ECSE student receives Innovation in Optomechatronic Research Award

Linda Rivera, ECSE student who just recently finished her MS thesis with John Wen and currently working with Rich Radke on her doctorate, was awarded the Innovation in Optomechatronic Research Award in the International Symposium on Optomechanics Technologies, held at San Diego, Nov 17-19, 2008, for a joint paper (based on her MS thesis):

L.I. Rivera, B. Potsaid, J.T. Wen, "Multi-worm tracking using superposition of merit functions" This research has been conducted in the Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) and supported in part by the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR). 

Fern Finger of Biology Department provided the worms and motivation for this work