Keshu Zhang

Education in Engineering:

• 2003, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans
• 2001, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans

Education in Mathematics:

• 2002, Ph.D. in Mathematics, Sichuan University
• 1998, B.S. in Mathematics, Sichuan University

Research Interests:

• Information Fusion
• Machine Learning and Computer Vision
• Multi-Sensor Multi-Target Tracking
• Estimation and Decision Theory
• Random Process and Stochastic Signal Processing

Invited Talk:

• Optimal sensor data compression for linear estimation fusion. Fall meeting of the Louisiana chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2003

Awards and Honors:

• 2003 Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award
• 2002, 2003 Crescent City Doctoral Scholarship
• 1995, 1999, and 2000 First Place Prize of Guanghua Scholarship
• 1998 Honor of Excellect Graduate
• 1997 Honor of Excellent Student of Sichuan Province
• 1996 First Place Prize in National Mathematical Modeling Contest and Best Paper Award
• 1996 First Place Prize in Extracurricular Scientific and Technological Activity
• 1995 Dupont Scholarship
• 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 Scholarships of Outstanding Undergraduate

Publications:

• Journal:
1. K.-S. Zhang, X.-R. Li, and H.-M. Chen. "Optimal sensor data quantization for linear estimation fusion". submitted as a regular paper to IEEE Trans. Information Theory, 2004.
2. K.-S. Zhang, X.-R. Li, H.-M. Chen and P. Zhang. "Optimal sensor data dimension reduction for linear estimation fusion". submitted as a regular paper to IEEE Trans. Information Theory, 2004.
3. K.-S. Zhang, X.-R. Li and Y.-M. Zhu. "Optimal update with out-of-sequence observations for distributed filtering". submitted as a regular paper to IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, 2003.
4. X.-R. Li and K.-S. Zhang. "Optimal linear estimation fusion Part IV: Optimality and efficiency of distributed fusion". submitted as a regular paper to IEEE Trans. Information Theory, 2003.
5. Y.-M. Zhu, K.-S. Zhang, and X.-R. Li. "Fusion of distributed EFRLS state estimators". submitted as a regular paper to IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2003.
6. Y.-M. Zhu, K.-S. Zhang, and X.-R. Li. "An SPRT-type procedure with computable finite upper bound on stopping time". submitted as a regular paper to IEEE Trans. Information Theory, 2002.
7. K.-S. Zhang, H. Ma, and Z.-S. You. "Waveform estimation of non-stationary fractal stochastic signals using optimum threshold technique". ACTA ELECTRONICA SINICA, 2001, 29(9), pp1161-1163.
8. Y.-M. Zhu, Z.-S. You, J. Zhao, K.-S. Zhang, and X.-R. Li. "The optimality for the distributed Kalman filtering fusion with feedback". Automatica, vol. 37, 2001, pp. 1489-1493.
• Conference:
9. H.-F. Li, K.-S. Zhang, and T. Jiang. "The α-entropy minimization algorithm". Submitted to International Conference on Machine Learning, 2004.
10. H.-F. Li, K.-S. Zhang, and T. Jiang. "On the small sample size problem". Submitted to Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004.
11. H.-M. Chen, K.-S. Zhang, and X.-R. Li. "Optimal data compression for multisensor tracking with communication constraints". Submitted to Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2004.
12. H.-F. Li, T. Jiang, and K.-S. Zhang. Efficient and robust feature extraction by maximum margin criterion. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16. Vancouver, Canada, 2003.
13. M. Mallick, K.-S. Zhang, and X.-R. Li. "Comparative analysis of multiple-lag out-of-sequence measurement filtering algorithms". In Proceedings of the International SPIE Conf. on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets. August 2003.
14. K.-S. Zhang, X.-R. Li, P. Zhang, and H.-F. Li. Optimal linear estimation fusion Part VI: Sensor data compression. In Proceedings of the 2003 International Conf. Information Fusion. Queensland, Australia, July 2003.
15. K.-S. Zhang, X.-R. Li, H.-M. Chen, and M. Mallick. Optimal update with out-of-sequence measurements for multi-sensor multi-target tracking. In Proceedings of the 2003 International Conf. Information Fusion. Queensland, Australia, July 2003.
16. K.-S. Zhang, X.-R. Li, and Y.-M. Zhu. Optimal update with out-of-sequence observations for distributed filtering. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Conf. Information Fusion. Annapolis, MD, July 2002, S2 pp. 1519-1526.
17. X.-R. Li, K.-S. Zhang, J. Zhao and Y.-M. Zhu. Optimal linear estimation fusion Part V: Relationships. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Conf. Information Fusion. Annapolis, MD, July 2002, T2A pp. 497-504.
18. X.-R. Li and K.-S. Zhang. Optimal linear estimation fusion Part IV: Optimality and efficiency of distributed fusion. In Proceedings of the 2001 International Conf. Information Fusion. Montreal, QC, Canada, August 2001, pp. WeB1-19 - WeB1-26.
19. X.-R. Li and K.-S. Zhang. "Optimality and efficiency of optimal distributed fusion". In Proceedings of the Workshop on Estimation, Tracking and Fusion. A Tribute to Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Monterey, CA, May 2001, pp. 3770.
20. Y.-M. Zhu, J. Zhao, K.-S. Zhang, X.-R. Li, and Z.-S. You. "Performance analysis for feedback track fusion". In Proceedings of the Third World Congress on Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation. Hefei, China, June-July, 2000.
21. Y.-M. Zhu, K.-S. Zhang, X.-R. Li, and Z.-S. You. "Track fusion of distributed EFRLS state estimators". In Proceedings of the 2000 International Conf. Information Fusion. Paris, France, July 2000, pp. 9-15.
22. Y.-M. Zhu, Y. Gan, K.-S. Zhang, and C.-Y. Liu. "Multi-sensor Neyman-Pearson type sequential decision with correlated sensor observations". In Proceedings of the 1998 International Conf. Information Fusion. Las Vegas, Vol.2 CSREA Press, Las Vegas, 1998, pp.787-793.