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Name: Luis O. Jiménez Rodríguez
Title: Professor
Field of interest: Remote Sensing, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing
Office: S-500
Extension: 3248
Email: jimenez@ece.uprm.edu
Bio: Dr. Luis O. Jimenez received the BSEE from University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, in 1989. He received his MSEE from University of Maryland at College Park in 1991 and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1996. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus. He is the Director of the Laboratory of Applied remote sensing and Image Processing (LARSIP). LARSIP is the Laboratory of Applied remote sensing and Image processing of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department located in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. This is the largest laboratory at UPRM with a research budget of $12,000,000. Currently he is the director of the UPRM component of an Engineering Research Center entitled the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS). The objective of this particular center is to revolutionize our ability to detect and image bio-medical and environmental-civil objects or conditions that are underground, underwater, or embedded in the human body. The UPRM budget is $708,000.00/year for the next five years. He is CoPI of the whole center that is composed by a consortium of four universities: Northeastern University (lead partner), Boston University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. This consortium has a budget of $2.6 million for the first year of NSF support to the ERC through a five-year cooperative agreement, which is renewable in year three and in year six. Currently he is PI of project entitled: Integration of Hyperspectral Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Shape Detection for Subsurface Object Identification funded by the National Imaging and Mapping Agency. Dr. Jimenez has been also PI of two other research projects that finished in December 2000. These two projects were funded by federal agencies; the Topographic Engineering Center and the DoD. These researchs were related to hyperspectral data analysis. It involves building a system for dimensional reduction, and supervised and unsupervised detection. Currently he is CoPI of two projects. One is a research project funded by a NASA's grant entitled Information Processing and Extraction Group. The other project where he has been a researcher is an educational program funded by NASA's Mission To Planet Earth Program entitled Partnership for Spatial and Computational Research. Another project related to fingerprint verification system was funded by a local company named Biometrics Imagineering. This project was finished in May 1998. In four years he obtained an amount of around $4,499,332.87 in projects were he has been PI and $4,726,135.00 in projects were he is CoPI. Dr. Jimenez is member of the IEEE Geoscience and remote sensing, the IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Committee, the IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics, and SPIE Society. He is also member of the Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. He has been recipient of GEM, and GTE Fellowships. His research has been in the area of hyperspectral image Dr. Jimenez has developed workshops in "Ethics in Electrical Engineering and Technology," "Written and Oral Communication Skills," "Conflict Management and Team Building," for students in his classes. During the academic year of 2000-2001, he was selected as the most outstanding professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for his merits in research and education. He also was recognized for his outstanding work by being promoted earlier to Full Professor. Dr. Jimenez is an associate member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing, the IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics, and SPIE Society. He is also member of the Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. He has been recipient of GEM, and GTE Fellowships.