Cecilia Moloney

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
Memorial University of Newfoundland

Office: EN-3072
Phone: (709) 864-8961
E-mail: cmoloney at mun dot ca

Research

Research Interests

• nonlinear signal and image processing methods
• signal representations via wavelet and contourlet transforms
• radar signal processing and applications
• transformative pedagogy for science and engineering
• women in science and engineering

Research Projects

• Thinking Creatively About Research, 2011-2012 Invitation to engineering graduate students for Winter 2012
• The MetaKettle Project: A CWSEA Legacy Project. See project overview

Representative Recent Publications

• C. Moloney and J. Rosales, “The MetaKettle Project: A journey to the heart of higher education,” presented at 15th International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES 15), Adelaide, Australia, July 19-22, 2011. Abstract available at ICWES15. Full paper available by request from authors.
• S.A. Saleh and C.R. Moloney, “Development and testing of wavelet packet transform-based detector for ice accretion on wind turbines,” in Proceedings of 14h Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Sedona, AZ, Jan 4-7, 2011. Available IEEE Xplore.
• C. Moloney, “‘Understanding Understanding’ Across the Disciplines: Towards Strategies for Sustainable Engineering Education for the 21st Century, presented at IEEE/IBM Conference on Transforming Engineering Education, Dublin, April 6-9, 2010.Available IEEE Xplore.
• T.S. Quosai, V. Davidson, N. Ghazalli, C. Moloney and J. Vassileva, “Defining equity indicators for benchmarking women’s participation in science and engineering faculties across Canada,” presented at Promethea International Conference, Paris, France, Nov 26-27, 2009.
• S. Zhang and C. Moloney, “Gray-scale fingerprint image compression based on the hybrid-NRCT,” in Proceedings of the 13th Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Marco Island, Florida, Jan 4-7, 2009. Available IEEE Xplore.
• R. Shahidi and C. Moloney, “Decorrelating the structure and texture components of a variational decomposition model,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol 18, No. 2, pp. 299-309, February 2008. Available IEEE Xplore.

Teaching

Winter 2012 Courses

Preliminary information on the following courses now available. Contact me by email if you have additional questions.

Engi 5420, Probability and Random Processes

Preliminary information now available here

Engi 8821, Design of Digital Signal Processing Systems

Preliminary information now available here

Please Note: The first class for Engi 8821 will be held on Thursday, Jan 5 at 1pm (Note that the class hour listed for Engi 8821 at 12noon on Thursday, which is given as a "tutorial" in the schedule, will not be used on Jan 5, and in general will be used only occasionally, as needed for make-up classes.)