Faculty Research

Figure Ground Processing, Saliency and Guided Attention for Analysis of Large Natural Scenes: Working Towards a Cognitive Saliency Map


Professors Andreas G. Andreou, Ralph Etienne-Cummings and Mounya Elhilali have begun working on a new Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative project.

Spinal Neuroprosthesis Devices and the Control of Artificial Limbs

Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings' group is studying the neurophysiology of sensory-motor systems of vertebrate and its application to the development of neuroprosthesis devices for spinal cord injuries and for upper limb replacement.

Smart Surgical Tools Using Fiber Optic Sensor and Imager

Professor Kang and his collaborators have demonstrated an imaging and guided system incorporating microsurgical tools for application in vitreoretinal surgery.

New Image Processing Technique for Human Brain Cortex

Professor Jerry Prince and his group has developed a novel image processing technique based on geometry-driven optical flow warping for spatial normalization of Cortical Surface.



Dr. Hynek Hermansky named Julian S. Smith Professor and Director of the Center for Language and Speech Processing

Assistant Professors Mounya Elhilali and Mark Foster receive the U.S. Navy 2012 Young Investigator Research Award

Congratulations to Mounya Elhilali and Mark Foster as two of only 26 scholars nationwide chosen as recipeints of the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Research Award.

Prof. Jerry Prince has been elected a Fellow of the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Aided Intervention Society

Jerry Prince is the William B. Kouwenhoven Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and was selected for his “significant contributions for medical imaging and analysis.”

Prof. Jacob Khurgin has been nominated as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

At the November 2011 meeting of the Council of American Physical Society, Prof. Jacob Khurgin was elected to Fellowship.  The announcement letter can be accessed here.


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