Highly-motivated PhD students are sought to start in fall 2018 in the EECS
program under Professor Shawn Newsam in the areas of computer vision, image
analysis, spatial analysis, and remote sensing.
I anticipate recruiting one or more students to work on an NSF funded project on
images and videos captured from unmanned aerial vehicles, more commonly known as
drones:
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1747535&HistoricalAwards=false
Drones are democratizing overhead image and video capture. Within an hour,
someone can purchase a drone from a local electronics store for a few hundred
dollars and capture high resolution imagery of the Earth which can be made
available to the world through the Internet.
Rather than focus on specific applications, I am seeking to develop a suite of
fundamental analysis techniques for drone images and videos.
Funding for students is expected to be in the form of research and/or teaching
assistantships.
Desired qualifications:
- A BS or preferably an MS in CS, EE, or related areas.
- Strong mathematical background.
- Strong programming ability.
- Experience/interest in one or more of the following:
-- Image processing and computer vision
-- Pattern recognition and machine learning
-- Remote sensing
-- Geographic information systems/sciences
- Desire to publish in top conferences and journals. This includes computer
vision as well as remote sensing venues.
For further information:
- Professor Newsam's research lab:
http://vision.ucmerced.edu/
- Professor Newsam's webpage:
http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/snewsam/
- EECS graduate group at UC Merced:
http://eecs.ucmerced.edu
To be considered for the above positions, you must apply to the EECS graduate
program at UC Merced. For more information about the application procedure,
please see:
- Application procedure:
http://graduatedivision.ucmerced.edu
The application deadline is January 15, 2018.
The selection process is expected to be very competitive.
PLEASE BE SURE TO MENTION PROFESSOR SHAWN NEWSAM and your interest in the
project(s) above in your Statement of Purpose.
The Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) graduate group at UC Merced
consists of 15 faculty members and over 65 mostly PhD-level graduate students.
The group has collective interests in machine learning, computer vision, speech
processing, computer graphics, robotics, sensor networks, distributed systems,
databases, intelligent systems, and computational neuroscience, among others
areas. UC Merced is the tenth campus of the University of California and the
first American research university built in the 21st century. It is located in
the California Central Valley, approximately one hour drive from the Yosemite
National Park and two hours from the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Shawn Newsam
Associate Professor and Founding Faculty
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
School of Engineering
University of California, Merced
Email: snewsam@ucmerced.edu
Web: http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/snewsam