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Director


Jelena Kovačević

 

Project Engineer


Inci Ozgunes

 

Group picture


group

Top row: Amina the Wise, Gowri the Brave, Jelena with the Magic Touch, Charles the Cautious, Aliaksei the Experimenter, Alex the Happy and Ryan the Grrrreat.
Second row: Siddharth the Creative Vivek the Ironic, Danica the Cutest (honorary member), Giovanni the Genius (honorary member), Pranay the Comic Relief and Eric the Transformative.
Third row: Christina the Cute, Elvira the Thoughtful, Pablo the Curious, Garrett the Gargantuan, Thom the Unexpected, Naoki the Nice and Chuen Hwa the Insightful.
Fourth row: Tad the Creator, Heather the Young, Lionel the Resourceful, Yann the Incredible, Phil the Fast, Wilson the Ninja Turtle and Stephen the Quiet.

Other group pictures:

§  Fun & games, May 2007

§  Indian dinner, December 2006

§  Dave & Buster’s dinner, August 2006

§  SUREBET presentations, August 2005

 

         (a) Current PhD Students

1.    Xindian Long

§  “Eye Movement Tracking for a Diagnostic System”, CMU ECE, 2008-present.

2.    Ramu Bhagavatula

§  “Multimodal Multiresolution Registration for Neural Circuitry Analysis and Modeling from a Multimodal Multiresolution Brain Atlas”, CMU ECE, 2007-present.

3.    Aliaksei Sandryhaila

§  “Algebraic Theory of Signal Processing: Multiresolution Analysis and Wavelets”, CMU ECE, 2006-present.

4.    Charles Jackson

§  “Intelligent Acquisition of Fluorescence Microscopy Images”, CMU BME, 2005-present.

5.    Gowri Srinivasa

§  “Multiscale Active Contour Transformations for the Segmentation of Fluorescence Microscope Images”, CMU BME, 2004-present.

6.    Amina Chebira

§  “Frame Toolbox for Bioimaging”, CMU BME, 2004-present.

§  Won the 2006 BME TA of the Year Award.

§  2007 Microsoft Fellowship Finalist.

§  2007 IBM Fellowship Finalist.

         (b) Current MS Students

1.    Vivek Oak

§  “Voting-Based STACS Segmentation of Brain fMRI Images”, 2006-present.

2.    Thomas Merryman

§  “An Adaptive Multirate Algorithm for Acquisition of Fluorescence Microscopy Data Sets”, 2003-present.

         (c) Current Undergraduate Students

1.    Manuel Gonzales-Rivero

§  “Active Mask Segmentation for the Cell-Volume Computation and Golgi-body Segmentation of HeLa Cell Images“, CIT Honors Project, 2007 – present.

§  Won the SURG Grant, 2007.

2.    Katie Menzies

§  “Analysis of 2D Difference Gel Electrophoresis images“, CIT Honors Project, 2007 – present.

3.    Christina Milo

§  “Window Design for LTFTs”, CIT Honors Project, 2007 – present.

4.    David Kang

§  “Automated Tracing in Neurolucida Images“, 2007 – present.

5.    Pranay Jain

§  “Using Axon Detection and Tracing in Brightfield and Laser Scanning Microscope Images“, 2006 – present.

         (d) Past PhD Students

1.    Raman Venkataramani

§  Industrial advisor, 2001.

§  Presently: Research Staff Member at Seagate.

2.    Pier Luigi Dragotti

§  Industrial advisor for his PhD thesis “Wavelet footprints and frames for signal processing and communications”, 2000.

§  Won the Best Thesis Award at EPFL.

§  Presently: Assistant Prof. at Imperial College, London, UK.

3.    Laurent Balmelli

§      Industrial advisor for his PhD thesis “Rate-Distortion Optimal Mesh Simplification for Communications”, 1999.

§  Presently: Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

4.    Vivek K Goyal

§  Industrial advisor for his PhD thesis “Beyond Traditional Transform Coding”, 1999.

§  Won the E.I. Jury Award at UC Berkeley for the best thesis in the area of communications and signal processing.

§  Presently: Assistant Prof. at MIT.

5.    Francis Ng

§  Industrial advisor, 1996.

6.    Edmund Yeh

§  Industrial advisor, 1994.

§  Presently: Assistant Prof. at Yale.

         (e) Past MS Students

1.    Alexander Samborskiy

§  “Image Processing Toolbox for Multimodal Stem-Cell Analysis”, CMU ECE, 2006-2007.

2.    Robert Konsbruck

§  Industrial advisor for his Dipl. Eng. Thesis, “An Analysis of Fiber Optic Communication Systems in the Presence of Linear Distortion”, 2002.

§  Won the Best Thesis Award at EPFL.

3.    Aurelie Lozano

§  Industrial advisor for her Dipl. Eng. Thesis, 2001.

§  Won the Best Thesis Award at EPFL.

4.    Francois Masson

§  Industrial advisor for his Dipl. Eng. Thesis, “Multiple Description Robust Low-Delay Speech Coding”, 2000.

§  Won the Best Thesis Award at EPFL.

5.    Ramon Arean

§  Industrial advisor for his Dipl. Eng. Thesis “Multiple Description Transform Coding, Application to the PAC Audio Coder”, 1999.

§  Won the Best Thesis Award at EPFL.

          (f) Past Undergraduate Students

1.    Christina Hallock

§  “Axonal Bouton Modeling and Detection for the Study of Neural Circuit Organization and Plasticity “, 2007.

2.    Garrett Jenkinson

§  “Classification of Histological Stem Cell Teratomas“, 2006-2007.

§  Won the first place in the Lockheed Martin ECE Competition.

§  Won the second place at the CIT Meeting of the Minds at CMU.

3.    Eric Chu

§  “Segmentation of Fluorescence Microscope Images”, 2006-2007.

4.    Chuen Hwa Tan

§  “Axonal Bouton Distribution Analysis for the Study of Neural Circuit Organization and Plasticity”, CIT Honors Project, 2006-2007.

5.    Ryan Kellogg

§  “Image Processing Toolbox for RNA Screens“, 2006-2007.

§  Won the best poster award at 2007 GMBES Symposium at CMU.

6.    Wilson Tsao

§  “Using bouton orientation for determining stage in visual development“, 2006.

7.    Jennifa Mohammed

§  “Efficient Acquisition of Fluorescence Microscope Images”, 2006.

8.    Philip Cuadra

§  “Adaptive Multiresolution Trees for Classification of Fluorescence Microscope Images”, 2006.

9.    Naoki Kimura

§  “Segmentation of Fluorescence Microscope Images”, 2006.

10.  Stephen Lin

§  “Redundant Multiresolution Techniques for Classification of Fluorescence Microscope Images”, 2006.

11.  Mohamed Kafsi

§  “Segmentation of Hypocampal Rat Brain Images”, 2006.

12.  Yann Barbotin

§  “Redundant Multiresolution Techniques for Classification of Fluorescence Microscope Images”, 2006.

13.  Heather Kirschner

§  “Effect of Noise on Segmentation of Fluorescence Microscope Images,” CIT Honors Project, 2005-2006.

§  Won the Marshall Award in ECE awarded to an ECE senior in recognition of outstanding scholastic and research achievement.

14.  Lionel Coulot

§  “Segmentation of Fluorescence Microscope Images”, 2005-2006.

§  Won the “Bourse d’excellence”.

15.  Keridon Williams

§  “A Wavelet Subband Enhancement to Classification”, 2005.

16.  Alexia Mintos

§  “Combining Wavelet Features with PCA for Subcellular Protein Image Classification”, 2005.

§  Won the Best Poster Award at the Annual Biomed. Res. Conf. for Minority Students, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2005.

17.  Yanine Rosario

§  “Classification Accuracy of Multiresolution Downsampled Cellular Images”, 2004.

§  Won the SACNAS Award for the best poster in the Computer Science Category.

18.  Jonathan Kelner

§  Industrial advisor, 1999.

19.  Claude Sassine

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