Current and former graduate students
I have had the pleasure of working with a number of remarkable people
over the years. The following is the list of students for whom I serverd
as major advisor in graduate school. I include the name of the student,
the title of his or her thesis or dissertation, and the year of graduation.
I also include the subsequent place of employment.
Former students (11 PhD, 39 MS)
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Reetal Pai, (MS)
"Automated diagnosis of retinal images using
evidential reasoning", (December 2001).
Pursued PhD at Texas A&M University.
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Niaz Abdul, (MS)
"Artery/vein classification in retinal imagery",
(December 2001). Went to work for Advancia Corporation, now a part of
Lockheed Martin, in Washington D.C.
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Lee Brandon, (MS)
"Automated drusen detection in a retinal image
using multi-level analysis", (May 2003).
Went to work for Michelin in Greenville, SC.
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Yanfei Liu, (PhD)
"Dynamic sensing and manipulation in an industrial
robot workcell", (May 2004). Assistant professor at Indiana
University - Purdue University, Fort Wayne.
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Mathew Joseph, (MS)
"Real-time shadow detection using multiple viewpoints",
(May 2004). Went to work for Qualcomm, in San Diego, CA.
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Sunil Dsouza, (MS),
"A State Switching Kalman Filter", (August 2004).
Went to work for Visicom, a robotics company; now (2008) with Plantronics,
an audio company, in Santa Cruz, CA.
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Justin Luck, (MS)
"A wirelessly trackable weapon for military training",
(May 2005). Went to work for Intel, in Columbia, SC.
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Peter Rickenbach, (MS)
"Pin-level simulation of an embedded microprocessor",
(August 2005). Went to work for Intel in San Francisco, CA.
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Jeromie Rand, (MS)
"Real-time detection and correction of errors in heart
interbeat interval", (August 2005). Working on a startup company.
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Subhash Peddamallu, (MS),
"An embedded systems bus monitor", (August 2005).
Went to work for a cable set-top manufacturer in Atlanta, GA.
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Joshua Hughes, (MS)
"A comparison of methods for automated shadow detection",
(December 2005).
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Krishna Sagiraju, (MS)
"A pin-level simulation environment for embedded
system design", (December 2005). Went to work for VMWare, in Palo Alto, CA.
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Kelly Waller, (MS)
"Developing a benchmark suite for the evaluation of
orientation sensors", (December 2006). Went to work for Intel in
Columbia, SC.
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Marty Werner, (MS)
"Using a spline to model the motion of a 4-man fireteam
during building clearing exercises", (December 2006).
Went to law school at the University of South Carolina.
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Li Yu, (PhD)
"On the stability of region count in the parameter space
of image analysis methods", (December 2007).
Went to work for Iptron (formerly Schlumberger).
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Tom Epton, (MS)
"Odometry correction of a mobile robot using a
range-finding laser", (December 2007).
Went to work for SPAWAR (Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic)
in Charleston, SC.
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Karsten Lowe, (MS)
"Distance estimation between transceivers over
short distances", (December 2007).
Went to work for ERC, Inc., a defense contractor.
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Anirudh Singh, (MS)
"Automated State Change Detection of a Gaussian
Distributed Signal", (August 2008).
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Yujie Dong, (MS)
"A device for detecting and counting bites of food taken by a person
during eating", (August 2009).
Pursued PhD at Clemson University.
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Daniel Ganjali, (MS)
"Filtering noise caused by sensor selection for an ultra-wideband
position tracking system", (December 2009).
Pursued PhD at UC Irvine.
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Meredith Drennan, (MS)
"An assessment of linear wrist motion during the taking of a bite
of food", (May 2010).
Went to work for Lincoln Labs at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Weixin Wu, (MS)
"Measuring Digital System Latency from Sensing to Actuation at Continuous
1 Millisecond Resolution", (December 2011).
Went to work at AMD.
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Yujie Dong, (PhD)
"Tracking Wrist Motion to Detect and Measure the Eating Intake of
Free-Living Humans", (May 2012).
Defense slides.
Went to work at KLA-Tencor, San Jose CA.
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Bill Suski, (PhD)
"A Study of Environment Noise in Ultra-Wideband Indoor Position
Tracking", (May 2012).
Defense slides.
Went to work at SPAWAR, Charleston SC.
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Salil Banerjee, (PhD)
"Improving Accuracy in Ultra-Wideband Indoor Position Tracking
through Noise Modeling and Augmentation", (December 2012).
Defense slides.
Went to work at Recon Dynamics in Seattle, WA.
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Ziqing Huang, (MS)
"An Assessment of the Accuracy of an Automated Bite
Counting Method in a Cafeteria Setting", (August 2013).
Defense slides.
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Soheila Eskandari, (MS)
"Bite Detection and Differentiation using Templates of Wrist Motion",
(December 2013).
Defense slides.
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Raul Ramos Garcia, (PhD)
"Using Hidden Markov Models to Segment and Classify
Wrist Motions Related to Eating Activities",
(May 2014).
Defense slides.
Went to work at the
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico.
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Hari Krishnan, (MS)
"Ultra-wideband position tracking on an assembly line",
(May 2014).
Defense slides.
Went to work for First Quality Tissue in Anderson, SC.
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Jose Reyes, (MS)
"A study of time-based features and regularity of
manipulation to improve the detection of eating activity
periods during free living",
(May 2014).
Defense slides.
Went to work for Coiron Graphics.
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Ryan Mattfeld, (MS)
"Automatically Measuring Individual Consumption Events
During Natural Eating Using a Table Embedded Scale",
(August 2014).
Defense slides.
Pursued PhD at Clemson University.
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Surya Sharma, (MS)
"A device to record natural daily wrist motion",
(December 2014).
Defense slides.
Pursued PhD at Clemson University.
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Xueting Yu, (MS)
"A study of the regularity of autocorrelation
of manipulation of wrist motion during eating",
(December 2014).
Defense slides.
Went to work for MathWorks.
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JungPhil (JP) Kwon, (PhD)
"Filtering Impulses in Dynamic Noise in The Presence of
Large Measurement Noise",
(August 2015).
Defense slides.
Went to work for LG.
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Jay Puthumanappilly, (MS)
"Detecting Occlusions of Automobile Parts Being
Inspected By a Camera System During Manufacturing
Assembly",
(August 2015).
Defense slides.
Went to work for Dessault.
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Shawn Mathew, (MS)
"Detection and Recovery from Camera Bump during Automated Inspection of Automobiles on an Assembly line",
(December 2015).
Defense slides.
Went to work for Belcan Corporation at the Champaign
Simulation Center in Urbana-Champaign.
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Mohan Ramaraj, (MS)
"A Training Assistant Tool for the Automated Visual Inspection System",
(December 2015).
Defense slides.
Went to work for Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Kentucky.
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Ryan Mattfeld, (PhD)
"Evaluation of Pedometer Performance Across Multiple
Gait Types Using Video for Ground Truth",
(May 2018).
Defense slides.
Assistant professor at Elon University.
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Yiru Shen, (PhD)
"Using Contextual Information to Improve Hidden
Markov Model Recognition of Wrist Motions During
Eating Activities",
(December 2018).
Defense slides.
Went to work for Facebook, Oculus division.
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Ben Shumpert, (MS)
"A Method to Automatically Learn Appearance
Variability in Machine Parts During
Appliance Manufacturing",
(May 2019).
Defense slides.
Went to work for SAS.
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Yadnyesh Luktuke, (MS)
"Segmentation and recognition of eating gestures from wrist motion
using deep learning",
(May 2020).
Defense slides.
Went to work for Ford Motor Company.
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Vihang Khare, (MS)
"Training a camera based inspection system for
appearance variability",
(August 2020).
Defense slides.
Went to work for Samsung.
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Surya Sharma, (PhD)
"Detecting periods of eating in everyday life by tracking
wrist motion - What is a meal?",
(August 2020).
Defense slides.
Went to work for Exponent.
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Basil Lin, (MS)
"Machine Learning and Pedometers: An Integration-Based
Convolutional Neural Network for Step Counting and Detection",
(December 2020).
Defense slides.
Went to work for Amazon.
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Wenkang Wei, (MS)
"Individualized wrist motion models for detecting eating
episodes using deep learning",
(May 2021).
Defense slides.
Went to work for SHEIN.
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Adam Patyk, (MS)
"Detecting eating episodes from daily patterns of
wrist motion using recurrent neural networks",
(August 2021).
Defense slides.
Went to work for Ursa Major Technologies.
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Shaurya Gupta, (MS)
"Raw versus linear acceleration in the recognition of
wrist motions related to eating during everyday life",
(August 2021).
Defense slides.
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Cole Younginer, (MS)
"Using Transfer Learning to Train Individualized Models
to Detect Eating Episodes from Daily Wrist Motion",
(August 2021).
Defense slides.
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Tianyi Zhang, (MS)
"Identifying Noisy Labels in the Ground Truth of Eating Episodes
Self-Reported by Button Press on a Wrist-worn Device",
(December 2021).
Defense slides.
Went to work for Amazon.
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Mohammad Mayyan, (PhD)
"Embedding a Grid of Load Cells into a Dining Table for
Automatic Monitoring and Detection of Eating Events",
(August 2022).
Defense slides.
Faculty at Yanbu Industrial College in Saudi Arabia.
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James Nguyen, (MS)
"Towards a Hiker Helper App: Defining and Labeling Traversable
Space in a Forested Environment",
(May 2024).
Defense slides.
Went to work for Denso.
Current students
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James Jolly, (PhD), started January 2019, jpjolly@clemson.edu.
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Zeyu Tang, (PhD), started August 2019, zeyut@clemson.edu.
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Faria Armin, (PhD), started August 2023, farmin@clemson.edu.
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Yu Xuan, (PhD), started August 2023, yxuan@clemson.edu.
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Brycen Havens, (PhD), started August 2024, bthaven@clemson.edu.
Clemson / ahoover@clemson.edu