RICARDO GUTIERREZ-OSUNA

Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor

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

ACTIVE RESEARCH SUPPORT

"Integrated Sensing and Acting with Tunable Chemical Sensors," National Science Foundation, September 2010-August 2013

"EAGER: Creativity in the Wild: Insight and Discovery with Wearable Sensors," National Science Foundation, September 2010-August 2011

"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

AWARDS

Association of Former Students College-level Distinguished Teaching Award, 2009-2010

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

NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2002

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)

Senior Member: IEEE Program Chair: International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose (ISOEN 2011)

Program Committee: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2009)

Senior Member: IEEE Program Committee: IEEE Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (2010)

IEEE Symposium on 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 Symposium on Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering (2001, 2003)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

J. Choi and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "Removal of Respiratory Influences from Heart Rate Variability in Stress Monitoring," IEEE Sensors Journal, in press.

J. Rodriguez and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "Reverse Caricatures Effects on Three-Dimensional Racial Reconstructions," Image and Vision Computing, 29, pp. 329-334, 2011.

N.-Y. Yu, T. Yamauchi, H.-F. Yang; Y.-L. Chen and R. Gutierrez-Osuna "Feature Selection for Inductive Generalization," Cognitive Science, 34, pp. 1574-1593, 2010.

R. Gutierrez-Osuna and A. Hierlemann, "Adaptive Microsensor Systems," Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry, 3, PP. 255-276, 2010.

R. Gosangi and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, “Active Temperature Programming for Metal-Oxide Chemoresistors,” IEEE Sensors Journal, 10(6), pp. 1075-1082, 2010.

D. Felps and R. Gutierrez-Osuna. "Developing Objective Measures of Foreign-Accent Conversion," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 18(5), pp. 1030-1040, 2010.

D. Felps, H. Bortfeld and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, “Foreign Accent Conversion in Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training,” Speech Communication, 51, pp. 920-932, 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). pp. 733-742, 2008.

A. Hierlemann and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, “Higher-Order Chemical Sensing,” ACS Chemical Reviews, 108, pp. 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.