Associate Professor, Ph.D, P.E.
Department of Nuclear Engineering & Industrial Management
University of Idaho - Idaho Falls
1776 Science Center Drive
Idaho Falls, ID 83402, USA
Office: TAB 311
Phone: (208) 757-5422
E-mail: vakanski@uidaho.edu
Associated Faculty positions:
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University
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I am an Associate Professor in Industrial Technology at the University of Idaho in Idaho Falls. I am also an Affiliate Faculty with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Idaho. And, I am a member of the Machine Intelligence and Data Analytics (MIDA) lab led by Dr. Xian.
The scope of my research interests resides at the intersection of machine learning and mechatronics. I am particularly interested in biomedical applications of machine learning, as well as, in designing robust, secure, and trustworthy machine learning systems, in general.
My current research projects involve image processing with application in healthcare for breast cancer detection and in agriculture for crop stress identification in aerial images, machine learning for predicting material properties with application in materials science, and modeling human movements with application in robotics for observational learning from human demonstrations and in healthcare for assessment of patient performance in physical rehabilitation.
In the Spring 2024 semester, I am teaching Computer Integrated and Robotics Manufacturing Technology and Adversarial Machine Learning.