Karelia Pena-Pena
I received my undergraduate diploma in Electrical Engineering with a Summa Cum Laude distinction in 2017 from the Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela. I was the first woman to graduate with such distinction in over 50 years of history of the Electrical Engineering Department.
I received my MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2020 and 2023 from the University of Delaware.
My research interests include graph signal processing, digital image processing, computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, and optimization.
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NEWS:
September 2022: The preprint of our paper "t-HGSP: Hypergraph Signal Processing Using t-Product Tensor Decompositions" is available on TechRxiv [DOI].
June 2022: Our paper "HedcutDrawings: Rendering hedcut style portraits" has been accepted in the 33rd Eurographics Symposium on Rendering [DOI].
May 2022: Our research proposal on hypergraphs received the Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) Award, receiving up to $600,000 over a three-year period.
May 2022: Our paper "Colored-QRNet: Fast QR Code Color Image Embedding" has been accepted in the 30th European Signal Processing Conference.
May 2022: I joined the Cortex team at Intuit as a Data Science Intern.
January 2022: Our paper "QRnet: Fast learning-based QR code image embedding" has been accepted for publication in Multimedia Tools and Applications [DOI].
December 2021: I got an offer to join Intuit as a Data Scientist Intern in the Summer of 2022.
August 2021: Our paper "Fast Spectral Clustering Method Based on Graph Similarity Matrix Completion" was accepted for publication in Elsevier Signal Processing [DOI].
June 2021: I was awarded the University of Delaware Doctoral Fellowship Award.
May 2021: I was awarded the Signals Processing and Communications Graduate Faculty Award.
October 2020: Our paper "Blue-Noise Sampling of Graph and Multigraph Signals: Dithering on Non-Euclidean Domains" was published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine [DOI].
September 2020: Invited talk on “Channel Coding Optimization for Visually Pleasant QR codes” at ITEC 2020, La Paz, Bolivia.
May 2020: Received a Master of Science degree from the University of Delaware.
April 2019: Paper accepted at SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications.
March 2019: Our application to UD’s NSF I-Corps Site Program was selected for a $3,000 maximum award.
January 2019: Paper accepted for Lecture presentation at 53rd Annual Conference on Information Systems & Sciences.
May 2018: Poster presented at ECE Research Day at the University of Delaware.
October 2017: New assistant coordinator of the Summer Research Program at UD.
Sept 2017: Joined the University of Delaware as a Ph.D. student.
May 2017: Joined the University of Delaware as a Research Scholar.