Awards, Talks, Service

Below is a list of on-going and past items related to significant awards, service, consulting, and invited talks as well as presentations made.

Selected Awards / Honors

• NSF CAREER Award (2018, Program: Energy, Power, Networks, and Control)

• AFOSR YIP Award (2018, Program: Control & Dynamics)

• Graduate Research Fellowship (2007 – 2011, Georgia Tech)

• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant (2007, Georgia Tech)

• Presidents Undergraduate Research Award (2005, Georgia Tech)

• Highest Honors (2003 – 2006, Georgia Tech)

Selected Service

• Technical Committee Member on IEEE CSS Intelligent Control

• Technical Committee Member on IEEE CSS Hybrid Systems

• National Science Foundation Panel Reviewer (Industry & Academic)

• Simons Highschool Program Admissions Committee, Stony Brook University

• CSIRE Highschool Program Admissions Committee, Stony Brook University

• Graduate Admissions Committee, Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University

• Graduate Admissions Committee, BMI Department, Stony Brook University

• Academic Senator, College of Engineering, Stony Brook University

• Faculty Search Committee, BMI Department, Stony Brook University

• Simons Highschool Program Mentor, Stony Brook University

• Journal Reviewer (Past/Present): IEEE TIP, IEEE PAMI, IEEE JBHI, SIAM SISC, CVIU

• Conference (Past/Present) Reviewer: IEEE CDC, ACC, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICRA

Selected Teaching

• Spring 2022: AMS 311 - Intro Probability Theory
  

• Fall 2017-2021: BMI 540 - Statistical Methods
  

• Spring 2016: CSE 377 - Introduction to Medical Imaging
  

• Spring 2016: CSE 600 - Topics in Modern Computer Science
  

• Fall 2017: CSE 600 - Topics in Modern Computer Science
  

Selected Research Funding & Grants

• (Active) Promoting Student Cross-Campus Collaboration for Engineering Driven Medicine (SBU DoIT)
  Amount: $5000.00
  Year: 2019
  Role: PI

• (Active) Interactive 2D3D Control for Autonomous Systems (AFOSR YIP)
  Amount: $443,476.00
  Year: 2018-2021
  Role: PI

• (Active) Geometric Optimization and Control of Time-Varying Networks (NSF CAREER)
  Amount: $500,020.00
  Year: 2018-2023
  Role: PI

• Prototype and Geometric Modeled Rad-Hard Chip Sets (AFRL)
  Amount: $749,747.20
  Year: 2014 – 2016
  Role: co-PI (Split 50%)

• Performed Exploratory Modeling Research on EKV/SM3 Platforms (Raytheon)
  Amount: $75,000.00
  Year: 2014 – 2015
  Role: PI

• Investigated Geometric Models for Interconnect Architectures (NSF)
  Amount: $150,000.00
  Year: 2013 – 2015
  Role: co-PI (Split 50%)

• Prototype and Geometric Modeled Rad-Hard Chip Sets (AFRL)
  Amount: $149,696.34
  Year: 2013 – 2014
  Role: co-PI (Split 50%)

• Investigated Simulated Designs of AMPM Missile Platform (AMRDEC/MDA)
  Amount: $149,573.26
  Year: 2013 – 2015
  Role: co-PI (Split 50%)

Selected Talks & Presentations

• Space Force / AFRL RV (Space Vehicles), Kirtland AFB
  Title: “The Interplay of Curvature and Control”
  Date: Fall 2021

• AFOSR Annual Program Review, Control and Dynamical Systems
  Title: “The Interplay of Curvature and Control Towards 2D3D Vision”
  Date: Fall 2021

• Emory University, Department of Mathematics
  Title: “The Interplay of Curvature and Control”
  Date: Fall 2021

• University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation
  Title: “The Interplay of Curvature and Control: From Vision-Based Autonomy, Networks, to Economics”
  Date: Fall 2020

• AFOSR Annual Control & Dynamics Program Review
  Title: “2D3D Vision-Based Control”
  Date: Fall 2020

• Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB
  Title: “Geometric Based Control Towards Imaging and Autonomy”
  Date: Summer 2020

• Georgetown University, Computer Science Department
  Title: “A Geometric Control Approach Towards Understanding Trust and Ethics in Autonomy”
  Date: Fall 2019

• NETSCI Winter Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X)
  Title: “Maxwell's Demon and the Discrete Ricci Flow”
  Date: Fall 2019

• International Conference on Complex Networks
  Title: “Characterizing Networks on the Tensor Manifolds”
  Date: Fall 2019
  

• AFOSR Annual Control & Dynamics Program Review
  Title: “Interactive 2D3D Control”
  Date: Fall 2019

• Missile Defense Agency, Redstone Arsenal
  Title: “Control Based Discrimination”
  Date: Spring 2017

• IEEE Control and Decision Conference
  Title: “Geometry of Correlation Networks for Studying Cancer Biology”
  Date: Fall 2016

• Missile Defense Agency, Redstone Arsenal
  Title: “Quantifying & Managing Supply Chain Risk”
  Date Fall 2016

• Stony Brook University, Biomedical Informatics Dept.
  Title: “System Identification and Waterbed Effects of Dynamical Systems”
  Date: Spring 2016

• Johns Hopkins University, Electrical Engineering Dept.
  Title: “A Network Geometric Approach to Analyzing Complex Systems”
  Date: Spring 2016

• Missile Defense Agency, Redstone Arsenal
  Title: “Examining Anti-Corrosion and Pin-Hole Effects”
  Date: Spring 2013

• Aviation and Missile Research Development Center, Redstone Arsenal
  Title: “Next Generation Approaches for AMPM Architectures”
  Date: Fall 2012

• IEEE American Control Conference
  Title: “Geometry and Control Based Discrimination”
  Date: Summer 2011

• Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Mathematics
  Title: “Pose Estimation in Visual Tracking and Medical Imaging”
  Date: Summer 2010

• Israel Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering Dept.
  Title: “Dynamics in Point Set Registration”
  Date: Fall 2009

• IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
  Title: “Statistical Shape Learning for 3D Tracking”
  Date: Summer 2009

• IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  Title: “Non-Rigid 2D Image Segmentation and 2D3D Pose Estimation”
  Date Spring 2008

• Decision and Control Symposium, Georgia Tech
  Title: “Particle Filtering for Registration of 2D/3D Point Sets with Stochastic Dynamics”
  Date: Spring 2008

• IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  Title: “Robust 3D Pose Estimation and Efficient 2D Region-Based Segmentation"
  Date: Spring 2008

• SPIE Medical Imaging Conference
  Title: “A New Distribution Metric for Image Segmentation”
  Date: Fall 2007

• SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging
  Title: “Tracking with a New Distribution Metric in a Particle Filtering Framework
  Date: Summer 2007

Post-Doc

• Samuel Bignardi, PhD

PhD Students

• Kevin Murgas (Department: Biomedical Informatics)

• Daniel Grange (Department: Applied Mathematics and Statistics)

• Bipul Islam (Department: Biomedical Informatics, Graduated 2020)

Masters, Undergrad, Highschool

• Vishnu Pamula (Degree: Masters, Department: Applied Mathematics and Statistics)

• Jay Torasakar (Degree: Masters, Department: Computer Science, Year: 2017-2018)

• Onkar Deshpande (Degree: Masters, Department: Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Year: 2017-2018)

• Neelay Trivedi (Degree: Highschool Student, Department: Simons Summer Program, Year: Summer 2018)

• Jagdeep Bhatia (Degree: Highschool Student, Department: Simons Summer Program, Year: Summer 2019)

• Shivansh Gupta (Degree: Highschool Student, Department: Simons Summer Program, Year: Summer 2019)

• Melanie Chen (Degree: Highschool Student, Department: CSIRE, Year: Summer 2019)

• Emily Liu (Degree: Highschool Student, Department: Simons Summer Program, Year: Summer 2021)

• Anika Puri (Degree: Highschool Student, Department: Simons Summer Program, Year: Summer 2021)

• Lilah Linderman (Degree: Highschool Student, Department: CSIRE, Year: Summer 2021)

Thesis Committee

• Stanley Tuznik (Department: Applied Mathematics & Statistics)

• Jeremy Lerner (Department: Applied Mathematics & Statistics)

• Maryam Pouryahya (Department: Applied Mathematics & Statistics)

• Mahsa Torkaman (Department: Computer Science)

• Rena Elkin (Department: Applied Mathematics & Statistics)

Consulting Activities

• Sigmatech Incorporated (2016-Present)

• Harper Laboratories, LLC (2014-2017)

• Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (2014-2015)

• Trex Enterprises (2010-2011)

• United Technologies Research Center (2009-2010)

• MIT Lincoln Laboratories (2007-2009)