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Computer Vision Scientist
Neil Alldrin graduated with high honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He then joined the Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego where he completed an MS in 2005 and a PhD in 2008 under the supervision of advisor David Kriegman. His doctoral work focuses on image-based recovery of shape, reflectance, and illumination using photometric cues. His research interests include photometric stereo, lighting and BRDF estimation, non-Lambertian models for computer vision, and computational photography.";
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Consulting Computer Vision Scientist
Drew Bagnell received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from the University of Florida in 1998. He joined the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, receiving an MS and PhD in Robotics in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Bagnell is currently faculty appointed in the Robotics Institute and Machine Learning Department and develops technology with the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) and the Auton Lab within those institutions. He is a leading researcher in the field of machine learning, having over 20 peer-reviewed publications and serving on the senior program committee and as editor in top conferences/journals in the field. His interests in machine learning include algorithmic and theoretical development as well as delivering fielded learning-based systems. His research expertise extends to machine perception, autonomous navigation, information theory, control theory and optimization. Bagnell has led efforts on a wide range of projects: he has led the perception and learning teams of the NREC's off-road, rough terrain (DARPA UPI/''Crusher'') autonomy program, worked on large-scale data-mining problems, developed automated interpretation of imagery for Carnegie Mellon's Urban Challenge team, leads CMU efforts on the Learning Locomotion project, and develops technology for learning driver assistance (including automated recognition of driver destination and route, vision-based recognition of vehicles, and customized routing for impaired drivers) for both NSF and commercial efforts. Bagnell works with Tandent on applying machine learning and optimization to difficult image processing and computer vision problems.
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Computer Vision Scientist
Steven J. Bushell has worked as a software engineering specialist and consultant in the field of digital imaging for over 15 years. His work includes development of digital camera software at Polaroid, electronic printing systems at Kodak, image processing algorithms at Scitex Corporation, nonlinear digital video systems at Media 100, and database and network communication for scientific data management systems at Waters/NuGenesis. After nearly three decades of taking pictures, photography continues to be one of his primary interests, along with optics and image processing. Bushell received a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from Tufts University, where he concentrated in digital image processing and electro-optics.
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Consulting Computer Vision Scientist
Kristin Dana is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her research interests include computer vision and graphics, with an emphasis on pattern recognition and computational models of object appearance. Dana received a PhD from Columbia University (NY,NY) in 1999, an MS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992, and a BS degree in 1990 from the Cooper Union (NY,NY).
From 1992-1995 she was on the research staff at Sarnoff Corporation, developing real-time motion estimation algorithms for applications in the defense, biomedicine and entertainment industries. She was the recipient of the General Electric "Faculty of the Future" fellowship in 1990, the Sarnoff Corporation Technical Achievement Award in 1994 for the development of a practical algorithm for the real-time alignment of visible and infrared video images, and the National Science Foundation Career Award (2001) for a program investigating surface science for vision and graphics.
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Chief Science Officer / President
Richard Mark Friedhoff has been interested in science, technology and innovation since childhood. His first peer-reviewed scientific paper was published when he was 17 years old but he had already been experimenting and building for a number of years. He attended the Dalton School in New York City; Columbia University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and then studied neurophysiology at Yale. While attending Yale, he worked part-time as a science writer for Walter Cronkite and, though this, met Edwin H. Land, the legendary industrialist, inventor and founder of the Polaroid Corporation who was Friedhoff's childhood hero.
Friedhoff began his professional scientific career as a consultant for Land and the Polaroid Corporation and later worked at Land's Rowland Institute for Science, now part of Harvard University. Friedhoff's interest in vision and visual computing stem from this association with Dr. Land who remained a close friend and mentor until his death in 1991. Friedhoff has been interested in the connections between Land's approach to color perception and visual computing for many years and has written two books, Visualization (Abrams, 1988, W.H. Freeman, 1991) and Visual Computing (W.H Freeman, 2001), that include Dr. Land's ideas. This second book is part of the distinguished Scientific American Library series with the foreword written by Nobel Laureate Torsten Wiesel.
For many years, Friedhoff has operated a private laboratory where he has done research on color algorithms and on other subjects such as the human-computer interface, cognitive science, and stereoscopic vision that have been the basis for his two books and various articles and patents. Tandent has attracted leading academic experts, experienced industrial researchers and talented young computer scientists and is developing technologies based on Friedhoff's research which enable real-world application of computer vision.
During most of his professional life, Friedhoff has also been involved in product and strategy development with the founders and senior management of companies that have been built on proprietary innovations. In recent years, he has begun speaking to industry about the nature of invention and innovation management. He is currently writing his third book, Through Brick Walls, which is on the subject of innovators and innovation.";
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Computer Vision Scientist
Kshitiz Garg completed his MS in Physics and PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2002 and 2008, respectively. His research interests are in the field of computer vision and graphics with a focus on physics-based modeling and algorithm development. During his doctoral research, he worked on modeling the visual appearance of rain and on developing efficient algorithms to handle rain effects in computer vision applications.
He also developed efficient algorithms for realistic rendering of rain in computer graphics applications, which have been implemented in Microsoft DirectX 10. Prior to joining Tandent Vision Science, he was at intuVision, Boston where he worked on a wide range of vision problems, such as object detection and classification, soft biometry, and improving tracking in the presence of illumination changes, shadows, and background motion.";
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Computer Vision Programmer
Sam Kwak graduated with a BS in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. Prior to joining Tandent, he worked on software for pose estimation and laser range finding. He is among the fastest and best coders we have ever seen.
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Director of Research
Bruce Maxwell is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Colby College in Maine. His interests include computer vision, robotics, computer graphics, scientific data analysis and visualization. He started exploring computer science and engineering as an undergraduate at Swarthmore College, where he earned a BA in Political Science, a BS in Engineering, and a concentration in Computer Science. He went on to obtain an MPhil in Speech Recognition at Cambridge University and a PhD in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, where his focus was on understanding the fundamental properties of objects and how computers can automatically detect coherent surfaces in images.
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Computer Vision Scientist
In addition to his position at Tandent as a Computer Vision Scientist, Bart Nabbe also holds an adjunct faculty position at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. His primary focus is in sensing for robotic applications. Other research interests include Mobile Robots, Planning and Mobile Devices. Nabbe is passionate about bringing state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence to real-world applications. Before taking a position at Tandent, Bart worked at Intel Research, Pittsburgh. Nabbe completed his PhD at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he developed a combined Sensing-Navigation strategy for outdoor navigation in unstructured environments.
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Consulting Computer Vision Scientist
Pietro Perona is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, where he is the Chair of the Computation and Neural Systems Department. His research focuses on computational aspects of vision, including early vision, autonomous navigation, shape reconstruction, and visual pattern recognition. Pietro received a D.Eng. from the University of Padova in Italy and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Staff Software Engineer
Tim Rodgers prior career experience includes commercial development of embedded and real-time applications at TV Guide On Screen, nonlinear digital video editing systems at Media 100, medium-format digital cameras at Mosaic Imaging, and image acquisition, image processing, color management and pre-press solutions at Polaroid, Kodak and Agfa. Tim received his BS in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Consulting Psychophysicist
Jim Schirillo is Associate Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University, where he studies perceptual neuroscience. Schirillo focuses on four research areas that examine how humans perceive the external world: 1) the perception of color and illumination, 2) multisensory integration, 3) Gestalt grouping and 4) Aesthetic preferences. Schirillo received a BA from Franklin & Marshall College and a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Northeastern University, 1990. He is the author of 15 peer-reviewed papers on perception of lightness. In addition to directing Tandent's psychophysics research, Jim serves as Tandent's principal liaison with the psychophysics and visual physiology communities and helps to explore the implications of Tandent's research for these fields.
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Director of Licensing
Prior to joining Tandent, Schummer was the Director of Licensing at Dolby Labs. During his 28 years at Dolby Labs he established and managed the consumer division which was responsible for making the Dolby technology and brand a household name. He was also the driving force behind the development of a number of audio joint licensing patent programs, and the founding and growth of Via Licensing, one of the worlds leading patent pool administrators. During his career he has developed personal and professional relationships with the top licensing management of all of the worlds leading consumer electronics companies, and has been the driver behind many industry changing licensing programs, and joint developments.
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Associate Director of Research
Casey Smith received a BA in Computer Science and a BS in Engineering from Swarthmore College, receiving the Thomas B. McCabe award, which is awarded to the outstanding engineer in the graduating class. He continued his studies in computer science at Cornell University on a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and has received an MS. His previous research focused on data mining, clustering, visualization, and machine vision.
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Consulting Computer Vision Scientist
Professor Soatto received his PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 1996 and joined UCLA in 2000 after being Assistant and then Associate Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at Washington University and Research Associate in Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Between 1995 and 1998 he was also Ricercatore in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Udine (Italy). He received his D.Ing. degree with highest honors from the University of Padova (Italy) in 1992.
Soatto is the recipient of the David Marr Prize (with Y. Ma, J. Kosecka and S. Sastry of U.C. Berkeley) for work on Euclidean reconstruction and reprojection up to subgroups. He also received the Siemens Prize with the Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Computer Society for his work on optimal structure from motion (with R. Brockett of Harvard). He received the National Science Foundation Career Award and an Okawa Foundation Grant. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) and a Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) and Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision.
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Data Acquisition Technician
Gerald Sorrels works on special projects, constructs custom fixtures and takes test images. Before joining Tandent he was a Principal Electronic Technician at the University of California, Riverside.
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Computer Vision Scientist
Andrew Stein completed a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and an MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2002, respectively. He then joined the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, supported by graduate fellowships from NSF and NDSEG. Specializing in Computer Vision, he completed the MS and PhD degrees in Robotics in 2004 and 2008, respectively.
His doctoral dissertation focuses on low-level detection of object and occlusion boundaries and subsequent mid/high-level reasoning based on those boundaries. As an intern at the Princeton Summer Institute and as a graduate researcher at Intel Research Pittsburgh, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and ChemImage Corporation, Stein has researched and applied a wide variety of other Computer Vision techniques, including object recognition, structure from motion, stereo, hyper-spectral image analysis, real-time tracking, and segmentation.
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Director of Strategic Partnerships
Prior to joining Tandent, Taub was the vice president and associate director of HP Labs, responsible for managing the lab's investments in printing and imaging and its relationship with HP's Imaging and Printing Group. In addition, Taub contributes to strategic planning and management of HP Labs.
Taub has worked at HP Labs for 26 years and, before that, at the IBM Watson Research Center and for Dataproducts Corporation. One of his early HP assignments was to manage the research project that invented and did fundamental research on HP's thermal inkjet technology.
Taub earned his PhD in Solid State Physics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in New York City. He is an inventor on more than 20 patents in the printing and imaging area. He is a member of the American Physical Society and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology.
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Consulting Computer Vision Scientist
David Tolliver is a Special Research Faculty in the Theory Division of the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on mathematical models in image processing, pseudo-approximation algorithms, and applied combinatorics. He received his PhD in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in the Fall of 2006.
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Research System Developer
Victoria Yew received her Bachelor of Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University in December 2008. Prior to joining Tandent, she worked as a Student Researcher at Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
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Computer Vision Scientist
Youngrock Yoon received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, Indiana, and MS and BS in Computer Science from Yonsei University in South Korea. Before joining Tandent, he worked on a video content retrieval project as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Central Florida in 2006. In 2007, he participated in a project for developing a system of cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles for autonomous intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions at the US Air Force Academy. His research interests include computer vision, object pose estimation and tracking, object recognition and sensor-based robotics.
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Chief Patent Counsel & Director of Intellectual Property Strategy
Prior to joining Tandent, Felix D'Arienzo, Jr. was a partner at the firm of Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC. He is admitted to the bars of New York, the U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and Northern District of California. He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. D'Arienzo, received a BS from the Stevens Institute of Technology and a JD from St. John's University where he was a member of the Law Review.
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Director of Operations
Matthias de Haan has established an extensive background over the past decade in operations and finance. He has worked with Richard Friedhoff since mid-2003, having contributed to the creation and founding of Tandent Vision Science in January 2005. He has been managing the company and promoted its growth from its initial two employees to its current twenty seven, who now work out of five different offices.
Prior to joining Friedhoff and the founding of Tandent, de Haan acquired extensive knowledge as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch and Salomon Smith Barney, where he specialized in M&A advisory and corporate finance. As a banker he was involved in major M&A deals such as the France Telecom acquisition of Orange and the KPNQwest acquisition of GTS. He also worked on the IPO's of KPNQwest, Carrier1, CompleTel and KPN Mobile. De Haan received his BA in Economics and International Relations from Boston University. He is fluent in French and Dutch.
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Chief Science Officer / President
Richard Mark Friedhoff has been interested in science, technology and innovation since childhood. His first peer-reviewed scientific paper was published when he was 17 years old but he had already been experimenting and building for a number of years. He attended the Dalton School in New York City; Columbia University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and then studied neurophysiology at Yale. While attending Yale, he worked part-time as a science writer for Walter Cronkite and, though this, met Edwin H. Land, the legendary industrialist, inventor and founder of the Polaroid Corporation who was Friedhoff's childhood hero.
Friedhoff began his professional scientific career as a consultant for Land and the Polaroid Corporation and later worked at Land's Rowland Institute for Science, now part of Harvard University. Friedhoff's interest in vision and visual computing stem from this association with Dr. Land who remained a close friend and mentor until his death in 1991. Friedhoff has been interested in the connections between Land's approach to color perception and visual computing for many years and has written two books, Visualization (Abrams, 1988, W.H. Freeman, 1991) and Visual Computing (W.H Freeman, 2001), that include Dr. Land's ideas. This second book is part of the distinguished Scientific American Library series with the foreword written by Nobel Laureate Torsten Wiesel.
For many years, Friedhoff has operated a private laboratory where he has done research on color algorithms and on other subjects such as the human-computer interface, cognitive science, and stereoscopic vision that have been the basis for his two books and various articles and patents. Tandent has attracted leading academic experts, experienced industrial researchers and talented young computer scientists and is developing technologies based on Friedhoff's research which enable real-world application of computer vision.
During most of his professional life, Friedhoff has also been involved in product and strategy development with the founders and senior management of companies that have been built on proprietary innovations. In recent years, he has begun speaking to industry about the nature of invention and innovation management. He is currently writing his third book, Through Brick Walls, which is on the subject of innovators and innovation.";
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Financial Manager
In addition to his position at Tandent, John Rosin works as a Senior Administrative Analyst at the University of California, San Francisco, where he oversees financial management for an international health research program. Rosin holds a Master's Degree in International Affairs from The Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor's Degree in Classics from Stanford University.";
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Administrative Assistant
Kevin Strickland graduated with a BBA in International Management with a concentration in Economics from Pace University in 2009.
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Director of Legal Affairs
Prior to joining Tandent, Nancy Walsh was the Associate General Counsel at InsWeb Corporation, an Internet-based insurance marketplace. Walsh has also held the position of Associate General Counsel, Vice President and Assistant Secretary at CalFarm Insurance Company and was a senior associate at Daar & Newman in Los Angeles, California. She is admitted to the bars of New York and California.
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