Suryaparakash Kompalli
PhD candidate, CSE Department, the University at Buffalo, SUNY
I work with Dr. George Thoma on the WEBMARS project. My goal is to zone a pdf document into regions which can be tagged to obtain author, title, abstract and other relevant information. As a PhD student in Computer Science, I work at the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR), and specialize in Pattern Recognition and Image Processing for Optical Character Recognition and Digital Libraries.

Jonathan Long
Student, Thomas S. Wootton High School
I am working with Mukil under the direction of Dr. Sameer Antani on the next iteration of the CBIR system for spine X-ray image processing and analysis. Specifically, I am using Java and MATLAB to improve CBIR version 3’s image segmentation and indexing facility, and to add various useful capabilities, internally and externally, including XML export and import and a segmentation enhancement GUI. When completed, the system will allow users to perform computer assisted segmentation, indexing, and search of vertebra images in an integrated platform complete with remote database, various experimental techniques of segmentation and search, and full XML support.

Mukilan Natarajan
Junior, Bioengineering major, Rice University
Mukil Natarajan is working on the third version of CBIR (Content Based Image Retrieval), which deals with segmentations of vertebral bodies from X-ray images. This version combines many features, which had been separate pieces of code, into one working model. Users will be able to segment new shapes, review and validate existing shapes, as well as search for shapes all from one package.

Tri Nguyen
Senior, Computer Science Major, University of Maryland, University College
For the past year, I have worked on the servlet for the PubMed On Tap application. I also worked on the MARG project to add new features to the Rover application. I have also performed a research on PDA application development tools, and I planned to use my knowledge to assist Glenn Ford in designing the new PubMed On Tap PDA client.

Lan Nie
PhD candidate, CSE Department, Lehigh University
I work with Dr. George Thoma and Dr. Mao Song on the MARS project. What I am doing is called automatic unsupervised layout Classification for digital document, that's classifying document image into distinct groups in terms of formats, layout styles. Then simpler, efficient and class-specific rules or models can be learned for each such document. This work can be used to improve the zoning and labeling algorithms in both the SPER and MARS II.

Karen Steely
Senior, CMIS major, University of Maryland University College
I am working towards a degree in computer management and information science. My projects include building and maintaining Web sites, Web site usability and accessibility, and digital photography. I am gaining experience in databases and developing Web-based applications.

Tim Troy
University of Maryland - European Division
Field: Computer Information Science (CMIS)
I have a year round student position while completing my bachelor's degree this semester and then starting on my master's degree at George Mason University. I am working with Dr. Le on the WebMARS project, specifically on programming code for automated data extraction and validation from web pages. I hope to gain valuable experience as a member of a programming project and anticipate expanding and honing my programming skills. I look forward to the suggested possibility of having the entire WebMARS project ported over to .NET framework, as I feel that would be an interesting team endeavor and quite useful in terms of learning valuable skills.