Research Interests

I am interested in design and development of efficient algorithms for data clustering, interpolation, and fusion problems.  I like utilizing methods from computational geometry and scientific computation to enhance running times of computationally expensive algorithms for large data sets. I am also interested in writing on education and mentoring.

Thesis:

  1. Nargess Memarsadeghi, "Efficient Algorithms for Clustering and Interpolation of Large Spatial Data Sets", Ph.D. Dissertation submitted to the Computer Science Department of the University of Maryland at College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Ph.D. in computer science, April 2007.

Books:

  1. Daniel Eiblum, Michael Forman, Kimberly Noonan, Nargess Memarsadeghi, Matthew Konicki, and Elnatan Reisner, Math SAT 800: How to Master the Toughest Problems, BookSurge Publishing, June 2008.

Journal  and Magazine Publications:

  1. Nargess Memarsadeghi, David M. Mount, Nathan S. Netanyahu, and Jacqueline Le Moigne; "A Fast Implementation of the ISODATA Clustering Algorithm", International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications (IJCGA), Vol. 17, No. 1 (2007), 71-103. You can see the project page here.

  2. Nargess Memarsadeghi and Dianne P. O’Leary “Classified Information: The Data Clustering Problem”, IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering Magazine. Project: Vol. 5, No. 5, September/October 2003, pp. 54-57. Solution:  Vol. 5, No. 6, November/December 2003, pp. 64-70.

Conference Publications:

  1. Richard G. Lyon, Stephen A. Rinehart, David T. Leisawitz, and Nargess Memarsadeghi, "Wide-Field Imaging Interferometry Testbed (WIIT): Image Construction Algorithms", SPIE Conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Marseille, France, June 23-28, 2008. In Optical and Infrared Interferometry, Markus Schöller, William C. Danchi, and Françoise Delplancke, editors, Vol. 7013, pp. 70131M-1 - 70131M-11, July 28, 2008.

  2. Stephen A. Rinehart, David T. Leisawitz, Bradley J. Frey, Richard G. Lyon, Stephen F. Maher, and Nargess Memarsadeghi, "Wide-Field Imaging Interferometry Testbed (WIIT): Recent Progress and Results", SPIE Conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Marseille, France, June 23-28, 2008. In Optical and Infrared Interferometry, Markus Schöller, William C. Danchi, and Françoise Delplancke, editors, Vol. 7013, pp. 70132S-1 -70132S-10, July 28, 2008.

  3. Nargess Memarsadeghi, Vikas C. Raykar, Ramani Duraiswami, and David M. Mount, "Efficient Kriging via Fast Matrix-Vector Products", IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 2008.

  4. Nargess Memarsadeghi and David M. Mount, "Efficient Implementation of an Optimal Interpolator for Large Spatial Data Sets" International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS'07), Beijing, China, May 27-30, 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Part II, Vol. 4488, pp. 503-510. Full version is Technical Report CS-TR-4856 at University of Maryland.

  5. Nargess Memarsadeghi, Jacqueline Le Moigne, David M. Mount,"Image Fusion Using Cokriging", Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS'06), Denver, CO, July 31-Aug 4, 2006, pp. 2518-2521.

  6. Jacqueline Le Moigne, Arlene Cole-Rhodes, Roger Eastman, Peyush Jain, Aimee Joshua, Nargess Memarsadeghi, David Mount, Nathan Netanyahu, Jeffrey Morisette, Ezinne Uko-Ozoro,  "Image Registration and Fusion Studies for the Integration of Multiple Remote Sensing Data", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP'06), Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006, Vol. 5, pp. 14-19.

  7. Nargess Memarsadeghi, Jacqueline Le Moigne, David M. Mount, and Jeffrey T. Morisette, “A New Approach to Image Fusion Based on Cokriging”, Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2005), Philadelphia, PA, July 25-29, 2005, Vol 1, pp. 622-629.

  8. Nargess Memarsadeghi, David M. Mount, Nathan S. Netanyahu, and Jacqueline Le Moigne, “A Fast Implementation of the ISOCLUS Algorithm", Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS'03), Toulouse, France, July 21-25, 2003, Vol. III, pp. 2057-2059.

  9. Anuradha Koratkar, Sandy Grosvenor, Jeremy Jones, Nargess Memarsadeghi, Karl Wolf, "Science Goal Driven Observing and Spacecraft Autonomy", Space Operations Conference, Houston, Texas, October 9-12, 2002.

  10. Anuradha Koratkar, Sandy Grosvenor, Jeremy Jones, Nargess Memarsadeghi, Karl Wolf, "Science Goal Driven Observing: A Step Towards Maximizing Science Returns and Spacecraft Autonomy”, SPIE Conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Waikoloa, Hawaii, August 22-28, 2002. In Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return III, Peter J. Quinn, editor, Vol. 4844, pp. 250-261.

Other:

  1. Nargess Memarsadeghi, "Efficient Algorithms for Clustering, Interpolation, and Fusion of Large Data Sets", Ph.D. Proposal submitted to the computer science department of the University of Maryland at College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Ph.D. in computer science, March 6, 2006.

  2. Nargess Memarsadeghi, "Cokriging Interpolation", scholarly paper submitted to the computer science department of the University of Maryland at College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of science in computer science, December 2004.

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