Participating Faculty
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Bai, Zhen
Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3007 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7758
- Web Address
- Website
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

Bazarian, Jeff
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine (SMD)
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1198
- Web Address
- Website

Bocko, Mark
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS)
- Office Location
- 709 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4879
Interests: Audio and acoustic signal processing; Computer audition; Sensors and transducers

Brown, Matthew
Professor of Music Theory
- Telephone
- (585) 274-1951
- Web Address
- Website

Brown, Thomas G.
Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor
Professor of Optics
Director, Institute of Optics
- Office Location
- 113 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7816
Interests: Polarization Microscopy; Freeform Optical Metrology; Photonic Integrated Circuits

Busza, Ania
Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2530
- Web Address
- Website
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Carney, Laurel H.
Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 5-6438 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3948
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Auditory neuroscience; neurophysiological behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; signal processing for hearing aids

Cetin, Mujdat
Robin and Tim Wentworth Director, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Director, New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science
- Office Location
- 1211 Wegmans Hall and 719 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5061
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

Cross, Wendi
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2005
- Web Address
- Website
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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
- Office Location
- 321 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8677
Interests: 3D vision and navigation; Multisensory integration; Neural coding; Decision-making

Dewhurst, Stephen
Vice President for Research, University of Rochester
- Office Location
- 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 672
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2708
Interests: Influenza Viruses; Virus Polymerase HIV Vaccine Development; NeuroAIDS Research

Duan, Zhiyao
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 720 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5302
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computer Audition; Audio Signal Processing; Machine Learning; Music Information Retrieval

Dwarkadas, Sandhya
Visiting Research Professor of Computer Science
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Office Location
- G-9602 MC
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4586
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Hasselberg, Michael
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3000
- Web Address
- Website

Heyworth, Gregory
Associate Professor of English
Director, Lazarus Project
- Office Location
- 408 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2548

Higley, Sarah L
Professor
- Office Location
- 411 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9261
Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe and their interchanges; Film and media studies; Teratology (the study of the monstrous); Ecocriticism

Hoque, Ehsan
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3013 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1351
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills

Howard, Thomas M.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 732 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3755
Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction

Huxlin, Krystel
Professor, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
James V. Aquavella Professor, Ophthalmology
URMC Ombudsperson
Associate Director, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 2-6728 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5495
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Improving vision after damage
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Jacobs, Robert A.
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and the Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 306 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0753
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation

Jarvis, Michael J.
Professor of History
Director of the Digital Elmina Project; Director of Smiths Island Archaeology Project
- Office Location
- 455 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4558
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Office Location
- 509 Wilmot Building
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7823
Interests: Optical Interference Coatings and Color
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Lalor, Edmund
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 2.B203A Center for Advanced Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology (CABIN), Medical Annex Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3077
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Human sensory neurophysiology, brain-computer interfacing, computational neuroscience, neural encoding of natural sounds, sensory processing in psychiatric and developmental disorders

Lee, Ming-Lun
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering (Instructional Faculty)
- Office Location
- 620 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2120
Interests: Audio Programming; Programming for Interactive Multi-media Performance; Audio Preservation ; The Computational Analysis of Musical Performances and Recordings; Benjamin Brittens Recorded Legacy; The Art of Classical Recording Production

Lin, Feng Vankee
Associate Professor, Nursing, Psychiatry, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 2w128 Helen Wood Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6002
- Web Address
- Website

Luehmann, April
Associate Professor, Warner School of Education
- Office Location
- 472 LeChase Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3010
- Web Address
- Website

Luo, Jiebo
Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3101 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-5784
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computer Vision; Machine learning; Data Mining; Social Media; Biomedical Informatics; Human Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
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Maddox, Ross
Visiting Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Auditory neuroscience; Auditory brainstem response; Audio-visual integration; Selective attention; Audiologic diagnosis
Mitchell, Jude
Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Office Location
- 307 Meliora Hall
- Web Address
- Website
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

Mitten, David
Professor of Orthopedics
- Office Location
- Building D 4901 Lac De Ville Blvd
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5321

Moore, Duncan T.
Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor Emeritus in Optical Engineering Science
Professor Emeritus
- Office Location
- 409A Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5248
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Optical Engineering; Lens Design & Manufacturing; Gradient-Index Optics

Mort, Brendan
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Research
Director of the Center for Integrated Research and Computing
- Office Location
- 1215 Wegmans
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8289
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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Nelson, Randal C.
Professor in Memoriam
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
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0698
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Dissecting the neural circuits underlying sensory coding and psychiatric disease

Pai, Sreepathi
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3409 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-2391
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Compilers; Heterogeneous Architectures; GPU algorithms; Performance Modeling

Pasternak, Tatiana
Professor Emeritus, Neuroscience, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science

Perucchio, Renato
Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Program Director, Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures
- Office Location
- 236 and 415 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4071
- rlp@me.rochester.edu
Interests: Computational solid and structural mechanics; Engineering practices in Classical Antiquity

Poletti, Martina
Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 312 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4801
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3081
- Web Address
- Website
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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
- Office Location
- 505 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 752-1013
- Web Address
- Website
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

Rubin, Joan S.
Dexter Perkins Professor in History
Professor of History
- Office Location
- 363 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9347
Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Cultural and Intellectual History; The History of the Book

Rucci, Michele
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 309 Meliora Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Vision and Action
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Schieber, Marc
Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 6-8537 Medical Center
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Neural control of hand and finger movements

Schneller, Oliver
Professor of Composition
Director, Eastman Audio Research Studio [EARS]
- Telephone
- (585) 274-1108
- Web Address
- Website

Sharma, Gaurav
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
- Office Location
- 725 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7313
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Data Analytics; Cyber Physical Systems; Signal and Image Processing; Computer Vision; Media Security; Communications
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Tadin, Duje
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science
Interim Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Director of Training, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 310 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8682
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: neural mechanisms of visual perception

Tenhaeff, Wyatt E.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4403 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5080
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Electrochemical Energy Storage; Solid State and Lithium Metal Batteries; Polymer Thin Films, Interfaces and Thin Film Synthesis and Characterization; Vacuum Deposition Processing
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Vamivakas, Nickolas A.
Marie C. Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Optical Physics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics
Dean of Graduate Education and Post-Doctoral Affairs
- Office Location
- 101 Wilmot Annex
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2089
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Quantum Optics; Quantum Physics
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White, Andrew D.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Office Location
- 4401 Wegmans Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7395
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Large language models; Deep learning in chemistry; Molecular dynamics
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Xu, Chenliang
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3005 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computer Vision; Video Analysis; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Multimodal Modeling
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Yan, Yukang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3103 Wegmans Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Human Behavior Modeling; Virtual/Augmented Reality

Yoon, Geunyoung
Professor Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering, Center for Visual Science, Optics
- Office Location
- G-3182 MC
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4998
Interests: Supernormal vision
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Zhu, Yuhao
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Office Location
- 3501 Wegmans Hall
- yzhu@rochester.edu
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computer Systems and Architecture; Computer Imaging and Graphics; Augmented/Virtual Reality; Human (Visual) Perception and Cognition; Computational Art, Art History, and Aesthetics