Associate Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno (2009)
My primary research interest is in Artificial Intelligence with an emphasis on Computer and Robot Vision,
Visual Computing and Graphics, Modeling, and Animation. The main applications for my research activities focus
on enhancing traditional fields of telerobotics, assistive technology, and intelligent environments by leveraging
visual computing. I am generally interested in investigating the applications of basic imagery in conjunction with
artificial intelligence tools to implement efficient communication frameworks for human-computer-robot
interaction, interactive gaming, and virtual reality.
I am currently looking for motivated graduate students (both Masters and Doctoral levels) who are interested in the areas of my research. Please browse my research activities, projects, and publications, and contact me if you are interested in joining my research team.
My teaching is mainly focused on visual computing, interactive gaming, machine learning, and robotics. In the past, I have taught classes in parallel computing, computer architecture, and microprocessors.
Principles, design and implementation of deep learning systems. Topics include statistical machine learning,
multi-layer perceptron (MLP) and neural networks, deep neural networks, optimization and learning,
convolutional neural networks (CNN), CNN architectures,
CNN applications in classification, detection, segmentation,
and advanced topics in recurrent networks and generative adversarial networks (GAN).
Fundamental topics related to game design. Topics include: game design requirements,
game design principles, evaluation, peer review, prototyping.
Principles, design and implementation of vision systems. Camera models and image formation,
feature detection, segmentation. Camera calibration, 3-D reconstruction, stereo vision.
I am looking for motivated and intelligent graduate students. If you have any questions about my research or wish to join my team, please contact me.