Karen Uttecht
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Research Interests
Data Mining, Machine Learning, Databases
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA
2009-Present, expected graduation date 2014
Graduate Certificate, Foundations of Business
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA, 2009
B.S., Computer Science
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, 1999
Experience
Research Assistant
Submillimeter-Wave Technology Laboratory
University of
Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA
2010 to present
Teaching Assistant
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA
2010
Program Manager & Software Developer
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA
1999 to 2004
Awards
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Best student paper award for the Automatic Target Recognition conference at SPIE's Defense, Security and Sensing Symposium, April 2011.
Publications
- Uttecht, K. D., Chen, C. X., Dickinson, J. C., Goyette, T. M., Giles, R. H., Nixon, W. E., "A comparison of machine learning methods for target recognition using ISAR imagery", in Automatic Target Recognition XXI, edited by Firooz A. Sadjadi, Abhijit Mahalanobis, Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 8049, April 2011. Won the best student paper award for the Automatic Target Recognition conference at SPIE's Defense, Security and Sensing Symposium.
Oral Presentations
- Uttecht, K. D., Chen, C. X., Dickinson, J. C., Goyette, T. M., Giles, R. H., Nixon, W. E., "A comparison of machine learning methods for target recognition using ISAR imagery", SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing, Automatic Target Recognition XXI, April 27th, 2011. Won the best student paper award for the Automatic Target Recognition conference at SPIE's Defense, Security and Sensing Symposium.
Posters
- Karen D. Uttecht, Cindy X. Chen, Jason C. Dickinson, Thomas M. Goyette, R. H. Giles, W. E. Nixon. A comparison of machine learning methods for target recognition using ISAR imagery, New England Database Summit, January 2011.
Advisor
Cindy X. Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Professional Organizations
Association for Computing Machinery
SPIE
CRA-W Grad Cohort, 2011
Curriculum Vitae
Karen Uttecht
Submillimeter-Wave Tech. Lab.
175 Cabot St., Suite 130
Lowell, MA 01854
978-934-1300 (Phone)
978-452-3333 (Fax)
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