Wolfgang Fink

Interests

Research

Artificial vision and vision prostheses, autonomous robotic space exploration, biomedical sensor and system development, cognitive and reasoning systems, and computer-optimized design

Teaching

Numeric modeling of physics, biological systems and computational techniques

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Tuller, M., Kulkarni, R., & Fink, W. (2013). Segmentation of x-ray CT data of porous materials: a review of global and locally adaptive algorithms. In Soil--Water--Root Processes: Advances in Tomography and Imaging(pp 157--182).

Journals/Publications

• Fairen, A. G., Dohm, J. M., Rodriguez, J. P., Uceda, E. R., Kargel, J., Soare, R., Cleaves, H. J., Oehler, D., Schulze-Makuch, D., Essefi, E., Banks, M. E., Kamatsu, G., Fink, W., Robbins, S., Yan, J., Miyamoto, H., Maruyama, S., & Baker, V. R. (2016). The Argyre Region as a Prime Target for in situ Astrobiological Exploration of Mars. Astrobiology, 16, 143-158. doi:http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/ast.2015.1396
• Fink, W., Roveda, J. M., Kincade, A. M., White, J. L., Wangusi, T. W., & TF, M. F. (2016). Self-Powering and Geo-Tagging Method for Pipeline Inspection Gauges to Enable Continuous High-Quality Data- Recording. Journal of Pipeline Engineering, 47-55.
• Kovalevskaya, M., Milyutkina, S., Fink, W., Belyi, Y., & Tereshchenko, A. (2016). 3D-CTAG Testing of Functional and Structural Changes of the Macula. Adv Ophthalmol Vis Syst, 4(2), 103-111. doi:10.15406/aovs.2016.04.00103
• Schmid, E. W., & Fink, W. (2016). Operational Design Considerations for Retinal Prostheses. IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 31-44.
• Dohm, J. M., Hare, T. M., Robbins, S. J., Williams, J. P., Soare, R. J., Maarry, M. R., Conway, S. J., Buczkowski, D. L., Kargel, J. S., Banks, M. E., Fairen, A. G., Schulze-Makuch, D., Kamatsu, G., Miyamoto, H., Anderson, R. C., Davila, A. F., Mahaney, W. C., Fink, W., Cleaves, H. J., , Yan, J., et al. (2015). Geological and hydrological histories of the Argyre province, Mars. Icarus, 253, 66-98. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2015.02.017
• Fink, W., & Tarbell, M. A. (2014). Artificial vision support system (AVS2) for improved prosthetic vision. Journal of medical engineering \& technology, 38(8), 385--395.
• Michalska, A. M., You, C. X., Nicolini, A. M., Ippolito, V. J., & Fink, W. (2014). Accessible Webpage Design for the Visually Impaired--A Case Study. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 30(12), 995-1002. doi:DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2014.925771
• Schmid, E. W., Fink, W., & Wilke, R. (2014). Operational challenges of retinal prostheses. Medical Engineering & Physics, 36(12), 1644--1655.
• Fink, W., Sun, H. J., Mahaney, W. C., Kuhlman, K. R., & Schulze-Makuch, D. (2013). Planetary Imaging in Powers of Ten: A Multiscale, Multipurpose Astrobiological Imager. Astrobiology, 13(11), 1005--1010.
• Tozer, K. R., Fink, W., Sadun, A. A., & Sebag, J. (2013). Prospective Three-Dimensional Analysis of Structure and Function in Vitreomacular Adhesion Cured By Pharmacologic Vitreolysis. Retinal Cases and Brief Reports, 7(1), 57--61.
• Furfaro, R., Fink, W., & Kargel, J. S. (2012). Autonomous real-time landing site selection for Venus and Titan using Evolutionary Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. Applied Soft Computing, 12(12), 3825--3839.
• Kulkarni, R., Tuller, M., Fink, W., & Wildenschild, D. (2012). Three-dimensional multiphase segmentation of X-Ray CT data of porous materials using a Bayesian Markov random field framework. Vadose Zone Journal, 11(1), 0--0.
• Schmid, E. W., & Fink, W. (2012). Operational Design Considerations for Retinal Prostheses. arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.5348.
• Schulze-Makuch, D., Head, J. N., Houtkooper, J. M., Knoblauch, M., Furfaro, R., Fink, W., Fair\'en, A. G., Vali, H., Kelly Sears, S., Daly, M., & others, . (2012). The Biological Oxidant and Life Detection (BOLD) mission: A proposal for a mission to Mars. Planetary and Space Science, 67(1), 57--69.

Proceedings Publications

• Fink, W. (2017, Spring). PHM from a Practitioner’s Perspective – A Potpourri of Capabilities. In IEEE Aerospace Conference.
• Fink, W., Tarbell, M. A., & Brooks, A. J. (2017, May). Tier-Scalable Reconnaissance: the Future in Autonomous C4ISR Systems has arrived. In SPIE Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications IX, 14.
• Kumbhare, N., Rao, A., Gniady, C., Fink, W., & Rozenblit, J. W. (2017, March). Waypoint-to-waypoint Energy-efficient Path Planning for Multi-copters. In 2017 IEEE Aerospace Conference.
• Adams, C., Cerwin, J., & Fink, W. (2016, April). Ceeable Visual Field Analyzer (CVFA) for the Portable, Comprehensive, and Tele-­medical Assessment of Visual Performance in Warfighters, Veterans, and Civilian. In SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing.
• Fink, W., & Tarbell, M. A. (2016, April). Smart Ophthalmics: the future in Tele-­Ophthalmology has arrived. In SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing.
• Popov, A., Fink, W., & Hess, A. (2016, April). Prognostics and health management (PHM) for astronauts: a collaboration project on the International Space Station. In SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing.
• Popov, A., Fink, W., McGregor, C., & Hess, A. (2016, March). PHM for Astronauts: Elaborating and Refining the Concept. In 2016 IEEE Aerospace Conference.
• Roveda, J. M., & Fink, W. (2016, May). System perspectives for mobile platform design in m-Health. In SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing.
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• Roveda, J. M., Fink, W., Chen, K., & Wu, W. (2016, March). Psychological Health Monitoring for Pilots and Astronauts by Tracking Sleep-Stress-Emotion Changes. In 2016 IEEE Aerospace Conference.
• Chen, K., Fink, W., Lane, R., Allen, J., Vanuk, J., & Roveda, J. M. (2015, June). Wearable Sensor Based Stress Management Using Integrated Respiratory and ECG Waveforms. In International Conference on Body Sensor Network, Cambridge, MA.
• Dohm, J. M., Miyamoto, H., Fairén, A. G., Baker, V. R., Spagnuolo, M., Anderson, R. C., G. Komatsu, G., Fink, W., Mahaney, W. C., Schulz-Makuch, D., Hare, T. M., El Maarry, M. R., Williams, J. P., Viviano-Beck, C. E., Karunatillake, S., Niihara, T., & Maruyama, S. (2015, June). Mars Changing Environment, Habitability, And Prime Targets. In Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) 2015.
• Fink, W., Baker, V. R., Flammia, M., & Tarbell, M. A. (2015, March). Rover Traverse-­‐Optimizing Planner For Multi-­‐Objective Deployment Scenarios. In 2015 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 1-9.
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  Invited Speaker
• Fink, W., Baker, V. R., Hamilton, C. W., Schulze-Makuch, D., & Tarbell, M. A. (2015, March). Autonomous Exploration of Planetary Lava Tubes Using a Multi-Rover Framework. In IEEE Aerospace 2015.
• Fink, W., Hilmers, D. C., & Tarbell, M. A. (2014). Portable system to monitor astronaut ocular health and the development of the VIIP Syndrome. In Aerospace Conference, 2014 IEEE, 1--9.
• Fink, W., Popov, A., & Hess, A. (2014). Planning a pilot project on the ISS for crew health management \& maintenance beyond LEO. In Aerospace Conference, 2014 IEEE, 1--9.
• Milyutkina, S., Fink, W., & Kovalevskaya, M. (2014, October). Detecting recurrence of macular edema in patients with wet AMD after anti-VEGF treatment using 3D-CTAG test. In EVER 2014 Conference.
• Milyutkina, S., Fink, W., & Kovalevskaya, M. (2014, October). Method for comparative evaluation of therapeutic efficacy in dry AMD patients using 3D-CTAG. In EVER 2014 Conference.
• Rao, A., Hong, M., Shankaran, A., Fink, W., & Rozenblit, J. (2014). Performance assessment and optimization of motion planning in a surgical trainer for potential space applications. In Aerospace Conference, 2014 IEEE, 1--12.
• Fink, W., Clark, J. B., Reisman, G. E., & Tarbell, M. A. (2013). Comprehensive visual field test \& diagnosis system in support of astronaut health and performance. In Aerospace Conference, 2013 IEEE, 1--9.
• Popov, A., Fink, W., & Hess, A. (2013, October). PHM for Astronauts – A New Application. In PHM Society Conference 2013.
• Schmid, E. W., Fink, W., & Wilke, R. (2013). Electric stimulation of neurons and neural networks in retinal prostheses. In Neural Engineering (NER), 2013 6th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on, 1108--1111.
• Schmid, E. W., Fink, W., & Wilke, R. (2013). Simultaneous vs. sequential and unipolar vs. multipolar stimulation in retinal prostheses. In Neural Engineering (NER), 2013 6th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on, 190--193.
• Fink, W., Tuller, M., Jacobs, A., Kulkarni, R., Tarbell, M. A., Furfaro, R., & Baker, V. R. (2012). Robotic lake lander test bed for autonomous surface and subsurface exploration of titan lakes. In Aerospace Conference, 2012 IEEE, 1--12.

Presentations

• Fink, W. (2016, April). Novel electric stimulation paradigm for artificial vision implants. NeuroTech San Francisco 2016 Conference. NeuroTech San Francisco 2016 Conference, San Francisco.
• Fink, W., & Roveda, J. M. (2016, August). Real-time Dynamic Data Driven System for Stress Management. InfoSymbiotics/DDDAS Conference. Hartford, CT: DDDAS Conference.
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• Fink, W., Garcia, K., & Tarbell, M. (2016, August). Portable Head-mounted High-Speed Binocular Pupillometer for Near Real-time Non-invasive and Objective Assessment of Brain Injuries. 2016 Military Health System Research SymposiumDepartment of Defense.
• Fink, W., Popov, A., & Hess, A. (2016, October). PHM for Astronauts – A New Application Special Panel on “PHM for Human Assets”. PHM Society Conference 2016.
• Chen, K., Fink, W., Lane, R., Allen, J., Vanuk, J., & Roveda, J. M. (2015, April). Identify Invariant Patterns in ECG and Respiratory Waveforms (Invited Talk). Biomedical Engineering Conference 2015 by Omics International group, Philadelphia PA.
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  Abstract and oral presentation
• Fink, W. (2015, March). 3D Visual Field Test as a Prime Example of Tele-Ophthalmology on Earth and in Space. 12th World Congress of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics 2015.
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  Invited Speaker
• Fink, W., & Tarbell, M. A. (2015, December). Autonomous C4ISR Systems for Extreme Environments. 2015 Defense Energy Innovation Summit. Austin, Texas.
• Fink, W., & Tarbell, M. A. (2015, December). Smart Ophthalmics: An Innovation Platform for Smart Mobile-­ and Tele-­Health. 2015 Defense Energy Innovation Summit. Austin, Texas.
• Fink, W., Cerwin, J., & Adams, C. (2015, December). Ceeable Visual Field Analyzer (CVFA). 2015 Defense Energy Innovation Summit. Austin, Texas.
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  2015 Defense Energy Innovation Summit, abstract and oral presentation [Note: special honor to be selected for oral presentation to a military/industrial evaluation board]
• Schulze-Makunch, D., Anderson, D., Daly, M., Davila, A. F., Deamer, D., Dohm, J., Fairen, A. G., Fink, W., Furfaro, R., Hawkins, A. R., Head, J. N., Houtkooper, J. M., Irwin, l. N., Knoblauch, M., Lim, D. S., Mendez, A., Schmidt, H., Sears, S. K., Sun, H. J., & Vali, H. (2015, Fall). The Biological Oxidant and Life Detection (BOLD) Mission: A Proposal for a Low-­‐ Cost In-­‐Situ Mission to Mars. EANA15. Noordwijk, Netherlands: European Astrobiology Network Association, EANA15, Noordwijk, Netherland.
• Schulze-Makunch, D., Anderson, D., Daly, M., Davila, A. F., Deamer, D., Dohm, J., Fairen, A. G., Fink, W., Furfaro, R., Hawkins, A. R., Head, J. N., Houtkooper, J. M., Irwin, l. N., Knoblauch, M., Lim, D. S., Mendez, A., Schmidt, H., Sears, S. K., Sun, H. J., & Vali, H. (2015, Summer). The Biological Oxidant and Life Detection (BOLD) Mission: A Proposal for a Low-­‐ Cost In-­‐Situ Mission to Mars. 11th Low-Cost Planetary Missions Conference (LCPM 11). Berlin, Germany: The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) LCPM-11.
• Fink, W., & Schmid, E. (2013, Spring). Electric Field Shaping Via Separatrices For Focused Electric Retinal Stimulation Via Retinal Implants. Investigative Ophtalmology and Visual Science.
• Schulze-Makuch, D., Fink, W., Head, J. N., Houtkooper, J. M., Knoblauch, M., Furfaro, R., Fairen, A. G., Vali, H., Sears, S. K., Daly, M., Deamer, D., Schmidt, H., Hawkins, A. R., Sun, H. J., Lim, D. S., Dohm, J., Irwin, L. N., Davila, A. F., Mendez, A., & Andersen, D. (2012, June). The Biological Oxidant And Life Detection (BOLD) Mission: A Proposal For A Mission To Mars. NASA Workshop at Lunar and Planetary Institute on “Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration”.

Poster Presentations

• Fink, W., & Roveda, J. M. (2016, Aug. 14). Spatio-Temporal Model for Infectious Disease Prediction Considering Human Mobility. Military Health System Research Symposium.
• Fink, W., Garcia, K., & Tarbell, M. (2016, August). Smartphone-based Ophthalmic Examination Devices for Field-deployable Visual Performance Assessment of Warfighters, Veterans, and Civilians. 2016 Military Health System Research SymposiumDepartment of Defense.
• Fink, W., Garcia, K., & Tarbell, M. A. (2016, May). Smartphone-­‐based Head-­‐mounted Binocular High-­‐Speed Pupillometer. ARVO 2016 Conference. Seattle, Washington: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
• Milyutkina, S., Fink, W., Kovalevskaya, M., Belyi, Y., & Tereshchenko, A. (2016, May). Comparison of 3D Computer-automated Threshold Amsler Grid Testing and Microperimetry in Wet AMD Patients. ARVO 2016 Conference. Seattle, Washington: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
• Roveda, J. M., & Fink, W. (2016, Aug 14). Modular Low Power Wearable Sensor Design for Continuous Physiological Monitoring Throughout the Continuum of Combat Care. 2016 Military Health System Research Symposium.
• Fink, W., & Roveda, J. M. (2015, n/a). Environmental Impact of Infectious Disease Propagation. 2015 Defense Energy Innovation Summit.
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  Abstract and poster presentation
• Fink, W., & Tarbell, M. A. (2015, May). Smart Ophthalmics: A Smart Service Platform for Tele-­‐Ophthalmology. 2015 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Denver, Colorado: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
• Fink, W., Adams, C., & Cerwin, J. (2015, Summer). Portable, Comprehensive, Tele-medical Assessment of Visual Performance over Time in Warfighters, Pilots, Veterans, and Civilians. Military Health Symposium. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida: Department of Defense.
• Fink, W., Baker, V. R., Flammia, M., & Tarbell, M. A. (2015, March). Avoiding Planetary Rover Damage by Multi-­‐Objective Rover Traverse Optimization. 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston, Texas.
• Fink, W., Baker, V. R., Schulze-Makuch, D., Hamilton, C. W., & Tarbell, M. A. (2015, March). Multi-Rover Framework To Autonomously Explore Planetary Lava Tubes. 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
• Roveda, J. M., & Fink, W. (2015, August). Stress Management Using Wearable Sensors Using Integrated Data Information. 2015 Defense Energy Innovation Summit.
• Nguyen, J., Yee, K., Wa, C., Fink, W., Sadun, A. A., & Sebag, J. (2014, October). 3D-Threshold Amsler Grid Quantification of Distortions in Macular Pucker & Vitreo-Macular Traction. AAO 2014 Conference.
• Lin, K., Fink, W., Kamjoo, S., Davis, M., & Chang, T. (2013, May). 3-D Computer-Automated Threshold Amsler Grid to Quantify Retinal Deficits Before and After Standard Treatment of Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration. ARVO 2013 Conference.
• Fink, W., You, C. X., & Tarbell, M. A. (2012, May). Web-accessible Visual Field Test and Analysis System for Multi-Center Studies and Touchpad Device Access. ARVO 2012 Conference.