Students

Post-doctoral researchers:

Current students:

  • Weicong Ding (PhD candidate, co-advisor: Prof. V. Saligrama)
  • Jonathan Wu (PhD candidate, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad)
  • Limor Eger (PhD candidate, co-advisor: Prof. W. C. Karl)
  • Zachary Sun (PhD candidate, co-advisor: Prof. W. C. Karl)

Graduated PhD students:

  • Kai Guo (PhD, Electr. Eng., 2011, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, PhD thesis: Action recognition using log-covariance matrices of silhouette and optical-flow features) – Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
  • Burkay Birant Orten (PhD, Electr. Eng., 2011, co-advisor: Prof. W. C. Karl, PhD thesis: Exploitation of sensing structure in high-dimensional decision making motivated by computed tomography perfusion imaging) – Turn Inc., Redwood City, CA
  • Ye Wang (PhD, Electr. Eng., 2011, PhD thesis: Information-theoretically secure computation and inference in networks) – MERL, Cambridge, MA (since Aug.2012). AgaMatrix, Inc., Salem, NH (Sep.2011–Aug.2012).
  • Nan Ma (PhD, Electr. Eng., 2010, PhD thesis: Interactive source coding for function computation in networks, Winner of best ECE doctoral dissertation award at Boston University) – Yammer, San Francisco, CA (since Nov. 2012). Insight Data Science Fellow (Aug.-Oct. 2012). Postdoctoral Researcher, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley (Oct. 2010 – Jul. 2012).

Graduated MS students:

  • Meng Wang (MS, Electr. Eng., 2012, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, MS project: Fast, Fully-Automated 2D to 3D Image Conversion) – co-founder: Orbeus Inc., Bay Area, CA (since May 2012). Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (since Aug.2012).
  • Yifan Yu (MS, Electr. Eng., 2010, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, MS project: Real-time background subtraction in C++)
  • Elena Loya Choi Zorn (MS, Electr. Eng., 2010, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, MS project: A study of color spaces for colonoscopy prepration assessment) – Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
  • Huan-Yu Wu (MS, Electr. Eng., 2010, co-advisor:  Prof. J. Konrad, MS project: Sliding-window ribbon carving for video condensation) – image-processing engineer: Translate Abroad, CA.
  • Jamie Martini (MS, Electr. Eng., 2009, MS project: Efficient visual tracking within a sequential Bayesian filtering framework) – iZotope Inc., Cambridge, MA
  • Cristina Esteve (MS, Electr. Eng., 2009, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, MS project: Color-based scoring of colonoscopy video) – Aervox S.L., Madrid, Spain
  • Wei Liu (MS, Electr. Eng., 2008, co-advisor:  Prof. J. Konrad, MS project: Streaming video condensation by ribbon carving)
  • Yue Yin (MS, Electr. Eng., 2008, MS project: Detection of anomalous high-dimensional co-occurrences)
  • Zhuang Li (MS, Electr. Eng., 2008, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, MS project: Video condensation by ribbon carving) – Migma Systems, Inc., Walpole, MA
  • Ye Wang (MS, Electr. Eng., 2008, MS project: Non-parametric field estimation with randomly deployed, noisy binary sensors) – MERL, Cambridge, MA (since Aug.2012). AgaMatrix, Inc., Salem, NH (Sep.2011–Aug.2012).
  • Ankur Sakhuja (MS, Electr. Eng., 2007, MS project: Techniques for digital image morphing and resizing) – AMD, Allston, MA
  • Animesh Kumar (MS, EECS, UC Berkeley, 2003, co-advisor: Prof. K. Ramchandran, MS thesis: Distributed Sampling in Dense Sensor Networks: a “bit-conservation” principle) – Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

Graduated BS students:

  • Kam Lai (BS, Electr. Eng., 2012, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, BS Honors Senior Thesis: Real-time gesture recognition for human-machine interaction using the Kinect) – MS, Electr. Eng., Columbia University (since Sep. 2012)
  • Rudiger Lippert (BS, Electr. Eng., 2008, BU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program: Developed a new form of additive musical sound synthesis) – Software Developer at Factual Inc., Los Angeles, CA (since Sep. 2011). MS, Electr. Eng., UCLA, 2010.