Zia Khan Office: Carl Icahn Building 231 Email: (1st initial)(last name) (at) cs.princeton.edu Mailing Address: Zia Khan Computer Science Department Princeton University 35 Olden St Princeton, NJ 08540-5233

Research Interests

Background

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA with a B.S. in Biology and a B.S. in Computer Science in May 2002. I was a Research Scientist 1 in Georgia Tech's   College of Computing in Atlanta, GA between July 2002 and August 2004 where I worked closely with Tucker Balch and Frank Dellaert. In May 2005, I joined Sarnoff Corporation as an intern and, subsequently, an algorithms developer. After almost two years at Sarnoff, I decided to head to graduate school. I am currently a second year Ph. D. student at Princeton University. I live in historic Jersey City, NJ near the great city of New York, NY.

I am looking for internship opportunities (and eventually a faculty job) in the Tri-State area (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) within a train ride distance to New York City, please download my resume.

Publications

Journal

• MCMC Data Association and Sparse Factorization Updating for Real Time Multitarget Tracking with Merged and Multiple Measurements Z. Khan, T. Balch, and F. Dellaert. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 28, no. 12, pp.1960-1972, Dec., 2006.
• How multi-robot systems research will accelerate our understanding of social animal behavior, T. Balch, F. Dellaert, A. Feldman, A. Guillory, C. Isbell, Z. Khan, S. Pratt, A. Stein, and H. Wilde, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 94, No. 7, July, 2006, pp. 1445-1463.
• MCMC-Based Particle Filtering for Tracking a Variable Number of Interacting Targets. Z. Khan, T. Balch, and F. Dellaert. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 27, no. 11, pp. 1805-1918, Nov., 2005.
• An Outdoor 3-d Visual Tracking System for the Study of Spatial Navigation and Memory in Rhesus Monkeys Z. Khan, R. A. Herman, K. Wallen, and T. Balch, Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 2005 Aug., 37(3):453-63. In CBN Synapse S'04

Conference

• Multitarget Tracking with Split and Merged Measurements Z. Khan, T. Balch, and F. Dellaert, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05), San Diego, CA, 2005. PPT poster
• What Are the Ants Doing? Vision-Based Tracking and Reconstruction of Control Programs. M. Egerstedt, T. Balch, F. Dellaert, F. Delmotte, and Z. Khan. IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2005.
• A Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for EigenTracking Z. Khan, T. Balch, and F. Dellaert, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'04), Washington, DC, 2004.
• An MCMC-based Particle Filter for Tracking Multiple Interacting Targets Z. Khan, T. Balch, and F. Dellaert, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'04), 2004. PPT poster
• Efficient Particle Filter-Based Tracking of Multiple Interacting Targets Using an MRF-based Motion Model, Z. Khan, T. Balch, and F. Dellaert, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'03), 2003.
• Automatically Tracking and Analyzing the Behavior of Social Insect Colonies, T. Balch, Z. Khan and M. Veloso Autonomous Agents, 2001. In Stanford Magazine and New Scientist

Technical Reports

• Robust Generative Subspace Modeling: The Subspace t Distribution Z. Khan and F. Dellaert, Georgia Institute of Technology GVU Center, GIT-GVU-04-11, 2004.

Teaching

Service

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• Image and Vision Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

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