Text Box: Ali Zandifar Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Communications University of Maryland, College Park Address: Epson Palo Alto R&D Lab 3145 Porter Dr. Suite 101 Palo Alto, CA 94304 Email: alizand@erd.epson.com Thesis title:   Computer Vision for Scene Text Analysis Advisors:  Dr. Ramani Duraiswami, Prof. Larry Davis and Prof. Rama Chellappa My Research Interests:  Display Environment acquisition and device calibration Video Conferencing Shape from X (Differential Geometric Properties) Camera-based Document Analysis Metric Rectification of planes and surfaces Annotation and Indexing Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis