BlackboardElectrical Engineering Student Wins Graduate Research and Creativity Award
Electrical Engineering Student
at FAMU-FSU College
of Engineering
Shantanu H. Joshi has been awarded FSU's 2006-2007 Graduate Research and Creativity Award. The award, sponsored by the FSU Office of Graduate Studies recognizes students for their contribution to research and creativity in three disciplinary categories including mathematics and engineering as well as social and behavioral sciences and the humanities and arts.
Each department or college across the university nominates only one candidate for this award and the process is very selective. Joshi said, "This award signifies tremendous encouragement for my research. It was a challenge to explain the whole outcome of my research in a short time in front of a non-technical audience. Professionally, it means recognition of my research not only by my peers but also by faculty outside of my technical area."
Dr. Nancy Marcus, Dean of the Office of Graduate Studies at FSU said, "I'm very excited about this event. This is the second year we've done this and the credentials of these students are right up there with seasoned faculty. We are very proud of these students and are happy they are getting recognized for their accomplishments." Joshi is currently working towards a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering in the area of "Shape Analysis for Computer Vision" under Dr. Anuj Srivastava from the Department of Statistics and Dr. Anke Meyer-Baese from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Meyer-Baese described Joshi as, "an excellent academic who is also a wonderful person as well." Joshi was nominated for this award by the Statistics Department, since his work touches interdisciplinary areas like computational statistics, differential geometry, and computer vision.
Dr. Victor DeBrunner, Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering described Joshi's research, "What Joshi is exploring has significant possibilities. He is researching on a high level something we describe as photo object recognition. He has written Software that interprets images. For example in security, the data can help determine facial recognition, in the military, it can determine if you are looking at a military tank or something else. There are numerous applications for this software and the outcome is far more accurate than data the human eye can interpret."
