From: zr9b@vipsun.larc.nasa.gov (Zia-ur Rahman)
Subject: PhD EE looking for a full-time position in image/signal processing...
Keywords: Image processing, pattern recognition, neural networks
Organization: NASA LAngley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23665
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:14:14 GMT

I am looking for a full-time position (research or in applications) in the
Pittsburgh, PA area. 
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			     Zia-ur Rahman

			    105	Terrell	Road
		     Newport News,  VA 23606-2240.
			   Home: (804) 596-1814
			 Office: (804) 864-6556
			 e-mail: zr9b@vipsun.larc.nasa.gov



    Professional and Research Interests
	Machine vision,	image and  signal  processing,	pattern	 recognition
	methodologies,	and neural network applications, implementation, and 
	theory.

    Education
	Ph.D. Electrical Engineering,
	University of Virginia,	August,	1989, GPA: 3.73/4.00.
	Major: Pattern Recognition and Image Processing.
	Minors:	Digital	Computer Systems,
		Control	Systems.
	Title of Ph.D. Dissertation:
	    Algorithms for a Neural Network Implementation of  Auto-
	    nomous Visual Flight Control Using Optical Trajectories

	M.S. Electrical	Engineering,
	University of Virginia,	August 1986. GPA: 3.63/4.00.
	Major Areas of Study: Image Processing,	Control	Systems.
	Title of Master's Thesis:
	    Motion Detection Using A Biologically Based	Sensor

	B.A. Physics and Mathematics, magna cum	laude,
	Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin, May, 1984. GPA: 3.67/4.00.


    Research and Work Experience
	Science	and Technology Corporation, Hampton, Virginia
	  Research Scientist --	NASA Langley Research Center
	  (September 1989 - present)

	University of Virginia
	  Department of	Electrical Engineering:
	    Graduate Research Assistant, Computer and Control Laboratory,
	    (August 1984 - August 1987,	January	1988 - August 1989)

	    Graduate Teaching Assistant, Digital Logic Design,
	    (August 1987 - December 1987)

	  Department of	Pharmacology:
	  Programmer and Assistant System Administrator,
	  (August 1987 - August	1988)


    Computer Literacy
	Proficient in C, FORTRAN, and Pascal programming languages, and	the UNIX
	operating system.


    Honors & Activities
	Member IEEE, 1986-1987,	1990--present.
	Member INNS, 1990--present.
	Member SPIE, 1990--1991.
	Member SPSE, 1989--present.
	Elected	Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor	Society), May 1989.
	Senior Mathematics Award, April	1984.
	William	Harley Barber Physics Award, April 1984.
	Elected	Phi Beta Kappa (National Liberal Arts Honor Society), 1984.
	Elected	to Laurel Society (Ripon College Honor Society), 1984.
	Elected	Sigma Pi Sigma (National Physics Honor Society), 1983.
	Ripon College Dean's List, 1981-1984.


    Publications

	(1)  Friedrich	O.  Huck,  Carl	 L.  Fales,  Rachel   Alter-
	     Gartenberg, Zia-ur	Rahman,	and  Stephen E.	Reichenbach,
	     An	End-to-end Assessment of Visual	Communication, Jour-
	     nal  of Visual Communications and Image Representation,
	     (1992).

	(2)  Friedrich	O.  Huck,  Carl	 L.  Fales,  Rachel   Alter-
	     Gartenberg,  and  Zia-ur  Rahman,	On the Assessment of
	     Visual Communication, Bose, N. and	C.  R.	Rao  (eds.),
	     Handbook of Statistics, Vol. 10, North-Holland Publish-
	     ing Company, (1992).

	(3)  R.	Alter-Gartenberg, Carl L. Fales, Friedrich O.  Huck,
	     Zia-ur   Rahman,  and  Stephen  E.	 Reichenbach,	Mul-
	     tiresponse	Imaging: Information and Fidelity,  Multidi-
	     mensional Systems and Signal Processing, (1992).

	(4)  F.	O. Huck, R. Alter-Gartenberg, and Z.  Rahman,  Image
	     Gathering	and  Digital  Restoration  for	Fidelity and
	     Visual Quality, Computer Vision,  Graphics,  and  Image
	     Processing:  Computer Models and image Processing,	Vol.
	     53, No. 1,	(1991).

	(5)  F.O. Huck,	R. Gartenberg, and Z. Rahman, Image  Gather-
	     ing  and  Digital	Restoration  for Fidelity and Visual
	     Quality, Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image  Process-
	     ing:  Graphical  Models  and  Image Processing, January
	     1991.


    Conferences	and Presentations

	(6)  Z.	Rahman,	R. Alter-Gartenberg, C.	L. Fales, and S.  E.
	     Riechenbach: Discrete Cosine Transform Coding: Informa-
	     tion Efficiency and Fidelity. Visual  Information	Pro-
	     cessing,  Friedrich  O.  Huck, Editor, Proc. SPIE 1705,
	     (1992).

	(7)  R.	Alter-Gartenberg, C. L.	Fales, and Z.  Rahman:	Mul-
	     tiresolution  Coding: Information Efficiency and Fidel-
	     ity, Visual Information Processing, Friedrich O.  Huck,
	     Editor, Proc. SPIE	1705, (1992).

	(8)  F.	O. Huck, C. L. Fales, R.  Alter-Gartenberg,  and  Z.
	     Rahman:  Information,  Entropy  and  Fidelity in Visual
	     Communication Visual Information Processing,  Friedrich
	     O.	Huck, Editor, Proc. SPIE 1705, (1992).

	(9)  R.	Alter-Gartenberg, C. L.	Fales, F. O. Huck,  Z.	Rah-
	     man,  and	S.  E.	Reichenbach Multiresolution Imaging:
	     Information and Fidelity,	8th  Israeli  Conference  on
	     Artificial	 Intelligence and Computer Vision, Tel-Aviv,
	     (1991).

	(10) R.	Alter-Gartenberg, C. L.	Fales, F. O. Huck,  Z.	Rah-
	     man, and S. E. Reichenbach	Multiresponse Imaging System
	     for Improved Resolution, Visual Communication and Image
	     Processing:  Hierarchical	Image-Coding, John E. Woods,
	     Editor, Proc. SPIE	1605, (1991).

	(11) S.	E. Reichenbach,	R. Alter-Gartenberg, S.	K. Park, and
	     Z.	 Rahman,  Artificial  Scenes  and Simulated Imaging,
	     Stochastic	and Neural  Methods  in	 Signal	 Processing,
	     Image  Processing and Computer Vision, Proc. SPIE 1569,
	     (1991).

	(12) R.	Narayanswamy, Z.  Rahman,  and	S.  E.	Reichenbach,
	     Restoration of Subband Coded Images, Proceedings of the
	     ICASSP, Toronto, Canada, (1991).

	(13) R.	Alter-Gartenberg, F. O.	Huck, C. L.  Fales,  and  Z.
	     Rahman, Image Restoration Beyond the Sampling Passband,
	     Proceedings of the	ICASSP,	Toronto, Canada, (1991).

	(14) Z.	Rahman,	R. Alter-Gartenberg, C.	L. Fales, and F.  O.
	     Huck, {it Wiener-Matrix Restoration Beyond	the Sampling
	     Passband, Infrared	Imaging	 Systems:  Design  Analysis,
	     Modeling,	and  Testing, Gerald C.	Holst, Editor, Proc.
	     SPIE 1488,	(1991).

	(15) Z.	Rahman,	S. John,  F.O.	Huck,  and  S.	Reichenbach,
	     Information  Theoretical  Assessment of Image Gathering
	     and Coding	for Digital Restoration, presented at SPSE's
	     43rd Annual Conference, Rochester,	New York, May 1990.

	(16) S.	John, Z. Rahman,  F.O.	Huck,  and  S.	Reichenbach,
	     Information  Theoretical  Assessment of Digital Imaging
	     Systems, Proc. of SPIE  Conference,  Orlando,  Florida,
	     April 1990.

	(17) Z.	Rahman,	R.M. Inigo, E.S. McVey,	 A  New	 Sensor	 for
	     Automatic	Flight	Control,  Proc.	 of SPIE Conference,
	     Orlando, FL, April	1990.

	(18) Z.	Rahman,	R.M. Inigo, E.S. McVey,	Algorithms for Auto-
	     nomous  Visual Flight Control, Proc. of IJCNN, Washing-
	     ton, D.C.,	June, 1989.  E.S. McVey, R.M. Inigo, J.	Min-
	     nix,  J.  Sigda, Z. Rahman,  Artificial Neural Computer
	     for Image Tracking, Proc. of SPIE Conference,  Califor-
	     nia, January, 1989.

	(19) Z.	Rahman,	J. Doner, R.M. Inigo, E.S. McVey,  A  Neural
	     Network Implementation of Autonomous Visual Flight	Con-
	     trol Using	Optical	Flow, Poster Presentation,  Interna-
	     tional  Neural  Network Society's First Annual Meeting,
	     Boston, MA, September, 1988.

	(20) R.M. Inigo, E.S. McVey, C.	Hsin, Z. Rahman, J.  Minnix,
	     A New Sensor for Machine Vision, Proc. of IFAC Interna-
	     tional Conference on Low Cost Sensors, Valencia, Spain,
	     Nov. 1986.



    Under Review

	(21) Stephen  E.  Reichenbach	and   Zia-ur   Rahman, 
	     Transform-Coding	Image  Compression  for	 Information
	     Efficiency}, submitted to Journal of Visual  Communica-
	     tion and Image Representation.

	(22) Carl  L.  Fales,  Friedrich  O.  Huck,  Rachel   Alter-
	     Gartenberg,  and  Zia-ur	 Rahman, Multiresolution Image 
			 Gathering and Restoration}, submitted to  Journal of	
			 Visual Communication and Image Representation.


    References
	(1) Friedrich O. Huck, 
	    NASA Langley Research Center
	    MS 473, 5 North Dryden Street
	    Hampton, VA 23665.
	    (804) 864-1517

	(2) J. Richard Wrobel
	    Science and Technology Corporation
	    101 Research Drive
	    Hampton, VA 23666.
	    (804) 865-1894

	(3) Rafael M. Inigo
	    Department of Electrical Engineering
	    School of Engineering and Applied Science
	    Thornton Hall
	    University of Virginia
	    Charlottesville, VA 22903
	    (804) 924-3845
			(804) 924-6104

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Zia-ur Rahman 
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