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Director


Jelena Kovačević

 

Current lab members

 

Previous lab members

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Top row: Pablo the Curious, Danica the Cutest (honorary member), Giovanni the Genius (honorary member), Gowri the Brave.
Second row: Amina the Wise, Aliaksei the Experimenter, Jelena with the Magic Touch, Charles the Cautious.
Third row: Inci the Elastagirl, Vivek the Ironic, Xindian the Dedicated, Jeff the Goofy.

 

Top row: Siddharth the Creative, Alex the Happy, Ryan the Grrrreat, Pranay the Comic Relief, Eric the Transformative.
Second row: Christina the Cute, Elvira the Thoughtful, Garrett the Gargantuan, Thom the Unexpected, Naoki the Nice.
Third row: Chuen Hwa the Insightful, Tad the Creator, Heather the Young, Lionel the Resourceful, Yann the Incredible.
Fourth row: Phil the Fast, Wilson the Ninja Turtle, Stephen the Quiet.

 

Other group pictures:

§  Meeting of the Minds, May 2008, check out our award-winning undergrads!

§  Amina, part of the GBMES winning team, April 2008

§  Fun & games, May 2007

§  Indian dinner, December 2006

§  Dave & Buster’s dinner, August 2006

§  SUREBET presentations, August 2005

 

Lab members


         (a) Project Engineer

Inci Özgüneş

         (b) Current PhD Students

Xindian Long

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

Ramu Bhagavatula

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

Aliaksei Sandryhaila

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

Charles Jackson

§  “Acquisition and Learning of Fluorescence Microscope Data Models”, CMU BME, 2005-present.

Gowri Srinivasa

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

Amina Chebira

§  “Adaptive Multiresolution Frame Classification of Biomedical Images”, CMU BME, 2004-present.

§  Won the 2006 BME TA of the Year Award.

§  2007 Microsoft Fellowship Finalist.

§  2007 IBM Fellowship Finalist.

         (c) Current MS Students

Vivek Oak

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

         (d) Current Undergraduate Students

Jeffrey Panza

§  “Frame Classification of Tissues in Histological Stem-Cell Teratomas”, 2008 – present.

Christina Milo

§  “Lapped Tight Frame Transforms”, CIT Honors Project, 2007 – present.

§  CIT Meeting of the Mind finalist, 2008.

         (e) Past PhD Students

Raman Venkataramani

§  Industrial advisor, 2001.

§  Presently: Research Staff Member at Seagate.

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.

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.

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.

Francis Ng

§  Industrial advisor, 1996.

Edmund Yeh

§  Industrial advisor, 1994.

§  Presently: Assistant Prof. at Yale.

          (f) Past MS Students

Thomas Merryman

§  “An Adaptive Multirate Algorithm for Acquisition of Fluorescence Microscopy Data Sets”, 2003-2008.

Alexander Samborskiy

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

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.

Aurelie Lozano

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

§  Won the Best Thesis Award at EPFL.

Francois Masson

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

§  Won the Best Thesis Award at EPFL.

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.

         (g) Past Undergraduate Students

Manuel Gonzales-Rivero

§  “Active Mask Segmentation for the Cell-Volume Computation and Golgi-body Segmentation of HeLa Cell Images“, CIT Honors Project, 2007 – 2008.

§  Won the SURG Grant, 2007.

§  Won the Lockheed Martin CIT Meeting of the Minds Competition, 2008.

§  CIT Meeting of the Mind finalist, 2008.

Katie Menzies

§  “Correlation Filter Analysis and Extreme Value Distribution Modeling for Improved Axonal Bouton Detection“, CIT Honors Project, 2007 – 2008.

David Kang

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

Pranay Jain

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

Christina Hallock

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

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.

Eric Chu

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

Chuen Hwa Tan

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

Ryan Kellogg

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

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

Wilson Tsao

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

Jennifa Mohammed

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

Philip Cuadra

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

Naoki Kimura

§ “Segmentation of Fluorescence Microscope Images”, 2006.

Stephen Lin

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

Mohamed Kafsi

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

Yann Barbotin

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

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.

Lionel Coulot

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

§ Won the “Bourse d’excellence”.

Keridon Williams

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

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.

Yanine Rosario

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

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

Jonathan Kelner

§ Industrial advisor, 1999.

Claude Sassine

§ Industrial advisor, 1992.

         (h) Student Committees

1.    Doru Christian Balcan, PhD Committee Member, 2007.

2.    Justin Newberg, PhD Committee Member, 2007.

3.    Hsun-Hsien Chang, PhD Committee Member, 2007.

4.    Pablo Yeomans Hennings, PhD Committee Member, 2007.

5.    Elvira Garcia Osuna, PhD Committee Member, 2007.

6.    Shan-Ching Chen, PhD Committee Member, 2007.

7.    Yanhua Hu, PhD Committee Member, 2007.

8.    Ting Zhao, PhD Committee Member, 2007.