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Daniel
P. Lopresti
Professor and
Chair, Department
of
Computer
Science and Engineering |
Director, Data X
Initiative
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Lehigh University
113 Research Drive
Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA
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Phone:
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(610)
758-5782
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Email*:
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Office:
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Mountaintop
Building
C 215
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Daniel
Lopresti
received his bachelor's
degree from Dartmouth in 1982 and his Ph.D. in
computer science from
Princeton in 1987. After completing his doctorate, he
joined the
Department of Computer Science at Brown and taught
courses ranging from
VLSI design to computational aspects of molecular
biology and conducted
research in parallel computing and VLSI CAD. He
went
on to help found the Matsushita Information Technology
Laboratory in
Princeton,
and later also served on the research staff at Bell
Labs where his work
turned to document analysis, handwriting recognition,
and biometric
security.
In
2003, Dr.
Lopresti joined the Department of
Computer
Science and Engineering at Lehigh where his
research examines fundamental algorithmic
and systems-related questions in pattern recognition,
bioinformatics,
and security. On July 1, 2009, he became Chair of the
CSE Department.
Effective July 1, 2014,
he assumed the role of Interim Dean of the P. C.
Rossin College of
Engineering and Applied Science at Lehigh. On
July 1, 2015, he
returned to Chair the CSE Department, as
well as to serve as Director of the Data X
strategic initiative.
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News of Note |
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International Association
of Pattern Recognition
At the recent ICPR 2018
conference in Beijing, I was elected to server a
two-year term as Treasurer of the IAPR. I will
also be serving on the IAPR
Executive Committee during this time.
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TCFPGA Hall of
Fame Class of 2018
One of my first papers, co-authored with
colleagues in 1991*, was
recently voted into the TCFPGA Hall of Fame
(ACM/SIGDA Technical
Committee on FPGAs). The award presentation took
place at the IEEE
Symposium on Field-Programmable
Custom Computing Machines in April 2018.
* “SPLASH – Experience Building and Programming
a Highly Parallel
Programmable Logic Array,” M. Gokhale, W.
Holmes, A. Kopser, S. Lucas,
R. Minnich, D. Sweely, and D. Lopresti, IEEE
Computer, January 1991,
pp. 81-89.
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Intelligent
Infrastructure
On behalf of the Computing
Reseach
Association, I moderated a Congressional
briefing for the
House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
on Jan. 30, 2018.
Panelists included Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia
University),
Matthew Wansley (nuTonomy), Nadya Bliss (Arizona
Statue University),
and
Elizabeth Mynatt (Georgia Tech). Click here
for more details, and here
to read a CRA blog posting about the panel
session.
I also moderated a panel session titled
"Rethinking Approaches
to Disaster Management and Public Safety With
Intelligent
Infrastructure" at the Annual
Meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science
in Austin, TX on Feb. 16, 2018. Panelists
included Michael Dunaway
(University of Louisiana, Lafayette), Robin
Murphy (Texas A&M
University), and Nalini Venkatasubramanian
(University of California,
Irvine). Click here
for more details, and here
to read a CCC blog posting about the panel
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Lehigh Silicon
Valley
Once again I led the Software
Engineering
Track for the highly successful Lehigh
Silicon Valley
Program (LSV++). I created the track in
2017 in collaboration with
the leaders of the innovative Baker
Institute. For
2018, we visited Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, OSIsoft, Adobe, Cisco, Google, Plug
and Play Tech Center,
and Bracket
Computing.
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Nano/Human
Interfaces
I am a co-leader of Lehigh's Nano/Human
Interfaces Presidential
Engineering Research Initiative along with
Martin Harmer and Jeffrey
Rickman from Materials Science, Anand Jagota
from Bioengineering, and
Kate Arrington from Psychology. Click here
to
read the announcement and click here
for the NHI website.
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Data X Strategic
Initiative
Lehigh has announced Data X, a major
university-wide strategic
initiative in the area of computing and data
analytics. Among other
things, the initiative will include new faculty
positions in CSE and
other key thrust areas across the institution. I
will be serving as the
Director of Data X. For the announcement, click
here.
For
the Data X homepage, click here.
I am serving as a 2018
WiDS
Ambassador and we will be livestreaming
the Stanford Women in Data
Science Conference (WiDS) at Lehigh on March 5.
Click here
for more details about
the conference.
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Lehigh
Mountaintop Building C
For photos of Building C, once part of Bethlehem
Steel's Homer Research
Laboratories, click here. After a
major renovation project, the CSE Department
moved into its new home in
Building C in January 2018. My office is no
longer located in Packard
Lab, it is now BC 215.
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CRA Computing
Community Consortium Council
Effective July 1, 2015, I will be serving a
three year term on the Computing
Community Consortium
Council of the Computing
Research
Association.
- “Systems Computing Challenges in the
Internet of
Things” (CCC Whitepaper), Rajeev Alur, Emery
Berger, Ann W. Drobnis,
Limor Fix, Kevin Fu, Gregory D. Hager,
Daniel Lopresti, Klara
Nahrstedt, Elizabeth Mynatt, Shwetak Patel,
Jennifer Rexford, John A.
Stankovic, and Benjamin Zorn, September
2015. (PDF
298
kbytes)
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Mountaintop
Experiential Learning Environment
I have had significant involvement in the
development of Lehigh's new
Mountaintop Project. For coverage of this
activity, which began in
Summer 2013 and continues to grow in size and
scope, click here.
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New Paradigm for
Pattern Recognition Research
We are
investigating a fundamentally new approach to
conducting experimental
pattern recognition research. Based on advances
made possible by Web
2.0 technologies, our vision addresses a number
of serious issues with
the status quo, including over-reliance on small
standard datasets,
implicit bias in testing, and irreproducibility
of experimental
results. For more details on this idea which we
call "DARE," click here. |
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Document Analysis
and Exploitation
We have
had an
active research effort in the area of document
analysis and
exploitation for several years now. Much of this
work has been
conducted in collaboration with colleagues at
BBN Technologies with
funding from DARPA, the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency.
Henry Baird and I were principal investigators,
but congressional
funding we received expanded the project to
include other
colleagues, including Hank Korth. To read a news
article about the
award, click here.
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Electronic Voting
I serve
as an independent expert in
the Banfield v. Cortés lawsuit challenging
the use of certain
electronic voting machines in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Click here
to learn
more about the case, which has been in
progress for several years now.
A recent ruling
by the judge in the case has set the stage
for independent examination
of Pennsylvania's e-voting systems. The
details are now being worked
out by parties from both sides.
The PERFECT Project
We recently wrapped up a modest NSF
CyberTrust grant to study
issues surrounding the reliable processing
of voting records, including
paper ballots. Investigators on the project
included George Nagy
from RPI, Elisa Barney Smith from Boise
State, Chris Borick from
Muhlenberg, and Ziad Munson and myself from
Lehigh. PERFECT is an
acronym that stands for "Paper and
Electronic Records For Elections:
Cultivating Trust." Click here
for the PERFECT project website.
For access to an important new collection of
scanned ballot images from
a real election, click here.
We have acquired examples of two full-face
electronic voting systems
manufactured by
Danaher and Sequoia. These systems match
those used in several PA
counties, and were purchased from government
surplus auctions on the
web. For more information and media
coverage, click below:
For other past
news
on the e-voting issue, click here.
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Bioinformatics
Greg
Lang from Biological Sciences and I led a
team of
student researchers in a 2014 Biosystems
Dynamics
Summer
Institute project. The topic of the
project was
"Identification of Driver Mutations in
Experimental Evolution" and
derives from Greg's ongoing reseaerch. The
Lehigh BDSI is funded
by the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute (HHMI).
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