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Fawad Ahmad

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

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Tuesday: 9:30 - 11:30 am
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Fawad Ahmad

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

Bio

Fawad Ahmad is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his PhD and MSc degrees from the University of Southern California in 2022, and his BSc from the University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar in 2014. His research interests are in mobile systems, computer vision, and robotics.

Select Scholarship

  • ParkAssist: Towards Automated, Real-time Parking Analytics. Vijay Bajracharya, Junaid Ahmad, and Fawad Ahmad. In The IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC 2025).
  • VRF: Vehicle Road-side Point Cloud Fusion. Kaleem Nawaz Khan, Ali Khalid, Yash Turkar, Karthik Dantu, and Fawad Ahmad. In 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (ACM MobiSys 24).
  • AeroTraj: Trajectory Planning for Fast, and Accurate 3D Reconstruction Using a Drone-based LiDAR. Fawad Ahmad, Christina Shin, John D’Ambrosio, Eugene Chai, Karthik Sundaresan, and Ramesh Govindan. In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (UbiComp/IMWUT 2023).

Currently Teaching

CSCI-631
3 Credits
An introduction to the underlying concepts of computer vision and image understanding. The course will consider fundamental topics, including image formation, edge detection, texture analysis, color, segmentation, shape analysis, detection of objects in images and high level image representation. Depending on the interest of the class, more advanced topics will be covered, such as image database retrieval or robotic vision. Programming assignments are an integral part of the course. Note: students who complete CSCI-431 may not take CSCI-631 for credit.

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