Dr. Charles Stewart, Chief Scientist
Dr. Stewart is the founder of DualAlign LLC and a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Dr. Stewart earned his PhD at the University of Wisconsin in the Computer Sciences Department and his bachelor's degree in Mathematics at Williams College. He has published over 50 papers in the fields of computer vision and medical image analysis and been awarded four patents. In 1999, together with a student and a colleague, his paper was chosen from over 500 national and international submissions to win the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Dr. Stewart has graduated 11 PhD students, many of whom have gone on to academic and industrial leadership positions. Dr. Stewart has also led the development of a number of computer vision software projects, including an industrial inspection system, a retinal image analysis system, and the Dual-Bootstrap algorithm.
Remy Arteaga, Chief Executive Officer
Prior to joining DualAlign LLC in 2007, Remy Arteaga had served as the CEO of a start up medical device company in New York, which was focused on commercializing a self-injector in the Anaphylaxis market. Mr. Arteaga began his career with General Motors, where he developed business methods that were deployed throughout GM. After GM, Remy spent 7 years advising clients on the deployment of IT strategies and the launching digital divisions. Remy's first start-up was a digital imaging business in the publishing industry, where he took the company to profitability in six short months. In 1996 Remy founded an Internet company, raised seed funding and built the company into the top competitor in its media space. In the spring of 2000, Remy sold the company to Snowball.com, which earned investors a 12 to 1 return on their investment.
He holds a BSEE from the University of Rochester and an MBA from Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. Gehua Yang, Research Computer Scientist
Gehua Yang received the BS degree in Applied Mathematics from South China University of Technology in 2000, the MS degree in Applied Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002, and the PhD degree in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in June 2007. Focusing on medical imaging and computer vision, his publications include one paper on retinal image mosaicing and two papers on a fully automatic general-purpose image registration algorithm. The binary executable of the latter has been downloaded more than 1,800 times and has been applied to a wide variety of imagery. Dr. Yang's most-recent work is on locating the camera position with respect to a 3d world model in the presence of appearance changes and occlusions.
Dr. Joseph Mundy, Advisor
Dr. Joseph Mundy has published about 100 papers and articles in computer vision and solid-state electronics. Currently Dr. Mundy is a Professor of Engineering (Research) at Brown University where he is developing systems for image-based reconnaissance with emphasis on object recognition and change detection under support by DARPA, NGA and Lockheed Martin.
Dr. Mundy’s earlier projects at GE-CRD where he was a Coolidge Fellow included: High power microwave tube design, a superconductive computer memory system, the design of high density integrated circuit associative memory arrays, the application of transform coding to image data compression. He is the co-inventor of varactor bootstrapping; a key technique widely used today in the design of MOS integrated circuits. His design of an integrated associative memory cell is still the most compact and requires only 5 MOS transistors. From 1972 to 2002 he led a program in computer vision with both basic research and industrial application projects. Projects include: automated inspection of jet engine components; automated change detection in satellite imagery; highly parallel algorithms and architectures for image understanding; large C++ environments for computer vision research; fundamental theory of invariance in perspective image formation; terrain and feature reconstruction from aerial video; and automated detection of lung cancer in CT images. He was a principal investigator in some major projects in the area of change detection and object recognition: RADIUS – an innovative program for change detection in national imagery, funded by DARPA and the CIA; SAIP - a DARPA program to carry out automatic target recognition and site monitoring; The Dynamic Database (DDB) - a DARPA program to fuse SIGINT, GMTI, EO, IR and SAR IMINT in support of situation assessment; VACE - a program by NSA, CIA and NIMA to extract intelligence information from video.
Dr. Gregory Hughes, Advisor
Dr. Hughes serves as Professor of Management and Information Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was the Vice Provost of Information Technology at Rensselaer from its formation in January 1998 to October 1999. He received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Rensselaer in 1967 and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton in 1972.
In addition to teaching, Dr. Hughes is interested in Information Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining the faculty of Rensselaer, Dr. Hughes spent 26 years at AT&T and its successor Lucent Technologies. He served in many capacities, most notably as Vice President for International Services and Program Management, President of the Transmission Systems Business, President of the Network Cable Systems Business and Vice President of the Microelectronics Interconnection Business.
His experience spans a number of business and functional areas including R&D, manufacturing, marketing, professional services and program management. During AT&T's globalization, Mr. Hughes led Network Systems businesses in over 25 countries. Dr. Hughes received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from President Bush in 1992 as President of AT&T's Transmission Systems Business.
He served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Rensselaer from 1990-1997, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Raritan, Inc.
