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Lab Directors
Faculty
 Dr.
Jacob Furst
is an Assistant Professor in the School of CTI, at DePaul University, in
Chicago; he also was an Associate Dean of CTI Student
Services between 1999 and 2003. Dr. Furst received his Bachelor
degree in English from Boston University, and his PhD degree in
Computer Science from University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. His research interests are medical imaging,
content-based image retrieval, and computer graphics. He is currently
working on a project to generate American Sign Language from English,
and also on a project related to human organ identification using
texture information in Computerized Tomography (CT) images. For more
information, please visit
http://condor.depaul.edu/~jfurst/.
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 Dr.
Daniela Stan Raicu
is an Assistant Professor in the School of CTI at DePaul University,
Chicago, Illinois. She received her B.S. in Mathematics from University
of Bucharest, Romania, her M.A. in Computer Science from Wayne State
University, in Michigan, and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oakland
University, Michigan.
Her research interests include data mining and knowledge discovery,
pattern recognition, medical imaging, and multimedia retrieval. Dr.
Raicu has published numerous papers in her research areas and is
actively involved in organizing different conferences and workshops in
Multimedia Retrieval. In the past several years, Daniela worked for and
applied her data mining and image processing expertise to different
research projects at Young & Rubicam, Accenture Technology Labs and Ford
Motor Company. For more information, please visit
http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/Dstan/.
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Mario Besana - Associate Professor, earned both his doctorate
and master's degrees in mathematics at the University of Notre Dame. He
most recently was Associate Professor at Indiana University Northwest.
He has also held teaching positions at Eastern Michigan University, the
University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, Oklahoma State University and
Notre Dame. Dr. Besana's research interests include algebraic geometry
and problem-based learning.
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 Lucia Dettori has been teaching for
CTI since 2000. She has taught applied mathematics courses in Italy and
France before moving to the US, where she has worked at Brown
University, Southern Methodist University and DePaul University. Lucia
holds a doctorate in applied mathematics from the University of Paris XI
(France). Her research interests include numerical analysis, scientific
computation, and optimization of algorithms for solving nonlinear
systems modeling a variety of problems from fluid dynamics to
computerized tomography.
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 Yakov
Keselman
is an Assistant Professor in the School of CTI, at DePaul University, in
Chicago. He earned his Bachelor degree in Mathematics and Computer
Science from Urals State University, in Russia, and his Master's degree
in Mathematics from the University of Georgia; he is currently
completing his PhD in Computer Science at Rutgers University, New
Jersey. Mr. Keselman's research interests include, among others, generic
object recognition, perceptual grouping, and content-based image
retrieval.
For more information, please visit
http://moses.cs.depaul.edu/~ykeselman/.
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