Associate Professor
Email: rgutier@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-2942 Fax: 979/847-8578
Office: HRBB 520A
http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/rgutier
Ph.D. Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, June 1998
M.S. Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, May 1995
B.S. Industrial/Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Madrid
(Spain), June 1992
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Intelligent sensors, speech processing, face recognition, machine olfaction, neuromorphic computation, mobile robotics, pattern recognition, machine learning
SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT
“MRI: Acquisition of Mobile, Distributed Instrumentation for Response Research (RESPOND-R),” National Science Foundation, August 2009-September 2012
“Stress monitoring with non-linear dynamical models and wearable sensors,” Qatar National Research Fund, June 2009-May 2012
“Miniature and Reliable Chemical Sensors for Cell Phones,” Department of Homeland Security, September 2009 - September 2011 (subcontract)
“RI: Collaborative Research: Foreign accent conversion through articulatory inversion of the vocal-tract frontal cavity,” National Science Foundation, September 2008-August 2011
"Hypothesis Generation for Chemical Threats Through Active Perception with Microsensor Arrays," National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, September 2006-August 2008
"CAREER: Computational Models for Sensor-based Machine Olfaction," National Science Foundation, July 2000-June 2004
"Speech Driven Facial Animation", National Science Foundation, September 1999-August 2002
AWARDS
- Texas A&M University Barbara and Ralph Cox '53 Faculty Fellow 2009
- Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award 2009
- Ramón y Cajal Award, Spain's Ministry of Education and Science 2005-2010
EXPERIENCE
- Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2006 - present
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2002-2006
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Wright State University, 1998-2002
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
Associate Editor: IEEE Sensors Journal (2006-present)
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2009)
Senior Member: IEEE
Program Committee: IEEE Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (2010)
IEEE Symp Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (2009)
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (2008, 2009)
IEEE Sensors Conference (2007-2009)
International Symposium on Artificial Brain with Emotion and Learning (2006)
Robotics: Systems and Science (2006)
IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (2005, 2006),
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2005),
International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose (2005),
IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (2003, 2004),
IEEE International Symp. Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering (2001, 2003).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
D. Felps, H. Bortfeld and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, “Foreign accent conversion in computer assisted pronunciation training,” Speech Communication, 51, 920-932, 2009.
R. Gosangi and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, “Active chemical sensing with Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes,” in Proc. International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Noses (ISOEN 2009), AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 1137, 562-565, 2009.
J. Choi and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, “Using heart rate monitors to detect mental stress,” in Proc. Sixth International Workshop on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2009), 219-223, 2009.
J. Rodriguez, H. Bortfeld, I. Rudomin, B. Hernandez and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, “The Reverse-caricature Effect Revisited: Familiarization with Frontal Facial Caricatures Improves Veridical Face Recognition,” Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23(5). 733-742, 2008.
A. Hierlemann and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, “Higher-order chemical sensing,” ACS Chemical Reviews, 108, 563-613, 2008.
F. Nogueira, D, Felps and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, “Development of an infrared absorption spectroscope based on linear variable filters,” IEEE Sensors Journal, 7(8), 1183-1190, 2007.
B. Raman, T. Kotseroglou, L. Clark, M. Lebl and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, “Neuromorphic processing for optical microbead arrays: dimensionality reduction and contrast enhancement,” IEEE Sensors Journal, 7(4), 506-514, 2007.
