Emaan Abdul-Majid

Hometown: Louisville, KY
Degree Sought: Ph.D.
Department: Mathematics
Expected year of graduation: 2013

Degrees:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute– MS, 2011
Lehigh University – BS, 2009

Research Areas:
Biomechanical models
Disease transmission and mutation rates

Honors:
GAANN Fellowship

My current research and research collaborators:
The purpose of my current research is to explore the effects of deformation on iris recognition in order to explore ways of correcting the effects of dilation on iris recognition. This research is currently being done under the supervision of Professor Isom H. Herron at RPI (Mathematical Sciences Department) and Dr. Antwan D. Clark, PE — a research scientist at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences and a Research Professor at RPI (Mathematical Sciences Department).

This work is a joint collaboration between the Laboratory for Physical Sciences, West Virginia University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology.