Stefan Robila is the program director for the iMagine REU site. He is also the director of the Center for Imaging and Optics at MSU. He has extensive organizer experience managing as PI three SPIE grants and serving as main organizer for an imaging workshop, activities that required intensive communication, logistics and time management, similar to the ones to be encountered through the REU site organization. Dr. Robila’s work has received over $390,000 in support from the National Science Foundation, Hewlett Packard Foundation, Sun Microsystems, SPIE and MSU. He has supervised students at both undergraduate and graduate level in research projects in image processing, remote sensing and computer security including four Student Faculty Research Awards. Dr. Robila’s work falls within computer vision and image processing. He has focused on techniques that would decrease the time complexity of remote sensed imagery processing by using sampling and data compression as preprocessing tools. Dr. Robila is a 2002 Syracuse University “Wilbur LePage” scholarship recipient, an award given each year to the EECS doctoral student with the most outstanding potential to succeed in an academic career. He has published over 30 papers in journals, refereed proceedings and books and was featured participant in the Advanced Imaging’s 2005 round table on the future of imaging. Dr. Robila supervised one REU student in Summer 2007.

George Antoniou joined MSU in 1993 and is currently Professor of Computer Science. He has an extensive research experience reflected by over 60 journal and 40 conference publications covering a wide spectrum of fields including imaging applications, artificial intelligence and neural networks, PDA-based programming, VHDL and logic design, and system theory. In Fall 2001 he organized the first computing research conference at MSU, the International Conference for Computing and Information Technology (ICCIT 2001). The meeting, jointly sponsored by ACM, IEEE and The Association for Women in Computing (AWC) provided over 100 participants with the opportunity to present their research and interact in recent trends in computing. Dr. Antoniou is program committee member of several international conferences in image and signal processing and is the co-PI on the two SPIE grants that support the Center of Imaging and Optics. Dr. Antoniou has directed more than 40 graduate and undergraduate independent research projects during his tenure at MSU resulting in twelve faculty/students publications in referred journals and conferences with some wining awards in national competitive arenas such as the First Place in the IEEE Undergraduate Category Student Presentation Contest, NJIT, 2002 and Student Scholastic Showcase Winner of the Golden Key International Honor Society, Atlanta, Georgia, 2002. Dr. Antoniou supervised two REU students in Summer 2007.

Angel Gutierrez joined the MSU faculty in 1989 after previously teaching for 13 years at several other universities in United States and Spain. During his years at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, he published notes on the use of matrices in the solution of O.D.E., on the theory of autonomous systems, and on Numerical Analysis, some being the first Spanish publications in the field. Dr. Gutierrez has an extensive mentoring experience, serving as the undergraduate advising coordinator for Computer Science providing guidance to hundreds of computing majors with varied backgrounds. Dr. Gutierrez served or serves as professional consultant for minority companies and as president of the Latino/a Caucus at Montclair State University.  Dr. Gutierrez also serves as a member of the President Commission on Affirmative Action, advising the university leadership on policies and procedures that would ensure increased minority and women participation in the academia. Dr. Gutierrez's work is currently focused on computer graphics and data visualization. Dr. Gutierrez supervised two REU students in Summer 2007.

Jing Peng joined Montclair State University as Associate Professor with an extensive academic experience. Dr. Peng is the author of 22 journal articles and over 45 conference papers and has received over $750K in funding from various national and state agencies. Dr. Peng has extensive mentoring experience at all levels from undergraduate to postdoctorate. One of his recent major accomplishments is the technical guidance to the Gray/Tulane University team consisting of two graduate and two undergraduate students who developed the autonomous operations for Kat-5--the vehicle that came in number 4 (and only 36 minutes behind the leading vehicle designed by Stanford) at the 2005 Darpa Grand Challenge. This challenge required that the competitors design and field test an autonomous ground vehicle over realistic terrain and based on specific performance goals for distance and speed. To achieve a reliable autonomous system, under Dr. Peng’s guidance, the students used a Java based modular designed running on a board Linux OS platform. Using JUnit, the team was able to independently design and thoroughly test modules for the code package, ensuring that no errors are introduced in previously developed packages when they are updated. Dr. Peng supervised two REU students in Summer 2007.

Sanjeev Wahi is an adjunct faculty at MSU and the Chief Technology Officer for Automated Datafeed Solutions Inc. (ADS), a small company located at Picatinny-Arsenal, NJ with extensive background on financial (real-time Market Data) and Department of Defense projects dealing with real-time systems, sensor networks, imaging and multi-resolution data. Mr. Wahi has over fourteen years of computing industry experience that included both managerial and developer positions. He is also a PI on a joint research CRADA (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement) project, "Multi-Resolution Real Time Intelligent Systems” with the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at Picatinny-Arsenal. In the REU project, Mr. Wahi provides industrial expertise and insight in program development cycles. Mr. Wahi supervised one REU student in Summer 2007.