for Separating Multi-Component Signals"
      Inventors: Sahinoglu, Zafer; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 9,190,955
      Issue Date: Nov 17, 2015
    • Title: "Method for Discovering Neighboring Nodes in Wireless Networks"
      Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 9,148,845
      Issue Date: Sep 29, 2015
    • Title: "Adaptively Coding and Modulating Signals Transmitted Via Nonlinear Channels"
      Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Duan, Chunjie; Kojima, Keisuke
      Patent No.: 9,077,508
      Issue Date: Jul 7, 2015
    • Title: "Methods for Energy Efficient Reoptimization of Optical Networks"
      Inventors: Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.
      Patent No.: 8,891,967
      Issue Date: Nov 18, 2014
    • Title: "Methods for Determining Energy Efficient Optical Routes"
      Inventors: Yim, Man Hei Raymond; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 8,634,714
      Issue Date: Jan 21, 2014
    • Title: "Iterative Carrier Phase Compensation in Coherent Fiber Optic Receivers"
      Inventors: Duan, Chunjie; Parsons, Kieran; Orlik, Philip V.
      Patent No.: 8,498,544
      Issue Date: Jul 30, 2013
    • Title: "Adaptive Cross-Polarization Modulation Cancellers for Coherent Optical Communication System"
      Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Parsons, Kieran; Liu, Cheng
      Patent No.: 8,472,809
      Issue Date: Jun 25, 2013
    • Title: "Cross-Free High-Dimensional Constellations for Dual-Polarized Non-Linear Fiber-Optic Communications"
      Inventors: Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Orlik, Philip V.; Parsons, Kieran
      Patent No.: 8,433,205
      Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013
    • Title: "Method for Performing Soft Decision Decoding of Euclidean Space Reed-Muller Codes"
      Inventors: Orlik, Philip V.; Yim, Man Hei Raymond; Parsons, Kieran; Tarokh, Vahid; Zhang, Jinyun
      Patent No.: 8,245,116
      Issue Date: Aug 14, 2012
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