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Kevin J. Coakley (Fed)

Kevin J. Coakley earned a B.S. in Physics from Yale University, an M.S. in Physics from the University of Washington (Seattle), and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University. He joined the Statistical Engineering Division at NIST in 1989. Current research interests include aerosol physics; neutron physics; fast neutron spectroscopy; neutron imaging; astroparticle physics; and computational biology.

Technical Areas of Research and Consulting:

  • Planning and analysis of experiments in physical science and engineering
  • Stochastic and empirical model building
  • Computer intensive statistical methods
  • Bootstrap resampling methods
  • Statistical signal processing
  • Statistical algorithms for imaging

Professional Activities and Societies and Standards Activities:

Publications

Emission Ghost Imaging: reconstruction with data augmentation

Author(s)
Kevin J. Coakley, Heather H. Chen-Mayer, Bruce D. Ravel, Daniel Josell, Nikolai Klimov, Sarah Robinson, Daniel S. Hussey
Ghost Imaging enables 2D reconstruction of an object even though particles transmitted or emitted by the object of interest are detected with a single pixel
Created October 9, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022