Dr. Joseph C. Dagher

Senior Scientist
CDM Optics
4001 Discovery Dr.
Boulder, CO, 80303
www.cdm-optics.com

Phone:303-449-2152 
Email:joseph at dagherbros dot com
Website: http://joseph.dagherbros.com/
Birth date: October 12, 1977
Birthplace: Tripoli, Lebanon
Citizenship: Lebanese
US Visa Status: Permanent Resident  

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• Professional Interests
• Education
• Employment
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  • Conference Papers
  • Journal Papers
  • Monographs/Book Chapters
• Awards
• Computer Skills
• Hobbies
• Language Proficiency
• References
  

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

• Signal/Image processing, estimation, restoration and data compression,
• Optical systems design,
• Optical information processing,
• Task-specific image acquisition,
• Collaborative imaging and processing,
• Joint optimization of image acquisition and post-processing systems.

EDUCATION

• PhD in Optics, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
  • Minor: Electrical Engineering
  • GPA: 3.92.
• MS in Electrical Engineering, University of Arizona, May 2002
  • Minor: Optical Sciences
  • GPA: 3.9
• BS in Computer Engineering, University of Balamand, Lebanon, February 1999
  • Major Average: 85.95/100
  • Dean’s Honor List (Fall 1995, Spring 1997, Fall 1997 and Spring 1998)
• High School Diploma, Elementary Mathematics Program, Colleges Des Frères, Lebanon, June 1995

 

EMPLOYMENT

• September  2006 – present
  CDM Optics, Boulder, CO
  • Senior Scientist
• August 2001 – August 2006  
  University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
  • Graduate Research Associate at the Signal Processing and Coding Laboratory (SPACL) and the Optical Computing and Processing Laboratory (OCPL)
  • Employer: Dr. M. W. Marcellin and Dr. M. A. Neifeld
• January 2006 – May 2006
  University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
  • Graduate Teaching Associate for OPTI 512L – Fourier Optics Lab
  • Employer: Dr. M. Kupinski
• August 2005 – December 2005
  University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
  • Graduate Teaching Associate for OPTI 501 – Electromagnetic waves
  • Employer: Dr. M. Mansuripur
• June 2002 – August 2002
  Siemens Corp.
  • Technical Consultant, 3D compression of medical imagery
• January 2001 – August 2001
  University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
  • Graduate Research Assistant at the Signal Processing and Coding Laboratory (SPACL)
  • Employer: Dr. M. W. Marcellin
• August 1999 – December 2000
  University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant for ECE 301- Electronics Lab
  • Employer: Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
• October 1998 – June 1999
  • University of Balamand, Lebanon
  • Research Assistant, video streaming for distance learning
  • Employer: Dr. R. Saba
• October 1997 – June 1997
  University of Balamand, Lebanon
  • Assistant Network Manager
  • Employer: Dr. W. Karam

 

PUBLICATIONS                                                                  

Conference Papers

1. J.C. Dagher, A. Bilgin, and M. W. Marcellin, "Efficient rate control for video streaming," in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXIII, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4472, pp. 258-66, July 2001.
2. J.C. Dagher, A. Bilgin, and M. W. Marcellin, "Rate Control for Multisequence Video Streaming," in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXIII, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4671, pp. 209-20, January 2002.
3. H. Wang, J.C. Dagher, A. Tabesh, M.W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, "Volumetric compression/restoration for LADAR imagery," Proceedings of Optical Society of America, Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, October 2002.
4. J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, "Compression of LADAR imagery," in Proceedings of SPIE, Visual Communications and Image Processing, Vol. 5150, pp.1193-1203, June 2003.
5. J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, "Compression for transmission and storage of Laser Radar measurements," Proceedings of the International Telemetery Conference, IFT, October 2003.
6. J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “Power-constrained distributed transmission of sensor-network measurements,” Optical Society of America, 87th Annual Meeting, Tucson, October 2003.
7. K. M. Siddiqui, E. L. Siegel, B. I. Reiner, O. Crave, J. P. Johnson, Z. Wu, J. C. Dagher, A. Bilgin, M. W. Marcellin, M. Nadar," Improved Compressibility of Multi-Slice CT Datasets using 3D JPEG2000 Compression," in 2004 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, June 2004, Chicago, IL.
8. J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “Collaborative multihop transmission of sensor- network imagery,” Proceedings of Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester, October 2004.
9. P. Kulkarni, A. Bilgin, M.W. Marcellin, J.C. Dagher, T. Flohr and J. Rountree, “Reduced memory multi-layer multi-component rate allocation for JPEG2000,” Proceedings of SPIE, Image & Video Communications and Processing (IVCP'05), Vol. 5685, pp.139-150, 2005.
10. K. M. Siddiqui, E. L. Siegel, B. I. Reiner, O. Crave, J. P. Johnson, Z. Wu, J. C. Dagher, A. Bilgin, M. W. Marcellin, M. Nadar, "Compression of multislice CT: 2D vs. 3D JPEG2000 and effects of slice thickness," Proceedings of SPIE, Medical Imaging 2005, Vol. 5748, pp. 162-170, 2005.
11. J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, "An iterative algorithm for optimizing the conditional lifetimes of distributed sensors," to appear at the IEEE Information Theory and Applications Workshop, January 2007.

Journal Papers

1. J. C. Dagher, A. Bilgin, M. W. Marcellin, “Resource-Constrained Rate Control for Motion JPEG2000,” IEEE  Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 12, No. 12, pp. 1522-29, December 2003.
2. J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “Efficient Storage/Transmission of LADAR Imagery,” Applied Optics: Information Processing, Vol. 42, No. 35, pp. 7023-35, December 2003.
3. J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “A Method for Coordinating the Distributed Transmission of Imagery,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 15, No. 7, pp. 1705-17, 2006.
4. J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “A theory for maximizing the lifetime of sensor networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 55, pp. 323-332, 2007.
5. J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “Collaborative transmission of distributed sensor imagery,” Applied Optics, OSA, Vol. 45, Issue 28, pp. 7353-7364 (October 2006).

Monographs/book chapters

1. J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “Power-constrained distributed transmission of sensor-network measurement,” in SPIE Optics in Information Systems, special issue on Computational Imaging, Proceedingsof SPIE, Vol. 14, No. 2, August 2003.
2. P. Kulkarni, A. Bilgin, M.W. Marcellin, J.C. Dagher, J.H. Kasner, T.J. Flohr, and J.C. Rountree, "Compression of earth science data with JPEG2000 in Hyperspectral Image Compression," G. Motta and J. Storer, Springer Inc., 2006.

 

AWARDS  

1. Recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at SPIE's Visual Communication and Image Processing conference, VCIP2003, Lugano, Switzerland, July 2003.
2. Recipient of the Imaging Fellowship Award at The University of Arizona, August 2003 – May 2004.
3. Recipient of the Best Student Paper, second place award, at IFT's International Telemetry Conference, ITC 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2003.
4. Recipient of the Rolyn Optics Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Fall 2005.

 

COMPUTER SKILLS

Software:  C/++, Matlab, LaTex, GNU, HTML, Fortran, Pspice, ZeMax

Operating systems: Linux, UNIX, Dos, Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP

 

HOBBIES

Football (a.k.a. soccer), member of Denver FC,
Salsa, member of Ritmos Latinos Boulder,
Astronomy, Movies, Politics

 

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Fluency in English, French, and Arabic; Portuguese in progress.

REFERENCES

Available upon request.