Students Supervised

Total number: 57
 

Ph.D. Theses:
  1. Perouz Taslakian, Geometric and Computational Aspects of Musical Rhythm, thesis in progress.
  2. Greg Aloupis, Reconfiguration of Polygonal Structures, March 2005.
  3. Michael Soss, Geometric and Computational Aspects of Molecular Reconfiguration, September, 2001.
  4. Francisco Gomez, Computing Nice Projections of Objects in Space, July 1996.
  5. Prosenjit Bose, Geometric and Computational Aspects of Manufacturing Processes, 1994.
  6. Binhai Zhu, Computational Geometry in 2.5 Dimensions, 1994.
  7. Jean-Marc Robert, Linear Approximation and Line Transversals, June 1991, (co-supervised jointly with Prof. David Avis).
  8. Michael E. Houle, Weak Separation of Sets, July, 1989.
  9. Thomas C. Shermer, Visibility Properties of Polygons, June 1989 (co-supervised jointly with Prof. David Avis).
  10. David Rappaport, The Complexity of Computing Simple Circuits in the Plane, February 1987, (co-supervised jointly with Prof. David Avis).
  11. Hossam A. ElGindy, Hierarchical Decomposition of Polygons With Applications, May 1985, (co-supervised jointly with Prof. David Avis).
  12. Jorg-Rudiger Sack, Rectilinear Computational Geometry, June, 1984.
  13. Binay K. Bhattacharya, Applications of Computational Geometry to Pattern Recognition Problems, 1981.
  14. Selim Akl, The Travelling Salesman Problem, 1978, (Co-supervised jointly with Prof. Monroe Newborn).
  15. Leslie H. Oliver, Automatic Image Processing and Pattern Recognition for Biomedical Research, September, 1978.
  16. Rajan Shinghal, Using Contextual Information to Improve Performance of Character Recognition Machines, March, 1977.


  • Masters Theses:
    1. Hani Ezzadeen, Extraction and Segmentation of MRI Brain Images, May 2006 (co-supervised with Dr. L. Soualmi).
    2. Justin Colannino, Measures of String Similarity with Applications, June 2005.
    3. Greg Aloupis, On Computing Geometric Estimators of Location, April 2001.
    4. Hormoz Pirzadeh,The Rotating Calipers as a Tool in Computational Geometry, May 1999.
    5. Michael Soss, On the Size of the Sphere of Influence Graph, July 1998.
    6. Ioannis Rekleitis, Visual Motion Estimation Based on Visual Blurr Interpretation, September, 1995 (co-supervised).
    7. Elsa Omana-Pulido, Some Aperture Angle Optimization Problems, 1994.
    8. David Eu, Approximating Polygonal Curves in Two and Three Dimensions, October 1992.
    9. Eric Guevremont, On Envelopes of Arrangements of Lines, August 1992.
    10. Patrice Belleville, Computing Two-Covers of Simple Polygons, July, 1991.
    11. Naji Mouawad, Minimal Obscuring Sets, November, 1990.
    12. Marek Teichman, Wedge Placement Optimization Problems, June 1989.
    13. David Samuel, Computing the External Geodesic Diameter of a Simple Polygon, September, 1988.
    14. Minou Mansouri, On the Reachability of a Ladder in Two Convex Polygons, August 1986.
    15. Teren Gum, Visibility Between Two Edges of a Simple Polygon, Summer 1985.
    16. Michael McKenna, Finding the Minimum Vertex Distance Between Two Disjoint Convex Polygons in Linear Time, 1983.
    17. Diana C. Bouchard, Combined Top-down and Bottom-up Algorithms for Using Context in Text Recognition, Spring 1979.
    18. Rhonda Toppston-Amsel, Unsupervised Learning Algorithms Applied to Data Analysis, August, 1977.
    19. Robert L. Cahn, Feature Extraction and Evaluation for Cervical Cell Recognition, August, 1977.
    20. Laurence C.-F. Pang, A Method for Measuring the Curvature of a Boundary on a 2-dimensional Quantized Grid, November, 1975.
    21. Shirley S. Chung, Using Contextual Information From the English Language to Improve the Performance of Character Recognition Machines, March, 1975.
    22. Patricia F. Sharpe, Statistical Classification Techniques Applied to Disease Diagnosis, January, 1974.


    Masters Projects:
    1. Imad Khoury, Computational Geometric Analysis of Gene Sequences, 2006.
    2. Alain Turki, Quadrangulations, 1995.
    3. Claudia Pateras, Text-Line Orientation Estimation in Document Analysis, 1994.
    4. Mary M. McQueen, The Ultimate Convex Hull Algorithm in Practice, 1984.
    5. Shigeo Inoue, An Implementation of Decomposing Simple Rectilinear Polygons into Convex Quadrilaterals (Jorg-R. Sack's Algorithm), March 1983.
    6. Jaber Kadhim Farhan, Implementation of a Convex Hull Algorithm for Points in Three Dimensions, March 30, 1982.
    7. Jim A. McAlear, Computing the Maximum Distance Between Two Finite Planar Sets, 1981.
    8. Ronald Greti, An O(n) Approximate Convex Hull Algorithm, June 1978.
    9. Lesley P. Chang, A Non-Parametric Feature Selection Method based on Graph-Theoretical Clustering Techniques, December 1976.
    10. Lesley P. Chang, Application of Sequential Classification Methods using Decision Trees to a Problem in Medical Diagnosis, December 1976.
    Post Doctoral Students:
    1. Dr. Stefan Langerman, 2001-2003
    2. Dr. Patrick Morin, 2001-02
    3. Dr. Sylvain Lazard, 1997-98.
    4. Dr. Suneeta Ramaswami, 1994-97.
    5. Dr. Hazel Everett, 1990-92.


    Undergraduate Research Projects:
    1. Jakob Teitelbaum, RHYTHMOS: An Interactive Software System for Exploring and Understanding Musical Rhythm, April 2006.
    2. Jakob Teitelbaum, RHYTHMOS Junior, April 2006.
    3. Michael Hawker, RHYTHMOS Junior, April 2006.
    4. Benjamin Marlin, Constructing Convex 3-Polytopes from Two Trinagulations of a Polygon, April 2002.