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CBI Team was well represented at the latest Bioimage Informatics Conference held at Janelia Farm Research Center in April 2009. From left to right: Ge Yang, Gustavo Rohde, Jelena Kovacevic, Bob Murphy, Sam Chen (alumnus) and Ting Zhao (alumnus).
   
Jelena Kovacevic's article entitled "Quantized Frame Expansions with Erasures" is one of the 10 most cited papers in the Journal of Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. This article looks into how to provide robustness in the transmission of data in the presence of losses (erasures) by using redundant signal representations known as frames.
   
Bob Murphy was appointed to the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council. Council members are selected for four-year terms from among the leading representatives of the health and scientific disciplines and meet advise the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the NIH Director, and the specific Institute Directors on high-level policy matters, and to discuss and approve/disapprove grant awards that have already passed through the NIH review process at the level of study sections and NIH programmatic discussions.
 

Amina Chebira had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied and Harmonic Computational Analysis, “Classifying Convex Sets with Frames” (joint work with Matt Fickus and Jelena Kovacevic). In this work, Amina is the first to put forth a framework towards answering the question of why frames (redundant signal representations) perform better than their nonredundant counterpart in real-world classification problems. She is now a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Martin Vetterli, at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

 

CBI was well represented at the last BMES conference:

  • Ryan Kellogg , Daniel Delubac , Amina Chebira , Jonathan S. Minden, Jelena Kovacevic, and Stefan F. Zappe, “Imaging technologies for high-throughput Drosophila functional genomics screens”.

  • Chris Highley , Sasha Bakhru , Stefan Zappe, “Hyaluronic acid derivatives or complex coacervation and cellular encapsulation”.

  • Usha Kuppuswamy , Sasha Bakhru , Daniel Delubac , Stefan Zappe, “Perfusion microbioreactor for human adult neural stem cell expansion”.

 
Stefan Zappe, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and core CBI member, was one of three Carnegie Mellon University researchers to receive the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, NSF's most prestigious award for junior faculty. Stefan won a $400,000, five-year award to develop MEMS-based fruit fly injection technologies for high-throughput RNAi screens to enable studies of gene function and disease development.
   
Jelena Kovacevic was appointed regular member of the NIH Microscopic Imaging Study Section.
   
Gustavo Rohde, Alexandre Ribeiro, Kris Dahl and Robert Murphy had a paper accepted for oral presentation at the 2008 ISAC Congress in Budapest and also for publication in the refereed proceedings issue (only 12 were selected from 31 submissions).
   
Amina Chebira, a PhD student of Prof. Kovacevic, defended her thesis, “Adaptive Multiresolution Frame Classification of Biomedical Images”, in July 2008. She is now a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Kovacevic.
   
Gowri Srinivasa, a PhD student of Prof. Kovacevic, defended her thesis, “Active Mask Framework for Segmentation of Fluorescence Microscope Images”, in July 2008. She is now a Professor in the PES School of Engineering, Dept. of Information Science and Engineering and Center for Pattern Recognition, Bangalore, India.
   
Amina Chebira, a PhD student of Prof. Kovacevic, received a 2008 Honorable Mention Award for graduate student service, CMU.
   
Christina Milo, working with Amina Chebira and Jelena Kovacevic, was chosen as one of the finalists at the CIT Meeting of the Minds.
   
Manuel Gonzales-Rivero, working with Gowri Srinivasa and Jelena Kovacevic, won the Lockheed Martin CIT Meeting of the Minds Competition, 2008.

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