Dr. Amir Mohaymen Rahimi, Ph.D.
EDUCATION
University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering Dec 2009 – Dec 2015
Thesis: Sensor Fusion with Latent Dynamic Conditional Random Fields
Adviser: Professor B. S. Manjunath
Research areas: UAV Design, Vision Based Active Control, Machine Learning
Real-Time Image Processing, Probabilistic Graphical Models
M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering Aug 2007 – Aug 2009
Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA
B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Shreyer Honor) May 2001 – May 2005
B.S. in Computer Engineering (Shreyer Honor) May 2001 – May 2005
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Electromagnetic Lab, PSU May 2001 – May 2002
Project: Software development of test platform for patch antenna
Supervisor: Professor Raj Mitra
Computer Vision Lab, PSU
Project: Face Detection, Tracking, Traffic Monitoring Supervisor: Professor Octavia Camps
Machine Learning Lab, UCSB
Project: Data Mining, Vision Base Tracking
Supervisor: Professor Edward Chang
Vision Research Lab, UCSB
Project: Autonomous micro-UAV Design, Vision Base: Navigation,
Path Optimization, Detection, Classification, Recognition and Tracking.
Supervisor: Professor B. S. Manjunath
PUBLICATIONS
“Identifying Color in Motion in Video Sensors”, CVPR 2006
G. Wu, A. Rahimi, K. Goh, C. Tsai, Y. Wu, E. Chang, and Y. Wang
“CORTINA: Searching a 10 Million + Images Database”, VRL, UCSB 2007
E.Gelasca, J. Guzman, S. Gauglitz, P. Ghosh, J. Xu, E. Moxley, A. Rahimi, Z. Bi and B. S. Manjunath
“Distributed Particle Filter Tracking with Online Multiple Instance Learning”, ICIP,
Ni, Z., Sunderrajan, S., Rahimi, A., Manjunath, B. S.
“Particle Filter Tracking with Online Multiple Instance Learning”, ICPR,
Ni, Z., Sunderrajan, S., Rahimi, A., Manjunath, B. S.
“Marine Biodiversity Classification Using Dropout Regularization”, ICPR,
Rahimi, A. M., Miller, R. J., Fedorov, D. V., Sunderrajan, S., Doheny, B. M., Page, H. M., Manjunath, B. S.
“Features We Trust”, ICIP,
A. Rahimi, Lakshman Nataraj , Manjunath, B. S.
“Micro-UAV Sensor Fusion with LDCRFs in Coronal Plane Estimation”, CVPR,
Rahimi, A. M. , Karthikeyan S., Manjunath, B. S.
“Automatic Tactical Adjustment in Real-Time: Modeling Adversary Formations With
Radon-Cumulative Distribution Transform and Canonical Correlation Analysis”, CVPR,
Rahimi, A. M. , Kolouri S., Bhattacharyya R.
Under Review:
“Implicit vs. Explicit Modeling of Feature Interaction in Aggregation
of Weak Classifiers”, PAMI, Rahimi,
A. M. , Fedorov, D. V., Manjunath, B. S.
“Intent Recognition in Embedded Space for Few Shot Learning”, ICIP,
Rahimi, A. M. , Kwon, H., Hoffmann, H., Kolouri, S.
INTERNSHIPS
Geransang Mehr Co.
Oil Mining and Exploration Signal Processing, Image Filtering
Geransang Mehr Co.
ARCGIS Course: Mapping, Segmentation, Geo-Referencing
HRL Laboratories
Urban Object Detection and Recognition
WORK EXPERIENCE
LEAPS Fellow: Teaching science for youth
United Airline: Flight Operational Agent
Fencing Instructor: Santa Barbara City College
Dronetelligence LLC.: Co-Founder, Crop health monitoring,
yield estimation and aerial mapping with autonomous blimps.
Mayachitra Inc.: Research Staff, PI on NAVAIR Project
Image Correspondence Figure of Merit (FOM)
HRL Laboratories LLC.: Research Staff, PI on John Deere residue sensing project, PI on
human intent recognition project, Managed semantic memory team of a autonomous driving
vehicle project. Key member in DARPA projects
PATENTS
Recurrent Neural Networks Framework for Contextual Interaction Predictions
Path Planning Fusion with CCA for Behavior Resolution
Situational Complexity Quantification for Autonomous Systems
ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS
Fencing:
• Olympic Candidate and Three time Captain of Iran National Team
• Four time Iranian Presidential Award
• Three time Asian Champion
• Asian Olympic Game Medalist
• Three time All American, NCAA Champion, and full scholarship from PSU
• Olympic candidate and member of British National Team
Flight Experience:
Private Pilot Licence, Currently logged 200+ hours
Skydiving License (A), Currently logged 521 jumps