I am a fourth year graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. My advisor is Dr. Behnaam Aazhang. My research falls within the intersection of cooperative wireless communications and information theory.
Interested parties are invited to download my CV.
Samantha R. Summerson and Behnaam Aazhang, "Outage Analysis of Relay Selection and Forwarding Protocols in Multi-Relay Wireless Networks," to be submitted to IEEE Trans. on Wireless Comm.
Samantha R. Summerson and Behnaam Aazhang, "Outage Analysis for Hybrid Relaying in the Parallel Relay Network," Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2010.
Samantha Summerson and Behnaam Aazhang, "Relay Selection in the Parallel Relay Network," poster presented at IEEE 2010 School of Information Theory, USC, Aug. 5-8, 2010.
Samantha Summerson and Behnaam Aazhang, "Hybrid Relaying for the Parallel Relay Network," poster presented at IEEE 2009 School of Information Theory, Nortwestern University, Aug.10-13,2009, and the Winedale Workshop, Oct.23, 2009.
Samantha Summerson and Behnaam Aazhang, "Utilizing Network Information for Optimal Path Selection in Multi-hop Networks," poster presented at IEEE Comm. Theory Workshop, US Virgin Islands, May 2008.
Meghan Belinski, Andrea Martinez, Samantha Summerson and Raymond Chan, "Wavelet Algorithms for High-Resolution Image Reconstruction," poster presented at SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Costa Mesa, CA, Feb. 19-23, 2007.
Samantha Summerson, "U.S.-Hong Kong Undergraduate Research," Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Mathematics Newsletter, 2006-07.
Nicolas Dovidio and Samantha Summerson, " An International REU Program: A Student Perspective," SIAM News, Vol.39, No.9, Nov. 2006.
My research background has spanned education, image processing, and wireless communications.
Research assistant in the Center for Multimedia Communications at Rice, from Fall 2007. Visiting research scholar at the Center for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland, during the Summer 2008. I performed research on the impact of utilizing network state information in making routing decisions. Student researcher in Summer 2006 for the U.S.-H.K. NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing through the Colorado School of Mines and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Our group focused on high-resolution and super-resolution image reconstruction using wavelet algorithms with Dr. Raymond Chan. Undergraduate research assistant assisting Rozy Brar, graduate student in Science and Mathematics Education at UC Berkeley, in her research on middle school students' understanding of rational numbers using physical or pictorial representations.