Keynote Speakers

Bir Bhanu

Dr. Bhanu is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Cooperative Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Bhanu is also the Director of the Visualization and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VISLab) and the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems (CRIS) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Prior to joining UCR, Dr. Bhanu was a Senior Honeywell Fellow at Honeywell Inc. Dr. Bhanu has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, and has worked with Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation, INRIA-France and IBM San Jose Research Laboratory. Dr. Bhanu has been the principal investigator of various programs from DARPA, NASA, NSF, AFOSR, ARO and other agencies and industries in the areas of object recognition, learning and vision, image understanding, image video databases and machine vision applications. Dr. Bhanu has been the guest editor/associate editor of many journals including IEEE Transactions PAMI, IEEE Transactions IP, IEEE Transactions R & A and IEEE transactions SMC, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Analysis and Applications, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision and the International Journal of Machine Vision and Applications.

Dr. Bhanu is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Dr. Bhanu was the General Chair for the first IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (Palm Springs, CA, 1992), Chair for the DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, (Monterey, CA, 1994), and General Chair for the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (San Francisco, CA, 1996). Dr. Bhanu is a member of ACM and AAAI.

Dr. Bhanu received the S.M. and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California and the M.B.A. degree from the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Bhanu’s current research interests are Computer Vision, Machine Learning for Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Graphics and Visualization, Robotics and Human-Computer Interactions.
 

Hamid Jafarkhani

 

Hamid Jafarkhani received the B.S. degree in electronics from Tehran University in 1989 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1994 and 1997, respectively.

From June 1996 to Sept. 1996, he was a summer intern at Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs). He joined AT&T Labs-Research as a Senior Technical Staff Member in Aug. 1997. Later he was promoted to a Principle Technical Staff Member. While at AT&T Labs, he and his colleagues invented space-time block coding, a MIMO technology, that has become an active area of research and is widely used in practice. He was with Broadcom Corp. as a Senior Staff Scientist from July 2000 to Sept. 2001. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine where he is also the Deputy Director of Center for Pervasive Communications & Computing .

Hamid Jafarkhani ranked first in the nationwide entrance examination of Iranian universities in 1984. He was a co-recipient of the American Division Award of the 1995 Texas Instruments DSP Solutions Challenge. He received the best paper award of ISWC in 2002 and an NSF Career Award in 2003. He received the UCI Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research in 2006. Also, he received the 2006 IEEE Marconi Best Paper Award in Wireless Communications. He received the School of Engineering Fariborz Maseeh Best Faculty Research Award in 2007.

He was an associate editor for the IEEE Communications Letters form 2001-2005, an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2002-2007 and an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 2005-2007. He was a guest editor of the special issue on "MIMO-Optimized Transmission Systems for Delivering Data and Rich Content" for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing in 2008. He has been an area editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications since 2007. He is listed as a highly cited researcher in http://www.isihighlycited.com. He is an IEEE Fellow and the author of the book Space-Time Coding: Theory and Practice.
 

Gerard Medioni

 

"Computer Vision: from the lab to the real world"

 

Professor Gérard Medioni received the Diplôme d’Ingenieur from ENST, Paris in 1977, a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1980 and 1983 respectively. He has been at USC since then, and is currently Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, co-director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS), and co-director of the USC Games Institute. He was Chairman of the Computer Science Department from 2001 to 2007. Professor Medioni has made significant contributions to the field of computer vision. His research covers a broad spectrum of the field, such as edge detection, stereo and motion analysis, shape inference and description, and system integration. He has published 3 books, over 60 journal papers and 180 conference articles, and is the recipient of 8 international patents. Prof. Medioni is associate editor of the Image and Vision Computing Journal, associate editor of the Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Journal and of the International Journal of Image and Video Processing. He is a Fellow of IAPR, IEEE, and AAAI.