ASEE funds Imagine Research Fellowship

Imagine Research received was awarded Small Business Postdoctoral Research Diversity Fellowship, from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). This program is designed to allow National Science Foundation Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awardees to accelerate their innovation research and to broaden participation from underrepresented groups.

Imagine Research welcomes Dr. Steve Tjoa as a Research Engineer to the team. Steve is a leading researcher in image and audio signal processing, machine learning, and source separation techniques. At the University of Maryland, Steve developed dictionary learning and sparse coding methods for music information retrieval tasks such as transcription, source separation, instrument recognition, and more. Steve’s image processing experience includes devising novel forensic methods to detect traces of compression in digital images based solely upon information intrinsic to the image and internships at Intelsat.