USC CS Colloquium Series

Prof. Ahmed ElgammalRutgers UniversityTitle and Abstract to comeBioDr. Ahmed Elgammal is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Since Fall 2002. Dr. Elgammal is also a member of the Center for Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling (CBIM) and the Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP) at Rutgers. His primary research interest is computer vision and machine learning. His research focus includes human activity recognition, human motion analysis, tracking, human identification, and statistical methods for computer vision. He develops robust real-time algorithms to solve computer vision problems in areas such as visual surveillance, visual human-computer interaction,virtual reality, and multimedia applications. Dr. Elgammal interest includes also research on document image analysis. Dr. Elgammal received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006.Dr. Elgammal received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science and automatic control from University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He received another M.Sc. and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2000 and 2002 respectively.Hosted by: Prof. Gerard Medioni

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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