DEZHEN SONG

Associate Professor

Email: dzsong@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-5464
Office: HRBB 311C
http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/dzsong

Ph.D. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
M.S. Industrial Automation, Zhejiang University, 1998
B.S. Process Control, Zhejiang University, 1995

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Networked robotics, computer vision, multimedia, autonomous vehicle, optimization, automation

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

"Robotic BioTelemetry," National Science Foundation, Jan 2007 - Jan 2012.

"Collaborative Observatory for Natural Environment," National Science Foundation, July 2005 - July 2008.

AWARDS

Finalist, Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2008

TEES Select Young Faculty, 2007

Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2007-2012.

Semi-finalist (with blue team), DARPA Grand Challenge, Oct. 2005

Kayamori Best Paper Award, (with Dr. Jingang Yi and Dr. Shengwei Ding), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005

EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2010 - present

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2004 - 2010

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Associate Editor (AE), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), Feb. 2010-present

Associate Editor (AE), IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2008-present

Panelist, National Science Foundation, 2006-2008

Co-Chair, Technical Committee on Networked Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2007-2009

Program Committee Member, International Conference on Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), 2006-2009

Program Committee Member, The Seventh International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2006

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Dezhen Song and Yiliang Yu, "A Low False Negative Filter for Detecting Rare Bird Species from Short Video Segments using a Probable Observation Data Set-based EKF Method," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 2321-2333, Sept. 2010.

Dezhen Song, Chang Young Kim, and Jingang Yi, "On the Time to Search for an Intermittent Signal Source Under a Limited Sensing Range," IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 313-323, 2011.

Dezhen Song, Sharing a Vision: Systems and Algorithms for Collaboratively-Teleoperated Robotic Cameras, a Monograph in Springer Tracts on Advanced Robotics, vol. 51, ISBN: 978-3-540-88064-6, Springer, 2009.

Dezhen Song and Ken Goldberg, "Approximate Algorithms for a Collaboratively Controlled Robotic Camera," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 23, no. 5,pp. 1061-1070, Oct. 2007.

Dezhen Song, A Frank van der Stappen, and Ken Goldberg, "Exact Algorithms for Single Frame Selection on Multi-Axis Satellites," IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 3, no. 1., pp. 16-28, January 2006.

Ken Goldberg, Dezhen Song, and Anthony Levandowski, "Collaborative Teleoperation with Using Networked Spatial Dynamic Voting," The Proceedings of THE IEEE, vol. 91, no. 3, pp 430-439, March 2003.