Dr. Ethan Danahy

Tufts University

Current Affiliation

Software Designer (2007 - present)
Center for Engineering Education and Outreach
Tufts University School of Engineering
474 Boston Ave, Curtis Hall
Medford MA, 02155

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering (2007)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Tufts University, Medford MA USA
Dissertation: Logical Transforms and Their Use in Non-Linear Algorithms for Digital Signal Processing

Masters of Science in Computer Science (2002)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Tufts University, Medford MA USA
Masters Project: Faster Than Real-Time Machine Learning in High Fidelity Simulations

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Multimedia Communications (2000)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, College of Engineering
Tufts University, Medford MA USA
Senior Project: Computer Animated Short Film: The Adventures of EPROM

Journal Publications

Karen A. Panetta, Ethan E. Danahy, and Sos S. Agaian, "Boolean Function Derivatives and Their Application to the Detection of Edges in Digital Images," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, 2008.

Sos S. Agaian, Ethan E. Danahy, and Karen A. Panetta, "Logical System Representation of Images and Removal of Impulse Noise," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans, accepted for publication, 2008.

Merredith Portsmore, Chris Rogers, Philip Lau, and Ethan Danahy. "Remote Sensing and Tele-robotics for Elementary and Middle School via the Internet," Computers in Education Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, pg 72-75, 2004.

Other Publications

Ethan Danahy, Amul Goswamy, and Chris Rogers, "Future of Robotics Education: The Design and Creation of Interactive Notebooks for Teaching Robotic Concepts," IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, November 2008.

Ethan E. Danahy, Karen A. Panetta, and Sos S. Agaian, "Coordinate Logic Transforms and Their Use in the Detection of Edges Within Binary and Grayscale Images," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, September 2007.

Ethan E. Danahy, Karen A. Panetta, and Sos S. Agaian, "Feature Extraction System for Contextual Classification within Security Imaging Applications," IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, April 2007.

Ethan E. Danahy, Karen A. Panetta, and Sos S. Agaian, "Signal Compression via Coordinate Logic Transforms," SPIE Defense and Security Symposium: Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing for Military and Security Applications, April 2007.

Ethan E. Danahy, Sos S. Agaian, and Karen A. Panetta, "Algorithms for the Resizing of Binary and Grayscale Images Using a Logical Transform," SPIE Electronic Imaging, January 2007.

Ethan E. Danahy, Sos S. Agaian, and Karen A. Panetta, "Detecting Edges in Noisy Multimedia Environments," IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, p. 696-700, December 2006.

Ethan E. Danahy, Sos S. Agaian, and Karen A. Panetta, "Directional edge detection using the logical transform for binary and grayscale images," SPIE Defense and Security Symposium: Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing for Military and Security Applications, vol. 6250, April 2006.

Ethan E. Danahy, Sos S. Agaian, and Karen A. Panetta, "Non-Linear Algorithms for Noise Removal from Medical Signals Using the Logical Transform," SPIE Optics and Photonics: Mathematical Methods in Pattern and Image Analysis, vol. 5916, August 2005.

Ethan E. Danahy, Sos S. Agaian, and Karen A. Panetta, "Filtering of Impulse Noise in Digital Signals Using Logical Transform," SPIE Defense and Security Symposium: Visual Information Processing XIV, vol. 5817, March 2005.

Merredith Portsmore, Chris Rogers, Philip Lau, and Ethan Danahy. "Remote Sensing and Tele-robotics for Elementary and Middle School via the Internet," ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2003.

Ethan Danahy and Steve Morrison, "Faster than Real-Time Machine Learning within High Fidelity Simulations," IEEE Simulation Symposium, April 2002.

Patents

Co-Inventor of Interactive Digital Workbook System and Method, application filed January 2008.

Presentations

Oral presentation on "Algorithms for the Resizing of Binary and Grayscale Images Using a Logical Transform," at the IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications, and Technology Conference, May 2007.

Oral presentation on "Feature Extraction System for Contextual Classification within Security Imaging Applications," at the IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, April 2007

Oral presentation on "Digital Electronic Arithmetics with Applications," at the IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, April 2007

Oral presentation on "Signal Compression via Coordinate Logic Transforms," at the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium: Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing for Military and Security Applications, April 2007.

Dissertation defense on "Logical Transforms and Their Use in Non-Linear Algorithms for Digital Signal Processing," at the Tufts University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, March 2007

Poster presentation on "Algorithms for the Resizing of Binary and Grayscale Images Using a Logical Transform," at the SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, January 2007.

Virtual presentation on "Directional edge detection using the logical transform for binary and grayscale images," at the Tufts University Graduate Research: 2006-2007 Virtual Expo of Engineering Research, January 2007.

Oral presentation on "Detecting Edges in Noisy Multimedia Environments," at the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, December 2006.

Poster presentation on "Directional edge detection using the logical transform for binary and grayscale images," at the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, April 2006.

Poster presentation on "Non-Linear Algorithms for Noise Removal from Medical Signals Using the Logical Transform," at the Tufts University Graduate Student Research Fair and Poster Session, October 2005.

Oral presentation on "Non-Linear Algorithms for Noise Removal from Medical Signals Using the Logical Transform," at the SPIE Optics and Photonics, August 2005.

Oral presentation on "Impulse Noise Removal from Medical Signals using the Logical Transform," at the Tufts University Graduate Student Council Research Symposium, April 2005.

Oral presentation on "Filtering of Impulse Noise in Digital Signals Using Logical Transform," at the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, March 2005.

Poster presentation on "Digitally Filtering Impulse Noise from Signals with the Logical Transform," at the Tufts University Graduate Student Research Fair and Poster Session, October 2004.

Oral presentation on "Malicious ROBOLAB: How to Cheat," at the ROBOLAB Conference, August 2004.

Poster presentation on "Spectral Techniques for Fault Detection and Isolation within Digital Circuits," at the Tufts University Graduate Student Research Fair and Poster Session, October 2003.

Oral presentation on "Faster than Real-Time Machine Learning within High Fidelity Simulations" at the IEEE Computer Society 35th Annul Simulation Symposium, April 2002.

Oral presentation on "Faster than Real-Time Machine Learning within High Fidelity Simulations" at the Tufts University Computer Science Colloquium, 2002.

Oral presentation of "Computer Animated Short Film: The Adventures of EPROM," at the Tufts University Computer Science Colloquium, 2000.

Workshops Performed

Workshop (organized) on "Learn LaTeX: An Introduction to Writing Papers in LaTeX" for the Tufts University School of Engineering, May 2007.

Workshop on "Advanced Data Collection and Distributed Intelligence" at the Robolab Conference, August 2004.

Workshop on "Internet Server" at the Robolab Conference, August 2004.

Workshop (week long) on "Introduction to Robolab" at TEC Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, November 2003.

Workshop (week long) on "Robolab: Pilot, Inventor, and Investigator" at the Singapore Science Centre in Singapore, November 2002.

Workshops (various) on using Robolab in Adelaide/Melbourne/Canberra/Sydney Australia, August 2002.

Workshop on "Interactive webpages using ASP" for Tufts University Student ACM, 2002.

Awards

IEEE Northeast Regional Graduate Student Paper Contest, 2nd place, May 2007.

Recipient of the "2006 Graduate Student Research Award" from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, October 2006.

Co-recipient of the "2004 Outstanding Graduate Contributor to Engineering Education Award" from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, May 2004.

3rd place, Tufts University Graduate Research Fair and Poster Session, October 2003

1st place, Tufts University Graduate Research Fair and Poster Session, October 2001

Teaching/Advising

Guest lecturer for "Introduction to Digital Logic Circuits," a sophomore level engineering course, for Tufts University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Spring 2007.

Professor for "Virtual Reality and Interactive Simulations Systems," a senior/grad student level course, for Tufts University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fall 2003.

Faculty advisor (representing Electrical Engineering) for the Tufts University Robotics Academy, 2003 to 2004.

Co-advisor for "Wireless Multiplexing of Audio/Visual Signals," a senior design project at Tufts University, Spring 2003.

Co-advisor for "STOMP: Interactive Exercise System," a senior design project at Tufts University, Spring 2003.

Co-advisor for "A Behavioral Verilog Parser and Compiler," a senior design project at Tufts University, Spring 2003.

Teaching assistant for "Introduction to Digital Logic Circuits" at Tufts University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Spring 2003.

Teaching assistant for "Introduction to Electrical Engineering" at Tufts University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fall 2002.

Teaching assistant for "Computer Processing of Images" at Tufts University Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997-2000.

Member Societies

IEEE
Member since 2003

ACM
Member since 2003

SPIE
Member since 2007

Graduate Level Course Work

Computer Science Electrical and Computer Engineering
 
Algorithms
Theory of Computation
Cryptography
Artificial Intelligence
Software Engineering
Computer Graphics
Graphical User Interfaces
Computer Assisted Design
Advanced 3D Design
2D and 3D Computer Animation
Operating Systems
Linux Internals
Communication Systems
Analog Control Systems
Advanced Feedback Control Systems
Computer Engineering
Human Computer Interaction
Virtual Reality and Interactive Simulations
Information Theory
Digital Image Processing
Digital Filters
Orthogonal Transforms
Computer Communication Networks
Principles of Communication Satellites

Other projects

Digital Logic Implementation of Pong, Spring 2003

Parallel Processing Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display, Fall 2002

NASA Sensors Project, January 2001 to September 2002


Contact: edanahy [at] eecs [dot] tufts [dot] edu

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