Faculty

• Dr. Michael W. Marcellin, Professor, Director
• Dr. Ali Bilgin, Research Assistant Professor
• Dr. Yong-Uk Chun, Visiting Scientist

Graduate Students

• Joseph Dagher
• Radhika Jandhyala
• Karthik Krishnan
• Prajit Kulkarni
• Hariharan Lalgudi
• Lingling Pu
• Ali Tabesh
• Zhenyu Wu

Alumni/Alumnae

• Steve Conn
• Karl Bauer, Ph.D

Currently with Rincon Research Corp.
• Kannan Panchapakesan, Ph.D.

Currently with Hughes Network Systems.
• Fang Sheng, M.S., August 1998.

Thesis: Lossy and lossless bit plane coding of imagery using the integer wavelet transform.
Currently with Retek Information Systems, Inc..
• James Owens, Ph.D., December 1997.

Dissertation: Compression of synthetic aperture radar phase history data.
Currently with Hewlett-Packard Co..
• David Walsh, Ph.D., May 1997.

Dissertation: Restoration of coherent signals and images from incomplete Fourier data.
Currently with Vista Clara, Inc.
• Dongchang Yu, M.S., August 1996.

Thesis: A fixed-rate quantizer using block-based entropy-constrained quantization and run-length coding.
Currently with Centillium.
• Gongsan Yu, Ph.D., August 1996.

Dissertation: Error concealment for packet video.
Currently with Sony Electronics, Inc.
• James Kasner, Ph.D., December 1995.

Dissertation: Adaptive wavelet compression of imagery.
Currently with The Aerospace Corporation.
• Ligang Ke, Ph.D., December 1995.

Dissertation: Near-lossless image compression and multi-track (d,k) modulation codes.
Currently with Motorola.
• Glen P. Abousleman, Ph.D., May 1994.

Dissertation: Entropy-constrained predictive trellis coded quantization and compression of hyperspectral imagery.
Currently with Motorola.
• Parthasarathy Sriram, Ph.D., December 1993.

Dissertation: Low bit-rate transform and wavelet image coding.
Currently with Sun Microsystems.
• Wayne H. Erxleben, M.S., August 1993.

Thesis: Error-correcting two-dimensional modulation codes.
• Edward K. Orcutt, Ph.D., August 1992.

Dissertation: Encoding of multi-track (d,k) modulation codes.
• Eric W. VonColln, M.S., August 1991.

Thesis: Subband coding of images using trellis coded quantization.
• Andrew V. Dowd, M.S., May 1991.

Thesis: Statistical considerations of modified two-bit sampling on astronomical correlators.
• Michael E. Fox, M.S., May 1991.

Thesis: The viability of shaped BPSK modulation techniques with 5kHz UHF SATCOM channels.
• Alan K. Ma, M.S., May 1991.

Thesis: Timing recovery for two-dimensional modulation codes.
• Kai-Loong Tong, M.S., May 1991.

Thesis: Transform coding of monochrome and color imagery using trellis coded quantization.
• Parthasarathy Sriram, M.S., August 1990.

Thesis: Noisy channel performance of trellis coded quantization.
• Yi-Fu Wang, M.S., December 1989.

Thesis: Evaluation of correlated double sampling used with solid state imagers.