====== Ruth Rosenholtz: Curriculum Vitae ====== ===== Coordinates ===== Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences \\ Massachusetts Institute of Technology \\ 43 Vassar St., 46-4115 \\ Cambridge, MA 02139 \\ \\ phone: 617 324-0269 \\ email: r r u t h @ m i t . e d u \\ web: http://web.mit.edu/rruth/www \\ \\ ===== Education ===== **Ph.D.** in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, December, 1994. \\ Major field of study: Signal Processing \\ Minor fields of study: Robotics and Control, Mathematics \\ Thesis: “Local Shape From Texture.” Advisor: Jitendra Malik.\\ \\ **M.S.** in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, 1991.\\ Thesis: “Iterative Procedures for Reduction of Blocking Effects in Transform Image Coding.” Advisor: Avideh Zakhor.\\ \\ **B.S.** in Engineering, with Distinction in Course, Swarthmore College, 1988.\\ Senior Design Project: “Computer Recognition of Facial Features.” Advisor: Stephen Platt.\\ ===== Positions Held ===== 2003-present: Principal Research Scientist, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT\\ 2001-2003: Manager, Image Components & Services, (Xerox) Palo Alto Research Center \\ 1997-2001: Member of Research Staff II, (Xerox) Palo Alto Research Center \\ 1995-1997: NRC Postdoctoral Researcher, NASA Ames \\ 1994-1995: Postdoctoral Researcher, Utrecht University \\ ===== Honors and Awards ===== University of California at Berkeley Eliahu Jury Award for excellence in control, systems, and signal processing research, 1995.\\ ===== Publications ===== ---- publist ---- cols : title, authors, shortcite, year, summary_page, www_url, pdf_url sort : ^year years : false filter : type=publication filter : keyword=rosenholtz ---- ===== Patents ===== R. Rosenholtz, A. Woodruff, & A. Faulring, “Methods and systems for generating enhanced thumbnails.” U.S. patent #7,069,506 (2006).\\ R. Rosenholtz, A. Woodruff, & A. Faulring, “Methods and systems for document navigation using enhanced thumbnails.” U.S. patent #6,993,726 (2006).\\ R. Rosenholtz, A. Woodruff, & A. Faulring, “Methods and systems for generating enhanced thumbnails usable for document navigation.” U.S. patent #6,883,138 (2005).\\ R. Rosenholtz, “Systems and method for automatically choosing visual characteristics to highlight a target against a background.” U.S. patent #7,130,461 (2006).\\ R. Rosenholtz, A. Woodruff, & A. Faulring, “Methods and systems for transitioning between thumbnails and documents based upon thumbnail appearance.” U.S. patent #7,337,396 (2008).\\ J. P. Lewis, R. Rosenholtz, N. Fong, & U. Neumann. "Visual identifiers for digital data." Pending.