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CDSP GRADUATE STUDENTS AND THEIR RESEARCH INTEREST
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FEATURED PhD GRADUATE STUDENTS (see below for complete list)
  GRADUATE STUDENT RESERCH INTEREST
Yalcin Bulut Damage localization
Demetris Galatopoullos A framework for modeling and developing adaptive distributed processing applications for pervasive computing.
Noushin Golabchi Automated analysis of histology image stacks for comparison to diffusion-weighted MR images
Fred Gruber Electromagnetic Information Theory
Ronald Hernandez Power Systems Optimization (co-advised with Prof. H. Lev-Ari)
Harish Kashyap Optimized QMF Filter Banks for Dynamic Time-Frequency Analysis
Jin He Multiple antenna systems in wireless communications
Srinivas Laxminarayan Dynamic diffuse optical tomography

CDSP Faculty/Students 2008

Name Current Degree Program Thesis or Project Title


Advisor: Stefano Basagni
Patricia Chavez, MS- Location Management Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks
Weidon Xu, PhD- Research on Bluetooth Networking
Maurizio A. Nanni, Ph.D- Multi-Radio Networks
Soheil Sadaat, Ph.D- Research on Retrieving Angle of Arrival in Wireless Communications
Patricia X. Chavez, M.S- Location Management Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks
Scott Cooper None, M.S.- Generation techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks Topologies

Advisor: Dionisio Bernal
Yalcin Bulut, Ph.D- Damage localization
Arash Nasseri, Ph.D- Observers and Nonlinear Static Procedures
Omer Tigli Ph.D- On the Use of Zeros in Model Updating

Advisor: Dana Brooks
Onur Afacan, PhD- Fast, high resolution cardiac MRI
Noushin Golabchi, PhD- Automated analysis of histology image stacks for comparison to diffusion-weighted MR images
Damon Hyde, PhD- Advanced algorithms for fluorescence molecular tomography
Matin Kamali, MS- Neuron identification of zebrafish in confocal z-stacks
Sila Kurugol, PhD- 3D/4D segmentation and classification of skin confocal and 4D CT images
Srinivas Laxminarayan, PhD- Dynamic diffuse optical tomography
Gerard Pons Moll
Heidy Sierra, PhD- Models and algorithms for 3D microscopy
Eleonora Vidolova, MS- Dynamic Optical Imaging of Breast Tumors under Mammographic Compression

Advisor: Octavia Camps
Hwasup Lim, PhD- Dynamic Appearance Modeling for Robust Tracking
Gregory Andrews, M.S.- Vision Aided Inertial Navigation
Bike Kilic, PhD- Tracking in Medical Images
Yue Zhang, PhD- Robust Tracking
Dimitris Zarpalas, PhD- 3D Object Recognition

Advisor: Anthony Devaney
Yujan Zheng, PhD- Optical Tomography

Advisor: Jennifer Dy
Ying Cui, PhD- Algorithms for Tumor Tracking in Radiotherapy
Jing Fan, PhD- Algorithms for Segmentation and Tracking of Neuron Images
Yue Guan, PhD- Probabilistic Models for Feature Selection
Mahdokht Masaeli, PhD- Mining Protein-Metabolite Relationships in Plant
Donglin Niu, PhD- Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction
Volkan Vural, PhD- Extensions to Support Vector Machines
Yan Yan PhD- In-Building Acoustic Signature Identification

Advisor: Michael Epstein
Ikaro Silva, PhD- Measuring Temporal Integration of Loudness Over a Large Range of Sound Pressure Levels

Advisor: Miriam Leeser
Abderrahmane Bennis, PhD- Implementation of a Highly Parameterized Digital PIV System On Reconfigurable Hardware
Sherman Braganza, MS- Phase Unwrapping on Reconfigurable Hardware
James Brock, PhD- Implementing Algebraic Reconstruction on Heterogeneous Computing Platforms
Benjamin Cordes, PhD- Parallel Backprojection: A Case Study in High Performance Reconfigurable Computing
Dennis Cuccaro, MS
Mary Ellen Fuess, MS- PHAST: Pipelined Hardware Accelerated State Checking
Nicholas Moore, PhD- Vforce: VSIPL++ for Reconfigurable Computing Environments

Advisor: Hanoch Lev-Ari

Afsaneh Ghanavati
Dibo Ntuba, PhD– “Dynamic Time-Frequency Analysis – from the Short-Time Fourier Transform to Filter Banks,”
Ronald Hernandez, PhD– “Adaptive Load Compensation in Lossy Power Systems,”
Harish Kashyap, PhD– “Optimized QMF Filter Banks for Dynamic Time-Frequency Analysis"
Archit Shah, M.S.– “A Nonlinear Steepest Descent Algorithm for Optimizing Power Flows,” M.S. Project.
Shreya Tiwari, M.S.– “Networked Estimation with Multirate Distributed Sensing,” M.S. Project.


Advisor: Elias Manolakos

Demetris Galatopoullos, PhD- A framework for modeling and developing adaptive distributed processing applications for pervasive computing.

Advisor: Edwin Marengo
Fred K. Gruber, PhD- Electromagnetic Information Theory
Ronald Hernandez, PhD- Power Systems Optimization (co-advised with Prof. H. Lev-Ari)
Mohamed Khodja, PhD- Electromagnetic Inverse Theory for Antenna Substrates: Characterization and Performance Bounds
Maytee Zambrano, PhD- Compressive and Wave-Based Detection Theory

Advisor: Purnima Ratilal
Daniel Cocuzzo, High-Resolution Population Density Imaging
Mark Andrews, High-Resolution Imaging
Zheng Gong, High-Resolution Imaging

Advisor: Masoud Salehi
Jin He, PhD- Multiple antenna systems in wireless communications
Yueqian Li, PhD- Space-Time Codes for Block-fading Channels
Yanjun Xiang, PhD- Digital watermarking of images and videos
Ning Yang, PhD- Orthogonal and pseudo orthogonal space time block codes

Advisor: Bahram Shafai
Hyunkyung Chun, PhD- Adaptive Control for Attitude Tracking of Spacecraft
Rasoul Ghadami, PhD-Stability and Control in Biomedical
Jeremy Labrosse, MS- Decentralized Control of Robotics Swarm
Marios Mikhalakis, PhD- Intelligent Robotic Control Systems
Hani Sakaka, PhD- Robust Stability and Stabilization of Time Delay Systems
Alexandru Vasile, PhD- Improved Fusion and Registration Techniques for Target Detection and Recognition
Burak Yilmaz

Advisor: Mario Sznaier
Mustafa Azaouglv
Kofi Darkwa, M.S.-Vision-based control of a blimp
Mustafa Hacettepelli, M.S.-Dynamic Texture Recognition.
Zahra Mohajerani
, PhD- Vision Based Control of UAVs
Necmiye Ozay, PhD- Identification and Control of Hybrid Systems


Advisor: Gilead Tadmor
Donatella Centuori, PhD- Low Order Flow Models
Daniel Bissex, M.S.-Efficient Algorithms for Extraction of Dominant Spatio-Temporal Coherent Structures in Distributed Dynamics
Yiman Hou, PhD- Reduced order spatio-temporal analysis
Anshuman Mishra, MS- POD representation of the hysteretic dynamics of vortex breakdown
Kham Nugyen, PhD- Global Autonomous Language Exploitation. (Also participates in flow modeling research.)
Srinivas Laxminarayan, Ph.D- Reduced order models for Neuroimaging
Ju (Benjamin) Zhang, PhD- Mean field models of actuated flow separation over airfoils


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CDSP Graduate Students and their Thesis
Updated April 24, 2008