Current students

  • Stan (Sha) Lai (Doctoral student, co-advisor: Prof. M. Betke)
    ML tools for analysis of international flow of public communications.
  • Mertcan Cokbas (Doctoral student, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad)
    Person Re-Identification using Overhead Fisheye Cameras with Applications to Occupancy Analytics.

Post-doctoral researchers:

  • Dr. Behrouz Saghafi (Aug. 2014 – Aug. 2015, joint with Prof. J. Konrad)
  • Dr. Mohammad H. Rohban (Sep. 2012 – Aug. 2013) – Lecturer, Rochester Institute of Technology (Sep. 2013 – Jun. 2014, joint with Prof. V. Saligrama)

Graduated PhD students:

  • Christy Lin (PhD, Systems Eng., 2021, PhD thesis: Unsupervised Random Walk Node Embeddings for Network Block Structure Representation)
    Jinyuan Zhao (PhD, Electr. Eng., 2019, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, PhD thesis: Active Scene Illumination Methods for Privacy-Preserving Indoor Occupant Localization)
  • Jiawei (Gary) Chen (PhD, Electr. Eng., 2019, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, PhD thesis: Privacy-Preserving Smart-Room Visual Analytics)
  • Jonathan Wu (PhD, Electr. Eng., 2016, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, PhD thesis: Gesture Passwords: Concepts, Methods, and Challenges) – Amazon, Inc., Seattle, WA (since Dec. 2016).
  • Weicong Ding (PhD, Electr. Eng., 2015, PhD thesis: Learning Mixed-Membership Models with a Separable Latent Structure: theory, provably efficient algorithms, and applications, Winner of Student Best Paper Award, NIPS 2014 Workshop on Analysis of Rank Data, Winner of EE outstanding doctoral dissertation award at Boston University) – Amazon, Inc., Seattle, WA (since Mar. 2017). Technicolor Research, Bay Area, CA (Oct. 2015 – Feb. 2017)
  • Limor Martin (PhD, Electr. Eng., 2014, co-advisor: Prof. W. C. Karl, PhD thesis: Enhanced Information Extraction in Multi-Energy X-Ray Tomography for Security) – Postdoc, ECE BU (Jan. 2014 – Apr. 2015)
  • 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, Winner of ICPR 2010 Aerial View Activity Classification Challenge and AVSS 2010 Best Paper Award) – Qualcomm, San Diego, CA (Oct. 2011 – Sep. 2015)
  • 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 (Oct. 2011 – Apr. 2015)
  • 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 ECE best 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 Masters students:

  • Ashutosh Sanan (MS, Electr. Eng., 2016, Research project: Automatic Segmentation of Oral Cavity Images using Convolutional Neural Networks) – Affectiva, Boston, MA.
  • Zixuan (Oscar) Pan (MS, Electr. Eng., 2015, co-advisor: Prof. L. Guo, Research project: Topic Modeling Algorithms for Twitter data analysis) – Yodlee, Redwood City, CA.
  • Ji Dai (MS, Electr. Eng., 2015, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, Research project: Privacy-preserving activity and gesture recognition using extremely low resolution sensors) – PhD candidate, ECE Department, University of California, San Diego.
  • Fengzhou Sun (MEng, Electr. Eng., 2015, co-advisor: Prof. L. Guo, Research project: Topic Modeling Algorithms for Twitter data analysis) – Starkey Hearing Technology, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Shashank Shekhar (MS, Sys. Eng., 2014, MS project: Finding Local News on Twitter: News Word Algorithm) – Lumiata, San Mateo, CA.
  • Katherine Terracciano (MS, Electr. Eng., 2014, MS project: Vehicle Classification Techniques) – Systems and Technology Research (STR), Woburn, MA.
  • 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). Semi-finalist of the MIT 100K contest (mit100k.org), first prize at the Pitch Contest of the Annual Harvard Entrepreneurship Competition (see this article) as well as the “Most Likely to be Acquired by Dr Evil in his plan for World Domination” prize at the 2012 MIT In-NOW-Vation Showcase.
  • 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) – Co-founder, Director of Technology at Waygo, 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) – Ericsson, CA
  • 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) – MathWorks, Natick, 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) – Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

Bachelor of Science students:

  • Natalia Frumkin (BS, Comp. Eng., 2020, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, BU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, summer 2018 – summer 2019)
  • Hyato Nakamura (BS, Comp. Eng., 2020, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, BU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, summer 2019 – spring 2020)
  • Hiroki Kawai (BS, Comp. Eng., 2020, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, BU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, summer, fall 2018)
  • Hyato Nakamura (BS, Comp. Eng., 2019, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, BU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, summer, fall 2018)
  • Natalia Frumkin (BS, Comp. Eng., 2020, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, BU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, summer 2017 – fall 2018)
  • Kestutis Subacius (BS, Comp. Eng., 2018, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, BU Comp. Eng. Dean’s Fellow, summer 2017)
  • James Christianson (BS, Comp. Eng., 2016, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, BU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, summer 2014)
  • Luke Sorenson (BS, Comp. Eng., 2016, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, BU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, summer 2013)
  • William Moik (BS, Biomed. Eng., 2014, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad, research scholar, summer 2013)
  • 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 (Sep. 2012 – Dec. 2013)
  • Rudiger Lippert (BS, Electr. Eng., 2008, BU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, summer 2007: Developed a new form of additive musical sound synthesis) – Software Developer at Factual Inc., Los Angeles, CA (Sep. 2011 – Jan. 2013). MS, Electr. Eng., UCLA, 2010.

High-School students:

  • Kristi Richter (Notre Dame San Jose School, BU RISE scholar, summer 2016)
  • Lucas Liang (Middlesex School, BU RISE scholar, summer 2013, co-advisor: Prof. J. Konrad)