RESUME:Hamed Parsiani

Academic Rank: Professor (Full-Time & Tenured)

EDUCATION :

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, Texas, 1979.

M.E.E. in Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M Univ., 1973.

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, Oregon, 1971.

B.S. in Mathematics, Oregon State Univ., 1970.

UPRM SERVICE: 15 Years

1997-present at UPRM

1995-1996 sabbatical leave working at the Image Compression Lab., Kodak Com., Rochester, N.Y.

1992 - Full Professor at UPRM

CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES:

Image Compression and Coding Technical Program Chairman of SIP’2000, Las Vegas, Nov. 19-23, 2000.

Grant evaluator for: University of SouthCalifornia which submitted research proposal to Hewlett-Packard,

and Lockheed Martin Missile & Space, on the topic of High Quality Image and Video Processing and Encoding(1996).

Technical paper referee for the:1) 36th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

2) International Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering

3) Image Communications Journal

Technical Program Chairman and Co-organizer: of the First Puerto Rico Symposium on Intelligent

Systems in Communications and Power (SISCAP-94) , Feb.21-23,94.

1993 P.R. Western Regional Science Fair judge, for engineering and mathematics.

Academic committees served: chairman of Communication com., member of graduate committee.

RESEARCH :

Research Interests:

Multispectral Image Processing & Compression, Multisensor Fusion, and Remote Sensing.

Research Grants:

NOAA research grant 2001-2004

PaSCOR-NASA-I research grant 1999-2004

NASA-TRC-I,II research grant, Univ. of Puerto Rico, 1995- 2005

CISE-NSF I,II,III research, Univ. of Puerto Rico, 1989- 2005

Kodak Company, Image Compression Lab, Rochester, N.Y., 95-96 & 97-98

Bell communications Research, Red Bank, N.J., Summers:87,88, 89,91 and Winters: 87,88.

Intermetrics Incorporated, Pearland, Texas, Navigation System verification for the descent phase of the Space Shuttle Columbia, summer 79.

Texas A&M Univ., NASA research grant # NGC 1374, A navigation algorithm for a single channel low-cost Global Positioning System receiver, (Ph.D. thesis) June 1977 to June 1979.

HONORS :

Eta Kappa Nu

PUBLICATION :

1Hamed Parsiani & Rolando Gonzalez, “Iterated Block Matching Fractals with Parent & Child,” presented at Signal and Image Processing , SIP’2000, Nov. 19-23, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada.

2ZHamed Parsiani, Ricardo Garcia, “State of the Art Iterated Block Matching Fractals in Image compression” , Proceedings of Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS’97.

3Hamed Parsiani, Ricardo Garcia, “Iterated Block Matching Encoder/Decoder for Image Compression”, Proceedings of Computing Research Conference, CRC’97.

4Oscar Misla, Hamed Parsiani, “Fuzzy Logic in Image Compression”, Proceedings of 31 ACS Junior Tchnical Meeting, 3/9/96.

5Oscar Misla, Hamed Parsiani, “Codebook Design Limitations of Fuzzy C-Means. Algorithm”, Proceedings of Computing Research Conference, CRC’96, April 19, 1996.

6Oscar Misla, Hamed Parsiani, “Crisp and Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm Analysis”, Proceedings of First ADMI Conference on Computing at Minority Institutions, ADMI’96, July 23-28, 1996.

7Hamed Parsiani, Oscar Misla, “Fuzzy Class Learning Vector Quantizer in Image Compression”, Proceedings of Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS’96, IowaStateUniversity, August 18-21, 1996.

8Hamed Parsiani, Oscar Misla, “Computationally Efficient Fuzzy Class Learning Vector Quantizer in Image Compression”, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Signal Processing Applications & Technology ICSPAT’96, Boston Massachusetts, USA, October 7-10, 1996.

9Hamed Parsiani, "Color Image and Video Compression Modules for Signal Processing Worksystem (SPW) System Simulation Software". Proceedings of 24th COPIMERA congress, Oct. 3-8, 1993, in San Juan, P.R.

10Hamed Parsiani, "Isolated Noise Detection and Reduction in Color Images". Proceedings of "36th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems" (Aug. 16-18, 1993), Detroit, Michigan.

11Hamed Parsiani, "Coding and Decoding of the Differential Motion Vector Using One Single VLC Table", Bell Communications Research, Technical , TM-ARH-019703, 11 pages, Aug. 7, 1991, Morristown, N.J.

12Hamed Parsiani," Still Image Transmission Methods", Bell Communications Research, Technical , TM-TSY- 013427 , 28 pages, Jan. 16, 1989, Red Bank N.J.

13H. Parsiani, "A mathematical technique for modeling multiplexed channel transmission error performance, and its applications to embedded channel error statistical parameters determination", Bell Communications Research Tech. , TM-TSY-011088, 23 pages, Jan 4, 1988, Red Bank, NJ.

14H. Parsiani and P.S. Noe, "Satellite Selection for Sequential Receivers", Proceedings Navigation Satellite Users Conference, Institute of Navigation, 6 pages, Dec. 1979.

15H. Parsiani, et al, " A Navigation Algorithm for Single Channel Low-Cost GPS Receiver", TexasA&MUniversity, 8 pages, 1979.