Ph.D. Alumni
Antonio Gomez
Antonio Gomez received his Bachelors Degree in EE in 1986 and his Masters Degree in 2007, both from Florida International University. In addition, he holds a Graduate Certification in Systems Engineering from New Mexico State University and joined the PhD program at UNM in 2012 . He currently works at Sandia National Laboratories.
Andreas S. Panayides
Senior Research Fellow with the Electronic Health (eHealth) Laboratory of the University of Cyprus. Formerly, he was the R&D project manager and Biomedical Imaging area leader of the Integrated Precision Medicine Technologies (IPMT) – Teaming Phase 1 project (2017-2018).
Gangadharan Esakki
Gangadharan Esakki is currently pursuing his PhD with Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico. He is advised by Dr. Marios Pattichis and his research interests include HEVC (x265), VP9, MPEG-DASH, Statistical models and Machine Learning for Image and Video compression.
Alvaro Ulloa
Alvaro Ulloa, ““Am-fm analysis of structural and functional magnetic resonance images,” M.Sc. Thesis, Electrical and Computer Engineering”,
May 2013.
He is currently working towards his Ph.D. at UNM. His M.Sc. Thesis in Statistics, related to current ivPCL research,
received the Lee Award for the best 2016 student presentation, awarded by the Albuquerque chapter of the American
Statistical Association.
(LinkedIn).
Victor Stone
Victor Stone,"Frequency Domain Decomposition of Digital Video Containing Multiple Moving Objects," Ph.D.Dissertation ,Fall 2018
Cesar Alberto Carranza
Cesar Carranza, “Fast and Scalable Architectures and Algorithms for the Computation of the Forward and Inverse Discrete Periodic Radon Transform with Applications to 2D Convolutions and Cross-Correlations,” May 2016 (with distinction). He is currently an Associate Professor with Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.
Yuebing Jiang
Yuebing Jiang, “Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures and Systems for Time-varying Image Constraints (DRASTIC) for Image and Video Compression,” May 2014 (with distinction). He is currently with Apple.
John Colby Hoffman
John Colby Hoffman, “A Dynamically Reconfigurable Parallel Processing Framework with Application to High-Performance Video Processing,” Spring 2013. He is currently a System Architect with Raytheon. His M.Sc. thesis @ivPCL on “High-Speed Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration for Field Programmable Gate Arrays,” was nominated for the Xilinx Ross Freeman Award for Technical Innovation.
Daniel Llamocca
Daniel Llamocca, “Dynamically Reconfigurable Management of Energy, Performance, and Accuracy Applied to Digital Signal, Image, and Video Processing Applications,” Spring 2012. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Oakland University.
Carla Agurto
Carla Agurto, “Detection and Classification of Diabetic Retinopathy Pathologies in Fundus Images,” Fall 2012. She is doing a Post-Doc at IBM.
Sergio Murillo
Sergio Murillo, “Global Optimization Methods for Full-Reference and No-Reference Motion Estimation With Applications to Atherosclerotic Plaque Motion and Strain Imaging,” Spring 2010. He is currently a Research Engineer with Vision Systems at Gentex Corporation. He is also an Assistant Professor affiliated with the Department of ECE at the University of New Mexico
Oliver Jeromin
Oliver Jeromin, “Optimal Spectral Reconstructions from Deterministic and Stochastic Sampling Geometries using Compressive Sensing and Spectral Statistical Models,” Summer 2009. He has been with Sandia National Laboratories and Gentex Corporation. He is currently an ADAS and Autonomous Driving at Rivian
Janakiramanan Ramachandran
Janakiramanan Ramachandran, “Image Analysis of Wood Core Using Instantaneous Wavelength and Frequency Modulation,” December 2008. Janak Ramachandran currently works as a Senior Data Scientist developing algorithms for extracting and utilizing meaningful information from various types of data. He has several years of experience working in both federal government research laboratories and industry in the fields of machine vision, medical imaging and machine learning. He is currently at Apple.
Victor Murray
Victor Murray, “Multidimensional AM-FM Models with Applications,” December 2008. He is currently a Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia, Lima, Peru. He is also Research Assistant Professor with the Department of ECE at the University of New Mexico.
Alonzo Vera
Alonzo Vera, “A Dynamic Arithmetic Architecture: Precision, Power and Performance Considerations,” May 2008. He is currently the President at IDEAS Engineering & Technology. He is also a Research Assistant Professor in charge of Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems at UNM COSMIAC.
Honggang Yu
Hongang Yu. “A 3-D Multi-View Freehand Ultrasound Reconstruction System Using Volumetric Registration and Geometric Level Set Segmentation,” December 2006. Honggang held a lecturer appointment with ECE, a research scientist appointment with the Keck-UNM Small-Animal Imaging Lab at the School of Medicine at the University of New Mexico. She was also a Research Scientist with VisionQuest Biomedical.
Simon Barriga
Eduardo S. Barriga, “Spatiotemporal Independent Component Analysis with Applications to Optical Imaging,” Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2006. He is currently the President of VisionQuest -Rx, Inc.. He received the 2013 Outstanding Young Engineer by the IEEE Albuquerque Section.
Paul Rodriguez
Paul Rodriguez V. “Fast and Accurate AM-FM Demodulation with Applications,” Summer 2005. He was hired by the Mathematical Modeling and Analysis group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is now a Professor with the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. He received the 2014 National Award for Scientific Production – Concytec (Peru) & Elsevier. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
Jeff Kern
Jeff Kern, “Multispectral Image Registration using Mutual Information,” (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering, May 2003. Jeff was a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He also served as a part-time instructor with ECE at the University of New Mexico.
