Albert Cruz
Albert Cruz graduated from the University of California, Riverside in
2008 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with
a focus on Intelligent Systems. During his undergraduate studies he
participated in the NSF REU Bioengineering Research Institute for
Technical Excellence 2007 where he automated a study of protein
localization in pollen tube growth and presented a paper proposal at
the Workshop on Bio-Image Informatics 2008. In 2014 he recieved his
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Riverside.
Under the mentorship of Bir Bhanu, he workined in the Center of
Research in Intelligent Systems as a Ph.D. student with a primary
focus in biologically inspired models for video-based face and emotion
recognition. His interesters were emulating the behavior of the human
visual system for identification in situations where state-of-the-art
computer methods fail; the goal being to create a system robust enough
to operate in unconstrained settings, as the HVS is. He mentored
undergraduate research projects in pollen tube growth localization
where a novel optical flow algorithm was proposed that handled the
unique rigid and non-rigid dynamics of a pollen tube, video-based
emotion recognition, and camera network tracking and calibration in the
framework of an optimization problem to be solved online using
co-evolutionary genetic programming.
Link to Albert's Ph.D. Dissertation
Currently Albert is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at California State University Bakersfield
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