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Paul D. Gader, Ph.D.
University of Florida
Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Paul D. Gader, Ph.D.
Professor
Office Location: E356 CSE
Office Phone: (352) 392-1526
Mobile Phone: (352) 262-4267
Departmental FAX: (352) 392-1220
Email: pgader@cise.ufl.edu
Website: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~pgader

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Paul Gader received his Ph.D. in Mathematics for parallel image processing and applied mathematics research in 1986 from the University of Florida. He has worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Honeywell’s Systems and Research Center, as a Research Engineer and Manager at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM), and as a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, and the University of Missouri - Columbia. He joined the faculty of the University of Florida in August 2001. He performed his first research in image processing in 1984 when he worked on algorithms for detection of bridges in Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) imagery. At ERIM and later at the University of Missouri, he led teams involved in the research and development of real-time, handwritten address recognition systems for the U.S. Postal Service. He developed, implemented, and tested image processing, neural network, and fuzzy set based algorithms for handwritten digit recognition and segmentation, numeric field recognition, word recognition and segmentation, and line segmentation. He has also worked on a number of other imaging projects, including medical imaging, vehicle detection and recognition, and bio-medical pattern recognition as well as performing fundamental research in image algebra, fuzzy set theory, and and Choquet integral based mathematical morphology. He has been active in land mine detection algorithm research since 1996. He has led teams that devised and field tested several real-time algorithms for mine detection. He served as Technical Director of the University of Missouri MURI on Humanitarian Demining for two years. He is currently involved in several landmine detection projects, including hand-held and ground-based mine detection systems, acoustic mine detection, detection of trip-wires, and is a member of a new MURI team investigating the science of land target spectral signatures. Dr. Gader is a senior member of the IEEE and has over 150 technical publications in the areas of image and signal processing, applied mathematics, and pattern recognition, including over 50 refereed journal articles.

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Current and Recent Courses

Semester Number Title
Fall 01 COT 3100 Discrete Structures
Spring 02 CIS 6930 Fuzzy Sets and Logic
Fall 02 CAP 4621 Artificial Intelligence

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