Shawn Newsam

Curriculum Vitae

Assistant Professor and Founding Faculty

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

School of Engineering, University of California, Merced

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Phone: 209-***-****, Fax: 209-***-****

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June 5, 2012

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara,

2004.

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Davis, 1996.

B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley,

1991.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, School of Engineering,

University

of California at Merced, Jul 2005-present

.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory, Sep 2003-Jun 2005

.

Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

University of

California at Santa Barbara, Jul 1998-Aug 2003

.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition with a particular focus on

scientific

domains including geospatial data analysis and computational structural biology.

AWARDS AND HONORS

National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2012

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2007

Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award, 2007

The Sapphire Data Mining Software Library I contributed to as a postdoc at LLNL received

a 2006

R&D 100 award recognizing it as one of the top 100 industrial innovations worldwide

Lockheed-Martin Fellowship in Remote Sensing, 2001-2003

Nominated for Teaching Award for Outstanding Graduate Students, UC Davis, 1996

General Mo

tors Scholar, UC Berkeley, 1988-1990

Dean s Honor List, UC Berkeley, 1986-1990

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GRANTS

Awarded Grants as PI

$497,208, CAREER: Social Multimedia as Volunteered Geographic Information: Crowdsourcing

What-Is-Where on the Surface of the Earth Through Proximate Sensing, National Science

Foundation (NSF), Award IIS-1150115, Jul 2012-Jun 2017.

$647,841, RUI: New Tools for Characterizing Protein Dynamics, National Science

Foundation (NSF),

Award DBI-0960480, Sep 2010-Aug 2013, Co-PIs: M. Colvin and A. Gopinathan.

$250,000, Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award, Oct 2007-

Sep

2012.

$396,684, III: Small: RUI: Integrating Image and Non-Image Geospatial Data, National

Science

Foundation (NSF), Award IIS-091706, Aug 2009-Jul 2012.

$5,000, Visibility Cameras for Monitoring Particulate Pollution, UC Merced Graduate &

Research

Council Faculty Research Grant, Mar 2011-May 2012.

200K SUs of high-performance computing time, New Computational Tools for Analyzing

Protein

Dynamics, National Science Foundation (NSF) TeraGrid, Oct 2010-Oct 2011.

$99,290, Terrestrial Remote Sensing for Monitoring Atmospheric Particulates, Center for

Information Technology In the Interest of Society, Oct 2007-Sep 2008 (extended to Sep

2009).

$2,095, Image Processing and Computer Vision Techniques for Measuring Respiratory Burst

in

Alveolar Macrophages, UC Merced Graduate & Research Council Faculty Research Grant, Jul

2007-Jun 2008.

$2,403, Localized Texture Analysis of Electron Microscopy Imagery, UC Merced Graduate &

Research Council Faculty Research Grant, Jul 2006-Jun 2007.

$301, Opportunity Travel Award to present at Future of Search Symposium at UC Berkeley,

UC

Industry-University Cooperative Research Program, Nov 2006.

$375, Opportunity Travel Award to attend Workshop on Multiscale Biological Imaging at UC

Santa

Barbara, UC Industry-University Cooperative Research Program, Sep 2006.

$1,500, NASA California Space Grant, 2003.

Travel Grant from the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) to

attend a

Japan-US Workshop on Annotation and Resource Discovery of Geographic Image Data, Nikko,

Japan, 2003.

UC Santa Barbara Travel Grant to attend IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Pattern

Recognition, Quebec, 2002.

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$10,000 stipend plus $41,172 in-kind in the form of high-resolution satellite imagery,

Lockheed-

Martin Fellowship in Remote Sensing, 2001-2003.

Awarded Grants as Co-PI

50K node-hours on Anton, a special-purpose supercomputer for molecular dynamics (MD),

Application of New Tools for Characterizing Protein Dynamics to Intrinsically Disordered

and

Natively Folding Proteins, The National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (NRBSC),

Apr

2011-Aug 2011. Co-PIs: M. Colvin (PI) and

J. L. Phillips.

$476,500, MRI: Acquisition of Robotic Hardware for Humanoid Research in Cognitive

Science and

Engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF), Award BCS-0821766, Sep 2008-Sep 2011, Co-

PIs: S. Carpin (PI), M. Kallmann, T. Matlock, and D. Noelle.

$67,138, Atmospheric Aerosols and Health Graduate Fellowship, UC Toxic Substances

Research and

Teaching Program, Sep 2008-Aug 2010 (declined second year of funding from Sep 2009-Aug

2010), PI: L. Xie.

$250,000, MRI: Acquisition of Equipment to Establish a Cognitive Sensorium and

Visualization

Facility at UC Merced, National Science Foundation (NSF), Award CNS-0723281,

Jul 2007-

Jul

2010, Co-PIs: M. Kallmann (PI) and T. Matlock.

$5,493, REU Supplement for

MRI:

Acquisition of Equipment to Establish a Cognitive

Sensorium and

Visualization Facility at UC Merced, National Science Foundation (NSF), Amendment to CNS-

0723281,

Jun 2008-Aug 2008, Co-PIs: M. Kallmann (PI) and T. Matlo ck.

$14,200, Cognitive Animation Workshop, IUCRP Industry University Cooperative Research

Program, UC Discovery Grants Opportunity Award dig06-428, Mar 2007, funded workshop

organized at Yosemite Park in 2008, Co-PIs: M. Kallmann (PI) and T. Matlock.

$5,435, Purchase a Multi- Format Film Drum Scanner, UC Merced Graduate & Research

Council

Shared Equipment Grant, Jul 2006-Jun 2007, Co-PIs: J. Choi (PI) and D. Ojcius.

$7,200, Purchase Optical Filter Wheels for Ratiometric Fluorescence Measurement in

Living Cells,

UC Merced Graduate & Research Council Shared Equipment Grant,

Jul 2006-Jun 2007, Co-PIs:

W.-C. Chin (PI) and J. Choi.

Awarded Grants as Senior Personnel

$994,999, URM: Undergraduate Research in Computational Biology at UC Merced, National

Science Foundation (NSF), Award DBI-040962,

Jan 2011-Dec 2015, Co-PIs: M. Watanabe (PI)

and M. Colvin.

$2,830,483, Center for Computational Biology at UC Merced, Department of Energy (DOE),

Sep

2004-Aug 2010. PI: M. Colvin

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PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Publications

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[O1] J. Tesic, S. Newsam, and B. S. Manjunath, Challenges in mining large image

datasets, The

Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), Mathematical Challenges in Scientific

Data

Mining, 2002. (Poster presentation)

Theses

[T2] Texture motifs in remote sensed imagery, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of

California at

Santa Barbara, Mar 2004. Supervisor: Prof. B. S. Manjunath.

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[T1] Successive still image transmission based on focus of attention, M.S. Thesis,

University of

California at Davis, Jun 1996. Supervisor: Prof. T. R. Reed.

PATENTS AND STANDARDS

M. P. Meyer, M. Barlow, and S. Newsam, patent application, High throughput cell assays,

12/101,104, Regular, United States, submitted Apr 2008.

M. P. Meyer, M. Barlow, S. Newsam, patent application, Methods to identify clinically

relevant

microorganisms and effective antimicrobial therapies, 61/018,870, Provisional, United

States,

submitted Jan 2008.

H. Shin, B. S. Manjunath, B. Sumengen, and S. Newsam, patent application, Database

building

method for multimedia contents, 10/419,803, Regular, United States, submitted Apr 2003.

MPEG 7 Multimedia Content Description Interface (ISO/IEC standard). Participated in and

contributed to the standardization of the Homogeneous Texture and Texture Browsing

Descriptors, 1998-2002.

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

Ph.D. Qualifying Exam and Dissertation Committee Chair

Daniel Leung, UC Merced, expected graduation Spring 2013.

Joshua Phillips, UC Merced, expected graduation Summer 2012.

(Joshua is co-advised with Prof. Michael Colvin)

Yi Yang, UC Merced, expected graduation Summer 2012.

Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Committee Member

Jingjing Zhu, UC Merced, May 2012, advisors: Profs. Tom Harmon and Qinghua Guo

.

Christiane Pailo, UC Merced, Mar 2012, advisor: Prof. Miriam Barlow.

Chih-Yuan Yang, UC Merced, Jun 2011, advisor: Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang.

Donghai Li, UC Merced, Apr 2010, advisor: Prof. Qinghua Guo.

Wenkai Li, UC Merced, Apr 2010, advisor: Prof. Qinghua Guo.

Carlo Camporesi, UC Merced, Dec 2009, advisor: Prof. Marcelo Kallmann.

Oktar Ozgen, UC Merced, Jun 2009, advisor: Prof. Marcelo Kallmann.

M.S. Committee Chair

Nathan Graves, UC Merced, Image-based meteorologic visibility estimation, graduated Dec

2011.

Ling Xie, UC Merced, Geographic and environmental interpretation of photographs,

graduated

Aug 2011.

M.S. Committee Member

Gary Phillips, UC Merced, A Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) study of the Sierra

Nevada with

geo-spatial applications, graduated Dec 2010, advisor: Prof. Qinghua Guo.

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Undergraduate Research Supervision

Vibhor Jain, UC Merced, Jun 2012-present.

Andrew Pierce, UC Merced, May 2011-present

.

Kemuel Clemente, UC Merced, May 2011-May 2012

.

Brent Edmunds, UC Merced, May 2011-Aug 2011

.

Heather Johnson, UC Merced, Jan 2011-May 2011

.

Mercedes Ramirez, UC Merced, Jan 2011-May 2011

.

Jesus Pulido, UC Merced, May 2009-Aug 2010

.

Justin Floreza, UC Merced, May 2009-May 2010

.

Nathan Graves, UC Merced, May 2009-Dec 2009

.

Alex Chiu, UC Merced, May 2008-May 2009

.

Johnson Cheung, UC Merced, May 2008-May 2009

.

Oscar Caballero, UC Merced, May 2008-May 2009

.

Eric Pernice, UC Merced, May 2006-May 2007

.

Khotan Novini, UC Merced, May 2006-May 2007.

TEACHING

Courses Created and Taught

EECS 207 Digital Image Processing, graduate, taught at UCM Spring 2011.

EECS/CSE 286 Advanced Topics in Computer Vision, graduate, taught at UCM Spring 2008,

Spring

2010, Spring 2012.

CSE

ENGR 97/197 Service Learning: Engineering Projects in Community Service, undergraduate,

taught

at UCM Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring

2009, Spring

2010.

COGS 250 Cognitive Science Graduate Seminar, graduate, taught at UCM Spring 2007.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Professional Society Leadership

Executive Committee Member, ACM SIGSPATIAL, Conference Venue Coordinator, 2011-14.

Organization of Conferences and Meetings

Indicates undergraduate student from group(s) underrepresented in STEM fields.

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Local Arrangements Co-Chair, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in

Geographic

Information Systems, San Jose, 2010, and Chicago, 2011.

Chair, Special Session on High-Resolution Remote Sensed Image Understanding,

International

Conference on Geoinformatics, Washington DC, 2009.

Session Chair, Image Segmentation IV, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

(ICIP), San

Diego, 2008.

Co-organizer of the Cognitive Animation Workshop, Yosemite National Park, 2008.

Program Committee Member

PC Member, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012.

PC Member, The International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems,

Applications, and Services (GEOProcessing), 2012.

PC Member, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2012.

PC Member, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information

Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL), 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.

PC Member, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks, 2011.

PC Member, IEEE International Conference Bioinformatics & Biomedicine: Computational

Structural

Bioinformatics Workshop, 2011.

PC Member, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011

PC Member, International Symposium on Visual Computing, Special Track on Computational

Biology,

2009.

PC Member, INSTICC International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications

(VISAPP), 2006, 2007, 2008.

PC Member, IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet, 2006.

PC Member, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2005, 2006.

Reviewer of Research Proposals

Review Panel Member, Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate,

National Science Foundation (NSF), Apr 2012.

Proposal Reviewer, Hong Kong Research Grant Council, Jun 2011.

Proposal Reviewer, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Oct 2010.

Review Panel Member, Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate,

National Science Foundation (NSF), Oct 2009.

Proposal Reviewer, UC Discovery Grant in Digital Media, Mar 2008.

Proposal Reviewer, CITRIS Student White-Paper Competition, Mar 2007.

Proposal Reviewer, Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate,

National

Science Foundation (NSF), Feb 2007.

Proposal Reviewer, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Scientific Discovery through Advanced

Computing (SciDAC), Apr 2006.

Review Panel Member, Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate,

National Science Foundation (NSF), Oct 2006.

Review Panel Member, IGERT program, National Science Foundation (NSF), Oct 2005.

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Reviewer of Manuscripts

NSTICC International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP)

Pattern Recognition Letters

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing of Environment

Signal, Image and Video Processing

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

System-Level Service

Member, HathiTrust Research Center Working Group, represented UC system on working group

charged with developing a call for proposals to develop HathiTrust Research Centers, Jun

2009-

Dec 2009.

Review committee member, UC Discovery Grant in Digital Media, Mar 2008.

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Campus-Level Service

Member, Email, Calendaring, and Collaboration Committee, Oct 2011-May 2012

Member, UC Merced Health Sciences Research Institute (HSRI), Oct 2010-present.

Co-founder (w/ Q. Guo and R. Mostern), UC Merced Spatial Analysis Research Center

(SpARC), Sep

2010.

Member, UC Merced Center for Autonomous and Interactive Systems (CAIS), Jan 2010-present.

Member, UC Merced Mapping and Spatial Analysis Academic Planning Committee, Sep 2008-Sep

2010.

Affiliated member, Applied Mathematics Graduate Group, Jul 2005-present.

Affiliated member, Cognitive and Information Sciences Graduate Group, Jul 2005-present.

Member, Graduate and Research Council, Sep 2009-Aug 2011.

Member, Committee to establish Award for Excellence in Graduate Interdisciplinary Study

(AEGIS)

fellowship, Jul 2007-Jun 2008.

Founding chair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Group (previously

Computer

and Information Systems Graduate Group), Jul 2005-Jun 2007 (member Jul 2007-present).

Co-coordinator, Mind, Technology and Society Invited Speaker Series, Jul 2005-Jun 2007.

Member, Ad-hoc Committee for Community College Computer Science Curriculum Articulation,

Jul

2005-Jun 2006.

Member, Ad-hoc Committee for Vetting General Education Across Schools, Jul 2005-Jun 2006.

School of Engineering-Level Service

Member, Resources Committee, Sep 2008-May 2009 and Sep 2011-May 2012.

Member, Academic Personnel Committee, Sep 2010-May 2011.

Observer, Academic Personnel Committee, Sept 2009-May 2010.

Search Committee Member for 1 Faculty Search, 2008-2009.

Search Committee Member for 1 Faculty Search, 2007-2008.

Search Committee Chair for 2 Faculty Searches, 2006-2007.

Search Committee Member for 6 Faculty Searches, 2006-2007.

Search Committee Member for Computing Research Manager, 2006-2007.

Search Committee Member for Teaching Lab Manager, 2006-2007.

Chair, Committee on Committees, Jul 2006-Jun 2007.

Member, Executive Committee, Jul 2006-Jun 2007.

Search Committee Chair for 2 Faculty Searches, 2005-2006.

Search Committee Member for 6 Faculty Searches, 2005-2006.

Vice-Chair, School of Engineering Faculty, Jul 2005-Jun 2007.

Member, Ad-hoc Committee for Mid-Semester Teacher Assistant Evaluation, Jul 2005-Jun

2006.

INVITED TALKS

Social Multimedia as Volunteered Geographic Information: Crowdsourcing What-Is-Where

Through

Proximate Sensing, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Apr 2012.

Social Multimedia as Volunteered Geographic Information: Crowdsourcing What-Is-Where

Through

Proximate Sensing, Frontiers of Science and Engineering Lecture Series, The Challenger

Learning Center of the San Joaquin Valley, Atwater, CA, Mar 2012.

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Social Multimedia as Volunteered Geographic Information: Crowdsourcing What-Is-Where

Through

Proximate Sensing, Geospatial Innovation Facility, UC Berkeley, Mar 2012 (host: Prof.

Maggi

Kelly).

Image-Based Visibility Estimation as a Proxy for Air Pollution, ENGR 191 Professional

Seminar, UC

Merced, Jan 2012 (host: Prof. Dan Hirleman).

Social Multimedia as Volunteered Geographic Information: Crowdsourcing What-Is-Where

Through

Proximate Sensing, Mind, Technology, and Society Invited Speaker Seminar Series, UC

Merced,

Nov 2011 (host: Prof. Teenie Matlock).

Image Processing and Computer Vision (and Other Research) at UC Merced, NSF

Undergraduate

Research and Mentoring Program for Computational Biology, UC Merced, Jun 2011.

Proximate Sensing: Inferring What-Is-Where From Georeferenced Photo Collections,

Computer

Science Department Colloquium, University of Southern California, Apr 2011 (host: Prof.

Cyrus

Shahabi).

Proximate Sensing: Inferring What-Is-Where From Georeferenced Photo Collections,

University of

Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), University of Maryland, Mar

2011 (hosts: Prof. Rama Chellappa and Prof. Hanan Samet).

Estimating Atmospheric Visibility Using Low-Cost Cameras, The Center for Information

Technology

in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) Academic Review, UC Berkeley, Oct 2010.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Student Orientation, UC Merced, Jul 2010.

Proximate Sensing Using Georeferenced Community Contributed Photo Collections, EECS

Seminar,

UC Merced, Sep 2009.

Estimating Atmospheric Visibility Using Static Cameras, National Center for

Supercomputing

Applications, University of Illinois, Jul 2008 (host: Dr. Peter Bajcsy).

Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Research at UC Merced, Computer Science

Department

Colloquium, California State University, Fresno, Apr 2008.

The Future of Multimedia Search: Content Based Image Retrieval, Center for Information

Technology In the Interest of Society (CITRIS) Future of Search Conference, UC Berkeley,

May

2007.

Multimedia Data Analysis, Sun Microsystems Research Visit, UC Merced, Mar 2007.

Multimedia Data Analysis, HP Research, Palo Alto, Feb 2007.

Texture Analysis of Remote Sensed Imagery, Center for Information Technology In the

Interest of

Society (CITRIS) Research Exchange, UC Berkeley, Nov 2006.

Graduate Studies at the University of California at Merced, Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory, Aug 2006.

The University of California at Merced: Is the New Campus Actually Happening Just Where

is

Merced Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Aug 2005.

Intelligent Systems: Image Understanding and Motion Synthesis, Student Orientation, UC

Merced,

Aug 2005.

Texture and Higher Order Spatial Relationships in Images, UC Merced, Jan 2005.

Automated Annotation of Remote Sensed Imagery," Center for Applied Scientific Computing,

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Feb 2003.

Computer Recognition of Patterns in Aerial Photographs, Western Association of Map

Libraries,

UC Santa Barbara, Mar 2002.

Similarity Retrieval Using the MPEG-7 Homogeneous Texture Descriptor, The National

Center for

Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Defining a Motion Imagery Research and Development

Program Workshop, Nov 2001.

Content Based Image Retrieval, ECE181b-Introduction to Computer Vision, UC Santa

Barbara, Feb

2001.

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Discovering Latent Spatial Relationships in Remote Sensed Imagery, Sapphire Scientific

Data

Mining Project Team, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory, Feb 2001.

Image Features, ECE268-Internet Computing and Web Technologies, UC Santa Barbara, Jan

2001.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Gallup and Associates, Inc., Systems Engineering, Berkeley, California USA

Vice President of Software, Jun 1996-Dec 1997

Software Engineer Consultant, Oct 1994-Jun 1996

Software Engineer, Jun 1990-Sep 1994Delco Systems/Space Operations, Santa Barbara, California USA

General Motors Scholar

Internship, May 1989-Sep 1989 and May 1988-Sep 1988

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