CS Visiting Scholars/Paid Direct Postdocs
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Visiting Scholars
Tamiko George
306 McLaughlin Hall, 510-642-2614
tamiko@
Paid Direct Postdocs
Alberto Marcelo
253 Cory Hall, 510-643-4976
albertom@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
Kashif Ali
Postdoctoral - Paid Direct
Host: James O'Brien
Dr. Ali received his Master’s degree in Computer Science in 2006. He will complete the requirements for his Ph.D. in Computer Science in August 2011 at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Ali will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of Enabling Ultra Large-scale Radio Identification Systems. The research is expected to yield results in the area of Computer Science.
Appt: November 1, 2011 through October 30, 2013.
e-mail: kashif@eecs
Office: 4th floor CITRIS lab, Sutardja Dai Hall
Ryan Farrell
Visiting Scholar
Host: Trevor Darrell
Dr. Farrell holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Maryland - College Park, MD received in May 2011 and December 2006, respectively. Dr. Farrell is currently a paid “postdoctoral fellow employee” at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI).Dr. Farrell will conduct research on computer vision.
Appt: September 15, 2011 through May 31, 2013.
email: farrell@icsi
Office: ICSI
Madjid Fathi-Trobaghan
Visiting Scholar
Host: Lotfi A. Zadeh
Professor Fathi holds M.S, Ph.D. and Habilitation from the University of Dortmund and Ilmenau in Germany respectively. His research interests are focused on Uncertainties on Knowledge Management, Knowledge Based system in medicine, neuroscince and Engineering, Knowledge Management applications in Industrial Engineering, Knowledge Discovery from Text (KDT), Customer Feedback Analysis in Industrial Engineering, Soft Computing and their application in Industrial and Composite Engineering.
Appt: September 1, 2012 through May 31, 2013.
email: fathi@informatik.uni-siegen.de
Office: 443 Soda Hall
Rei Katayama
Postdoctoral - Paid Direct
Host: Ruzena Bajcsy
Dr. Rei Katayama received her Master’s and her Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo in March 2005 and March 2008, respectively. Dr. Kawakami will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of color analysis, application of IT technologies as it relates to agriculture.
Appt: April 1, 2011 through March 31, 2013.
e-mail: reikawakami@
Office: CITRIS Lab, 475 Hearst Mining Building
Stephanie Lefevre
Postdoctoral - Paid Direct
Host: Ruzena Bajcsy
Dr. Lefevre received her Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Grenoble, France on October 2012. Lefevre will pursue research in Situation awareness for intelligent vehicles. The topic includes situation assessment (driver intention estimation), risk assessment, decision making for autonomous driving applications and driver assistance systems applications for road safety. Road intersection safety is of particular interest for this research.
Appt: January 14, 2013 through February 28, 2014.
e-mail: slefevre@berkeley
Office: 7th floor, Sutardja Dai Hall
Yasuhide Okamoto
Postdoctoral - Paid Direct
Host: Ruzena Bajcsy
Dr. Okamoto received his Master’s and his Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo in March 2006 and March 2010, respectively. Dr. Okamoto will pursue research with Professor Bajscy aiming toward a deeper understanding of the Development of Cloud-based Applications for Monitoring and Archiving the Real World.
Appt: March 1, 2011 through March 31, 2013.
e-mail: yokamoto@
Office: CITRIS Lab, 475 Hearst Mining Building
Tobias Pfaff
Postdoctoral - Paid Direct
Host: James O'Brien
Dr. Tobias Pfaff received his Ph.D in Competer Science on Septemeber 2012 at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of High-level control methods for Fluid Simulation in Computer Graphics. The focus of his research will be on devising mechanism to improve artistic control.
Appt: October 1, 2012 through September 30, 2013.
e-mail: tpfaff@
Office: 537 Soda Hall
Ameet Talwalkar
Postdoctoral - Paid Direct
Host: Michael Jordan
Dr. Talwalkar received his his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Courant University, New York University in May 2010. He received his B.S in Computer Science from Yale University in 2002. Talwalkar will pursue research aiming toward a deeper understanding of the development of automatic methods for assigning molecular function to proteins. The research is expected to yield results in the area of development of scalable machine learning algorithms.
Appt: September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2013.
e-mail: ameet@eecs
Office: 465 Soda Hall