In this issue:

New CIS Faculty

Xerox 75th Anniversary

First Annual ImSci Immersion

ROAR Day

Awards & Recognitions

Past & Future Alumni Events

FALL CIS NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

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Events

Previous Issues

From the Archives: Check out this

vintage CIS t-shirt design! Click on

the image to view a gallery of t-

shirts provided by Roger Easton and

Emmett Ientilucci. After having

petered out the last few years, CIS

students are now reviving the

tradition of the annual t-shirt

contest. Do you have an old CIS t-

shirt to share? Send us a picture,

and we’ll send you a new shirt

featuring this year’s winning design!

Job Listings

Couple builds on chemistry Imaging Science BS alumni Bethany Choate ‘06 and Matthew Heimbueger ‘06 featured

Photonics Spectra November 2013 interview with Dr. Jie Qiao CIS Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jie Qiao featured

Student spends time abroad in New Zealand Imaging Science Undergraduate Malachi Schultz

featured

Imaging science student studies tiny details of vast universe Imaging Science Graduate student Kim

Kolb featured

Rwandan teens learn mapping skills with smart phones and tablet PCs CIS Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tony Vodacek

featured

RIT professor speaks about women, science and entrepreneurship at Optical Society CIS Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jie Qiao

featured

Advancing a Medical Imaging Technology One Pulse of Light at a Time CIS Professor Dr. Navalgund

Rao featured

ALL CIS NEWS HEADLINES

Volume 5 | Issue 1 | Fall 2013

COMING UP —————————————————————————–———

Imaging Hall of Fame Ceremony and Keynote—It’s that time

of year again - Time to find out who will join the ranks of other

celebrated imaging science notables in the Imaging Hall of

Fame! Each year, a group of inductees are honored with a

ceremony unveiling the winners and their inscribed plaques, to

be permanently displayed in the Carlson Auditorium. A keynote

presentation follows, after which the evening is topped off

with a casual after party. This year’s keynote speaker is Dr.

Steven Koonin, Director of the Center for Urban Science and

Progress at NYU and past Under Secretary for Science at the US

Department of Energy. We are especially excited to announce

that one of the recipients will be traveling across the

country to be in attendance—but you’ll have to wait until the

ceremony to find out who!

The event begins at 4PM on Wednesday, December 11 in the

Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. ALL, especially

alumni, are invited to attend—We hope you can make it!

Imaging Hall of Fame After-Party— Can't make it out of work

in time for the Hall of Fame? Looking for a Wednesday Happy

Hour? After the HOF ceremony, come on out for an AFTER-

PARTY!! At 5:00 PM, we will raise a glass and toast the 2013

inductees at TC Rileys, located just off campus at Park Point.

Take advantage of this opportunity to celebrate the

accomplishments of the inductees and reconnect with fellow

Rochester alumni and faculty/researchers from the Center for

Imaging Science. Hors d'oeuvres will be served. This reception

is free, but pre-registration is requested by December 9.

ON OUR RADAR --—————————————————————–————

We would like to sponsor an event in the near future in or

around Philadelphia. If you are an alumnus in the area and

would like to assist as our regional host, please contact us so

we can get something planned!

If you or any of your fellow alumni are attending upcoming

conferences and would like CIS to sponsor a corresponding

alumni reception, or you would like CIS to host an event in your

area, please contact Bethany Choate. We would be happy to

arrange a gathering!

Earlier this fall, CIS Director Dr. Stefi Baum issued CIS faculty

and staff a challenge: for every dollar donated to the CIS

Student Microgrant Fund, she would personally match it out of

her own pocket up to a total of $5,000—but only if we reached

a minimum of 50% faculty/staff participation. The heat was

turned up during RIT’s 8th-annual ROAR (Raise Our Annual

Responses) Day, when five RIT upper administrators including

President Bill Destler and Provost Jeremy Haefner pledged to

match all gifts up to $50 dollar-for-dollar —meaning gifts to the

CIS Student Microgrant fund made on ROAR day had the

potential to be TRIPLED! To raise the stakes even higher,

faculty and staff from CIS’s Multidisciplinary Vision Research

Laboratory (MVRL) issued their own matching challenge for any

contributions made by students in their lab. Well, the ROAR

Day results are in, and we are happy to report that we have

already exceeded our participation goal! The challenge isn’t

over yet, though—there is still an opportunity to take Stefi for

all she’s got, because although she is now committed to

matching, contributions made to date (not including matching

funds) total only 75% of her upper limit of $5,000.

Although the challenge continues, CIS is extremely proud of the

commitment shown to our students by our dedicated faculty,

staff, and also students themselves. 100% of the funds raised

are turned right back around and awarded to accepted student

microgrant proposals; recipients of which are listed here.

Thank you to those who have donated so far, and

congratulations to this year’s student microgrant recipients!

ROAR Day

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ALUMNI ADMISSIONS EVENTS

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Pittsburgh, PA February 6,7

West Springfield, MA March 30

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Introducing New Faculty

Several new faculty have been welcomed as part of CIS this

fall. In this issue we would like to introduce two of them, Dr.

Gabe Diaz and Dr. Jie Qiao.

Dr. Gabe Diaz is a new Assistant Professor in CIS. He earned a

B.A. in Psychology in 1994 from Skidmore College, after which

he earned a both a Masters (2008) and a Ph.D. (2010) in

Cognitive Science from RPI. His most recent appointment

before joining RIT was as a Postdoctoral fellow at the

University of Texas, Austin in the laboratory of Mary Hayhoe

and Dana Ballard, investigating predictive eye-movements

made in a ball interception task. Gabe has joined the

Multidisciplinary Vision Research Lab and has research interests

in visually guided action, human motor control, eye

movements, and visual prediction. He can be reached at

gabriel.diaz@rit.edu.

Dr. Jie Qiao joins us as an Associate Professor. She earned a

B.S. with high distinction in Electrical Engineering from

Liaoning University of Science and Technology in China in 1992,

after which she earned a M.S. in Precision Instruments and Fine

Mechanics from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1997. She then

earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from

The University of Texas at Austin in 2001, followed by an

M.B.A. in Competitive & Organizational Strategy,

Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Marketing from the Simon

Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester in

2012. Dr. Qiao brings with her extensive optics knowledge with

research areas in optical instrumentation, optical system

design for imaging optics and non-imaging optics, optics and

imaging quality testing and assessment, and active optics and

adaptive optics control. Coming to us from the UR Laboratory

for Laser Energetics, Dr. Qiao is interested in applying

knowledge, industrial, and academic R&D experience to

research fields of fabrication and metrology for freeform

optics, hyperspectral imaging for remote sensing and adaptive

optics. A full biography is available at http://www.rit.edu/

cos/jie-qiao. She can be reached at qiao@cis.rit.edu.

In our next newsletter, we’ll introduce our latest addition, Dr.

Chip Bachmann.

Xerox 75th Anniversary

October 22, 2013 marked the 75th anniversary of the invention

of electrophotography by Chester F. Carlson in his apartment in

Astoria, Queens, NY. This process would lead to the

development of xerography and the formation of Xerox. CIS

honored our namesake with a screening of the locally-produced

The Invention No One Wanted. The film, produced in 1988,

explores Carlson’s career and the sociological impact of his

invention. We will continue to recognize this momentous

anniversary throughout the year with celebratory banners hung

both in CIS and in the College of Science Gosnell building. An

excellent news article detailing the significance of Carlson’s

achievement, entitled Carlson pressed “start” on xerography

75 years ago, ran in the Democrat and Chronicle and is

available online here.

Dr. Gabriel Diaz

Dr. Jie Qiao

New: Imaging Science Immersion

New for 2013, CIS hosted “Imaging Science Immersion”, a sort

of orientation and bootcamp for incoming graduate students.

The intent of ISI was to ensure that all incoming graduate

students began their coursework with a fundamental

understanding of Imaging Science, regardless of their various

undergraduate backgrounds. ISI classes, which replaced the

first three days of regular classes, provided an interesting and

intense overview of the Imaging Science graduate program,

including some history of imaging, exposure to topics that

students might not otherwise hear about, and some basic

imaging vocabulary. The first day of ISI concluded with an

informal reception in RIT’s Vignelli Center gallery, where

students were able to mingle with each other and with CIS

faculty and staff over hors d’oeurves and drinks. CIS Director

Dr. Stefi Baum as well as Dean of Graduate Studies Hector

Flores were in attendance and took a few minutes to introduce

themselves and make announcements. Thanks to the success of

ISI, CIS plans to make it an annual program.

Awards and Recognitions

CIS Professor Jeff Pelz and Imaging Science doctoral student

Thomas Kinsman, both members of the Multidisciplinary Vision

Research Laboratory, were among the honorees recognized

November 19th by President Bill Destler and Vice President for

Research Ryne Raffaelle and the RIT community at the annual

Celebration of Research. Dr. Pelz was honored with two

Innovator’s Awards for his work on the technologies “Reduction

of Noise in Image Sensors” and “Object Recognition in Image

Sequences.” Both technologies have reached a significant

milestone with “Reduction of Noise in Image Sensors” bringing

in $60,000 in revenue from fiscal year 2008 through fiscal year

2013 and “Object Recognition in Image Sequences” generating

$75,000 in revenue. Thomas was honored with an Innovator’s

Award for his work on “Object Recognition in Image

Sequences,” which has generated $75,000 in revenue from

fiscal year 2008 through fiscal year 2013. More Info

PREMIERE: Another NEW Video

about the Innovative Freshmen

Experience class! CIS has

partnered with RIT Production

Services to create two videos

about our ground-breaking

Innovative Freshmen Experience

course. In our last newsletter we

debuted a video aimed at

prospective students (click here to

view previous issue). Now we are

happy to share the second video,

this time aimed at educators! The

video discusses the motivation

behind creating the class, the

pedagogy it represents, and the

outcomes (both expected and

unexpected) of our revolutionary

approach. View the video here.

For more information on the

course and past projects, visit

http://www.cis.rit.edu/IFE.

SPOTLIGHT

CIS’s new Imaging Science Immersion program for incoming graduate students included an informal reception in RIT’s Vignelli Center gallery.

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