CS Visiting Scholars/Paid Direct Postdocs, 2008-2009
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Lydia Briedis
395 Soda Hall, 510-643-8230
lydia@eecs
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Thomas Stefan Brox
Dr. Brox received his Ph.D. from Saarland University, Germany. He has been granted a Postdoctoral Fellowship from DAAD and will continue his research plans with Professor Malik and collaborating groups on computer vision: object recognition. His appt.: October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2010.
e-mail: brox@eecs
Office: 547 Soda Hall
Phone: N/A
Artur Agostinho Dos Santos Capelo Cardoso
Dr. Cardoso is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal since 1988. He will collaborate with Professor Garcia on developing a method to assess the effectiveness of learning activities, both from the point of view of the student and the instructor. His appt.: July 15, 2008 through February 28, 2009.
e-mail: acardoso@fe.up.pt
Office: 773 Soda Hall
Phone: N/A
Dewang Chen
Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. He will collaborate with Professor Zadeh and the BISC Group on fuzzy rule learning and soft computing application in transportation. His appt.: January 15, 2009 through January 14, 2010.
e-mail: N/A
Office: 415 Soda Hall
Phone: N/A
Christos Christoudias
Mr. Christoudias is a doctoral student in EECS from Massachusets Institute of Technology. He will collaborate with Trevor Darrell and continue his thesis work on multi-view semi-supervised learning and feature selection. His appt.: November 3, 2008 through June 30, 2009.
e-mail: cmch@icsi.berkeley.edu
Office: 413 Soda Hall
Phone: N/A
Bert De Coensel
Bert De Coensel has held Postdoctoral Research appointments at Gehnt University, Belgium since 2007. He will continue his research with Professor Zadeh on computational modeling of perception of environmental sound using soft computing techniques. His appt.: October 15, 2008 through September 30, 2009.
email: bdcoense@eecs.edu
Office: 551 Evans Hall
Phone: 3-9911
Adolfo Rodriguez De Soto
Dr. Rodriguez De Soto is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Industrial and Computer Science Engineering School of University of Leon, Spain. His work with Professor Zadeh and the BISC Group will focus on a model of a multiresolution linguistic variable. His appt.: August 1, 2008 through July 31, 2009.
email: bdcoense@eecs.edu
Office: 551 Evans Hall
Phone: 3-9911
David Evans
Dr. Evans is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Virginia. He will collaborate with Professor Wagner regarding security of web applications, focusing on opportunities for enhancing web synthesis engines using diversity techniques and policy enforcement. His appt.: August 27, 2008 through December 31, 2008.
e-mail: evans@cs.virginia.edu
Office: 515 Soda Hall
Phone: 3-6763
Cedric Angelo Festin
Dr. Festin is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of the Philippines. He will be collaborating with Professor Eric Brewer on research regarding develoopment of a framework to allow for cost-effective and context-sensitive distribution of digital content from a central server to remote stations. His appt.: March 1, 2008 through March 1, 2009.
e-mail: cmfestin@eecs
Office: 445 Soda Hall
Phone: N/A
Mario Fritz
Dr. Fritz received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany, in August 2008. With a Postdoctoral Fellowship from ICSI he will collaborate with Professor Darrell on research to develop scalable methods for visual categorization. His appt.: November 24, 2008 through September 30, 2009.
e-mail: mfritz@icsi.berkeley.edu
Office: 726 Soda Hall
Phone: N/A
Eun-Jin Im
Dr. Im is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea. She will be collaborating with Professor Yelick on research regarding automatic performance tuning of massive computation on parallel systems. Her appt.: December 23, 2008 through January 19, 2010.
e-mail: N/A
Office: Par Lab (5th flr.)
Phone: N/A
Olga Karpenko
Dr. Karpenko received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 2007. She has been granted a Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship from the AAUW Educational Foundation. During her collaboration with Professor Agrawala, she will continue her research for visualizing complex 3D geometric objects for mathematicians. Her appt.: July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009.
e-mail: karpenko@eecs.berkeley.edu
Office: 514 Soda Hall
Phone: 2-8155
Euntai Kim
Dr. Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University, Korea. He will be collaborating with Professor Zadeh and the BISC Group on soft computing approach to the implementation of unmanned vehicles. His appt.: February 15, 2008 through February 14, 2009
e-mail: etkim@eecs.berkeley.edu
Office: 415 Soda Hall
Phone: 3-4203
Dong Won Kim
Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007. He has been granted postdoctoral awards from Korea Research Foundation (KRF) and from Korea University. He will collaborate with Professor Zadeh and the BISC Group on intelligent humanoid-robot research based on the neuron-fuzzy and soft computing concepts. His appt.: January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008.
email: dkim@eecs.berkeley.edu
Office: 415 Soda Hall
Phone: 3-4523
Adi Livnat
Dr. Livnat is Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at U.C. Berkeley. With Professor Papadimitriou, Dr. Livnat will pursue two lines of research: using circuit models and game thoery to explore counterintuitive properties of brain and behavior, and examining evolutionary questions from a computer science perspective. His appt.: April 26, 2007 through December 31, 2009.
e-mail: adi@eecs
Office: 583 Soda Hall
Phone: 643-9287
Lawrence Mazlack
Professor Mazlack is an Associate Professor in the Computer Engineering Department of the University of Cincinnati. He will be collaborating with Professor Zadeh and the BISC Group on fuzzy (imprecise) causality. His appt.: September 18, 2008 through June 1, 2009
email: mazlack@uc.edu
Office: 551 Evans Hall
Phone: N/A
Lorenz Minder
Dr. Minder received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) in 2007. With a postdoctoral appointment and sponsorship with Professor Sinclair, he will continue studying modifications of the k-tree algorithm. The second part of his plan address aspects of the code reconstruction problem. His appt.: February 1, 2008 through January 31, 2010.
email: lorenz@eecs.berkeley.edu
Office: 795 Soda Hall
Phone: N/A
Toniann Pitassi
Dr. Pitassi is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Toronto, with joint appointments in Mathematics. She will collaborate with Professor Papadimitriou on research in the areas of game theory, communications complexity and approximation algorithms. Her appt.: September 24, 2008 through July 31, 2009.
e-mail: tpitassi@eecs
Office: 727 Soda Hall
Phone: 642-4964
Nancy Reed
Dr. Reed is Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She will collaborate with Professor Russell and Professor Todd Reed on intelligent systems and signal processing research with application to heart disease diagnosis. Her appt.: February 25, 2008 through December 31, 2008.
e-mail: nreed@hawaii.edu
Office: N/A
Phone: N/A
Todd Reed
Dr. Reed is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He will collaborate with Professor Russell and Professor Nancy Reed on intelligent systems and signal processing research with application to heart disease diagnosis. Her appt.: February 25, 2008 through December 31, 2008.
e-mail: trreed@hawaii.edu
Office: N/A
Phone: N/A
Martin Soerensen
Mr. Soerensen is currently enrolled in the M.Sc. degree program in Control Engineering - Intelligent Autonomous Systems at Aalborg University. As Faculty Host, Professor Abbeel will collaborate with Martin on developing machine learning algorithms for robotic control. His appt.: December 21, 2008 through June 1, 2009.
e-mail: mylsk@eecs.berkeley.edu
Office: 476 Cory Hall
Phone: N/A
Mee Young Sung
Dr. Sung is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Incheon. She will collaborate with Professor Bajcsy on a more efficient system for haptic collaboration in tele-immersive virtual environments. Her appt.: September 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009.
e-mail: mysung@berkeley.edu
Office: 475 HMMB
Phone: 642-7512
Raquel Urtasun Sotil
Raquel received her Ph.D. degree (Computer Vision Laboratory) from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2006. Ms. Urtasun has collaborated her research with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and EECS to continue her research with Adjunct Professor Darrell on computer vision and machine learning. Her appt.: November 3, 2008 through December 31, 2009.
e-mail: rurtasun@icsi.berkeley.edu
Office: 537 Soda Hall (Graphics Lab)
Phone: N/A
Richard Zemel
Dr. Zemel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He will collaborate with Professor Russell on research pertaining to machine learning. His appt.: August 27, 2008 through July 31, 2009.
e-mail: zemel@eecs.berkeley.edu
Office: 727 Soda Hall
Phone: 642-4964
Guangping Zeng
Dr. Zeng received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Technology from the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, P.R. China. Receiving postdoctoral funding, and with the sponsorship of Professor Zadeh and the BISC Group, he will pursue his research on soft-computing and fuzzy set application technology. His appt.: September 3, 2008 through August 15, 2009.
e-mail: gpzeng@eecs
Office: 415 Soda Hall
Phone: N/A
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