Current students with Dr. Kerekes as primary advisor

• Bo Ding
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Entered program: Fall 2010
     Research topic: validation and online implementation of hyperspectral analytical modeling tool.
  
  
• Kevin Bloechl
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Entered program: Fall 2012
     Research topic: multi-sensor data analysis and simulation validation..
  
  
• Kim Horan
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Entered program: Fall 2011
     Research topic: phenomenology of SAR and lidar sensing of complex snow and ice surfaces.
  
  
• Ming Li
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Entered program: Fall 2011
     Research topic: Semiautomated building extraction from oblique imagery.
  
  
• Sanjit Maitra
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Entered program: Fall 2009
     Research topic: synthetic aperture radar image simulation.
  
  
• Oesa Weaver
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Entered program: Fall 2012
     Research topic: small satellite technology.
  
  
• Jiashu Zhang
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Entered program: Fall 2010
     Research topic: theory and phenomenology of lidar sensing of complex surfaces.
  
  
• Jie Zhang
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Entered program: Fall 2010
     Research topic: extraction of 3-D models and surface attributes from oblique imagery.
  
  
• Ming Zhang
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Entered program: Fall 2010
     Research topic: extraction of 3-D models and surface attributes from oblique imagery.
  
  

Past students with Dr. Kerekes as primary advisor

• Jason Casey
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2007
     Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Hyperspectral Target Detection Algorithms in the Presence of Misregistered Data
  
  
• Pierre Chouinard
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2006
     Thesis: Decision Fusion of Hyperspectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery for Trafficability Assessment
  
  
• Jared Herweg
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2012
     Thesis: Pedestrian Detection Phenomenology in a Cluttered Urban Environment using Hyperspectral Imaging
  
  
• Ranxi Huang
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2009
     Thesis: Semi-automated Techniques for the Retrieval of Dermatological Condition in Color Skin Images
  
  
• Ankit Jasani
     Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2011
     Graduate Paper: Face Recognition: Study and Comparison of Techniques PCA and FLD
  
  
• Steve Lach
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2008
     Thesis: Semi-Automated DIRSIG Scene Modeling from 3D Lidar and Passive Imagery
  
  
• Brian Leahy
     Degree: BS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2006
     Research topic: the quantification of material identification using hyperspectral imagery
  
  
• Lingfei Meng
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2012
     Thesis: Analytical Modeling, Performance Analysis, and Optimization of Polarimetric Imaging System
  
  
• Hari Palacharla
     Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
     Year: 2012
     Graduate paper: Image Processing of High Resolution Multispectral Imagery in Earthquake Disaster Mapping.
  
  
• Cara Perkins
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2013
     Thesis: Spatial Heterodyne Spectroscopy: Modeling and Interferogram Processingbr>
  
• Mike Presnar
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2010
     Thesis: Modeling and Simulation of Adaptive Multimodal Optical Sensors for Target Tracking in the Visible to Near Infrared
  
  
• Dean Pulsifer
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2007
     Graduate capstone project: Comparison of Classification Algorithms using Spectral and Elevation Data
  
  
• Annette Rivas
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2011
     Thesis: Tunable Micro-Electro Mechanical Fabry Perot Etalon
  
  
• Danielle Simmons Cox
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Year: 2013
     Thesis: Hyperspectral Monitoring of Chemically Sensitive Plant Sensors.
  
  
• Marcus Stefanou
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2008
     Thesis: Spectral Image Utility for Target Detection Applications
  
  
• Kristin Strackerjan
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2006
     Thesis: Modeling the Spectral Effects of Water and Soil as Surface Contaminants in a High Resolution Optical Image Simulation
  
  
• Nithya Subramanian
     Degree: MS Electrical Engineering
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2006
     Graduate paper: Spectral Imaging of Near-surface Oxygen Saturation Fraction of Human Skin
  
  
• Tingfang Zhang
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Year: 2013
     Thesis: Multipel-target Tracking Using Spectropolarimetric Imagery.
  
  

Current students with Dr. Kerekes on thesis committee

• James Albano
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Entered program: Fall 2008
     Research topic: Graph theory models for the analysis of hyperspectral imagery.
  
  
• Bin Chen
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Entered program: Fall 2008
     Research topic: Land cover context for DDDAS.
  
  
• AnneMarie Giannandrea
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Entered program: Fall 2011
     Research topic: acquisition of comprehensive remote sensing data set for analysis..
  
  

Past students with Dr. Kerekes on thesis committee

• Nancy Baccheschi
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2005
     Thesis: Generation of a Combined Dataset of Simulated Radar and Electro-optical Imagery
  
  
• Karl Baum
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2008
     Thesis: Multimodal Breast Imaging: Registration, Visualization and Image Synthesis
  
  
• Daniel Blevins
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2005
     Thesis: Modeling Multiple Scattering and Absorption for a Differential Absorption LIDAR System
  
  
• Maria Busuioceanu
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2013
     Thesis: Analysis of Compressive Sensing for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Applications
  
  
• Adam Cisz
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2006
     Thesis: Performance Comparison of Hyperspectral Target Detection Algorithms
  
  
• David Grimm
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2005
     Thesis: Comparison of Hyperspectral Imagery Target Detection Algorithm Chains
  
  
• Joseph Handfield
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2007
     Thesis: High Resolution Source Localization in Near Field Sensor Arrays by MVDR Technique
  
  
• Emmett Ientilucci
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2005
     Thesis: Hyperspectral Sub-Pixel Target Detection Using Hybrid Algorithms and Physics Based Modeling
  
  
• Scott Klempner
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2008
     Thesis: Statistical Modeling of Radiometric Error Propagation in Support of Hyperspectral Imaging Inversion and Optimized Ground Sensor Network Design
  
  
• Justin Kwong
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2009
     Thesis: Hyperspectral Clustering and Unmixing of Satellite Imagery for the Study of Complex Society State Formation
  
  
• Joe McGlinchy
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Year: 2010
     Thesis: Extracting Structural Vegetation Componsents from Small-Footprint Waveform LiDAR Data in Savanna Ecosystems
  
  
• Bo Mu
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2007
     Thesis: Unsupervised Spectral Classification of Astronomical X-ray Sources Based on Independent Component Analysis
  
  
• Herbert Viggh
     Degree: PhD Electrical Engineering
     Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
     Year: 2002
     Thesis: Surface Prior Information Reflectance Estimation (SPIRE) Algorithms
  
  
• Jason West
     Degree: MS Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2005
     Thesis: Matched Filter Stochastic Background Characterization for Hyperspectral Target Detection
  
  
• Jiaying Wu
     Degree: PhD Imaging Science
     Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology
     Year: 2012
     Thesis: A Signal Processing Approach for Preprocessing and 3D Analysis of Airborne Small-Footprint Full Waveform LIDAR Data
  
  

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