Khaldi Niazi, a post-doctoral researcher, Li Mao, a doctoral researcher, Furkan Keskin, a graduate researcher, and Evgenios Kornaropoulos, a graduate researcher, have joined the CIA Lab. Khalid Niazi has been involved since February. Li Mao will be involved from February, 2012 until January, 2013. Furkan Keskin will be involved from March, 2012 until May, 2012. Evgenios Kornaropoulos will be involved March until August 2012. Khalid is a post-doctoral researcher from Uppsala University in Sweden. Khalid will be involved with the development of non-linear filtering methods of medical images. Li is currently a PhD candidate in the School of Electronics and Information at Northwestern Polytechnical University and his visit is funded by Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology and the China State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. Li will be involved with digital watermarking and digital image processing. Furkan is a visiting researcher currently pursuing a Masters degr