Graduate students of Jeffrey A. Fessler as of Thu Jul 16 09:07:44 EDT 2009 Co-chaired graduate research Other students with whom I am working in some capacity: Yoon-Chung Kim, Ben Kowash, Kiran Pandey
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    PhD students who dissertation research I chaired.
    1. Chun, Se Young
      Thesis (2009, EECS): Motion aspects in joint image reconstruction and nonrigid motion estimation
      Now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard / Brigham

    2. Shi, Hugo R.
      Thesis (2008, EECS): Fast regularization design for tomographic image reconstruction for uniform and isotropic spatial resolution
      Now a Quantitative Analyst at the Chicago Trading Company.

    3. Ruan, Dan
      Thesis (2008, EECS): Image guided respiratory motion analysis: time series and image registration
      Now a researcher in Radiation Oncology at Stanford University.

    4. Srivastava, Somesh
      Thesis (2008, EECS): Accelerated statistical image reconstruction algorithms and simplified cost functions for X-ray computed tomography
      Formerly a Postdoctoral researcher with IBM Multimedia Technologies in IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. Now a Post-doctoral research fellow in the Dept of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University.

    5. Zeng, Rongping
      Thesis (2007, EECS): Estimating respiratory motion from CT images via deformable models and priors
      Now a visiting scientist at FDA/CDRH/OSEL in Rockville, MD.

    6. Zhang-O'Connor, Yingying
      Thesis (2007, EECS): Noise properties of regularized image reconstruction in X-ray computed tomography
      Now a research scientist at RGM Advisors in Austin, TX.
    7. Jacobson, Matthew
      Thesis (2006, EECS): Approaches to motion-corrected PET image reconstruction from respiratory gated projection data
      Now a Research Scientist at Xoran Technologies in Ann Arbor, MI.

    8. Yendiki, Anastasia
      Thesis (2005, EECS): Analysis of signal detectability in statistically reconstructed tomographic images
      Now a post-doctoral fellow at MGH/Harvard in Cambridge, MA working on fMRI.

    9. Ahn, Sangtae
      Thesis (2004, EECS): Convergent algorithms for statistical image reconstruction in emission tomography
      Now a post-doctoral fellow in Richard Leahy's group at USC .

    10. Kim, Jeongtae
      Thesis (2004, EECS): Intensity based image registration using robust similarity measure and constrained optimization: applications for radiation therapy
      Now an Associate Professor in the Information electronics engineering department of Ewha Womans University, Korea.

    11. Elbakri, Idris
      Thesis (2003, EECS): Statistical reconstruction algorithms for polyenergetic X-ray computed tomography
      Previously at Fischer Imaging in Colorado on digital X-ray imaging.
      Now an Imaging Physicist in the Division of Medical Physics, CancerCare in Manitoba, Canada, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Manitoba.

    12. Sotthivirat [now Thongvigitmanee], Saowapak (Nan)
      Thesis (2003, EECS): Statistical image recovery techniques for optical imaging systems
      Now a Researcher at the National Science and Technology Development Agency in Thailand.

    13. Stayman, Web
      Thesis (2002, EECS): Spatial resolution in penalized-likelihood image reconstruction
      Formerly at General Dynamics AIS (formerly Veridian, formerly ERIM) in Ann Arbor on optical imaging, and formerly head of research and development at Xoran Technologies in Ann Arbor, MI.
      Now at Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor, MI.

    14. Yu, Feng (Dan)
      Thesis (2000, EECS): Statistical methods for transmission image reconstruction with nonlocal edge-preserving regularization
      Completed a PhD in mathematics in 2005 at Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver. Then was a postdoc in Statistics at Oxford, UK. Now holds a lectureship in Statistics at the University of Bristol .

    15. Yavuz, Mehmet
      Thesis (2000, EECS): Statistical tomographic image reconstruction methods for randoms-precorrected PET measurements
      Previously: GE Corporate Research and Development (developing cone-beam X-ray CT systems and reconstruction methods), then at Nortel Networks.
      Now a Principal Engineer at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) working on wireless communications systems.

    16. Erdogan, Hakan
      Thesis (1999, EECS): Statistical image reconstruction algorithms using paraboloidal surrogates for PET transmission scans
      After graduation, Hakan first went to IBM T.J. Watson Research Labs, where he researched speech recognition methods, a statistical signal processing problem that builds on some of the same algorithms (like the EM algorithm) used in image reconstruction.
      Hakan is now a Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey.

    PhD students whose dissertation research I co-chaired.
    1. Olafsson, Valur (co-chaired with D. Noll, BME)
      Thesis (2009, EECS): Fast and motion robust dynamic R2* reconstruction for functional MRI
      Now a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC San Diego.

    2. Bashan, Eran (co-chaired with Al Hero, EECS)
      Thesis (2008, EECS): Efficient resource allocation schemes for search
      Currently pursuing entrepreneurial activities: HygieiaMedical.com.

    3. Bhagalia, Roshni (co-chaired with Boklye Kim, Radiology)
      Thesis (2008, EECS): Analysis and strategies to enhance intensity-based image registration
      Currently a Computer Vision Scientist with GE Global Research.

    4. Joshi, Aniket (co-chaired with R. Koeppe, Radiology)
      Thesis (2008, BME): Improved quantitative methods for multiple neuropharmacological non-invasive brain PET studies
      Currently a Senior Research Biologist in the Imaging Department of Merck, West Point, PA

    5. Way, Ted (co-chaired with H. P. Chan, Radiology)
      Thesis (2008, BME): Computer-aided diagnosis of pulmonary nodules in thoracic computed tomography
      Currently a Program Manager for Office Shared Services, Microsoft

    6. Yeo, Teck Beng Desmond (co-chaired with Boklye Kim, Radiology)
      Thesis (2008, EECS): Advances in concurrent motion and field-inhomogeneity correction in functional MRI
      Currently at MR Scientist with GE Global Research.

    7. Noh, Joonki (co-chaired with V. Solo, EECS)
      Thesis (2007, EECS): True spatio-temporal detection and estimation for functional magnetic resonance imaging
      Initially worked as a post-doc at UM on low-dose dual-energy CT for PET attenuation correction. Then worked at Galt Research LLC, Ann Arbor, MI, developing statistical image/signal processing algorithms for long-range Compton scattering imaging.

    8. Narayanan, Ramkrishnan (co-chaired with C. Meyer, Radiology)
      Thesis (2007, BME): Diffeomorphic transformations for automatic multi-modality image registration
      Now a research scientist at Eigen in Grass Valley, CA.

    9. Yip, Chunyu (co-chaired with D. Noll, BME)
      Thesis (2007, EECS): RF pulse designs for signal recovery in T2*-weighted functional magnetic resonance imaging
      Was a post-doctoral fellow at MGH/Harvard in Cambridge, MA working on fMRI. Now at Queen's College, Hong Kong.

    10. Lee, Sangwoo (co-chaired with D. Noll, BME)
      Thesis (2006, EECS): Iterative reconstruction methods for rosette trajectories in functional MRI
      Now a MR pulse sequence design / application development engineer at GE Healthcare in Waukesha, WI.
    11. Krishnan, Sumati (co-chaired with T. Chenevert, Radiology)
      Thesis (2004, BME): K-space acquisition method for dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI: Application to breast tumors
      Formerly a fMRI research specialist at UM fMRI lab.

    12. Sutton, Brad (Whitaker Fellow) (co-chaired with D. Noll, BME)
      Thesis (2003, BME): Physics-based reconstruction of magnetic resonance images
      Formerly a Research Scientist at the Biomedical Imaging Center, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Now an Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

    13. Sukovic, Predrag (co-chaired with N. Clinthorne, Nuclear Medicine)
      Thesis (2003, BME): Design of a dual modality PET/cone beam CT scanner - A feasibility study
      Now CEO of Xoran Technologies of Ann Arbor, MI.
    14. Park, Hyunjin (co-chaired with C. Meyer, Radiology)
      Thesis (2003, BME): Adaptive registration and atlas based segmentation
      Now a Research Assistant Professor in Radiology at UM.

    15. Ghanei, Amir (co-chaired with H. Soltanian-Zadeh, Henry Ford Hospital)
      Thesis (1999, EECS): A knowledge-based deformable surface model for analysis of medical images.
      Formerly with Innoveda, now with Medtronic.
    16. Titus, Stephen (co-chaired with A. Hero, EECS)
      Thesis (1996, EECS): Improved penalized likelihood reconstruction of anatomically correlated emission data.
      Was employee #5 at Accelerant Networks designing fast backplane transceivers with adaptive signal processing. Now ?
    Doctoral students with whom I worked closely.
    Graduate students that performed directed study research with me.
    Dissertation titles of students for whom I have served as a committee member.
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