Curriculum Vitae

Ryan Matthew Farrell

Email:   farrell@icsi.berkeley.edu
Webpage: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~farrell
Phone:   650-380-1184

*Personal Information*

Current Position
  Postdoctoral Fellow
    International Computer Science Institute (ICSI),
    University of California, Berkeley, CA
      
Education
  University of Maryland - College Park, MD
  Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2011, 3.8 GPA
    Advisor: Professor Larry S. Davis
    "Learning Visual Patterns: Imposing Order on Objects, Trajectories and Networks"
  M.S. in Computer Science, December 2006
    Advisor: Professor Larry S. Davis

  University of California - Berkeley, CA
  B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, August 2001

Employment
  2010 (Summer)    Postdoctoral Fellow (under Professor Trevor Darrell)
                   International Computer Science Institute (UC Berkeley)
  2006-2011        Graduate Research Assistant (under Professor Larry Davis)
                   University of Maryland, College Park
  2008-present     Research Intern
  Summer/Part-time Video Research Group, Streamsage / Comcast
  2006-2008        Research Intern/Temp on Call
  Summer/Part-time Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL)
  2005 (Summer)    Summer Intern
                   Army Research Lab (ARL)
  2004-2006        Graduate Teaching Assistant
                   Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park
  2001-2004        Software Engineer
                   Raytheon Systems Company
  2000 (Summer)    Undergraduate Researcher
                   University of California, Berkeley
  95-97 (Summers)  Software Engineer
                   Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI)


*Research and Scholarly Activities*

Publications (Book Chapters)
  Evelyne Tzoukermann, Geetu Ambwani, Amit Bagga, Leslie Chipman, Tony Davis,
    Ryan Farrell, David Houghton, Oliver Jojic, Jan Neumann, Robert Rubino,
    Bageshree Shevade, and Hongzhong Zhou, "Semantic Multimedia Extraction using Audio and
    Video" in Multimedia Information Extraction, edited by Mark T. Maybury, Wiley,
    forthcoming.

Publications (in refereed Journals, Conferences and Workshops)
  Ryan Farrell, Om Oza, Ning Zhang, Vlad Morariu, Trevor Darrell, Larry S.  Davis.
    "Subordinate Categorization Using Volumetric Primitives and Pose-Normalized Appearance",
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), accepted (oral,
    only about 4% acceptance).
  Ryan Farrell, Roberto Garcia, Dennis Lucarelli, Andreas Terzis, I-Jeng Wang,
    Target Localization in Camera Wireless Networks", Pervasive and Mobile Computing,
    April 2009.
  Ryan Farrell and Larry S. Davis,
    Decentralized Discovery of Camera Network Topology", International Conference on
    Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), September 2008.
  Dennis Lucarelli, Anshu Saksena, Ryan Farrell, I-Jeng Wang,
    Distributed Inference for Network Localization using Radio Interferometric Ranging",
    European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), January-February 2008.
  Ani Kembhavi, Ryan Farrell, David Jacobs, Ramani Duraiswami, Larry S. Davis,
    Tracking Down Under: Following the Satin Bowerbird", Workshop on Applications
    of Computer Vision (WACV), January 2008.
  Ryan Farrell, Roberto Garcia, Dennis Lucarelli, Andreas Terzis, I-Jeng Wang,
    Localization in Multi-Modal Sensor Networks", International Conference on
    Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP),
    December 2007.  Best Paper Award.
  Ryan Farrell, David Doermann, Larry S. Davis, \Learning Higher-order Transition
    Models in Medium-scale Camera Networks", ICCV Workshop on Omnidirectional
    Vision, Camera Networks and Non-classical Cameras (OMNIVIS), October 2007.
  Scott R. Klemmer, Mark Newman, Ryan Farrell, Mark Bilezikjian, James Landay,
    The Designers' Outpost: A Tangible Interface for Collaborative Web Site Design",
    User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)), 2001.

Publications (unrefereed)
  Ryan Farrell, \Ad-Hoc Sensor Localization in Active Camera Networks", Scholarly
    Paper submitted in fulfillment of M.S. requirements, December 2006.

Awards
  Best Paper Award, International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks
  and Information Processing (ISSNIP), 2007. For paper: \Localization in Multi-Modal
  Sensor Networks," by Ryan Farrell, Roberto Garcia, Dennis Lucarelli, Andreas Terzis,
  I-Jeng Wang.


*Teaching*

Graduate Teaching Assistant
  Spring 2006 CMSC 132: Object Oriented Programming II (Java)
  Fall 2005 CMSC 426: Image Processing (Computer Vision)
  Fall 2005 CMSC 131H: Object Oriented Programming I (Java)
  Spring 2005 CMSC 131: Object Oriented Programming I (Java)
  Winter 2005 CMSC 298P: Object Oriented Programming I for C++ Programmers
  Fall 2004 CMSC 131: Object Oriented Programming I (Java)


*Service*

Professional
  Co-Chair, First Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC), 2011.
  Website Co-chair, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    (CVPR), 2010, 2012.
  PC Member, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011.
  PC Member, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
    2010, 2011.
  PC Member, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2010.
  Reviewer, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2010.

Campus (Department, College and University)
  Graduate Representative, Education Committee, Department of Computer Science,
    University of Maryland, College Park, 2009-2010, 2010-2011.
  Committee Chair, Campus Student Technology Fee Advisory Committee (CSTFAC),
    University of Maryland, 2009-2010 (Vice-Chair 2008-2009).
  Representative, Campus Student Technology Fee Advisory Committee (CSTFAC),
    College of Math and Physical Sciences, University of Maryland,
    2008-2009, 2009-2010.