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2025

Quantum Innovation Center Internship 2025
Quantum Innovation Center Internship 2025

Emma Bennett and Minasadat Attari landed a funded summer internship (June – Aug 2025) at the University of Missouri’s Quantum Innovation Center.

GSA Show Me Class Project Award 2nd Place
🎉 GSA Show Me Class Project Award – 2nd Place

Congratulations to Sara Shojaei and Emma Bennett from MAVI Lab for winning 2nd place at the Graduate Student Association (GSA) Show Me Class Project event!

Dr. Filiz Bunyak Earns Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award
Dr. Filiz Bunyak Earns Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award

Our lab congratulates Dr. Filiz Bunyak Ersoy on receiving the University of Missouri’s Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award.

Congrats to Mina Attari Graduate Winner at Show Me Research Week 2025
🎉 Congrats to Mina Attari – Graduate Winner at Show Me Research Week 2025!

Big congratulations to Minasadat Attari for receiving the Graduate Winner Award at the 2025 Show Me Research Week!

Poster Presentation at MU Show-Me Research Week 2025
Poster Presentation at MU Show-Me Research Week 2025

Sara Shojaei presented “Adaptive Structure-Aware Connectivity-Preserving Loss for Improved Road Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images” at MU’s Show-Me Research Week 2025.

Presentations at SPIE 2025
Presentations at SPIE 2025!

Congratulations to Emma Bennett for presenting two of her research projects at SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing 2025!

Poster Presentation at Show Me Research Week 2025
Poster Presentation at Show Me Research Week 2025

Emma Bennett presented her poster at MU Show-Me Research Week 2025.

Oral Presentation at WACV 2025
Oral Presentation at WACV 2025

Sara Shojaei gave an oral presentation on “Adaptive Structure-Aware Connectivity-Preserving Loss for Improved Road Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images” at WACV 2025.

Poster Presentation at WACV 2025
Poster Presentation at WACV 2025

Sara Shojaei also presented a poster on the same work during WACV 2025.

Poster Presentation at Mizzou AI Symposium 2025
Poster Presentation at Mizzou AI Symposium 2025

Tom, Trevor, and Sara presented “AI-Driven Building and Road Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images: Balancing Accuracy, Boundary Clarity, and Connectivity” at the Mizzou AI Symposium 2025.

2024

Poster Presentation at Taylor Geospatial Geo-Resolution 2024
Poster Presentation at Taylor Geospatial Geo-Resolution 2024

MAVI Lab researchers presented “Deep Learning-Based Segmentation of Buildings and Road Networks in Complex Urban Scenes” at Taylor Geospatial Geo-Resolution 2024 in St. Louis.

Congratulations to Prashanth Reddy Kotha 1st Place at RCAF Spring 2024
🏆 Congratulations to Prashanth Reddy Kotha – 1st Place at RCAF Spring 2024!

MAVI Lab congratulates Prashanth Reddy Kotha, for winning 1st place in the Engineering Sciences and Informatics category at the 40th Annual RCAF Spring Forum.

Research Presentation by Minasadat Attari 40th RCAF Spring Forum
Research Presentation by Minasadat Attari – 40th RCAF Spring Forum

We’re proud to share that Minasadat Attari, presented her poster titled “Microvascular Structure Analysis Using Machine Learning” at the 40th Annual RCAF Spring Forum.

2023

Poster Presentation at IEEE AIPR 2023
Poster Presentation at IEEE AIPR 2023

Prashanth Reddy Kotha and Minasadat Attari presented their poster, “Deep Style Transfer for Generation of Photo-realistic Synthetic Images of CNT Forests,” at the 2023 IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR) in Saint Louis.

Presentation at IEEE AIPR 2023
Presentation at IEEE AIPR 2023

Our paper “Multi-Loss Topology-Aware Deep Learning Network for Segmentation of Vessels in Microscopy Images” was selected for an oral presentation at the 2023 IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR) in Saint Louis, USA.