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Zhen Bai

Bai, Zhen

  • Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Augmented Reality; Tangible User Interfaces; Embodied Conversational Agent; Technology-Enhanced Learning; Computer-Supported Collaborative Work; Assistive Technology; Machine Learning for HCI

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Bazarian, Jeff

  • Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine (SMD)

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Mark Bocko

Bocko, Mark

  • Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS)

Interests: Audio and acoustic signal processing; Computer audition; Sensors and transducers

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Brown, Matthew

  • Professor of Music Theory

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Thomas G. Brown

Brown, Thomas G.

  • Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor
    Professor of Optics
  • Director, Institute of Optics

Interests: Optoelectronics

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Busza, Ania

  • Assistant Professor of Neurology

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Laurel H. Carney

Carney, Laurel H.

  • Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering
    Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Professor of Neuroscience

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Interests: Auditory neuroscience; Neurophysiological, behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; Signal processing for hearing aids

Mujdat Cetin

Cetin, Mujdat

  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Professor of Computer Science
  • Robin and Tim Wentworth Director, Goergen Institute for Data Science
    Director, New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science

Interests: computational sensing and imaging as applied to radar and biomedical imaging; probabilistic methods for image and video analysis as applied to biomedical image analysis, microscopic neuroimaging, and computer vision; signal processing and machine learning for brain-computer/machine interfaces, with applications for alternative communication and rehabilitation for patients and monitoring of cognitive states

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Cross, Wendi

  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry

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Greg DeAngelis

DeAngelis, Greg

  • George Eastman Professor
    Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
    Professor of Neuroscience
    Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Professor in the Center for Visual Science

Interests: 3D vision and navigation; Multisensory integration; Neural coding; Decision-making

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Dewhurst, Stephen

  • Professor Microbiology and Immunology
  • Vice President for Research, University of Rochester

Interests: Influenza Viruses; Virus Polymerase HIV Vaccine Development; NeuroAIDS Research

Zhiyao Duan

Duan, Zhiyao

  • Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science

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Interests: Computer Audition; Audio Signal Processing; Machine Learning; Music Information Retrieval

Sandhya Dwarkadas

Dwarkadas, Sandhya

  • Visiting Research Professor of Computer Science

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Interests: Parallel and distributed computing; Computer architecture and networks; Interaction and interface between the compiler, runtime system, and underlying architecture; Software distributed shared memory; Integrated compiler and runtime support for parallelism; Simulation methodology; Uniprocessor and multiprocessor architectures; Parallel applications development; Performance evaluation

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Foxe, John

  • Professor, Center for Visual Science
    Kilian J. and Caroline F. Schmitt Professorship, Neuroscience
  • Director, Ernest J. Del Monte Neuromedicine Institute
    Chair, Department of Neuroscience

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Hasselberg, Michael

  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

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Gregory Heyworth

Heyworth, Gregory

  • Associate Professor of English
  • Director, Lazarus Project
Sarah Higley

Higley, Sarah L

  • Professor

Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe and their interchanges; Film and media studies; Teratology (the study of the monstrous); Ecocriticism

Ehsan Hoque

Hoque, Ehsan

  • Associate Professor of Computer Science

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Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills

Thomas M. Howard

Howard, Thomas M.

  • Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction

Krystel Huxlin

Huxlin, Krystel

  • Professor, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
  • James V. Aquavella Professor, Ophthalmology
    Associate Chair for Research, David and Ilene Flaum Eye Institute
    URMC Ombudsperson
    Associate Director, Center for Visual Science

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Interests: Improving vision after damage

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Robert Jacobs

Jacobs, Robert A.

  • Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and the Center for Visual Science

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Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation

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Jarvis, Michael J.

  • Professor of History
  • Director of the Digital Elmina Project; Director of Smiths Island Archaeology Project

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Interests: Public History and Museum Studies; Early American and Atlantic History 1450-1850 (Transnational); Material Culture and Historical Archaeology (Transnational); Digital History

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Kruschwitz, Jennifer D. T.

  • Associate Professor of Optics
    Senior Scientist, LLE

Interests: Optical Interference Coatings and Color

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Lalor, Edmund

  • Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Associate Professor of Neuroscience

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Interests: Human sensory neurophysiology; Brain-computer interfacing; Computational neuroscience; Neural encoding of natural sounds; Sensory processing in psychiatric and developmental disorders

Ming-Lun Lee

Lee, Ming-Lun

  • Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering (Instructional Faculty)

Interests: Audio Programming; Programming for Interactive Multi-media Performance; Audio Preservation ; The Computational Analysis of Musical Performances and Recordings; Benjamin Britten’s Recorded Legacy; The Art of Classical Recording Production

Feng Vankee Lin

Lin, Feng Vankee

  • Associate Professor, Nursing, Psychiatry, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Neuroscience

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Luehmann, April

  • Associate Professor, Warner School of Education

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Jiebo Luo

Luo, Jiebo

  • Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering
    Professor of Computer Science

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Interests: Computer Vision; Machine learning; Data Mining; Social Media; Biomedical Informatics; Human Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing

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Ross Maddox

Maddox, Ross

  • Visiting Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

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Interests: Auditory neuroscience; Auditory brainstem response; Audio-visual integration; Selective attention; Audiologic diagnosis

Jude Mitchell

Mitchell, Jude

  • Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Interests: How spatial attention alters statistics of neuronal spiking; Extracellular classification of neuronal types in awake animals; Systems identification models of sensory processing and attention; Network models of spiking neurons and correlations in firing; Human psychophysics in object-based attention, recognition, and perceptual learning

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Mitten, David

  • Professor of Orthopedics
Duncan T. Moore

Moore, Duncan T.

  • Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor in Optical Engineering Science
    Professor of Optics
    Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Professor of Business Administration in the Simon Business School

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Interests: Optical Engineering; Lens Design & Manufacturing; Gradient-Index Optics

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Mort, Brendan

  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Research
  • Director of the Center for Integrated Research and Computing

Interests: High performance computing; application of computing technology to chemistry and biology; computational chemistry algorithm development; molecular dynamics simulations, electronic structure theory

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Randal C. Nelson

Nelson, Randal C.

  • Professor in Memoriam

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    Interests: Machine vision and robotics; Object recognition and learning representations at the interface between feature-based and appearance-based approaches; Vision for manipulation and hand-eye coordination; Motion recognition and analysis, and visual navigation

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    Padmanabhan, Krishnan

    • Assistant Professor Neuroscience and Center for Visual Science

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    Interests: Dissecting the neural circuits underlying sensory coding and psychiatric disease

    Sreepathi Pai

    Pai, Sreepathi

    • Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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    Interests: Compilers; Heterogeneous Architectures; GPU algorithms; Performance Modeling

    Tania Pasternak

    Pasternak, Tatiana

    • Professor Emeritus, Neuroscience, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
    Renato Perucchio

    Perucchio, Renato

    • Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
      Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
      Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
      Program Director, Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures

    Interests: Computational solid and structural mechanics; Engineering practices in Classical Antiquity

    Martina Poletti

    Poletti, Martina

    • Assistant Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science

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    Jannick Rolland

    Rolland, Jannick

    • Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering
      Professor of Optics
      Professor of Biomedical Engineering
      Professor in the Center for Visual Science
    • Director, NSF/IUCRC: Center for Freeform Optics
      Director, R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering

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    Interests: Optical Aberration Theory; Freeform Optics; Metasurfaces; Metaform; Optical System Design; Optical Metrology; Illumination; Instrumentation and System Engineering; Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT); Optical Coherence Elastography (OCE); Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR); Head-Worn Displays; Heads-up Displays

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    Rubin, Joan S.

    • Dexter Perkins Professor in History
      Professor of History

    Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Cultural and Intellectual History; The History of the Book

    Michele Rucci

    Rucci, Michele

    • Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science

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    Interests: Vision and Action

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    Marc Schieber

    Schieber, Marc

    • Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science

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    Interests: Neural control of hand and finger movements

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    Schneller, Oliver

    • Professor of Composition
    • Director, Eastman Audio Research Studio [EARS]

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    Gaurav Sharma

    Sharma, Gaurav

    • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
      Professor of Computer Science
      Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology

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    Interests: Data Analytics; Cyber Physical Systems; Signal and Image Processing; Computer Vision; Media Security; Communications

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    Duje Tadin

    Tadin, Duje

    • Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
      Chair, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
    • Director of Training, Center for Visual Science

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    Interests: neural mechanisms of visual perception

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    Tenhaeff, Wyatt E.

    • Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

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    Interests: Electrochemical Energy Storage; Solid State Lithium Batteries and Solid Electrolytes; Polymer Thin Films, Interfaces and Thin Film Synthesis & Characterization; Vacuum Deposition Techniques

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    Nick Vamivakas

    Vamivakas, Nick

    • Professor of Quantum Optics & Quantum Physics

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    Interests: Quantum Optics; Quantum Physics

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    White, Andrew D.

    • Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

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    Interests: AI Directive Design of Materials; Molecular Simulations; Augmented-Reality in Chemical Engineering Education; Grid-Energy Storage Simulations

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    Chenliang Xu

    Xu, Chenliang

    • Associate Professor of Computer Science

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    Interests: Computer Vision; Video Analysis; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Multimodal Modeling

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    Yukang Yan

    Yan, Yukang

    • Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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    Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Human Behavior Modeling; Virtual/Augmented Reality

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    Yoon, Geunyoung

    • Professor Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering, Center for Visual Science, Optics

    Interests: Supernormal vision

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    Yuhao Zhu

    Zhu, Yuhao

    • Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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    Interests: Augmented/Virtual Reality; Human Perception and Cognition; Computational Photography/Imaging; Computational Heritage/Humanities; Computer architecture