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ROBERT JOSEPH TAMBURO
CURRICULUM VITAE


Employment
Research Fellow
• May 2010 - Present
• Intel Labs Pittsburgh
• Pittsburgh, PA

Research Principal
• May 2009 - May 2010
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• Pittsburgh, PA

Post-Doctoral Fellow
• 2006 - 2009
• Department of Psychiatry
• University of Pittsburgh
• Pittsburgh, PA

Education
Doctor of Philosophy
• 2002 - 2006
• Department of Bioengineering
• University of Pittsburgh
• Pittsburgh, PA
• Dissertation Title: Feature-Based Correspondences to Infer the Location of Anatomical Landmarks
• Dissertation URL: http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-05052006-134756
• Committee: George Stetten (chair), Ching-Chung Li, J. R. Boston, and Fernando Boada

Master of Science
• 1999 - 2002
• Department of Bioengineering
• University of Pittsburgh
• Pittsburgh, PA
Dissertation Title: Gradient-Oriented Boundary Profiles for Shape Analysis Using Medial Features
• Dissertation URL: http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-12082002-204455
• Committee: George Stetten (chair), Ching-Chung Li, and Robert Sclabassi

Bachelor of Science
• 1995 - 1999
• Department of Physics and Pre-Engineering
• Delaware State University
• Dover, DE
• Degrees: Dual B.S. in Physics with Engineering Emphasis, and Mathematics
• Honors: Summa Cum Laude

Internships
Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Summer 1998
• University of Virginia
• Charlotte, VA
• Research: The vasculature in the abdominal skin flap of a rat was mathematically modeled
• Principal Investigator: Thomas Skalak

Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Summer 1997
• Mayo Graduate School
• Rochester, MN
Research: Segmentation and rendering of the Visible Human Male and Female paranasal sinuses
• Principal Investigator: Richard Robb

Department of Physics
• Summer 1996
• University of Delaware
• Newark, DE
• Research: The effects of magnetic annealing on Nd-Fe-Co-B compounds was investigated
• Principal Investigator: George C. Hadjipanayis

Teaching Experience
Guest Lecturer
• Spring 2005
• Methods in Image Analysis
• University of Pittsburgh
• Lecture Title: Medial Correspondence to Infer Landmark Location
• Instructors: George Stetten, Damion Shelton, and Aaron Cois

Guest Lecturer
• Spring 2004
• Methods in Image Analysis
• University of Pittsburgh
• Lecture Title: Past and Present Graduate Research
• Instructors: George Stetten, Damion Shelton, Yanxi Liu, Jonas August, and Owen Carmichael

Teaching Assistant
• Spring 2002
• Bio-Instrumentation
• University of Pittsburgh
• Instructor: David Brienza

Awards and Achievements
• Summer Research Institute in Geriatric Psychiatry (2007)
• National Institutes of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2006)
• 2002 School of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
• United States Achievement Academy National Award
• National Collegiate Natural Sciences Award
• MARC Highest Achievement Award
• MARC Honor Scholarship
• Luna I. Mishoe Academic Scholarship
• Dean's List During Tenure at DSU
• National Honor Society
• DSU Academic Scholarship
• National Dean's List
• Physics Department Achievement Scholarship
• Professional Involvement
• Internal review of grants
• Review of conference proceedings and scientific journals
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Membership (2007 - 2009)
• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Membership (2007 - 2009)
• Engineers for a Sustainable World National Chapter Membership (2006-2007)
• Engineers for a Sustainable World University of Pittsburgh Chapter Membership (2006-2007)

Skills
Operating Systems
• Proficient with Mac OS X, Windows 98/2000/XP/7
• Familiar with Linux/Unix

Programming Skills
• Proficient in C/C++, HTML, HTML5, CSS, LATEX, Shell scripting
• Familiar with Javascript, PHP
• See http://www.tamburo.us/software/ for descriptions of sample software developed

Programming Related Tools
•Cygwin, MinGW, gcc, Borland, Matlab, Microsoft Visual Studio 5, 6, 2005
• VTK, FLTK, Paraview
• CMake, CVS, SVN, Doxygen

Image Analysis Software
 • ITK, AIR, SPM, AFNI, FSL
• ImageJ, OsiriX, Slicer, ITK-SNAP, MIPAV

Other
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
• Proficient with Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator
• Proficient with EndNote
• Familiar with SPSS, JMP
• Familiar with Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver

Refereed Articles
• Y. Wang, J. Zhang, B. Gutman, T. F. Chan, J. T. Becker, H. J. Aizenstein, O. L. Lopez, R. Tamburo, A. W. Toga, P. M. Thompson. Multivariate tensor-based morphometry on surfaces: Application to mapping ventricular abnormalities in HIV/AIDS. NeuroImage, 49(3):2141­2157, 2010.
• A. Cois, J. Galeotti, R. Tamburo, M. Sacks, G. Stetten. Shells and spheres: An n-Dimensional framework for medial-based image segmentation. International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, 2010.
• R. Tamburo, J. Becker, H. Aizenstein. Effects of Amygdalar Size Normalization Strategies for Volumetric Analysis in Late-Life Depression. in preparation.
• M. Wu, C. Andreescu, M. A. Butters, R. Tamburo, C. F. Reynolds III, H. Aizenstein. Resting state connectivity and white matter burden in late-life repression. American Journal of Psychiatry, under review, 2009.
• R. J. Tamburo, G. J. Siegle, G. D. Stetten, C. A. Cois, M. A. Butters, and H. J. Aizensten. Amygdalae morphometry in late-life depression. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 24(8):837-846, 2009.
• R. Tamburo. Feature-Based Correspondences to Infer the Location of Anatomical Landmarks. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2006.
• G. Stetten, C. A. Cois, W. Chang, D. Shelton, R. Tamburo, J. Castellucci, and O. von Ramm. C-mode Virtual Image Display for a Matrix Array Ultrasound Sonic Flashlight. Academic Radiology, 12(5):535­43, 2005.
• G. Stetten, D. Shelton, W. Chang, R. Tamburo, V. Chib, A. Cois, R. Hollis, A. Rizzi, L. Lobes, and D. Schwartzman. Progress Towards a Clinically Useful Sonic Flashlight. Academic Radiology, Po-topic IV-16, 10(8):959, 2003.
• R. Tamburo. Gradient-Oriented Boundary Profiles for Shape Analysis Using Medial Features. Master's thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2002. • W. Chang, G. Stetten, L. Lobes, D. Shelton, and R. Tamburo. Guidance of Retrobulbar Injection with Real Time Tomographic Reflection. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 21:1131­1135, 2002.
• R. Tamburo and G. Stetten. Gradient-Oriented Profiles for Automated Unsupervised Boundary Classification and Their Application to Core Atoms Towards Shape Analysis. International Journal of Image and Graphics, 1(4):659­680, 2001.
• G. Stetten and R. Tamburo. Real-Time 3D Ultrasound Methods for Shape Analysis and Visualization. Methods: Special Issue on Real-Time Signal Processing in the Neurosciences, 25(2):213­222, 2001.

Conference Proceedings
• R. J Tamburo, S.-G. Kim, T. J. Huppert, A. B. Douaihy, D. M. Martineck, H. J. Aizenstein, J. T. Becker. Cerebral Vascular Response to Hypercapnia for Middle-Aged Males with HIV. Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain. 2010.
• R. J Tamburo, S.-G. Kim, A. B. Douaihy, J. T. Becker. Cerebral Blood Flow as a Function of PASL Imaging Parameters. Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain. 2010.
• M. Wu, R. Tamburo, M. Butters, C. F. Reynolds III, H. J. Aizenstein. Resting State fMRI in Geriatric Depression Before and After Treatment. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronoto, Canada. 2008.
• R. Tamburo, G. Siegle, G. Stetten, C. A. Cois, K. Rockot, J. Galeotti, C. Reynolds III, H. Aizenstein. Localizing Amygdala Structure Differences in Late-Life Depression. In International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Washington, D.C., 2007. IEEE Computer Society.
• C. A. Cois, K. Rockot, J. Galeotti, R. Tamburo, D. Gottlieb, J. E. Mayer, A. Powell, M. Sacks, G. Setten. Automated Segmentation of the Right Heart Using an Optimized Shells and Spheres Algorithm. In International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Washington, D.C., 2007. IEEE Computer Society.
• M. Wu, R. Tamburo, M. Butters, C. F. Reynolds III, H. J. Aizenstein. Default-Mode Network Activity in Elderly Depression. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. 2007.
• P. Dutta, M. Wu, R. Tamburo, M. Butters, C. F. Reynolds III, H. J. Aizenstein. Tensor-Based Morphometry and Classifier Algorithms for the Identification of Structural Brain Changes in Geriatric Ddepression. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Berlin, Germany, May 19­25, 2007.
• M. Wu, R. Tamburo, G. Siegle, H. J. Aizenstein. Extracting the Resting-State BOLD Signal From an Event-Related fMRI Study. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Berlin, Germany, May 19­25, 2007.
• R. Tamburo, C. A. Cois, D. Shelton, and G. Stetten. Novel method to automatically identify medial node correspondences between two images. In J M Fitzpatrick and M Sonka, editors, Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing, volume 5370, pages 1225­1235, San Diego, 2004. Proceedings of SPIE.
• R. Tamburo, A. Cois, D. Shelton, and G. Stetten. Medial Node Correspondances Towards Automated Registration. In Gee, Maintz, and Vannier, editors, WBIR, pages 339­348, Philadelphia, 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
• G. Stetten, C. A. Cois, W. Chang, D. Shelton, R. Tamburo, J. Castellucci, and O. von Ramm. C-mode Virtual Image Display for a Matrix Array Ultrasound Sonic Flashlight. In Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, volume 2879, pages 336­343, Toronto, 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
• G. Stetten, D. Shelton, W. Chang, V. Chib, R. Tamburo, D. Hildebrand, L. Lobes, and J. Sumkin. Towards a Clinically Useful Sonic Flashlight. In International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, pages 417­420, Washington, D.C., 2002. IEEE Computer Society.
• G. Stetten, V. Chib, and R. Tamburo. System for Location-Merging Ultrasound Images with Human Vision. In Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR) Workshop, pages 200­205, Washington, DC, 2000. IEEE Computer Society.
• R. Tamburo and G. Stetten. Gradient Oriented Profiles for Unsupervised Boundary Classification. In Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR) Workshop, pages 206­212, Washington, DC, 2000. IEEE Computer Society.

Abstracts
• R. Tamburo, G. Siegle, G. Stetten, C. A. Cois, K. Rockot, J. Galeotti, C. Reynolds III, H. Aizenstein. Localizing Amygdala Structure Differences in Late-Life Depression. In University of Pittsburgh Data and Dine Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, 2007.
• M. Wu, R. Tamburo, G. Siegle, H. J. Aizenstein. Extracting the Resting-State BOLD Signal From an Event-Related fMRI Study. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, In press, Berlin, Germany, May 19­25, 2007.
• P. Dutta, M. Wu, R. Tamburo, M. Butters, C. F. Reynolds III, H. J. Aizenstein. Tensor-based Morphometry and Classifier Algorithms for the Identification of Structural Brain Changes in Geriatric Depression. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, In press, Berlin, Germany, May 19­25, 2007.
• R. Tamburo, G. Siegle, G. Stetten, C. A. Cois, C. Reynolds III, H. Aizenstein. Amygdala Shape Morphometry in Late-Life Depression. Celebrating Research on Aging: Building Collaborations for the Future, University of Pittsburgh, October 17, 2006.
• R. Tamburo, G. Siegle, G. Stetten, C. A. Cois, C. Reynolds III, H. Aizenstein. Amygdala Shape Morphometry in Late-Life Depression. Science2006, University of Pittsburgh, October 5­6, 2006.
• G. Stetten, D. Shelton, W. Chang, R. Tamburo, V. Chib, C. A Cois, R. Hollis, A. Rizzi, L Lobes, and D Schwartzman. Progress Towards a Clinically Useful Sonic Flashlight, 2003.

Invited Presentations
• R. Tamburo, G. Siegle, G. Stetten, C. A. Cois, K. Rockot, J. Galeotti, C. Reynolds III, H. Aizenstein. Localizing Amygdala Structure Differences in Late-Life Depression. In University of Pittsburgh Data and Dine Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, 2007.
• R. Tamburo, G. Siegle, G. Stetten, C. A. Cois, C. Reynolds III, H. Aizenstein. Amygdala Shape Morphometry in Late-Life Depression. Celebrating Research on Aging: Building Collaborations for the Future, University of Pittsburgh, October 17, 2006.
• R. Tamburo, G. Siegle, G. Stetten, C. A. Cois, C. Reynolds III, H. Aizenstein. Amygdala Shape Morphometry in Late-Life Depression. Science2006, University of Pittsburgh, October 5­6, 2006.
• R. Tamburo. Medial-Based Feature Correspondences. CMU Statistics Department Imaging Group Meeting, 2005.
• R. Tamburo. Medial-Based Feature Correspondences. CMU VASC Retreat, Flintstone, Maryland, August 4­6, 2003.
• G. Stetten, R. Tamburo, J. Galeotti, W. Chang, D. Shelton, and D. Sahn. Real Time 3D Echocardiographic Data with Semi-Automated Boundary Tracking Algorithms. Meeting of the NLM Insight Toolkit Consortium, Philadelphia, Feb 6, 2003.
• D. Shelton, W. Chang, and R. Tamburo. Ultrasound Visualization With the Sonic Flashlight. SIGGRAPH, 29th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, San Antonio, July 2002.
• R. Tamburo and G. Stetten. Gradient-Oriented Profiles for Unclassified Boundary Detection. Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition Workshop, Cosmos Club, Washington D.C., October 17, 2000.
• G. Stetten, V. Chib, and R. Tamburo. System for location-merging ultrasound images with human vision. Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition Workship, Cosmos Club, Washington D.C., October 17, 2000.
• G. Stetten, V. Pitiyanuavath, R. Tamburo, and A. Cois. Java Standards Emulation (JSE): A New Internal GUI for C++. NLM insight Software Consortium, Core Developers Meeting, June 22, 2000.
• G. Stetten, W. Portnoy, A. Cois, and R. Tamburo. Medial Morphogenisis of Shapes Using Medial Node Models. NLM Insight Software Consortium, Core Developers Meeting, Washington D.C., 2000.
• R. Tamburo. Quantitative Model and Simulation of the Vasculature in the Abdominal Skin Flap of a Rat. National Minority Research Symposium, New York City, NY., 1998.
• R. Tamburo. Quantitative Model and Simulation of the Vasculature in the Abdominal Skin Flap of a Rat. Annual Meeting for The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Washington, D.C., 1998.
• R. Tamburo. Segmentation of the Paranasal Sinuses in the Visible Human Dataset. National Minority Research Symposium,, New Orleans, LA., 1997.
• R. Tamburo. The Affects of Magnetic Annealing on Nd-Fe-Co-B. Delaware State University Honor's Day, Dover, Delaware, 1996.
• R. Tamburo. The Affects of Magnetic Annealing on Nd-Fe-Co-B. National Minority Research Symposium, Miami, FL, 1996.

Technical Reports
• R. Tamburo RGB Image Color Space Transformations. The Insight Journal, July - December, 2010. Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3237.
• R. Tamburo Variance Image Filter. The Insight Journal, July - December, 2010. Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3236.
• R. Tamburo Entropy Image Filter. The Insight Journal, July - December, 2010. Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3241.
• R. Tamburo New Features for MinimumMaximumImageCalculator. The Insight Journal, July - December, 2010. Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3244.
• R. Tamburo Orthogonal Bisection of an Image. The Insight Journal, July - December, 2006. Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/1926/322.
• R. Tamburo itkMultipleUnlabeledImagesToLabeledImageFilter. The Insight Journal, July - December, 2006. Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/1926/323.
• C. A. Cois, K. Rockot, J. Galeotti, R. J. Tamburo, and G. D. Stetten Shells and Spheres: A Framework for Variable Scale Statistical Image Analysis. Technical Report, Carnegie Mellon University, CMU-RI-TR-04-19, 2006. Available online at http://www.ri.cmu.edu/pubs/pub_5401.html.
D. Wang, R. Tamburo, and G. Stetten Cumulative Gaussian Curve Fitter for Boundary Parameterization. Special issue for MICCAI 2005 Workshop on Open-Source Software, published online in The Insight Journal, 2005. Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/1926/45.

Book Chapters
• R. Tamburo Chapter 5. Software Packages for Neuroimaging Processing in The Handbook of Neuroimaging in Geriatric Mental Health. H. J. Aizenstein, C. F. Reynods, M. Fernandes, New York: Springfield Publishing Co., 2009.

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