Yassine Belkhouche (PhD) began 2007Yassine Belkhouche (PhD) began 2007Email: myb0012@unt.edu
Current Activities: Yassine has contributed to several areas, all based on airborne LiDAR data. For instance, he has developed segmentation, breakline detection, and rendering methods. His most recent publication is to appear in Remote Sensing Letters.
Yiwen Wan (PhD) began 2008Email: YiwenWan@my.unt.edu
Web Site: http://cvis.cse.unt.edu/~ywan/
Current Activities: Yiwen began research in the area of bioimage analysis then switched to video surveillance. Recently she has established new methods for autonomous calibration and operation of traffic surveillance video cameras. Her most recent publications have been submitted to IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging and IEEE Tran. on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Shijun Tang (Ph.D.) began 2009Email: st0024@unt.edu
Current Activities: Shijun's previous Ph.D. is in Physics. He has developed a unique feature set for use in classifying objects from airborne LiDAR. His most recent publication is to appear in Remote Sensing Letters. Presently, he is studying the use of tensor-based features for active-contour-based segmentation of MRI and CT imagery.
Guangchun Cheng (Ph.D) began 2010Email: cheng.guangchun@gmail.com
Current Activities: Guangchun is performing experiments related to video analytics.
Wasana Santiteerakul (Ph.D) began 2009Email: wasanasantiteerakul@my.unt.edu
Current Activities: Wasana has already had one significant career as a lecturer at a universtiy in Thailand. She is currently performing experiments related to video analytics.
Wengang "Gavin" Feng (Visiting Scholar) (2009-2010)Email: wengang.feng@gmail.com
Current Activities: Gavin is currently a Ph.D. student in Dr. Gao's lab at Hefei University of Technology, Hefei China. He began his dissertation at UNT in 2010 and will defend in 2011. He will be employed as a research engineer at a corporation, Ricoh, in Beijing following successful completion.
Ye Yu (Visiting Scholar) (2008-2009)Email: yuyeyue3841@sina.com
Current Activities: Ye Yu is a Ph.D. student in Dr. Xiaoping Liu's lab at Hefei University of Technology, Hefei China. She has completed most of the requirements for a degree (including extensive publications) except the dissertaion. Her research in 3D rendering using low density LiDAR elevation maps and aerial imagery is impressive.
She returned to Hefei University of Technology in October 2009. Since returning to Hefei, she has successfully defended her dissertation, acquired a position equivalent to assistant professor, and won her first grant.
Dr. Liangmei Hu (Visiting Scholar) (2007-2008)Email: liangmeihu@gmail.com
Current Activities: Dr. Hu is an Associate Professor at Hefei University of Technology in Hefei, China. She is associated with Dr. Gao's lab at Hefei University.
Marco Carvalho 2006Dissertation: Distributed Resource Coordination Strategies for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
Location: Institute for Human-Machine Cognition (IHMC), Pensacola, Florida
Email: mcarvalho@ihmc.us
Current Activities: At IHMC, his primary research interests are machine learning, data mining, network security and mobile-agents. He is one of the principal investigators in the NSF-Sponsored MAST project, and the ARL (Army Research Laboratory) sponsored Agile Computing project. Dr. Carvalho has also collaborated with other research efforts at IHMC in the areas of knowledge modeling (CmapTools) and control systems.
Xiaohui Yuan 2004Dissertation: Adaptive Image Fusion Using Noninformative Prior
Location: University of North Texas
Email: xyuan@cse.unt.edu
Web Site: http://www.cse.unt.edu/~xyuan/
Current Activities: Dr. Yuan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Texas. In 2008, he earned the Ralph E. Powe junior faculty award given by the Oak Ridge Association of Universities.
Kun Zhang 2006Dissertation: Probability Estimation Trees: Empirical Comparison, Algorithm Extension and Applications
Location: Xavier University
Email: kzhang@xula.edu
Web Site: http://webusers.xula.edu/kzhang/
Current Activities: Dr. Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Xavier University in New Orleans. Her research entails classification of chromosomic phenomena. Her 2008 proposal to the Louisiana Board of Regents was ranked in the first tier of 157 submissions. Her paper received the Best Application Paper Award at the IEEE ICDM-06 (Intern. Conf. on Data Mining).
In her first three years as an assistant professor, Dr. Zhang has compiled an enviable external support record that includes:
Jian Zhang 2004Dissertation: Convergence Criteria for Evolutionary Algorithms Using Fitness Landscape Features
Location: Texas Woman's University
Email: jzhang@mail.twu.edu
Web Site: http://myweb.twu.edu/~jzhang/
Current Activities: Dr. Zhang is an Assistant Professor at Texas Woman's Univerisity. She held a similar position at West Virginia Tech. Her research interests are computational intelligence, artificial intelligence, and image understanding & analysis.
Ibrahim Gokcen 2004Dissertation: Search Space Reduction Methods for Active Learning
Location: General Electric Corp.
Email: igokcen@gmail.com
Current Activities: Dr. Gokcen has been a scientist and project team leader at General Electric in Schenectady, New York. He has worked on numerous projects over the last several years. They each involve machine learning, active learning, or incremental learning. Presently, he is director of research activities for GE in southwest Asia and is stationed in Istanbul.
Arturo Hernandez-Aguirre 1999Dissertation: Sample Complexity and Generalization in Feedforward Neural Networks
Location: Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas (CIMAT), Guanajuato Mexico
Email: artha@cimat.mx
Current Activities: Multiobjective Optimization, Evolvable hardware, Evolutionary computation, Evolutionary design of neural network architectures and Computational Learning Theory using neural networks
Arturo earned a best paper award at GECCO 2009 (Montreal) for an article entitled, "Approximating the Search Distribution to the Selection Distribution in EDAs"
Very significantly, Arturo provided for me a place to stay and teach after Hurricane Katrina.
Ivo Pineda 2002Dissertation: Image Correspondence Feature Sets Using Principal Components
Location:
Email: ivopinedatorres@gmail.com
Current Activities: Ivo is currently an Associate professor, Facultad de Ciencias de la Computaci\'on, Benem\'erita Universidad Autnoma de Puebla.
Antonio Martinez 1998Dissertation: Supporting Array Types in Object-Oriented Databases
Location: Colegio de Postgraduados en Ciencias Agrarias, Mexico City
Email: antonio@colpos.mx
Web Site: http://www.bioinfo.uh.edu/AAlcantara.htm
Current Activities: Colegio de Postgraduados is the largest postgraduate agricultural university in Mexico and one of the most important in Latin America. It has over 300 PhD's in almost any discipline in agriculture. Currently there is a will to incorporate new tendencies in science like bioinformatics in which Antonio is involved. He will be leading the computer science side of it. But at the moment, he is working as a visiting scientist at the University of Houston's Bioinformatics Laboratory
Dev Prabhu 1996Dissertation: Parallel Genetic Algorithms with Application to Image Processing
Location:
Email: prabhu@eecs.tulane.edu
Current Activities:
Roy George 1991Dissertation: Uncertainty Management in Object-Oriented Databases
Location: Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta Georgia
Email: RGeorge@cau.edu
Web Site: http://www.cis.cau.edu/~rgeorge
Current Activities: Dr. George is the Chair in Department of Computer Science, Clark Atlanta University. He is the Director of the Army Center for Research in Information Sciences and his areas of expertise include Data mining, knowledge management, Information Assurance and Soft Computing.
Adnan Yazici 1991Dissertation: Integrating Advanced Data Models for Large Knowledge-based Applications
Location: Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara Turkey
Email: yazici@ceng.metu.edu.tr
Web Site: http://www.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~yazici
Current Activities: Dr. Yazici's current research interests include intelligent database systems, fuzzy database modeling, design and analysis of algorithms, indexing, spatio-temporal databases, multimedia and video databases, and wireless sensor network databases. Dr. Yazici has published more than 100 international technical papers and co-authored a book titled as Fuzzy Database Modeling (by Springer Verlag) and edited an LNCS on Computer and Information Sciences. He is a senior member of IEEE and has received one of the Young Investigator Awards bestowed by the Parlar Foundation, for the year 2001.
Jim Buckley 1994Dissertation: A Fuzzy Database Approach to Handling Structured Textual Input with Uncertainty
Location: University of Dayton-Dayton, Ohio
Email: james.buckley@notes.udayton.edu
Web Site: http://homepages.udayton.edu/~buckley
Current Activities: Dr. Buckley has been Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Dayton for several years. His research corresponds to the general area of next generation databases. His current research deals with the conceptual design of a system that handles structured text with uncertainty. It involves the design of the software system between the application and the archival database. He defining clustering techniques for the data such that the number of retrievals will be minimized and accuracy of retrieval maximized.
Carol Ankenbrandt 1990Dissertation: Time Complexity of Genetic Algorithms and Theory of Recombination Operators
Location:
Email: ankenbrandt@eecs.tulane.edu
Current Activities:
Harvi Sachar 1986Dissertation: Theoretical Aspects of Design and Retrieval from Similarity-based Relational Database Systems
Location:
Email: sachar@eecs.tulane.edu
Current Activities: Dr. Sachar is founder and CEO of ITSquare.com. ITSquare.com Inc. has launched a Web exchange that enables companies to find independent software developers to whom to outsource their work-especially work with global requirements. .
Xiaojing Yuan 2002Thesis: Application of evolutionary strategy for multi-scale feature identification
Location: University of Houston
Email: xyuan@Central.UH.EDU
Web Site: http://tech.uh.edu/faculty/yuan/
Current Activities: After finishing her M.S. with me, Dr. Yuan completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a dissertation entitled, "Intelligent sensor model and real-time multi-sensor fusion: architecture and algorithm." Currently she is an Assistant Professor in the College of Technology, University of Houston. She is director of a lab for intelligent sensors, ISGRIN. Representative projects include "Ubiquitous healthcare monitoring based on WSN" and "Testbed for smart sensors."
Carlos Coello-Coello 1999Dissertation: An Empirical Study of Evolutionary Techniques for Multiobjective Optimization in Engineering Design
Location: Dept. of Computation, CINVESTAV-IPN (Research and Advanced Studies Center of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico)
Email: ccoello@cs.cinvestav.mx
Web Site: http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~ccoello/
Current Activities: Carlos's major advisor was Adam Christensen. At CINVESTAV-IPN, Carlos launched the Evolutionary Computation Group. The main foci of his group are (1) Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization, (2) Constraint-Handling in Evolutionary Algorithms, and (3) Evolvable Hardware.
He is an IEEE Fellow. The citation reads, "for contributions to multi-objective optimization and constraint-handling techniques."
Zujia Xu 2003Thesis: A Duality Probem in Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and DNA Sequence Classification SVMs
Location: Dillard University
Email: zxu@dillard.edu
Current Activities: After finishing his M.S. with me, Dr. Xu completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Presently, he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Dillard University and also is involved in rebuilding New Orleans via an import business through which he obtains building materials for homes.
Rocio Alba-Flores 1999Dissertation: On Optimal Tracking and Sliding Mode Control with applications to vibration quenching
Location: Dept. of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Email: ralba@georgiasouthern.edu
Web Site: http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~ralba/
Current Activities: While Dr. Alba-Flores worked as an RA in my lab, she completed her dissertation in Electrical Engineering under the direction of Dr. Enrique Barbieri.
Her research and teaching interests include robotics, signal and image processing, control systems, embedded systems and their applications, digital and analog circuit design.