Shawn Newsam

Shawn Newsam is a Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Department at the School of Engineering, University of California, Merced. His work focuses on developing advanced computational methods to extract meaningful insights from complex datasets.

• Ph.D. (2004) from UC Santa Barbara
• M.S. (1996) from UC Davis
• B.S. (1991) from UC Berkeley

Newsam's research in computer vision and machine learning specifically targets:

• Location-based image analysis for geospatial understanding
• Texture and pattern recognition in remote sensing data
• Development of techniques for content-based information retrieval
• Applications to spatio-temporal, multimedia, and scientific datasets

He leads the Computer Vision Lab at UC Merced and has been actively involved in:

• Graduate education as a member of the EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) graduate group
• Research presentations at institutions like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and UC campuses
• Technical advising for projects involving automated annotation of aerial imagery