Alumni:

Post-Doctoral Research Scholars

Dr. Shu Chen:

  • Visiting during 2013-2014.
  • Research on 3D human motion tracking.
  • Associate Professor, Xiangtan University, Hunan, China

Dr. Lei Wang:

  • Visiting during December 2011- November 2012.
  • Research on facial expression recognition and modeling using appearance based models.
  • Associate Professor, Central South University, Changsha, China

Dr. Farshideh Einsele:

  • Joined CIL for a year from Fribourg University in Switzerland during 2008-2009.
  • Research involved character and text extraction and recognition in natural scenes using Hidden Markov Models (HMM).
  • Completed her postdoctoral research in summer 2009. Now, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) Fernfachhochschule, Switzerland.
Ph.D. Students
  1. Zixiang Zhou, Towards a Robust and Efficient Deep Neural Network for the Lidar Point Cloud Perception, Fall 2023.
  2. Ankit Sharma, Optimizing Deep Neural Networks Performance: Efficient Techniques For Training and Inference, Fall 2023.
  3. Sina Lotfian, View Invariant Point Matching with applications to Object Recognition, summer 2023.
  4. Amir Emad Marvasti, Ph.D., Maximum Probability Framework and Digital Probabilistic Models, Summer 2021.
    • Dr. Marvasti is currently a postdoc at North Western University
  5. Sarah Loewy Braeger, Ph.D., Improving Matching and Classification Through Deep Learning of Structure and Varying Illumination, Spring 2021.
  6. Sangwoo Cho, Ph.D., Contextual Understanding of Sequential Data Across Multiple Modalities, Spring 2021.
  7. Pooyan Balouchian, Ph.D., Emotion Recognition: From Context Sensitive Deep Learning to Unsupervised Ranking of Continuous Emotions, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Fall 2020.
    • Dr. Balouchian is the co-founder of Mapoo Solutions LLC.
  8. Marjaneh Safaei, Ph.D., Action Recognition in Still Images: Confluence of Multilinear methods and Deep Learning, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Fall 2020.
    • Dr. Safaei is Dignitas Technologies.
  9. Kristian Damkjer, Ph.D., An Information-Potential Approach to Airborne LiDAR Point Cloud Sampling and Assessment, Doctor of Philosophy, Modeling and Simulation, University of Central Florida, Spring 2020.
    • Dr. Damkjer is with L3-Harris Corporation.
  10. Adeel Bhutta, Ph.D., Selective Subtraction, An Extension of Background Subtraction, Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Summer 2020.
    • Dr. Bhutta is an Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
  11. Yang Zhang, Ph.D., Learning Transferable Representations for Visual Recognition, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Spring 2020.
    • Dr. Zhang is with Ali Baba AI Division.
  12. Min Wang, Ph.D., Explore and Design Novel Structures for More Efficient and Better Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Spring 2020.
    • Dr. Wang is with Target AI Division.
  13. Brian Millikan, Ph.D., Fast Compressed Automatic Target Recognition for a Compressive Infrared Imager, Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida, Spring 2018.
    • Dr. Millikan is with Lockheed Martin Corporation.
  14. Dustin Morley, Ph.D., Visionary Ophthalmics: Confluence of Computer Vision and deep Learning for Ophthalmology, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Spring 2018.
    • Dr. Morley is with LENSAR Corporation.
  15. Maryam Jaberi, Ph.D., On the Role of Sparsity in Deep Learning and Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Spring 2018.
    • Dr. Jaberi is with Symantec.
  16. Vildan Atalay, Ph.D., Super-Resolution of Wavelet Encoded Images and Videos, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Fall 2017.
    • Dr. Atalay is an Assistant Professor in Namik Kemal University, Turkey
  17. Syed Alam Abbas, Ph.D., Signal Processing with Fourier Analysis, Novel Algorithms and Applications, Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida, Summer, 2017.
    • Dr. Abbas is now with Coda Octopus Group, Inc. A high Tech company specializing in underwater sonar.
  18. Amara Tariq, Ph.D., Confluence of Vision and Natural Language Processing for Cross-Media Semantic Relations Extraction, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Fall 2017.
    • Dr. Tariq initially joined The Forman Christian College, as Assistant Professor in Fall 2016. She is now a research scientist with Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University.
  19. Baoyuan Liu, Ph.D., Improving Efficiency in Deep Learning for Large Scale Visual recognition, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Fall 2016.
    • Dr. Liu joined Amazon, Seattle in Fall 2016.
  20. Muhamad Ali, Ph.D., A Study of Holistic Strategies for the Recognition of Characters in Natural Scene Images, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Summer 2016.
    • Dr. Ali joined The Lahore University as Assistant Professor in Fall 2016.
  21. Chuan Sun, Ph.D., View-Invariant Human Gesture and Action recognition in Video Data, defense completed in Summer 2104, graduation scheduled for Fall 2014.
    • Dr. Sun joined Amazon, Seattle, in Fall 2014. He joined JP Morgan in 2016.
  22. Nazim Ashraf, Ph.D., Study of Human Activity in Video Data with an emphasis on View-Invariance, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Summer 2012.
    • Dr. Ashraf is now an Assistant Professor in the Forman Christian College, Lahore.
  23. Yuping Shen, Ph.D., Invariants in Computer Vision and Their Application in Human Gesture and Action Recognition, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Fall 2009.
    • Dr. Shen is now an engineering staff member of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in the ATI division.
  24. Mais Alnasser, Ph.D., Phase-Shifting Haar Wavelets for Image-Based Rendering Applications, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Summer 2008.
    • Dr. Alnasser is now an engineering staff member of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in the ATI division.
  25. Imran N. Junejo, Ph.D., Towards a Self-Calibrating Video Camera Network for Content Analysis and Forensics, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Summer 2007.
    • Dr. Junejo was an Assistant Professor in Sharjah University, UAE. He is now Associate Professor in Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi
  26. Murat Balci, Ph.D. Sub-pixel Registration in Computational Imaging and Applications to Enhancement of Maxillofacial CT Data, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Fall 2006.
    • Dr. Balci was an engineering staff member at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in the ATI division. He is now an engineering staff member of Qualcom.
  27. Xiaochun Cao, Ph.D., Multiple View Geometry for Video Analysis and Post-Production, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Spring 2006.
    • Dr. Cao was a Professor in Tianjin University, which is ranked in top 15 engineering schools in China. He is now with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has been recently appointed as the Dean of School of Cyber Science and Technology at Sun Yat-Sen University. His dissertation won the Outstanding Dissertation Award of the School of EECS and the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) and was runner up at the university level. More information at: https://xiaochun-cas.github.io/
MS Students
  • Sushant Kulkarni, M.S. student, Topic: Deep Learning, Summer 2018.
  • Karan Daei-Mojdehi, M.S. student, Topic: Subspace Clustering, Spring 2018.
  • Payal Jotwani, M.S. student, Topic: “Computerized Evaluatution of Microsurgery Skills Training”, Completed, Fall 2015.
  • Carl Messina, M.S. student, Topic: Compressed Sampling Consensus; detection and localization of multiple structures in a high dimensional space by sampling a compressed set of points, 2013.
  • Pramod Chakrapani, M.S. student, Topic: 3D Modeling from Aerial video on a Moving platform, 2013.
  • Thomas Brendan Moore, Learning Geometry-Free Face Re-Lighting, Master of Science, Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Fall 2007.
  • Tao Fu, M.S., Expression Morphing Between Different Orientations, Master of Science, Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Summer 2004.
    • Mr. Tao Fu is now a Research Engineer in the North West National Laboratory.
Graduate Research Exchange Students
  • Jean-Philippe Deraymond, Facial Expression Recognition, Visiting Ph.D. student from University of St. Etienne, France, February 2009 to July 2009.
  • Junqi Bai, Character and Text Recognition in Video Data, Visiting Ph.D. student from School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University, China, September 2009 to February 2010.
Other Alumni
  • Alex Cook, Electronic Arts – Tiburon
  • Feras Batarseh
  • Fei Lu
  • Ping Wang
  • Sushant Kulkarni, Reconstructive Recognition
  • Karan Daei-Mojdehi, Single-Image Depth Estimation