Clark C. Guest


Office: 3407 Engineering Building Unit 1

Mailing Address:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0407
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407

Email: cguest@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-6549
Fax: (858) 534-2486

Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1983

Optoelectronics
Dr. Guest has directed research in optical computing, optical interconnections, computer generated holography, pattern recognition and neural networks. His group was the first to provide a practical demonstration of the superiority of optical interconnections. They also have been the leading developers of simulated annealing used for the design of computer-generated holograms. Recently, they have been the first to successfully apply the Neocognitron vision model to grayscale images and binocular depth perception. They have also developed the CAN neural network algorithm, which is more than four orders of magnitude faster than the widely-used back propagation.

Current Research

Biologically plausible neural network and vision models, and their implementation in VLSI.


Honors and Distinctions
  • Editorial Board: Computer Applications in Engineering Education

    Selected Publications

    S.A. Brodsky, G.C. Marsden, and C.C. Guest, "Optical Matrix-Vector Implementation of the Content Addressable Network," Applied Optics, Vol. 32, pp. 1338-1345, August 1993.

    T.Y.P. Lee and C.C. Guest, "A Parallel Channel Binocular Vision Neural Network Model," International Neural Network Society, 1994.

    C.C. Guest, "Optical Additive Fuzzy Systems," Fuzzy Engineering, Bart Kosko, ed., Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996 Last Updated: 5/2/97