Peter Tay, Ph.D.

Western Carolina University • Belk 336 • Cullowhee, NC 28723 • (828)227-2161 • ptay@wcu.edu

 

Education

University of Virginia-Charlottesville, VA

Post Doctorate-Biomedical Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering                         Jan. 2005-Sept. 2006

 

University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Doctorate of Philosophy-Electrical and Computer Engineering                                                       Dec. 2003

Master of Arts-Mathematics                                                                                                    July 1995

Bachelor of Science-Mathematics                                                                                                         Aug. 1990

 

Research and Teaching Experience

August 2007-Present

Western Carolina University

Dept. of Engineering & Technology

Associate Professor (April 2013 – Present)

Assistant Professor (August 2007- April 2013)

I am responsible for providing lectures and management of electrical and computer engineering courses, which are Computer Utilization, Control Systems, Data Acquisition, Machine Learning, and Biometrics, Electrical Engineering Design I & II, Computer Engineering Fundamentals, Microcontrollers, Microcontroller Interface, and Digital Signal Processing.  Additionally, I am pursing research on biomedical imaging, image processing, and system development for medical applications.

 

February 2010-January 2012

University of Oklahoma

National Weather Center: Atmospheric Radar Research Center

Research Scientist

               I developed a novel radar related image formation method.

 

2007-2008

Alcorn State University Lorman, MS

Dept. of Advanced Technologies-Systems Research Institute

Research Scientist

I designed and developed a system that allows the user to define contours around regions of interests (ROI) and allows American College of Radiologist BI-RADS data associated with each ROI to be entered.  The CAD system was coded and compiled in Microsoft Visual C#.

 

2005-2006

University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering: 

Research Associate

I developed a 4-D (3-D over time) segmentation method of a mouse heart using ultrasound cine data.  This method uses a novel despeckling technique that I developed to remove unwanted speckle noise inherent to all ultrasound imaging systems.  Speckle noise removal is required to achieve a robust segmentation of various anatomical structures.  3-D surface renderings of my segmentation method produce a realistic visualization of the mouse heart as it contracts and expands.  The validation of my 4-D segmentation relied on distance to manually segmented surface and visual inspection of cross sectional contours.   The implementation of this proof of concept was accomplished in Matlab and C/C++.

 

2000-2002

University of Oklahoma Norman, OK

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering: 

Graduate Research Assistant

I developed a multiple vehicles pickup and drop off routing algorithm that accounts for real time varying arc costs.  The algorithm I developed groups the set of stops into distinct clusters.  The routes in each cluster are determined by a simulated annealing optimization method.  After each stop is made the routes of each vehicle are dynamically updated to avoid traffic congestion, accidents, road constructions, etc.  The algorithm was tested on vehicle routing for the Oklahoma Food Bank, where food is pick up at donating business and dropped off at homeless shelters and other social service organizations.  The real time routing algorithm that was used in this application was implemented in C/C++ and designed to be built on a wide range of operating systems (Linux, Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, etc.).

 

1998-2000

University of Oklahoma Norman, OK

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering:  Graduate Teaching Assistant

I was the grader and substitute lecturer for the undergraduate digital signal processing, signal & systems, and graduate digital signal processing and image processing courses.

 

 

1995-1999

University of Oklahoma Norman, OK

Department of Mathematics:  Graduate Teaching Assistant and Adjunct Lecturer

I was responsible for all aspects (lecturing, grading, homework, exams, etc.) of undergraduate college algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and math education courses.

 

Work Experience

2003-2005

RS Information Systems, Inc. Norman, OK

National Weather Service:  Software Engineer

As a software engineer on the open radar data acquisition (ORDA) project, it was my duty to evaluate the feasibility of computer hardware and software for the National Weather Service.  I developed algorithms that simulated the various conditions the ORDA system would encounter.  I also developed the algorithms that recorded the ORDA system’s response to these simulations.  The implementation was for a Linux and Solaris environment and the code was written in C/C++.

 

1999-2003

National Weather Service-Radar Operations Center Norman, OK

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research Participant

ORISE Graduate Fellow

My duties as a research fellow were to explore novel methods to improve and enhance signals acquired by the National Weather Service WSR-88D Doppler weather radar system.  Additionally, the ORDA project required legacy Fortran code to be recoded into C++ code.  I developed the algorithms to test the functionality of the newly developed C++ code and other supporting algorithms.

 

Publications

Funded Grants and Contracts

M. Yeary (PI), R. Huck (Co-PI), J. Sluss (Co-PI), S. Cheng (Co-PI), P. Verma (Co-PI), and P. Tay (Co-PI), Fundamental Research and Demonstration for Low-Cost IED Synthetic/Inverse Synthetic Aperture Imaging, Department of Defense (U.S. Air Force) Contract FA8721-10-C-0004.

 

Grant Proposal:

Computer Aided Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Software, submitted to the National Institute of Health PAR08-010 on Sept. 22, 2010, Application Number: 1 R03 CA186188-01, under revision.

 

Database of Digital Mammography and Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Software submitted to Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program 2009 Breast Cancer Research Program on submitted April 10, 2009, Proposal Number: BC093607, under revision.

 

Book Chapter:

AM-FM Image Models:  Fundamental Techniques and Emerging Trends, Handbook of Image Processing Second Edition, A. C. Bovik (ed), Elsevier Academic Press, 2005, pp. 377-395.

 

Journal:

Tay, P. C., Acton, S. T., and Hossack, J. A., A Wavelet Thresholding Method to Reduce Ultrasound Artifacts, Elsevier Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, volume 35, number 1, January 2011, pp. 42-50, also available at PubMed Central.

 

Tay, P. C., Garson, C. D., Acton, S. T., and Hossack, J. A., Ultrasound Despeckling for Contrast Enhancement, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, volume 19, number 7, July 2010, pp. 1847- 1860, also available at PubMed Central.

 

Tay, P. C., Havlicek, J. P., Acton, S. T., and Hossack, J. A., Properties of the Magnitude Terms of Orthogonal Scaling Functions, Elsevier Digital Signal Processing, volume 20, number 5, Sept. 2010, pp. 1330-1340, also available at PubMed Central.

 

Tay, P. C., Li, B., Garson, C. D., Acton, S. T., and Hossack, J. A., Left Ventricle Segmentation Using Model Fitting and Active Surfaces, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, volume 55, number 1, April 2009, pp. 139-156, also available at PubMed Central.

 

Conference:

Bailey, K. M., Tay, P. C., and Karayaka, B., A filterbank method to determine ocean wave frequency, accepted at 2016 IEEE SSIAI, Santa Fe, NM, March 6-8, 2016.

 

Tay, P. C., A conjointly well localized quadrature mirror filterbank, accepted at 2015 IEEE ICIP, Quebec City, Canada, Sept. 27-30, 2015.

 

Tay, P. C. and Yan, Y., Conjointly well localized modulated lapped orthogonal transform, accepted at 2015 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 8-11, 2015.

 

Tay, P. C. and Yan, Y., Particle swarm optimization to determine conjointly well localized MLTs, 2014 IEEE SSIAI, San Diego, CA, April 6-8, 2014, pp. 133-136.

 

Tay, P. C., Shen, H., Adams, R. D., and Zhang, J. Z., A microcalcification enhancement method for mammogram images, 2013 IEEE ICIP, Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 15-18, 2013, pp. 1232-1236.

 

Tay, P. C. and Shen, H., A novel background subtraction method to detect microcalcifications, 2012 IEEE SSIAI, Santa Fe, NM, April 22-24, 2012, pp. 141-144.

 

Zhang, J. Z., Qin, Z., Tay, P. C., and Adams, R. D., Facial expression recognition using fast BEMD based edge detection, 2010 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 7-10, 2010.

 

Ma, Yiming, Tay, P. C., Adams, R. D., and Zhang, J. Z., A novel shape feature to classify microcalcifications, 2010 IEEE ICIP, Hong Kong, Sept. 26-29, 2010, pp. 2265-2268.

 

Zhang, J. Z., Tay, P. C., and Adams, R. D., A novel image edge detection method using linear prediction, 2010 IEEE Int’l MWSCAS, Seattle, WA, Aug. 1-4, 2010, pp. 620-623.

 

Tay, P. C. and Ma, Yiming, A novel microcalcification shape metric to classify regions of interests, 2010 IEEE SSIAI, Austin, TX, May 23-25, 2010, pp. 201-204.

 

Tay, P. C., Yeary, M. B., Huck, R. C., Cheng, S., Sluss Jr., J. J., Taylor, J. L., and Phillips, J., Tomographic approaches towards focused SAR image development, 2010 IEEE SSIAI, Austin, TX, May 23-25, 2010, pp. 113-116, invited paper.

 

Zhang, J. Z., Mbitiru, N., Tay, P. C., and Adams, R. D., Analysis of stress in speech using adaptive empirical mode decomposition, 2009 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 1-4, 2009, pp. 361-365

 

Ma, Yiming and Tay, P. C., Ultrasound despeckling for active contour segmentation, 2009 IEEE ICIP, Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 7-11, 2009, pp. 3357-3360.

 

Tay, P. C., AM-FM image analysis using the Hilbert Huang transform, 2008 IEEE SSIAI, Santa Fe, MN, March 24-26, 2008, pp. 13-16.

 

Tay, P. C., Li, Bing, Garson, C. D., Acton, S. T., and Hossack, J. A., Multidimensional segmentation of a mouse left ventricle, 2006 IEEE Int’l Ultrasonics Sypm., Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct. 3-6, 2006, pp. 2210-2213.

 

Patil, A. V., Garson, C. D., Oberhardt, M. A., Tay, P. C., Hossack, J. A., 3D prostate elastography: simulations and experiments, 2006 IEEE Int’l Ultrasonics Sypm., Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct. 3-6, 2006, pp. 1230-1233.

 

Tay, P. C., Acton, S. T., and Hossack, J. A., Ultrasound despeckling using an adaptive window stochastic approach, 2006 IEEE ICIP, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 8-11, 2006, pp. 2549-2552.

 

Tay, P. C., Acton, S. T., and Hossack, J. A., A stochastic approach to ultrasound despeckling, 2006 IEEE Int’l Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Arlington, VA, Apr. 6-9, 2006, pp. 221-224.

 

Tay, P. C., Acton, S. T., and Hossack, J., A transform method to remove ultrasound artifacts, 2006 IEEE SSIAI, Denver, CO, Mar. 26-28, 2006, pp. 110-114.

 

Li, B., Tay, P., and Acton, S. T., Multi-assignment interacting multiple model for tracking micro-bubbles, 2005 Conference Record of the Thirty-Ninth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2005, pp. 281-284

 

Tay, P. C. and Havlicek, J. P., JPEG 2000 scalar quantization using an optimally frequency localized modulated lapped transform, 2005 IEEE ICIP, Genova, Italy, September 11-14, 2005, vol. I, pp. 93-96.

 

Tay, P. C. and Havlicek, J. P., Frequency implementation of discrete wavelet transforms, 2004 IEEE SSIAI, Lake Tahoe, NV, March 28-30, 2004, pp. 167-171.

 

Tay, P. C. and Havlicek, J. P., Joint uncertainty measure for maximally decimated M-channel prime factor cascaded wavelet filter banks, 2003 IEEE ICIP, Barcelona, Spain, September 14-17, 2003, vol. I, pp. 1033-1036.

 

Tay, P., Havlicek, J. P., and DeBrunner, V., Discrete wavelet transform with optimal joint localization for determining the number of image texture segments, 2002 IEEE ICIP, Rochester, NY, September 22-25, 2002, vol. III, pp. 281-284. (A Top Ten Student Paper)

 

Tay, P., Havlicek, J. P., and DeBrunner, V., Image watermarking using wavelets, 2002 IEEE MWSCAS, Tulsa, OK, August 4-7, 2002, vol. III, pp. 258-261.

 

Tay, P., Havlicek, J. P., and DeBrunner, V., A novel translation and modulation invariant discrete-discrete uncertainty measure, 2002 IEEE ICASSP, Orlando, FL, May 13-17, 2002, vol. II, pp. 1461-1464.

 

Tay, P., Havlicek, J. P., and DeBrunner, V., A wavelet filter bank which minimizes a novel translation invariant discrete uncertainty measure, 2002 IEEE SSIAI, Santa Fe, NM, April 7-9, 2002, pp. 173-177.

 

Tay, P. C., and Havliek, J. P., Determination of the number of texture segments using wavelets, 2001 Conference on Applied Mathematics, Edmond, OK, Feb. 23-24, 2001, pp. 153-162.

 

Yap, T. B., Tangsukson, T., Tay, P. C., Mamuya, N. D., Havlicek, J. P., Unsupervised texture segmentation using dominant image modulations, Conference Record of the Thirty-Fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 911-915.

 

Havlicek, J. P., Tay, P. C., and Sluss Jr., J. J., Signals and systems: a consistent, unified approach, Frontiers in Education Conference 2000, vol. 2, pp. F4E/1-F4E/6.

 

Professional Service

Journal Editorship

Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2015-2018

 

Reviewer for Grants and Contracts

Technical Evaluation Panel Member for NIH SBIR Topic 306

 

Organization Committee for Professional Conferences

Technical Co-Chair of IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation 2014 & 2016

 

Reviewer for Professional Journals and Conferences

Recent Patents on Electrical Engineering

Journal on Circuits, Systems, and Computer

Journal on Signal, Image, and Video Processing

Springer Journal on Systems and Software

Elsevier Journal on Computer Medical Imaging and Graphics

Elsevier Journal on Digital Signal Processing

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2004-2006, 2012-15

IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2005-2012

IEEE Southwest Symposium for Image Analysis and Interpretation 2008-2016

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

IEEE Pattern Recognition Letters

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing

 

Other Current Academic Appointment

Boise State University (Adjunct Graduate Faculty) 2009-Present

 

Committee Membership

Kenyatta Fortune (Director, M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, expected May 2016, Western Carolina University)

Kyle Bailey (Director, M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, expected May 2016, Western Carolina University)

Harrison Orr (Director, M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, expected May 2016, Western Carolina University)

Stephen McNeil (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, expected May 2016, Western Carolina University)

Hongda Shen (Director, M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, May 2013, Western Carolina University, currently a Ph.D. student in ECE at University of Alabama-Huntsville)

Andrew Kerfonta (Director, M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, May 2013, Western Carolina University)

William Gall (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, May 2012, Western Carolina University)

Kirke Shouse (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, August 2011, Western Carolina University)

Matthew Proffitt (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, May 2011, Western Carolina University)

Andrew Punch (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, May 2011, Western Carolina University)

Yiming Ma (Director, M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, May 2010, Western Carolina University, current a Ph.D. candidate in EE at University of California-Riverside)

Zijing “Ginger” Qin (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, May 2010, Western Carolina University)

Nyaga Mbitiru (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, May 2009, Western Carolina University)

Jeffery Marston (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, May 2009, Western Carolina University)

Michael Grant (Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, August 2006, University of Virginia)

Jing Cui (Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2006, University of Virginia)

Gang Dong  (Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, January 2006, University of Virginia)

Robert L. Janiczek (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, January 2005, University of Virginia)

Bing Li (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, August 2005, University of Virginia)

John E. Pickard (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2005, University of Virginia)

 

Professional Affiliations:

        Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society-Senior Member