Engineer Project

Ira Cohen

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Electrical and Computer Engineering, August 1998- May 2000

PhD. Student in Electrical and Computer

Engineering, May 2000- present

Ben-GurionUniversity, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Bachelor

of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering,

October 1994-July 1998 GPA:

9.1/10

AREAS

OF INTEREST

Statistical

Learning and modeling (Bayesian Networks, Support Vector Machines)

Image

Processing and Computer Vision

Human

Computer Interaction

Face

Detection and Tracking

RELEVANT

GRADUATE COURSEWORK

Digital

Signal Processing, Random Processes, Information Theory, Digital

Communications, Advanced Control, Signal Detection and Estimation, Pattern and

Object Classification, Speech Processing, Natural language processing.

WORK

EXPERIENCE

Hewlett-Packard

Research Laboratories, Palo-Alto, CA(06/00 - 08/00)

Summer Intern

Work on learning

statistical classifiers using labeled and unlabeled data (semi-supervised

learning). Also collaborated on this with Dr. Fabio Cozman, University of Sao

Paulo, Brazil.

University

of Illinois ECE Department

Hewlett-Packard

Research Laboratories, Palo-Alto, CA(05/00 - 08/00)

Summer Intern

Work on online learning

of Bayesian networks parameters with application to Internet management systems.This work has lead to receiving an HP Fellowship

(09/00- present).

University

of Illinois ECE Department

Graduate

Research Assistant (08/98

- present)

Working

on Face Tracking, Recognition and Emotion Recognition from Video in Professor

Thomas S. Huang?s group.

Applied

Materials, Israel

R &

D Testing Engineer

(06/96 - 07/97)

Worked

as a system testing engineer for a Critical-Dimensions Scanning Electron

Microscope based tool (Opal 7830Si)

Physics

Department (07/97 -

07/98)

Work

in the Physics department of the Critical-Dimension R&D team on a project

of Scanning Electron microscope image modeling and enhancement. This project

was my engineering final project, and was a joint project of the university and

Opal. The project was rated "high excellence" by Applied Materials

among 1998 projects.

Military

Experience: 1989-1993:

Infantry Captain, Israeli Defense Forces.

COMPUTER

SKILLS

Languages

: C, C++, PASCAL,

Software

Tools: Matlab

Operating

Environments:UNIX (Solaris/SunOS, IRIX),

Windows

HONOURS

AND AWARDS

08/2000-present:

After a successful summer internship I received a Hewlett-Packard Fellowship to

support my PhD. Studies.

1994-1998:

As an exceptional entering student (Matriculation of 100.0) I was awarded a

full scholarship which has been renewed

yearly due to high academic achievements.

1996:

Departmental Honorary award for high academic achievements.

1998:

Graduated Summa Cum Laude.

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