STUDENTS SUPERVISED
(Major professor, including last-known affiliation.)
Ph.D. Students
+/-Austin Schmidt
Recipient of the DoD Full-Ride SMART Scholarship Service
Fast Automatic Spatiotemporal Geo-Spatial Feature and Instance Selection With Physics Informed Variational Autoencoders, In Progress
Edward Holmberg
Real-Time Continuous Observational Coverage Mapping with a Stochastic Spatiotemporal Bipartite Network, In Progress
Nathan Cooper
A Supervised Learning Approach to CALIPSO Satellite Cloud/Aerosol Scene Classification, In Progress
Rasha Alawad
Co-Supervised with Redwan Newaz
AI-Based Rapid Culvert Inspection, In Progress
Manisha Panta
Co-Supervised with Tamjidul Hoque
Symmetric Deep Learning Approaches for Improved Segmentation in Real-World Scenarios, Jul. 2023
Senior Data Scientist, Intuit, Mountain View, CA
Pujan Pokhrel
Ocean Wave Parameters Prediction and Characterization for Intelligent Maritime Transportation, Jun. 2022
Software Development Engineer, Amazon, Denver, CO
Zhao Yang
High Performance Analytical Environment for Large Scale Geospatial Data, Dec. 2017
Postdoc, American University, Washington D.C.
Kevin Shaw
Curated Reasoning by Formal Modeling of Provenance, Dec. 2013
Head of Office of Geospatial Science and Technology Innovation - Naval Reearch Laboratory Stennis Space Center, MS
Elias Ioup
A Geospatial Service Catalog for Automatic Orchestration, May 2011
Group Leader, Geospatial Division - Naval Research Laboratory - Stennis Space Center, MS
Maik Flanagin
The Hydraulic Spine: Comparison of Existing Surface Modeling Techniques and Development of a Spline-Based Approach for Hydraulic and Topographic Surface Modeling, Dec. 2007
Head of GIS Department, Army Corps of Engineers – New Orleans District
Roy Ladner
Synthetic Environment Generation for Modeling and Simulation, May 2000
Director, Data Architecture and Administration Division, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, NASA Stennis Space Center, MS
M.S. Students
+/-Daniel Murphy
Co-Supervised with Tamjidul Hoque
Analysis of Residual Neural Networks for Marine Mammal Classi- fication Using Multi-channel Spectrograms, Dec. 2021
Software Developer II, CUBRC, Buffalo, NY
Anthony Marchiavafa
Co-Supervised with Tamjidul Hoque
Detection of Feature Changes in Terminal Area Charts, Dec. 2020
Currently a Doctoral Research Assistant at UNO
Ashta Sharma
Co-Supervised with Tamjidul Hoque
Continental Scale Wind Forecast Model Development, Jul. 2020
Software Engineer - Lot18, New Orleans, LA
Janak Dahal
Co-Supervised with Tamjidul Hoque
Benchmarking Apache Spark Streaming with Scientific Data, Jun. 2018
Senior Software Developer - Digicomm Systems Inc., Metairie, LA
Corey Maryan
Co-Supervised with Tamjidul Hoque
Machine Learning Applications in Detecting Rip Currents from Images, May 2018
Scientist - Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS
Devin Frey
Application of Machine Learning Techniques for the Determination of Oyster Vessel Behavior, Dec. 2017
Scientist - Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) Command, New Orleans, LA.
Matt Toups
Large Scale Geospatial Data Mining, May 2016
IT Director, Computer Science Department, University of New Orleans, LA
David Gallegos
A GIS-Centric Approach for Modeling Vessel Management Behavior System Data to Determine Oyster Vessel Behavior on Public Oyster Grounds in Louisiana, Nov. 2014
Software Engineer – Performance Software Inc., New Orleans, LA
Brent Barre
Techniques for the Visualization of Positional Geospatial Uncertainty, Nov. 2013
Research Scientist - Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS
Daniel Ward
Toward Automating Mobile Cloud Communication, Jul. 2013
Senior Research Software Engineer - GulfSCEI
Nathan Cooper
Oyster Sustainability Modeling As a Public Resource, Jul. 2013
Senior Software Research Engineer - GulfSCEI
Zhao Yang
A Framework to Annotate the Uncertainty for Geospatial Data, Jul. 2012
Doctoral Research Assistant - UNO’s Computer Science Department
Michael Miceli
Private Information Retrieval in an Anonymous Peer-to-peer Environment, May 2011
Software Engineer - Infor Global Solutions - Ann Arbor, MI
David Mark
Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Discovery in Very Large METOC Data Sets, Jul. 2009
Research Scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory- Stennis Space Center, MS
Eric Normand
A Semi-Supervised Information Extraction Framework for Large Redundant Corpora, Dec. 2008
Research Scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory- Stennis Space Center, MS
John Finigan
Spatiotemporal Indexing with the M-Tree, Jul. 2008
IT Director, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Doc Lap Nguyen
Personal Data Warehousing Via a Bluetooth Enabled Cell Phone, May 2007
System Analyst, LSU Health Science, New Orleans, LA
Lev Shulman
Automatic GIS Web Discovery, May 2007
Project Manager, Solutient, Inc., New Orleans, LA
Fady Qaddoura
Bi-Directional Information Exchange with Handheld Computing Devices, Dec. 2006
System Administrator, University of Houston Medical Center, Houston, TX
Elias Ioup
Improving Performance of Spatial Network Queries, Aug. 2006
Research Scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory- Stennis Space Center, MS
Gayatri Ganpaa
An R*-tree Based Semi-Dynamic Clustering Method for the Efficient Processing of Spatial Join in a Shared-Nothing Parallel Database System, Jan. 2006
Software Engineer - Hartford, Inc., CT
Fareed Qaddoura
Benchmarking Engine for the Maritime Industry, Dec. 2004
System Administrator Amazon, Seattle, WA
George Voulgaris
An Instructional SOAP Based Information System, Dec. 2004
IT Department, VA, New Orleans
Muhammad Mas-U-dur Rahman
A Cost-Effective Method for Providing Data to Mo- bile Users, Jul. 2003
Givaudan, J.
The 2-3TR-tree, A Trajectory-Oriented Index Structure for Fully Evolving Valid-Time Spatio-Temporal Datasets, May 2002
Project Manager Total-Fina, France
Olivier David
Spatial BLOBS: The incorporation of Large Volume Meteorological Data into an Object-Oriented Geospatial Database, Dec. 2001
Research Scientist, Naval Research Laboratory – Stennis Space Center, MS
Mahadevan, V.
Benchmarking Data Replication Performance for the Defense Integrated Military Human Resource System (DIMRHS), May 2001
System Manager, UNO, Computer Science Department
Farhad Khoubehi
Design and Development of a Case Management Database for The New Orleans Police Department, Dec. 2000
Haider Mohamed Sharif
Development of a Public Access Information System for Tracking Predators & Offenders in the State of Florida, May 2000
Entergy / SAIC, New Orleans, Louisiana
Elizabeth Warner
Design and Implementation of a Web Site System to Query a GIS Database Via Interactive Maps, Dec. 1999
Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Stennis Space Center, MS
Udaykiran Katikaneni
Fine Tuning and Web-Enabling SPIN (Ship's Performance Indicator), Dec. 1999
Motorola, Chicago
Sanjoy Chakraborty
Towards the Design of an Internet-Based 3D GIS Using VPF+, May 1999
Shiyin Liu
Towards the Design of a Case Management System for the New Orleans Police Department, May 1999
Srikhant Sr
An Environmental Database for the Pontchartrain and Pearl River Basins, May 1998
Entergy Corp., New Orleans, LA
Martin Arnaud
Design and Development of an International Maritime Database, Dec. 1997
Entergy Corp., New Orleans, LA
Roy Ladner
A Non-Manifold Winged-Edge Topology for 3D Modeling, Dec. 1997
Data Architecture and Administration Division Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Stennis Space Center, MS
Sathyamoorthi S.
A Bottom-up Terrain Triangulation Algorithm, Dec. 1997
Entergy Corp., New Orleans, LA
Christ Wynne
A Hierarchical Vector Product Format, Aug. 1996
Entergy Corp., New Orleans, LA
Addanki Srinivas
An RSA Processor Based on Multiple Radix Arithmetic, May 1996
INTEL, Portland, OR
Edgar Cooper
An Extended Vector Product Format, May 1996
Entergy Corp., New Orleans, LA
Herbert S. Whorter
A CMOS RSA Processor for Smart Cards, May 1996
American Management Systems (AMS), Boulder, CO
Kavitha Koppolu
Experimentation with a Shared-Nothing Parallel Database Engine, Dec. 1995
AT&T, Ohio
Eccher Renato
Distributed Transaction Management in an Object Oriented Environment, May 1995
DATUS, Boulder, CO
Grant, K.
Implementation of Recursive Queries on a Shared-Nothing Parallel Database Computer, Dec. 1994
Recipient of a Ph.D. Fellowship at LSU
Nirmala Karumanchi
A High-Performance Accelerator for Smart Information Systems, May 1994
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Austin, TX
Hung Weiming
A Survey and Taxonomy of Special Purpose Processors for RSA, Jul. 1993
Mitsubishi, Taiwan
Dalal Hittesh
Design of an Advanced Binary Decision Machine, 1990
Chips and Technology, San Jose, CA
Undergraduate Honors Thesis
+/-Rishav Rajendra
Online Feature Selection for Semantic Segmentation, Dec. 2020
Senior Software Engineer, Facebook, CA
Huy Vu
Co-Supervised with Tamjidul Hoque
Sediment Transport and its Application to Bed Failure, Dec. 2019
Software Engineer, Amazon
Bijay Regmi
Database Design and Optimization for Telemetric Aquatic Species-Tracking Systems, May 2018
Software Engineer, Amazon
Samip Neupane
Implementing a Geospatial Feature Renderer on iOS Using SQLite and R-Tree Indices, May 2017
Software Developer, RxNT, Indianapolis, Maryand
Perabjoth Singh Bajwa
Visualizing Aquatic Species Movement with Spatiotemporal Data from Acoustic and Satellite Transmitters, May 2016
Implementation Consultant, Fast Enterprises L.L.C, Colorado
Brittany Allesandro
Creating, Writing, and Reading NETCDF Files on a Mobile Device, May 2012
Senior Software Engineer, General Electric, New Orleans Center
International Supervision
+/-Sandner, E.
Graz University of Technology, Austria
Automatic Fast Feature Extraction and Instance Selection Using Clustered Spatio-temporal Data, In Progress
Zoch, M.
Graz University of Technology, Austria
Detecting Seepage in Flood Water Control Structures, In Progress
Reimbold, J.
École Centrale de Nantes - France, Project de Fin d'Études
Geospatial Web Services: Bridging the Gap between OGC and Web Services, 2018
Senior Software Engineer – Trace One - Paris, France
Tabone, O.
École Centrale de Nantes - France, Project de Fin d'Études
Efficient Approximation of Spatial Network Queries using the M-Tree with Road Network Embedding, 2007
Mansion, O.
École Centrale de Nantes - France, Project de Fin d'Études
Graph Processing for Spatial Network Queries, 2006
Grenotton, A.
École Centrale de Nantes - France, Project de Fin d'Études
Automated Terrain Generation Using LIDAR and Waterbody Survey Data, 2005
Bizot, V.
École Centrale de Nantes - France, Project de Fin d'Études
Integrating Web Services into Map Image Applications, 2004
Givaudan, J.
École Centrale de Nantes - France, Project de Fin d'Études
The 2- 3TR-tree, A Trajectory-Oriented Index Structure for Fully Evolving Valid- Time Spatio-Temporal Datasets, 2002
Software Engineer - Total Fina - Paris, France