Biography

 Thayne Coffman graduated in 1996 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. His studies emphasized signal processing and artificial intelligence. During school he held an internship at Hughes Network Systems. After graduating, he worked on sales configuration software compilers and engines at Trilogy, and is currently doing inexact subgraph isomorphism and social network analysis research at 21st Century Technologies.

He began classes and work towards a PhD at the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering under Dr. Alan Bovik in the fall of 2002. His research interests include visual search, image understanding, computer vision, inexact pattern matching, social network analysis, and automatic target recognition.