Our Research Team (group photos 2009, 2004) is made up of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Past group members with contact information are listed here:
Graduated Ph.D. Advisees
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Ritendra Datta,
Engineer, Google, Pittsburgh, PA.
(g-scholar)
datta (at) cse.psu.edu Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, Spring 2009 Thesis: Semantics and Aesthetics Inference for Image Search: Statistical Learning Approaches (Download) Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), J. Li (Co-Chair), R. Collins, C. L. Giles, D. Miller, B. Urgaonkar. |
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Xiaonan Lu,
Mobile Servie Division, Microsoft, Seattle, WA.
(g-scholar)
xlu (at) cse.psu.edu Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, Fall 2008 Thesis: Image Analysis and Metadata Extraction for Document Retrieval (Download) Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), L. Giles (Co-Chair), W.-C. Lee, D. Miller, C. Zhu |
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Dhiraj
Joshi,
Scientist, Eastman Kodak Research, Rochester, NY.
(g-scholar)
dhiraj.joshi (at) kodak.com Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, Summer 2007 Thesis: Image Analysis and Retrieval by Spatial Models and Information Integration (Download) Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), J. Li (Co-Chair), R. Collins, D. Hunter, W.-C. Lee |
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Professor Yixin
Chen,
Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, Oxford.
(g-scholar)
ychen (at) cs.olemiss.edu Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, Summer 2003 Thesis: A Machine Learning Approach to Content-based Image Indexing and Retrieval (Download) Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), C. L. Giles, J. Yen, J. Li, D. Richards |
Graduated Ph.D. Advisees (committee)
- Yang Sun, Engineer, AOL / Advertising.com
Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2008. (Advisor: Lee Giles)
Thesis: A Comprehensive Study of the Regulation and Behavior of Web Crawlers (Download)
- Professor Daeyoung Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of
Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
daeyoung (at) math.umass.edu, Ph.D. in Statistics, Penn State, 2008. (Advisor: Bruce G. Lindsay)
Thesis: Mixture Inference at the Edge of Identifiability (Link)
- Isaac Councill,
Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center
icouncill (at) almaden.ibm.com, Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2006. (Advisor: C. Lee Giles)
Thesis: Characterizing Scientific Contributions Through Automatic Acknowledgement Indexing and Citation Analysis (Download)
- Professor Long Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
chenlong (at) math.uci.edu, Ph.D. in Mathematics, Penn State, 2005. (Advisor: J. Xu)
Thesis: Robust and Accurate Algorithm for Solving Anisotropic Singularities (Download)
- Anne Ya Zhang, Engineer, Yahoo!
yazhang (at) ittc.ku.edu, Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2005. (Advisor: C. Chu. Co-advisor: H. Zha)
Thesis: Towards Inferring Biologically Informative Protein-Protein Interactions (Download)
- Hui Han, Engineer, Yahoo!
hhan (at) cse.psu.edu, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, 2004. (Advisor: C. Lee Giles)
Thesis: Creating a Syntactic Document Ontology (Download)
Graduated M.S.
- AdityaGiri Valluri, Engineer, NetApp, Sunnyvale, CA
azv114 (at) psu.edu, Electrical Engineering, Penn State, graduated in May 2009
Thesis: Navigation Through Automated Image Understanding and Retrieval
- Ashish Parulekar, Capital One
Electrical Engineering, Penn State, graduated in December 2005
Thesis: Large-scale Satellite Image Browsing using Automatic Semantic Categorization and Content-based Retrieval
Graduated Honors Undergraduates
(Penn State's Schreyer Honors College)
- Aaron Coble
Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, August 2005
Thesis: JIN: A Java-based Image Navigation System
after graduation: Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar - Allison
Deal
Statistics, Penn State, May 2005
after graduation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Advisor: Jia Li)
- Sui Ching
Teresa Lin
Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, December 2003
Thesis: Semantic Relation Network and Evaluation Methods on Machine Learning Based Indexing of Images
now in Hong Kong - Kurt
Grieb
Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, December 2003
Thesis: Learning-Based Indexing of Works of Art
after graduation: Lockheed Martin Corp. and US Air Force
- Bryan
T. Schnittjer
Computer Science, Penn State, May 2002
Thesis: The Application of Support Vector Machines for Content-based Image Retrieval
after graduation: General Electric
Past Visitors
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José Antonio Piedra Fernández jpiedra (at) ual.es Visiting Faculty from University of Almeria, Spain; 2008-2009 |
Main Collaborators
- Ching-chih Chen, Simmons College
- Yixin Chen, CS Dept, University of Mississippi
- Keith Cheng, Pathology, Penn State University
- C. Lee Giles, IST, Penn State University
- C. Richard Johnson, ECE, Cornell University
- Takeo Kanade, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
- Jia Li, Statistics, Penn State University
- Z. Lin, Peking University, China
- R. Lu, Chinese National Academy of Sciences, China
- J. Shi, University of Pennsylvania
- K.-Y. Whang, Korea Adv. Inst. of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
- G. Wiederhold, Stanford University (student tree)
- Stephen T.C. Wong, Texas Medical Center
Past Research Project Staff
- Andrew Duffey, Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University at St. Louis, 2009.
- Saad Ali, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, 2008-2009.
- Kelsey Marie Bauer, College of Science, Penn State, 2009.
- Daniel Sandberg, Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2007-2008
- Angela Yen, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 2007
- Walter Weiss, IST, Penn State, 2006-2007, after graduation: the U.S. Department of State
- Gulsah Tumuklu Ozyer, Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2007
- Christopher L. Dancy II, Computer Science, MURE program, Penn State, 2006-2007
- Weina Ge, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, 2005-2007
- Catriona Cornett, IST, Penn State, 2004-2006, after graduation: Vanguard Group (student marshal)
- Jason Scott, IST, Honors College, Penn State, 2004-2006
- Robert D. Shedd Jr. , IST, Honors College, Penn State, 2004-2006, after graduation: IBM
- Diane Flowers, IST, Penn State, 2004-2006, after graduation: PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Junjia Zhu, Statistics, Penn State, 2004
- Claire Luo, Penn State, 2004
- Yin Yang, IST, Penn State, 2002
- Priya Unnikrishnan, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, 2000-2001
- Yanping Du, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Penn State, January 2001, after graduation: Cisco








