Selene Chew presents scientific research in Switzerland

2014 Jul 23

Ithaca, N.Y., resident Selene Chew presented her scientific research at the IEEE conference, Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing, or WHISPERS, in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 24-27.

Chew is a third-year student in the computational mathematics program and the honors program at Rochester Institute of Technology. She and her mentor Nathan Cahill, professor in the RIT School of Mathematical Sciences, gave a poster presentation on "Modularity versus Laplacian Eignenmaps for Dimensionality Reduction and Classification of Hyperspectral Imagery." The event was Chew's first professional conference.

"The paper compares two competing techniques on their ability to correctly classify regions of an image," Chew said. "The conference was a great educational opportunity--both for learning from talks and poster presentations, and for networking with people involved in mathematics and imaging communities."

Chew received an RIT Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to continue her work with Cahill. She is exploring techniques for improving an algorithm that clusters similar points of an image. Chew will present her research at RIT's Undergraduate Research Symposium on Aug. 8.