Former PhD

• 1. Zhiyuan Xie

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2022 (Dissertation Defense: April 12, 2022)

Dissertation: GlacierNet Variant for Large Scale Glacier Mapping

• 2. Nina Marie Singer

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2022 (Dissertation Defense: April 11, 2022)

Dissertation: View-Agnostic Point Cloud Generation

• 3. Raymond Wesley Baldwin

PhD Electrical Engineering

(Co-advisor:  Dr. Keigo Hirakawa )

Graduation: Summer 2021 (Dissertation Defense: June 11, 2021)

Dissertation: High Speed Imaging with Less Data

• 4. Garrett Craig Sargent

PhD Electrical Engineering

(Co-advisor: Dr. Bradley Ratliff)

Graduation: Fall 2020 (Dissertation Defense: October 30, 2020)

Dissertation: A Conditional Generative Adversarial Network Demosaicing Strategy for Division of Focal Plane Polarimeters

• 5. Ruixu Liu

PhD Electrical Engineering

(Co-advisor: Dr. Ju Shen)

Graduation: Fall 2019 (Dissertation Defense: November 22, 2019)

Dissertation: Attention Based Temporal Convolutional Neural Network for 3D Human Pose Estimation and Reconstruction

• 6. Evan William Krieger

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2018 (Dissertation Defense: November 07, 2018)

Dissertation: Adaptive Fusion Approach for Multiple Feature Object Tracking

• 7. Hussin Ragb

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2018 (Dissertation Defense: October 30, 2017)

Dissertation: Multi-Hypothesis Approach for Efficient Human Detection in Complex Environment

• 8. Almabrok Essa

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2017 (Dissertation Defense: May 05, 2017)

Dissertation: High Order Volumetric Directional Pattern for Robust Face Recognition

• 9. Chen Cui

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2017 (Dissertation Defense: May 05, 2017)

Dissertation: Convolutional Polynomial Neural Network for Improved Face Recognition

• 10. Paheding Sidike

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2016 (Dissertation Defense: November 11, 2016)

Dissertation: Progressively Expanded Neural Network for Automatic Material Identification in Hyperspectral Imagery

• 11. Saibabu Arigela

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2015 (Dissertation Defense: November 20, 2015)

Dissertation: A Self-Tunable Transformation Function for Enhancement of Images Captured in Complex Lighting and Hazy Weather Conditions

• 12. Theus H. Aspiras

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2015 (Dissertation Defense: October 23, 2015)

Dissertation: Hierarchical Auto-associative Polynomial Network for Deep Learning of Complex Manifolds

• 13. Yakov Diskin

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2015 (Dissertation Defense: April 10, 2015)

Dissertation: Volumetric Change Detection using Uncalibrated 3D Reconstruction Models

• 14. Binu M. Nair

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2015 (Dissertation Defense: April 02, 2015)

Dissertation: Learning Latent Temporal Manifolds for Recognition and Prediction of Multiple Actions in Streaming Videos Using Deep Networks

• 15. Fatema Albalooshi

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2015 (Dissertation Defense: March 26, 2015)

Dissertation: Self-organizing Approach to Learn a Level-set Function for Object Segmentation in Complex Background Environments

• 16. Alex Mathew

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2014 (Dissertation Defense: April 07, 2014)

Dissertation: Rotation Invariant Histogram Features for Object Detection and Tracking in Aerial Imagery

• 17. Nilesh Powar

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2013 (Dissertation Defense: November 15, 2013)

Dissertation: An Approach for the Extraction of Thermal Facial Signatures for Evaluating Threat and Challenge Emotional States

• 18. Varun Santhaseelan

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2013 (Dissertation Defense: November 08, 2013)

Dissertation: Robust Feature-based Reconstruction Technique to Remove Rain from Video

• 19. Menatoallah Youssef

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2011 (Dissertation Defense: July 27, 2011)

Dissertation: Hull Convexity Defect Features for Human Action Recognition

• 20. Richard Cortland Tompkins

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2011 (Dissertation Defense: July 21, 2011)

Dissertation: Multimodal Recognition Using Simultaneous Images of Iris and Face with Opportunistic Feature Selection

• 21. Jacob D. Foytik

PhD Electrical Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2011 (Dissertation Defense: July 14, 2011)

Dissertation: Locally Tuned Nonlinear Manifold for Person Independent Head Pose Estimation

• 1. Adam R. Livingston

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2012 (Dissertation Defense: March 20, 2012)

Dissertation: An Efficient Boosted Classifier Tree-Based Feature Point Tracking System for Facial Expression Analysis

• 2. Mohammad Moinul Islam

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

(Co-advisor: Dr. Mohammad A. Karim)

Dissertation Defense: February 03, 2012

Dissertation: Robust Face Representation and Recognition Under Low Resolution and Difficult Lighting Conditions

• 3. Qun Wang

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

(Co-advisors: Dr. Mohammad A. Karim and Dr. Jiang Li )

Graduation: Spring 2012 (Dissertation Defense: November 07, 2011)

Dissertation: Creation of a Large Scale Face Dataset Using Single Training Image

• 4. Rajkiran Gottumukkal

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2011 (Dissertation Defense: March 25, 2011)

Dissertation: Learning Local Features Using Boosted Trees for Face Recognition

• 5. Numan Unaldi

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2010 (Dissertation Defense: March 01, 2010)

Dissertation: Wavelet Based Enhancement Technique for Visibility Improvement of Digital Images

Currently with the Turkish Air Force Academy, Istanbul, Turkey

• 6. Praveen Sankaran

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2009 (Dissertation Defense: September 09, 2009)

Dissertation: A Subspace Projection Methodology for Nonlinear Manifold Based Face Recognition

Currently with National Institute of Technology Kozhikode, Kerala, India

• 7. Ming Z. Zhang

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2008 (Dissertation Defense: October 24, 2008)

Dissertation: Design of High-Speed Architecture for Stabilization of Video Captured under Non-Uniform Lighting Conditions

• 8. Hau T. Ngo

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2007 (Dissertation Defense: November 14, 2007)

Dissertation: Power Aware Design Methodologies for FPGA Based Implementation of Video Processing Systems

Currently with The United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD (Faculty in ECE Department)

• 9. Satyanadh Gundimada

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Fall 2007 (Dissertation Defense: May 10, 2007)

Dissertation: Neighborhood Defined Feature Selection Strategy for Improved Face Recognition in Different Sensor Modalities

Currently with Symetix, Walla Walla, WA

• 10. Ming-Jung Seow

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Summer 2006 (Dissertation Defense: May 3, 2006)

Dissertation: Learning as a Nonlinear Line of Attraction for Pattern Association, Classification and Recognition

Currently with Behavioral Recognition Systems Inc., Houston, TX

• 11. Li Tao

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduation: Spring 2006 (Dissertation Defense: December 12, 2005)

Dissertation: Multimodal Enhancement Techniques for Visibility Improvement of Digital Images

Currently with Samsung Electronics Inc., Irvine, CA