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Alumni
| Name | Year | Degree | Thesis | Where they went |
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| Jiaxiang (Tom) Jiang | 2022 | Ph.D. | Segmentation, Tracking, and Shape Modeling for Microscopy Images |
Research Scientist Intel Labs |
| Austin McEver | 2022 | Ph.D (CS) | Detection and Segmentation Using Less Supervision |
Research Scientist at Meta |
| Angela Zhang | 2021 | Ph.D. | Segmentation and Detection Methods to Connect Brain Structure and Function |
Abbott, Cyberdontics (now) |
| Po-Yu Kao | 2019 | Ph.D. | Integrating Brain Connectome and Lesion Data for Patient Outcome Prediction |
Forceshield Inc (Taiwan), Insilico Medicine |
| Oytun Ulutan | 2019 | Ph.D. | Attention Maps for Activity Detection in Videos |
Zoox |
| Rahul Vishwakarma | 2019 | M.S. |
Hitachi |
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| Utkarsh Gaur | 2018 | Ph.D (CS) | Object Segmentation and Matching in Label Constrained Scenarios |
Synaptics Incorporated |
| Kristian Kvilekval | 2018 | Researcher | n/a |
ViQi Inc |
| Archith John Bency | 2018 | Ph.D. | Search Strategies for Localization in Images and Videos |
Intel |
| Christian Lang | 2018 | Researcher | n/a |
ViQi Inc |
| Thuyen Ngo | 2018 | Ph.D. | Foveated Vision Models for Search and Recognition |
Uber |
| Dmitry Fedorov | 2018 | Researcher | n/a |
ViQi Inc |
| Carlos Torres | 2017 | Ph.D. | Multimodal Analytics for Healthcare |
Mayachitra, Inc. |
| Amir Mohaymen Rahimi | 2016 | Ph.D. | Sensor Fusion with Conditional Random Fields |
HRL Laboratories |
| Hui Hu | 2015 | Researcher | n/a |
RE Touch Lab, UCSB |
| Christopher Wheat | 2015 | Researcher | n/a | |
| Lakshmanan Nataraj | 2015 | Ph.D. | A Signal Processing Approach To Malware Analysis |
Mayachitra, Inc. |
| Niloufar Pourian | 2015 | Ph.D. | Localized visual feature representations for classification and visual search |
Intel Corporation |
| Santhoshkumar Sunderrajan | 2014 | Ph.D. | Contextual Analysis of Camera Networks |
Pinger |
| Diana Delibaltov | 2014 | Ph.D. | Automated and Interactive Segmentation Methods for 5D Microscopy Images |
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| S. Karthikeyan | 2014 | Ph.D. | Modeling Eye Tracking Data with Application to Object Detection |
Synaptics |
| Aruna Jammalamadaka | 2014 | Ph.D. | Spatial pattern modeling and discovery in biological images |
HRL Laboratories, LLC |
| Julian Yarkony | 2013 | Postdoc |
Experian |
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| Thomas Kuo | 2013 | Ph.D. | Design and Calibration of Wide-Area Camera Networks |
PowWow Energy, Inc. |
| Carter De Leo | 2013 | Ph.D. | Human Motivated Multicamera Video Analytics | |
| Vignesh Jagadeesh | 2013 | Ph.D. | Labeling Large Scale Image Datasets | eBay Research |
| Jiejun Xu | 2013 | Ph.D (CS) | Graph-based Transductive Learning for Visual Classification and Retrieval |
HRL, Malibu |
| Swapna Joshi | 2012 | Ph.D. | Multi-modal Parts based Regression | Theranos Inc. |
| Zefeng Ni | 2012 | Ph.D. | Object Tracking and Searching in a Distributed Camera Network | University of Technology, Sydney |
| Gautam Korlam | 2012 | M.S. | High Throughput Image Analysis using Low-Cost Cloud Computing |
Lookout, San Francisco |
| Golnaz Abdollahian | 2011 | Postdoc | n/a | PhD, Purdue University |
| Pratim Ghosh | 2011 | Ph.D. | Simultaneous Registration and Tracking | Microsoft |
| Mehmet Emre Sargin | 2010 | Ph.D. | Probabilistic Graphical Models for Motion Analysis and Object Tracking | |
| James Kleban | 2010 | Ph.D. | Content-based Management of Image Databases in the Internet Age | Microsoft |
| Luca Bertelli | 2009 | Ph.D. | Variational Image Segmentation Based on Pixel Pairwise Similarities | Mayachitra, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (2009); Like.Com and Google (2010- present) |
| Emily Moxley | 2009 | Ph.D. | Multimedia Annotation through Search and Mining | |
| Anindya Sarkar | 2009 | Ph.D. | Novel Image Data-Hiding Methodologies for Robust and Secure Steganography with Extensions to Image Forensics | BioImagene; now Rosch. |
| Elisa Drelie Gelasca | 2009 | Researcher | PhD from EPFL. | |
| Zhiqiang Bi | 2008 | Researcher | n/a | Yahoo! (Zhiqiang completed his PhD in Physics and MS in Computer Science from CMU in 2002. He was a full time researcher at the Center for Bioimage Informatics till 2008.) |
| Michael Quinn | 2008 | Ph.D. | Toward Persistent Tracking and Identification in Camera Sensor Networks | Mathworks, Natick, MA |
| Nhat Vu | 2008 | Ph.D. | Image Segmentation with Semantic Priors: A Graph Cut Approach | Fair Isaac, San Rafael, CA |
| Laura Boucheron | 2008 | Ph.D. | Object and Spatial Level Quantitative Analysis of Multispectral Histopathology Images .. |
Associate Professor, New Mexico State University |
| Jiyun Byun | 2007 | Ph.D. | Quantitative Analysis and Modeling of Confocal Retinal Images | Mayachitra, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA. |
| Charles Kenney | 2007 | Faculty | n/a |
Dr. Kenney was a VRL faculty affiliate till he retired in 2007. |
| Ibrahim El-Khalil | 2006 | M.S. | n/a | Boeing Satellite Systems, El Segundo, CA |
| Marco Zuliani | 2006 | Ph.D. | Computational Methods for Automatic Image Registration | Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA. |
| Motaz El-Saban | 2005 | Ph.D. | Automated Microtubule Tracking and Analysis | Cairo University and Microsoft, Egypt |
| Kaushal Solanki | 2005 | Ph.D. | Multimedia Data Hiding: From Fundamental Issues to Practical Techniques | Mayachitra, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA. (2005-10); EyeNuk (2010-current). |
| Ken Sullivan | 2005 | Ph.D. | Image Steganalysis: Hunting & Escaping | Mayachitra, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA. |
| Sitaram Bhagavathy | 2005 | Ph.D. | Modeling and Detection of Geospatial Objects Using Texture Motifs |
Thomson corporate research (2005-10). Currently at Google. |
| Baris Sumengen | 2004 | Ph.D. | Variational Image Segmentation and Curve Evolution on Natural Images | Ojos Inc., Redwood City, CA. (was Like.com till 2010). Now at Google. |
| Xinding Sun | 2004 | Ph.D. | Motion Activity for Video Indexing | Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA |
| Jelena Tešić | 2004 | Ph.D. | Managing Large-Scale Multimedia Repositories | IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY (2004-09); Mayachitra, 2009- |
| Shawn Newsam | 2003 | Ph.D. | Texture Motifs in Remote Sensed Imagery |
Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, California University of California Merced |
| Ching-Wei Chen | 2001 | M.S. | ClassAid: An Automated Lecture Note-Taking System | Dolby laboratories, San Francisco |
| Peng Wu | 2001 | Ph.D. | Search and Indexing in High-dimensional Feature Spaces | Imaging Systems Laboratory, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA |
| Jong-Jin Chae | 2000 | Ph.D. | Robust Techniques for Hiding Data in Images and Video | Last seen at MarcAny Inc., Seoul, S. Korea |
| Kapil Chhabra | 2000 | M.S. | Image texture for content based retrieval | CISCO, USA |
| Daryl Fortney | 2000 | M.S. | Face Tracking | Daryl spent a couple of years working in Santa Barbara for a local robotic company, Computer Motion, but decided to take up something more adventurous. |
| Naveen Reddy | 2000 | M.S. | Image Processor System Architecture and PCi Bus Board Design to Perform Real Time Two Dimensional Image Convolutions. | Hughes Communications Ltd, El Segando, California; |
| Yining Deng | 1999 | Ph.D. | A Region Based Representation for Image and Video Retrieval | Imaging Systems Laboratory, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA |
| David Lane | 1999 | M.S. | Video-in-Video Data Hiding | MIT Lincoln Lab |
| Jay (Albert) Winkeler | 1999 | M.S. | Active Vision | Boeing, St. Louis, Missouri |
| Rolf Schyoen | 1998 | M.S. | n/a | Computer Motion, Goleta, California |
| Norbert Strobel | 1998 | Ph.D. | Quadratic Filters for Image Contrast Enhancement | Siemens, Germany |
| George Haley | 1997 | M.S. | Image Texture Analysis | |
| Wei-Ying Ma | 1997 | Ph.D. | Netra: A Toolbox for Navigating Large Image Databases |
HP Labs, Palo Alto Microsoft Research China, Beijing ByteDance, China |
| Hui Li | 1993 | Ph.D. | Multisensor Image Registration and Fusion | Google, LinkedIn (2012-) |
| Kevin Tsai | 1993 | M.S. | n/a |
Cisco |
Visiting Researchers
| Name | Year | Degree | Thesis | Where they went |
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| Lingyun Song | 2018 | Visiting Ph.D. | n/a |
Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China |
| Tao Deng | 2017 | Visiting Ph.D. | n/a |
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China |
| Zency Young | 2017 | Visiting M.S. | n/a |
Peking University |
| Xudong Lin | 2017 | Visiting B.S. | n/a |
Columbia University |
| Wenhui Jiang | 2016 | Visiting Ph.D. | n/a |
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China |
| Manuel Arturo Deza | 2012 | Visiting B.S. | Neuron tracing | BS, Univeridad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru. |
| Manesh Kokare, PhD | 2012 | Visiting Researcher | Diabetic Retinopathy: detection and classification of fundus images | (BOYCAST Post Doctoral Research Fellow) Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded |
| Enrique Alegre | 2010 | Visiting Researcher | Professor of Computer Science, Universidad de León,24071,León |
Dpto. Ingeniería Eléctrica, Sistemas y Automática Escuela de Ingenierías Industrial e Informática Universidad de León,24071,León Spain |
| Minghui Tian | 2009 | Visiting Ph.D. | Visual Saliency Modeling and Salient Objects Detection | Computer Science Dept., University of Science and Technology of China |
| Takao Ito | 2004 | Visiting Ph.D. | ||
| Gosuke Ohashi | 2004 | Visiting Ph.D. |
Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shizuoka University, Japan |
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| Till Quack | 2004 | Visiting M.S. | Cortina: A System for Large Scale, Content-based Web Image Retrieval and the Semantics within | ETH Zurich |
| Daniela M. U. Sabino | 2004 | Visiting Ph.D. | Lymphoid leukemia diagnostics assisted by computer. |
PhD form Instituto de Física de São Carlos - USP, Brazil Currently at Ablevision, Brazil. |