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Journal:

1. Y. Zheng, R. Niu, and P. K. Varshney, “Sequential Bayesian Estimation with Censored Data for Multi-Sensor Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 62, No. 10, pp. 2626-2641, May 2014.

2. X. Yang, R. Niu, E. Masazade, and P.K. Varshney, “Channel-Aware Target Tracking in Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 2353-2368, October 2013.
    3. Y. Zheng, O. Ozdemir, R. Niu, and P. K. Varshney, “New Conditional Posterior Cramer-Rao Lower Bounds for Nonlinear Sequential Bayesian Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 60, No. 10, pp. 5549-5556, October 2012.

    4. E. Masazade, R. Niu, and P.K. Varshney, “Dynamic Bit Allocation for Object Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 60, No. 10, pp. 5048-5063, October 2012.

    5. S. Iyengar, R. Niu, and P.K. Varshney, “Fusing Dependent Decisions for Hypothesis Testing with Heterogeneous Sensors,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 60, No. 9, pp. 4888-4897, September 2012.
6. R. Niu, R.S. Blum, P.K. Varshney, and A.L. Drozd, “Target Localization and Tracking in Non-coherent Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Radar Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 1466-1489, April 2012. 

7. M. Jiang, R. Niu, and R.S. Blum, “Bayesian Target Location and Velocity Estimation for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Radar,” IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 666-670, 2011.

8. L. Zuo, R. Niu, and P.K. Varshney, “Conditional Posterior Cramer-Rao Lower Bounds for Nonlinear Sequential Bayesian Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 1-14, January 2011.

9. E. Masazade, R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, and M. Keskinoz, “Energy Aware Iterative Source Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 9, pp. 4824-4835, September 2010.

10. R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, “Sampling Schemes for Sequential Detection with Dependent Data,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 1469-1481, March 2010.

11. O. Ozdemir, R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Particle Filtering: Physical Layer Considerations, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp.1987-1999, May 2009.

12. O. Ozdemir, R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, Channel Aware Target Localization with Quantized Data in Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 1190-1202, March 2009.

13. R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, ``Performance Analysis of Distributed Detection in a Random Sensor Field,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,  Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 339-349, January 2008.

14. A.L. Drozd, I. Kasperovich, R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, and D. Weiner, ``Electromagnetic Diversity and EMI Implications for Multiple Co-sited Radars and Targeting Applications,'' in IEEE EMC Society Newsletter, Issue No. 214, pp 72-78, Summer 2007.

15. L. Snidaro, R. Niu, G.L. Foresti, and P. Varshney, ``Quality Based Fusion of Multiple Video Sensors for Video Surveillance'', IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 1044-1051, August 2007.

16. R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, ``Target Location Estimation in Sensor Networks  with Quantized Data,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, pp 4519-4528, December 2006.
 
17. R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, and Q. Cheng, ``Distributed Detection in a Large Wireless Sensor Network,'' International Journal on Information Fusion, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp 380-394, December 2006.
 
18. R. Niu, B. Chen, and P.K. Varshney, ``Fusion of Decisions Transmitted over Rayleigh Fading Channels in Wireless Sensor Networks'', IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, pp 1018-1027, March 2006.
 
19. R. Niu and  P.K. Varshney, ``Distributed Detection and Fusion in a Large Wireless Sensor Network of Random Size'', EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, pp 462-472, September 2005.
 
20. R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, K. Mehrotra and C. Mohan, ``Temporally Staggered Sensors in Multi-Sensor Target Tracking Systems'', IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, pp 794-808, July 2005.
 
21. R. Niu, P. Willett, and Y. Bar-Shalom, ``Tracking Considerations in Selection of Radar Waveform For Range and Range-Rate Measurements'', IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, pp 467-487, April 2002.
 
22.  R. Niu, P. Willett, and Y. Bar-Shalom, ``Matrix CRLB Scaling Due to Measurements of Uncertain Origin'', IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, pp 1325-1335, July 2001.
 
23.  P. Willett, R. Niu, and Y. Bar-Shalom, ``Integration of Bayes Detection with Target Tracking'', IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, pp 17-29, January 2001.
 

Seminal Papers Collected in Books

1. R. Niu, P. Willett, and Y. Bar-Shalom, ``Matrix CRLB Scaling Due to Measurements of Uncertain Origin'', IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, pp 1325-1335, July 2001, in Bayesian Bounds for Parameter Estimation and Nonlinear Filtering/Tracking, edited by H.L. Van Trees and K.L. Bell, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2007.


Book Chapters

1. S. G. Iyengar, H. He, A. Subramanian, R. Niu, P. K. Varshney, and T. Damarla, “Distributed Detection and Data Fusion with Heterogeneous Sensors,” in Multisensor Data Fusion: From Algorithm and Architecture Design to Applications, edited by H. Fourati, CRC Press, August 2015.

2. P.K. Varshney, E. Masazade, P. Ray, and R. Niu, “Distributed Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Distributed Data Fusion for Network-Centric Operations, edited by D. L. Hall, C. Y. Chong, J. Llinas, and M. E. Liggins, CRC Press, 2012.

3. Q. Cheng, R. Niu, A. Sundaresan, and P.K. Varshney,“Distributed Detection and Decision Fusion with Applications to Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Integrated Tracking, Classification, and Sensor Management: Theory and Applications, edited by M. Mallick, V. Krishnamurthy, and B. Vo, Wiley/IEEE, 2012.

4. R. Niu, L. Zuo, E. Masazade, and P.K. Varshney, “Conditional Posterior Cram´er-Rao Lower Bound and its Applications in Adaptive Sensor Management,” in Distributed Video Sensor Networks, edited by B. Bhanu, C. V. Ravishankar, A. K. Roy-Chowdhury, H. Aghajan, and D. Terzopoulos, Springer, 2011.

5. A.L. Drozd, I. Kasperovich, C.E. Carroll, P.K. Varshney, and R. Niu, “Non-Interference Limited Multi-Radar Target Detection and Tracking,” in Principles of Waveform Diversity and Design, edited by M. Wicks, E. Mokole, S. Blunt, R. Schneible, and V. Amuso, SciTech Publishing, 2010.

6. P. Willett, R. Niu, and Y. Bar-Shalom, “Waveform Detection/Tracking Performance at the System Level,” in Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Applications and Advances, Volume III, edited by Y. Bar-Shalom and W. D. Blair, Artech House, 2000.


Conference Proceedings

1. J. Lu and R. Niu, “Optimal Space-Time Attacks on System State Estimation under a Sparsity Constraint”, Proc. SPIE Defense + Security: Sensors and Systems for Space Applications IX, Baltimore, MD, April 2016.

2. A. Conte and R. Niu, “Censoring Distributed Nonlinear State Estimates in Radar Networks”, Proc. SPIE Defense + Security: Sensors and Systems for Space Applications IX, Baltimore, MD, April 2016.

3. J. Lu and R. Niu, “Sparse Attacking Strategies in Multi-Sensor Dynamic Systems Maximizing State Estimation Errors”, Proc. the 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, March 2016.

4. P. Han, J. Zhu, R. Niu, and D. Baron, “Multi-Processor Approximate Message Passing Using Lossy Compression”, Proc. the 41st International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, March 2016.

5. P. Han, R. Niu, and Y. C. Eldar, “Communication-Efficient Distributed IHT”, Proc. Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations Workshop (SPARS), Cambridge, United Kingdom, July 2015.

6. J. Lu and R. Niu, “A State Estimation andMalicious Attack Game inMulti-Sensor Dynamic Systems”, Proc. the 18th International Conference on Information Fusion, Washington, D.C., July 2015.

7. M. Ren and R. Niu, “Terminative Joint Sequential Object Detection and Tracking Based on Fused Test Statistics”, Proc. the 18th International Conference on Information Fusion, Washington, D.C., July 2015.

8. A. Conte and R. Niu, “Censoring in Distributed Radar Tracking Systems with Various Feedback Models”, Proc. the 18th International Conference on Information Fusion, Washington, D.C., July 2015.

9. P. Han, R. Niu, and Y. C. Eldar, “Modified Distributed Iterative Hard Thresholding”, Proc. the 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Brisbane, Australia, April, 2015.

10. R. Niu and J. Lu, “False Information Detection with Minimum Mean Squared Errors for Bayesian Estimation”, Proc. the 49th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, Maryland, March, 2015.

11. M. T. Leccadito, T. Bakker, R. Niu, and R. H. Klenke, “A Kalman Filter Based Attitude Heading Reference System Using a Low Cost Inertial Measurement Unit”, Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA Science and Technology Forum, Kissimmee, FL, January 2015.

12. J. Lu and R. Niu, “Malicious Attacks on State Estimation in Multi-Sensor Dynamic Systems”, Proc. the 2nd IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing-Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, Atlanta, GA, December 2014.

13. P. Han, R. Niu, M. Ren, and Y. C. Eldar, “Distributed Approximate Message Passing for Sparse Signal Recovery”, Proc. the 2nd IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing: Information Processing for Big Data, Atlanta, GA, December 2014.

14. M. Ren and R. Niu, “A New Joint Sequential Object Detection and Tracking Approach and Its Performance Analysis”, Proc. the 17th International Conference on Information Fusion, Salamanca, Spain, July 2014.

15. J. Lu and R. Niu, “False Information Injection Attack on Dynamic State Estimation in Multi-Sensor Systems”, Proc. the 17th International Conference on Information Fusion, Salamanca, Spain, July 2014.

16. R. Niu, “Joint Object Detection and Tracking in Sensor Networks”, Proc. Global Wireless Summit 2013 - 16th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Atlantic City, NJ, June 2013.

17. Y. Zheng, R. Niu, and P. K. Varshney, “Fusion of Quantized Data for Bayesian Estimation Aided by Controlled Noise,” submitted to the 38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vancouver, Canada, May 2013.

18. R. Niu and L. Huie, “System State Estimation in the Presence of False Information Injection,” Proc. the 2012 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI, August 2012.

19. Y. Zheng, R. Niu, and P. K. Varshney, “Sequential Bayesian Estimation with Censored Data,” Proc. the 2012 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI, August 2012.

20. E. Masazade, R. Niu, and P.K. Varshney, “An Approximate Dynamic Programming Based Non-Myopic Sensor Selection Method for Target Tracking,” Proc. the 46th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2012.

21. X. Yang, R. Niu, E. Masazade, and P.K. Varshney, “Channel-Aware Target Tracking in Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. the 14th International Conference on Information Fusion, Chicago, Illinois, July 2011.

22. E. Masazade, R. Niu, and P.K. Varshney, “Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. the 14th International Conference on Information Fusion, Chicago, Illinois, July 2011.

23. O. Ozdemir, R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, R. Loe, and A.L. Drozd, “Track before detect for low SNR target detection in non-coherent multiple input multiple output radars,” SENSIAC MSS Tri-Service Radar Symposium (Unclassified Session), Monterey, CA, June 2011.

24. O. Ozdemir, R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, and A.L. Drozd, “Modified Bayesian Cramer-Rao Lower Bound for Nonlinear Tracking,” Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, May 22-27, 2011.

25. O. Ozdemir, R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, A.L. Drozd, and R. Loe, “Feature Aided Probabilistic Data Association Filter for Ballistic Missile Tracking,” Proc. SPIE Conference: Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2011, Orlando, Florida, April 25-29, 2011.

26. Y. Zheng, R. Niu, and P.K. Varshney, “Closed-Form Performance for Location Estimation Based on Quantized Data in Sensor Networks,” Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Information Fusion, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 2010 (winner of the Best Student Paper Award).

27. E. Masazade, R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, and M. Keskinoz, “Channel Aware Iterative Source Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Information Fusion, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 2010.

28. E. Masazade, R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, and M. Keskinoz,“A Probabilistic Communication Scheme for Distributed Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2010.

29. O. Ozdemir, R. Niu and P.K. Varshney,“Dynamic Bit Allocation for Target Tracking in Sensor Networks with Quantized Measurements,” Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Dallas, TX, March 2010.

30. E. Masazade, R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, and M. Keskinoz,“A Monte Carlo Based Energy Efficient Source Localization Method for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, Aruba, Dutch Antilles, December 2009.

31. R. Niu, R.S. Blum, P.K. Varshney, and A.L. Drozd, “Target Tracking in Widely Separated Non-coherent Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Radar Networks,” Proceedings of the 43nd Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2009.

32. M. Alford, A. Bubalo, E. Jones, G. Horvath, M. Scalzo, R. Niu, and P.K. Varshney, “Adaptive Filtering for Single Target Tracking,” SPIE Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XVIII , 2009.

33. L. Zuo, R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, “Conditional Posterior Cramer-Rao Lower Bounds for Nonlinear Recursive Filtering,” Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, Seattle, Washington, July 2009.

34. R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, “Closed-Form Performance for Location Estimation Based on Fused Data in a Sensor Network,” Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, Seattle, Washington, July 2009.

35. E. Masazade, R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, M. Keskinoz, “An Energy Efficient Iterative Method for Source Localization inWireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, MD, March 2009.

36. O. Ozdemir, R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, ``Distributed Estimation Using Binary Data Transmitted  Over Fading Channels,''   Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,  Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.

37. O. Ozdemir, R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, ``Adaptive Local Quantizer Design for Tracking in a Wireless Sensor Network,'' Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2008.

38. R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, M. Alford, A. Bubalo, E. Jones, and M. Scalzo, ``Curvature Nonlinearity Measure and Filter Divergence Detector for Nonlinear Tracking Problems,''  Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Information Fusion, Cologne, Germany, June 2008.

39. R. Rajagopalan, R. Niu, C. Mohan, P.K. Varshney, and Andy Drozd,  ``Sensor Placement Algorithms for Target Localization in Sensor Networks,''  Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Radar Conference,  Rome Italy, May 2008.

40. L. Zuo, R. Niu, and P.K. Varshney, ``A Sensor Selection Approach for Target Tracking in Sensor Networks with Quantized Measurements,''  to appear in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,  Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2008.

41. R. Rajagopalan, R. Niu, C. Mohan, P.K. Varshney, and Andy Drozd,  ``Sensor Placement for Ballistic Missile Localization Using Evolutionary Algorithms,'' Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,  Montreal, Quebec, Canada,  October 2007.

42. P. Ray, P.K. Varshney, and R. Niu, ``A Novel Framework for the Network-Wide Distributed Detection Problem,'' Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Fusion, Quebec City, Canada,  July 2007.

43. O. Ozdemir, R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, ``Channel Aware Target Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks'', Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Fusion, Quebec City, Canada,  July 2007.

44. A. Drozd, I. Kasperovich, R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, ``Electromagnetic Diversity and EMI Implications for Multiple Co-sited Radars and Targeting Applications'', 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2007.

45. R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, ``Source Localization in Sensor Networks  with Rayleigh Faded Signals'', Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, III 1229-1232, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007.

46. L. Zuo, R. Niu, and P.K. Varshney,  ``Posterior CRLB Based Sensor Selection for Target Tracking in Sensor Networks,'' Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, II 1041-1044, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007.

47. A.F. Cattoni, I. Minetti, M. Gandetto, R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, C.S. Regazzoni, ``A Spectrum Sensing Algorithm Based on Distributed Cognitive Models,'' Proceedings of 2006 Software Defined Radio Forum Technical Conference, Orlando, FL, November 2006.

48. L. Zuo, R. Niu, and P.K. Varshney, “An Approach for Sensor Selection for Target Tracking in Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of IEEE Upstate New York Workshop on Communications and Networks’06, Rochester, NY, November 2006.

49. R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, ``Joint Detection and Localization in Sensor Networks Based on Local Decisions'', Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2006.

50. O. Ozdemir, R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, ``Channel Aware Particle Filtering for Tracking in Sensor Networks'', Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2006.

51. M. Xu, P.K. Varshney and R. Niu, “A Subspace Method for Fourier Based Image Registration,” Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2006.

52. A.L. Drozd, R. Niu, I. Kasperovich, P.K. Varshney, C. E. Carroll, ``Real-Time Radar Data Fusion and Registration Systems for Single Integrated Air Picture'', Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal Processing, Sensor fusion, and Target Recognition XV, the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, Fl, April 2006.

53. R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, ``Performance Evaluation of Decision Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks'', Proceedings of  the 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, March 2006.

54. A. L. Drozd, I. P. Kasperovich, C. E. Carroll, P. K. Varshney, and R. Niu, ``Employing Frequency and Antenna Spatial Diversity for Improved, Non-EMI Limited Multi-Radar Target Detection and Tracking,'' 2006 International Waveform Diversity & Design Conference, Lihue, Hawaii, January, 2006.

55. R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, ``Decision Fusion in a Wireless Sensor Network with a Random Number of Sensors'', Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
    56. M. Xu, R. Niu, and P.K. Varshney, `` Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects in Image Sequences with Varying Illumination'', Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Singapore, October 2004.

    57. R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, M.H. Moore, and D. Klamer, ``Decision Fusion in a Wireless Sensor Network with a Large Number of Sensors'', Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Fusion, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2004 (winner of the FUSION 2004 Best Paper Award).

    58. L. Snidaro, R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, and G.L. Foresti, ``Sensor Fusion for Video Surveillance'', Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Fusion, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2004.

    59. R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, ``Sampling Schemes for Sequential Detection in Colored Noise'', Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Montreal, Canada, May 2004.

    60. R. Niu and P.K. Varshney, ``Target Location Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Binary Data'',  Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2004.

    61. L. Snidaro, R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, and G.L. Foresti, ``Automatic Camera Selection and Fusion for Outdoor Surveillance under Changing Weather Conditions'', Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance,  Miami FL, July 2003.

    62. R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, K. Mehrotra and C. Mohan, ``Sensor Staggering in Multi-Sensor Target Tracking Systems'', Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference, Huntsville AL, May 2003.

    63. R. Niu, B. Chen, and P.K. Varshney, ``Decision Fusion Rules in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Channel Fading Statistics'', Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore MD, March 2003.

    64. R. Niu, P.K. Varshney, K. Mehrotra and C. Mohan, ``Temporal Fusion in Multi-Sensor Target Tracking Systems'', Proc. Fifth International Conference on Information Fusion, pp.1030-1037, Annapolis MD, July 2002.

    65. R. Niu, P. Willett, and Y. Bar-Shalom, ``Selection of the Radar Waveform from Tracking Considerations'', Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Radar Conference, Atlanta GA, May 2001.

    66. P. Willett, R. Niu, and Y. Bar-Shalom, ``A Modified PDAF Based on a Bayesian Detector'', Proceedings of the 2000 American Control Conference, Chicago IL, June 2000.

    67. R. Niu, P. Willett, and Y. Bar-Shalom, ``Further Analysis of Waveform Effects on Tracking Performance'',  Proceedings of the 2000 Aerospace Conference, Big Sky MT, March 2000.

    68. R. Niu and P. Willett, ``A PDAF with a Bayesian Detector'', Proceedings of the 1999 Conference on Data Fusion, San Jose CA, July 1999.

    69. R. Niu, P. Willett, and Y. Bar-Shalom, ``System-Level Performance of Radar Waveforms'', Proceedings of the 1999 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Haifa, Israel, June 1999.

    70. R. Niu, P. Willett, and Y. Bar-Shalom, ``From the Waveform through the Resolution Cell to the Tracker'', Proceedings of the 1999 Aerospace Conference, Snowmass CO, March 1999.

    71. W. Cao, P. Willett, Y. Bar-Shalom, and R. Niu, ``Waveform Selection Based on Detection-Tracking Performance'', Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, Orlando FL, April 1998.

    72. Y. Wu, R. Niu, and H. Peng, ``A New Approach to SAR Image Speckle Filtering'', Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC '97, 1997 Asia-Pacific, vol. 3, pp 929-932.

Tutorials at Conferences

1.  R. Niu and E. Masazade, “Controlled Sensing in Multi-Sensor Systems”, the IEEE 2015 International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI), San Diego, CA, September 2015.

2. R. Niu and E. Masazade, “Advances in Adaptive Sensor Management”, the 16th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013.

Conference/Symposium Presentations

1.  R. Niu, “Towards Efficient and Secure Distributed Signal Processing in Networked Sensing Systems,” 2016 Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence (C4I) and Cyber Conference, poster presentation, Utica, NY, June 2016.

2. D. Baron, J. Zhu, P. Han, R. Niu, and A. Beirami, “Large-Scale Multi-Processor Approximate Message Passing with Lossy Compression,” 2016 Information Theory and Applications
Workshop (ITA), oral presentation, La Jolla, CA, February, 2016.

3. P. Han and R. Niu, “Distributed Compressed Sensing in Sensor Networks,” VCU School of Engineering Research Symposium, Richmond, VA, February, 2014.

4. J. Lu and R. Niu, “False Information Injection Attack on Dynamic State Estimation in Multi-Sensor Systems,” VCU School of Engineering Research Symposium, Richmond, VA,
February, 2014.

5. M. Ren and R. Niu, “Joint Sequential Object Detection and Tracking,” VCU School of Engineering Research Symposium, Richmond, VA, February, 2014.

6. A. Conte and R. Niu, “A Comparison of Three Non-Linear Filtering Methods for 3-D Radar Tracking,” VCU School of Engineering Research Symposium, Richmond, VA, February,
2014.

7. R. Niu, and P.K. Varshney, ``Decision Fusion in a Large Wireless Sensor Network of Random Size'', the 4th IEEE Upstate New York Workshop on Sensor Networks, Syracuse, NY, October 2005.

8. M.H. Moore, D. Klamer, P.K. Varshney, R. Niu,  and Q. Cheng, ``ASW Systems with Large Numbers  of Distributed Sensors'', the 2004 Military Sensing Symposia (MSS) National Symposium on Sensor and Data Fusion, Columbia, MD, June 2004.

Technical/Final Reports

1. R. Niu, “Inference-Driven Dynamic Sensor Management in Network Systems,” Final Report for Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education, Project SCEEE-12-002, June 2014.

2. R. Niu and P. K. Varshney, “Road Network Conflation Based on Radar Tracks,” Final Technical Report for US Air Force Research Labs/Rome, Project FA8750-11-2-0081, March 2014.

3. P. K. Varshney and R. Niu, “Adaptive Information Fusion and Sensor Management for Enhanced Situational Awareness,” Final Report for Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Project FA9550-10-1-0263, July 2013.

4. R. Niu, “Dynamic System State Estimation in the Presence of Continuous False Information Injection,” Final Technical Report, Extension Grant from Visiting Faculty Research Program, Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate, March 2012.

5. R. Niu, “System State Estimation with Data Corrupted by False Information Injection,” Final Technical Report, Visiting Faculty Research Program, Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate, October 2011.

6. A.L. Drozd, R. Loe, R. Niu, P. Varshney, R. Cammarere, A. Blackburn, “Radar Data Fusion and Registration (DataFusR) System for Single Integrated Air Picture (SIAP), Phase II,” Final Technical Report ACS-SBIR-W9113M-05-C-160-A002, for U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, June 2009.

7. R. Niu and P. K. Varshney, “Fusion, Analysis, Simulation and Testing: Particle Filter Analysis and Testing”, Final Technical Report for Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate, December 2007.

8. A. Drozd, P.K. Varshney, R. Niu, C. Mohan and I. Kasperovich,  ``Radar Data Fusion for Single Integrated Air Picture (SIAP)--Data  Fusion and Registration (DataFusR) System,'' Final Technical Report No. AFRL-IF-WP-TR-2005-1530 for the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate, Wright-Patterson  AFB, OH, 2005.

9. M.H. Moore, R. Niu, and P.K. Varshney, ``ASW Systems with Large Numbers of Advanced Autonomous Distributed Sensors: Large N ASW False Alarm Reduction'', ALPHATECH Final Technical Report Navy03-T012, N00014-03-M-0314, prepared for Office of Naval Research, February 2004.

10. A. Drozd, C. Carroll, I. Kasperovich, P.K. Varshney, and R. Niu, ``Situation Awareness Information Fusion: ANDRO's Information Fusion for Situational Awareness (InFuSA) System'', ANDRO Final Technical Report AFRL-IF-RS-TR-2002-46, prepared for the Air Force Research Laboratory/IFEA, March 2002.