Graduate students of Jeffrey A. Fessler as of Tue Apr 1 09:47:45 EDT 2008

• Chun, Seyoung
  Brain signal processing and image registration
  
• Funai, Amanda (NSF Graduate Fellowship)
  MR image reconstruction
  
• Huh, Wonseok
  Medical imaging
  
• Khalsa, Kim (NSF Graduate Fellowship)
  MR dynamic image reconstruction
  
• Lingenfelter, Dan
  Image reconstruction for homeland security
  
• Long, Yong
  Image reconstruction for radiation oncology
  
• Ruan, Dan
  Dynamic CT imaging / registration for radiation therapy
  
• Shi, Hugo
  Regularization design for image reconstruction
  
• Srivastava, Somesh
  Image reconstruction for X-ray CT
  
• Valenzuela, John (General Dynamics Graduate Fellowship)
  Imaging through volume turbulence and polarimetry
  

Co-chaired graduate research

• Bashan, Eran
  Imaging system optimization by bounds, adaptive sensing (co-chaired with Al Hero, EECS)
  
• Bhagalia, Roshni
  Image registration analysis (co-chaired with Boklye Kim, Radiology)
  
• Dupuis, Catherine
  PDE methods for image processing (co-chaired with Selim Esedoglu, Math)
  
• Joshi, Aniket
  PET radiotracer quantification (co-chaired with R. Koeppe, Radiology)
  
• Olafsson, Valur
  MR image reconstruction (co-chaired with D. Noll, BME)
  
• Way, Ted
  Computer-aided diagnosis of CT lung nodules (co-chaired with H. P. Chan, Radiology)
  
• Yeo, Desmond
  MR image registration (co-chaired with Boklye Kim, Radiology)
  
• Yoon, Daehyun
  MR pulse design (co-chaired with D. Noll, BME)
  

Other students with whom I am working in some capacity: Yoon-Chung Kim, Ben Kowash, Kiran Pandey

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FAQ for my students

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PhD students who dissertation research I chaired.

• Zeng, Rongping
  Thesis (2007): Estimating respiratory motion from CT images via deformable models and priors
  Now a visiting scientist at FDA/CDRH/OSEL in Rockville, MD.
• Zhang-O'Connor, Yingying
  Thesis (2007): Noise properties of regularized image reconstruction in X-ray computed tomography
  Now a research scientist at RGM Advisors in Austin, TX.
• Jacobson, Matthew
  Thesis (2006): Approaches to motion-corrected PET image reconstruction from respiratory gated projection data
  Now a Research Scientist at Xoran Technologies in Ann Arbor, MI.
• Yendiki, Anastasia
  Thesis (2005): Analysis of signal detectability in statistically reconstructed tomographic images
  Now a post-doctoral fellow at MGH/Harvard in Cambridge, MA working on fMRI.
• Ahn, Sangtae
  Thesis (2004): Convergent algorithms for statistical image reconstruction in emission tomography
  Now a post-doctoral fellow in Richard Leahy's group at USC .
• Kim, Jeongtae
  Thesis (2004): Intensity based image registration using robust similarity measure and constrained optimization: applications for radiation therapy
  Now an Asst. Prof. in the Information electronics engineering department of Ewha Womans University, Korea.
• Elbakri, Idris
  Thesis (2003): Statistical reconstruction algorithms for polyenergetic X-ray computed tomography
  Previously at Fischer Imaging in Colorado on digital X-ray imaging.
  Now working in the Division of Medical Physics, CancerCare in Manitoba, Canada.
• Sotthivirat, Saowapak (Nan)
  Thesis (2003): Statistical image recovery techniques for optical imaging systems
  Now working at the National Science and Technology Development Agency in Thailand.
• Stayman, Web
  Thesis (2002): Spatial resolution in penalized-likelihood image reconstruction
  Formerly working at General Dyamics AIS (formerly Veridian, formerly ERIM) in Ann Arbor on optical imaging. Now head of research and development at Xoran Technologies in Ann Arbor, MI.
• Yu, Feng (Dan)
  Thesis (2000): 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 .
  
• Yavuz, Mehmet
  Thesis (1997): 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 at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) working on wireless communications systems.
• Erdogan, Hakan
  Thesis (1997): 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.

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PhD students whose dissertation research I co-chaired.

• Noh, Joonki
  Thesis (2007): True spatio-temporal detection and estimation for functional magnetic resonance imaging (co-chaired with V. Solo, EECS).
  Now working at UM on low-dose dual-energy CT for PET attenuation correction.
• Yip, Chunyu
  Thesis (2007): RF pulse designs for signal recovery in T2*-weighted functional magnetic resonance imaging (co-chaired with D. Noll, BME)
  
• Narayanan, Ramkrishnan
  Thesis (2007): Diffeomorphic transformations for automatic multi-modality image registration (co-chaired with C. Meyer, Radiology)
  Now a research scientist at Eigen in Grass Valley, CA.
• Lee, Sangwoo
  Thesis (2006): Iterative reconstruction methods for rosette trajectories in functional MRI (co-chaired with D. Noll, BME)
  Now a MR pulse sequence design / application development engineer at GE Healthcare in Waukesha, WI.
• Krishnan, Sumati
  Thesis (2004): K-space acquisition method for dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI: Application to breast tumors (co-chaired with T. Chenevert)
  Now a fMRI research specialist at UM fMRI lab.
• Sutton, Brad (Whitaker Fellow)
  Thesis (2003): Physics-based reconstruction of magnetic resonance images (co-chaired with D. Noll)
  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.
• Sukovic, Predrag
  Thesis (2003): Design of a dual modality PET/cone beam CT scanner - A feasibility study (co-chaired with N. Clinthorne)
  Now CEO of Xoran Technologies of Ann Arbor, MI.
• Park, Hyunjin
  Thesis (2003): Automatic control point selection for non-rigid registrations (co-chaired with C. Meyer)
  Now a research investigator in Radiology at UM.
• Ghanei, Amir
  Thesis (1999): A knowledge-based deformable surface model for analysis of medical images.
  (Co-chaired with H. Soltanian-Zadeh.)
  Formerly with Innoveda, now with Medtronic.
• Titus, Stephen
  Thesis (1996): Improved penalized likelihood reconstruction of anatomically correlated emission data. (Co-chaired with A. Hero.)
  Was employee #5 at Accelerant Networks designing fast backplane transceivers with adaptive signal processing. Now ?

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Doctoral students with whom I worked closely.

• Grissom, Will
  Thesis (2008): RF pulse design for parallel excitation in MRI (Chaired by D. Noll.)
  Now a postdoc at Stanford.

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Graduate students that performed directed study research with me.

• Booth, Scott: CG preconditioning methods
• Brown, Kevin: imaging system optimization
• Ensley, Matt: SPECT reconstruction
• Ferrise, Gianni (Whitaker Fellowship): direct brain interface
• Givens, Brendhan: iterative reconstruction algorithms
• Grekowicz, Brian: fast image rotation
• Rajukumar, Mukundakumar: MR image registration
• Sowers, Wesley: direct brain interface
• Vaideeswaran, Jyotsna: direct brain interface signal processing

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Dissertation titles of students for whom I have served as a committee member.

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Photographs from group parties.

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