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Gita Alaghband, Professor & Chair
CSIS PhD Director
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Campus Box 109,
1380 Lawrence Street,
P.O. Box 173364
University of Colorado Denver
Denver, Colorado 80217-3364
Phone: 303-315-1409   Fax: 303-315-1410
Email: Gita.Alaghband AT ucdenver.edu

CSIS PhD Program Information

PhD Preliminary Exam Information

Comprehensive Exam

Proposal Defense Information

 

Research Interests: Recent research combines high-performance computation with AI and machine learning applications of computer vision which focuses on real-time multi-human tracking systems with applications in autonomous vehicles, robotics, and surveillance; facial recognition and generation; optimization of learning rates of deep learning convolutional neural networks.


Visit the Parallel Distributed Systems (PDS) lab at http://PDS.ucdenver.edu



  • Parallel Processing 
  • Parallel Algorithms
  • Parallel Languages
  • Performance Measurement and Prediction
  • Shared Memory Multiprocessors
  • Distributed Systems
  • Multi-Core Architectures
  • Cluster Computing
  • SIMD Computing
  • Computer Architectures
  • Operating Systems
  • Simulation


ISBN 0-13-901158-7
Prentice Hall (Pearson)





Teaching Interest
: Graduate and undergraduate course in parallel and distributed, high-performance computing.




  • Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Computer Architecture
 Fall semester CSCI 4551
  CSCI 5551/7551: Course Information
Spring Semester CSCI 5593




PhD Students:
Lan Vu:
  • High Performance Methods For Frequent Pattern Mining (Graduated fall 2014, currently at VMWare)
David Gnabasik:
  • Development Of a Computational Model Using Cytokine Biomarkers For Identifying Lung Disease Types(Graduated spring 2017, president Reliable Software Designs, LLC)
  • EVCE - Enhancing Video Compression Efficiency: A Framework Combining Dual Approach with Motion Estimation and Quad-tree Partitioning Block
Henok Ghrebrechristos:
  • Patch-based Optimization and Curriculum Learning: Improving Deep Learning Efficiency and Model Security (Graduated 2024, Senior Data Scientist | AI Solution Architect, Costco) 
Manh Huynh:
  • Online Adaptive Learning For Pedestrian Future Trajectory Prediction In Dynamic Scenes (Graduated 2023, Researcher at Nissan Motor Corporation, CA)
Thoria Alghamdi:
  • Facial Expressions-Based Pain Assessment System Using Deep Learning Techniques (Graduated 2023,Assistant Professor, King Abdul-Aziz University)


             Nao Takano: PhD student (Deep learning)
  • DOD-MDA Project: Explainable AI, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) Enabled Warfighter Assistant:
  •   Austin Long, PhD student
  • Micheal McGrath, MS student
  • Henry-Phuoc Le, BA-CS student
  • Kyle Rohn, BS-CS student

        



Shawn McCarthy



  • Fin-ALICE: Advancing Financial Forecasting through Causal Econometrics, Emotional Analysis, and Dynamic Co-Occurrence Networks



 Trevor M Simonton


  • Optimized Parallel Training Of Word Vectors On Multi-Core CPU And GPU (Graduated 2017, Software Developer, Google, Co)



Sample Research Projects

Long Vitae (PDF)