Linda S Powers

Interests

Research

High-Speed Data Aquisition Systems, Spectroscopy Instrumentation, Medical Diagnostics, and Environment Monitoring

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Roveda, J. M., Powers, L. S., & Ren, K. (2016). Pervasive Computing in Hospitals. In Wireless Computing in Medicine: From Nano to Cloud with Ethical and Legal Implicationse(pp 41-77). Wiley and Sons. doi:10.1002/9781118993620.ch3
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  Editor Dr. Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, John Wiley & Sons, USA

Journals/Publications

• Li, A. o., Chen, S., Quan, S. F., Silva, G. E., Ackerman, C., Powers, L. S., Roveda, J. M., & Perfect, M. M. (2020). Sleep patterns and sleep deprivation recorded by actigraphy in 4th-grade and 5th-grade students. Sleep Medicine, 67, 191--199.
• Li, A., Chen, S., Quan, S. F., Silva, G., Acherman, C., Powers, L. S., Roveda, J. M., & Perfect, M. (2019). Sleep Patterns and Sleep Deprivation Recorded by Actigraphy in 4th-Grade and 5th Grade Students. Sleep Medicine, 191-199.
• Kilungo, A., Powers, L., Arnold, N., Whelan, K., Paterson, K., & Young, D. (2018). Evaluation of Well Designs to Improve Access to Safe and Clean Water in Rural Tanzania. International journal of environmental research and public health, 15(1), 64.
• Powers, L. S., Smith, H. D., Kilungo, A. P., Ellis Jr, ,. W., McKay, C. P., Bonaccorsi, R., & Roveda, J. W. (2018). In situ real-time quantification of microbial communities: Applications to cold and dry volcanic habitats. Global ecology and conservation, 16, e00458.
• Roveda, J. M., Powers, L. S., & Chen, K. (2018). Noise-Invariant Component Analysis for Wearable Sensor based Electrocardiogram Monitoring System. SMJ Biomed Eng.
• Roveda, J. M., Powers, L. S., Jeroh, O. E., Jeroh, O. E., Powers, L. S., & Roveda, J. M. (2018). Determination of Stress in Humans using Data Fusion of Off-the-Shelf Wearable Sensors Data for Electrocardiogram and Galvanic Skin Response. Journal of Biomedical Sciences. doi:10.4172/2254-609X.100090
• Roveda, J. M., Powers, L. S., Smith, H. D., Kilungo, A. P., Ellis Jr, W., McKay, C. P., & Bonaccorsi, R. (2018). In situ Real-time Quantification of Microbial Communities: Applications to Cold and Dry Volcanic Habitats. Global Ecology and Conservation.
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• Roveda, J. M., Chen, K. M., & Powers, L. S. (2017). Sweet Dreams: Review of a Sleep Tracking Framework. International Journal of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2.
• Roveda, J. M., & Powers, L. S. (2016). Compressive Sensing: Real-Time Data Acquisition and Analysis for Biosensors and Biomedical Instrumentation (invited editorial article). Journal of Biosensors.
• Wang-Roveda, J. M., Powers, L., & Ren, K. (2016). Pervasive Computing in Hospitals. Wireless Computing in Medicine: From Nano to Cloud with Ethical and Legal Implications, 43.
• Powers, L., Ellis Jr, ,. W., & Lloyd, C. R. (2014). Real-time in situ detection and quantification of bacteria in the Arctic environment. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 7(02), 1350038.
• Kilungo, A. P., Carlton-Carew, N., & Powers, L. S. (2013). Continuous Real-time Detection of Microbial Contamination in Water using Intrinsic Fluorescence. J Biosens Bioelectron S, 12, 3.
• Powers, L. S., Ellis, Jr., W., & Lloyd, C. (2013). Real-time In-situ Detection and Quantitation of Microbes in the Arctic Environment. J. Innov. Optical Health Sci, 7, 1350038 – 1350049.
• Powers, L. S., Zhou, H., & Rovda, J. M. (2013). Data Intensive Design for Multi-core Era. IERI Procedia, 4, 275-281.
• Fairbanks, J., Powers, L., Zhang, Y., Duncan, A., & Ramus, X. (2012). Direct Fluorescent Decay Measurements Using High Speed Electronics. J Biosens Bioelectron S.
• Powers, L., Ellis, Jr., W. R., & Lloyd, C. R. (2012). Real-time In-situ Detection of Microbes. J Biosens Bioelectron S.
• Powers, L., Wardell, L., & Snyder, R. (2012). Rapid Microbial Quantification of Disinfected Contact Lens Surfaces. Current Eye Research, 850-2.
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  This paper is #7 of papers cited in the top20 of papers in this area as rated by BioMedLib since 2012.Curr Eye Res. 2012 Sep;37(9):850-2. doi: 10.3109/02713683.2012.681095. Epub 2012 Jun 6.

Proceedings Publications

• Chen, S., Li, A. o., Lasick, K., Huynh, J., Powers, L., Roveda, J., & Paek, A. (2019). Weakly Supervised Deep Learning for Detecting and Counting Dead Cells in Microscopy Images. In 2019 18th IEEE International Conference On Machine Learning And Applications (ICMLA).
• Li, A. o., Roveda, J. M., Powers, L. S., Perfect, M. M., & Quan, S. F. (2017). Dream sweet dreams: a new framework for sleep tracking and body change prediction. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Modeling and Simulation in Medicine.
• Li, A., Roveda, J. M., Quan, S. F., Chen, S., Powers, L. S., Perfect, M., & Quan, S. (2017, Spring). Dream Sweet Dreams: A New Framework for Sleep Tracking and Body Change Prediction”, Keynote, Simulation and Modeling for Medical Systems. In ACM simulation series; Virginia Beach, VA, 49, 106-107.
• Powers, L. S., Hall, P., Fairbanks, J., Nasibulin, R., Zhang, Y., & Roveda, J. M. (2017, April 17-21). Low Power Real-time Data Acquisition using Compressive Sensing. In SPIE Defense+Commercial Sensing.
• Powers, L. S., Zhang, Y., Chen, K., Pan, H., Wu, W., Hall, P. W., Fairbanks, J. V., Nasibulin, R., & Roveda, J. M. (2017). Low power real-time data acquisition using compressive sensing. In Micro-and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications IX, 10194.
• Okarski, K. M., Curtis, H. J., Conway, R. F., Powers, L. S., & Szivek, J. A. (2016). Environmental Stress Increases Stem Cell Concentration In Extracted Stromal Cell Batches. In TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A, 22.
• Powers, L. S., Zhou, H., Zhang, H., & Roveda, J. M. (2014). A New Virtual Collision Array Design in Routers for Network-on-Chip. In ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems.
• Roveda, J. M., Powers, L. S., & Groth, C. (2016, Fall). Dynamic Data driven System for Real-time Streamline Processing in UAVs.. In Dynamic Data Driven Applications.
• Roveda, J. M., & Powers, L. S. (2015, April). Secure and Compressive Acquisition for Telemedicine Applications (Invited talk). In Biomedical Engineering Conference 2015 by Omics International group.
• Roveda, J. M., & Powers, L. S. (2015, December). Compressive Sensing based Real Time Data Acquisition and Identification (RAID). In Defense Innovation Summit, Austin, Texas.
• Zhou, H., Powers, L. S., Sun, J., & Roveda, J. M. (2015, June). A new virtual collision arraay based router design for network-on-chip. In Design Automation Conference.
• Powers, L. S., & Roveda, J. M. (2014, Spring). Increase the Concurrency for Multicore Systems through Collision Array Based Workload Assignment. In International Conference on Information Science, Electronics and Electrical Engineering (ISEEE2014).
• Zhou, H., Powers, L. S., & Roveda, J. (2014, Fall). Collision array based workload assignment for Network-on-Chip concurrency. In 2014 27th IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC), 188–191.
• Powers, L. S., Roveda, J. M., & Zhou, H. (2013, Spring). Data Intensive Design for Multi-core Era. In 2013 International Conference on Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS 2013), 4, 275-281.
• Roveda, J. M., Powers, M. S., Nguyen, D., Ren, K., & Fairbanks, J. (2013, Fall). Effective Signal Region Based Analog Mixed Signal Design Considering Variations and Applications. In IEEE System-On-Chip Conference (IEEE-SOCC).
• Powers, L., Ellis, W., & Lloyd, C. (2012, Spring). Real-time In-situ Detection of Microbes. In International Conference and Exhibition on Biosensors and Bioelectronics.
• Powers, L., Fairbanks, J., Zhang, X., Duncan, A., & Ramus, X. (2012, Spring). Direct Fluorescent Decay Measurements Using High Speed Electronics. In International Conference and Exhibition on Biosensors and Bioelectronics.
• Powers, L., Kilungo, A., & Carlton-Crew, N. (2012, Spring). Continuous Real-time Detection of Microbial Contamination in Water Using Intrinsic Fluorescence. In International Conference and Exhibition on Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

Presentations

• Powers, L. S. (2015, August). Diagnostics for Medical and Environmental Applications. FlexTech Workshop on Wearable Monitoring of Biomarkers. ,San Jose, CA.
• Powers, L. S., Ellis, Jr., W. R., Fairbanks, J. V., & Okarski, K. M. (2015, June). Disposable Dignostic for Pathogens in Body Fluids for Use in Resource-Poor Environments. Biomedical 2015-International Confernece on Significant Advances in Biomedical Engineering. Philadephia, PA.

Others

• Powers, L. S., Fairbanks, J. V., & Roveda, J. M. (2018). System having a configurable pico-second pulsed LED driver circuit and photomultiplier tube biasing and gating circuits for real-time, time-resolved transient recording of fluorescence.
• Powers, L. S., Okarski, K. M., & Ellis Jr, ,. W. (2016). Cartridge-based detection system.
• Powers, L. S. (2014, January). Final report - MicroBioSystems on En Masse Pathogen Capture from Whole Blood contrac. Marine Corp.
• Powers, L. S. (2015, January-Feburary). Technical report - MicroBioSystems on Discrete Pathogen Capture from Whole Blood. ONR.
• Powers, L. S. (2014, January-December). Monthly report - MicroBioSystems on En Masse Pathogen Capture from Whole Blood contrac. Marine Corp.
• Powers, L. S. (2015, January-December). Monthly report - MicroBioSystems on Discrete Pathogen Capture from Whole Blood. ONR.
• Powers, L. S. (2013, June). Real-time In-situ Detection of Microbes - from Discovery to Diagnostics. International Symposium on Metabolic Imaging and Spectroscopy honoring the 100th birthday of Britton Chance. http://www.omicsonline.org/continuous-real-time-detection-of-microbial-contamination-in-water-using-intrinsic-fluorescence-2155-6210.S12-002.pdf