RICARDO GUTIERREZ-OSUNA

Associate Professor

Email: rgutier@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-2942 Fax: 979/847-8578
Office: HRBB 520A
http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/rgutier

Ph.D. Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, June 1998
M.S. Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, May 1995
B.S. Industrial/Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain), June 1992

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Intelligent sensors, speech processing, face recognition, machine olfaction, neuromorphic computation, mobile robotics, pattern recognition, machine learning

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

Principal Investigator with co-PI M. Carreira-Perpinan (UC Merced). "RI: Collaborative Research: Foreign accent conversion through articulatory inversion of the vocal-tract frontal cavity," National Science Foundation, September 2008-August 2011.

"Hypothesis Generation for Chemical Threats Through Active Perception with Microsensor Arrays," Department of Defense, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, September 2006-August 2008

"TAMU-Conacyt: Facial Caricaturing as a Training Tool for Security," 09/2005-08/2006

"TAMU-Conacyt: Design of an Electronic Nose for Hydrogen Measurement in Liquid Aluminum Alloys for the Casting Industry," 09/2004-08/2005

"NSF/CAREER: Computational Models for Sensor-based Machine Olfaction," National Science Foundation, 7/2000-6/2004

"NSF/CISE: Speech Driven Facial Animation", National Science Foundation, PI: O. N. Garcia, 9/1999-8/2002

"OBR: Generalized Metrics for Image Assessment and Synthesis," Ohio Board of Regents, 9/2000-8/2002

AWARDS

Graduate Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2007

Preparing the Professoriate Fellow, North Carolina State University, 09/1996-05/1997

"La Caixa" Scholarship for Post-graduate Study Abroad, 08/1993-07/1995

EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2006 - present

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2002-2006

Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Wright State University, 1998-2002

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Associate Editor, IEEE Sensors Journal

Program Committee:

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

2005 International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose (ISOEN).

2003, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI).

2001, 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering (BIBE).

2nd IEEE International Symposium on Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, (BIBE) 2001.

Reviewer:

IEEE Transactions on Computers.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.

IEEE Sensors Journal.

IEEE Transactions on Systems.

Man and Cybernetics.

Sensors and Actuators B.

National Science Foundation

National Institutes of Health

Member: IEEE

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

D. Felps, H. Bortfeld and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, Foreign-Accent Conversion in Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training," Speech Communication (in press).

F. Nogueira, D, Felps and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "Development of an Infrared Absorption Spectroscope Based on Linear Variable Filters," IEEE Sensors Journal, 7(8), 1183-1190, 2007.

B. Raman, T. Kotseroglou, L. Clark, M. Lebl and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "Neuromorphic Processing for Optical Microbead Arrays: Dimensionality Reduction and Contrast Enhancement," IEEE Sensors Journal, 7(4), 506-514, 2007.

B. Raman, T. Yamanaka and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "Contrast Enhancement of Gas Sensor Array patterns with a Neurodynamics Model of the Olfactory Bulb," Sensors and Actuators B, 119(2), pp. 547-555, 2006.

B. Raman, P. Sun, A. Gutierrez-Galvez and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "Processing of Chemical Sensor Arrays with a Biologically-Inspired Model of Olfactory Coding," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 17(4), pp. 1015-1024, 2006.

P. Kakumanu, A. Esposito, O. N. Garcia and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "A Comparison of Acoustic Coding Models for Speech-Driven Facial Animation," Speech Communication, 48(6), pp. 598-615, 2006.