Biomedical Engineering Cognitive Science Communication, Information & Library Studies Computer Science Electrical Engineering Linguistics Mathematics Neuroscience and Cell Biology Philosophy Psychology Social Work The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey     Faculty and postdoctoral researchers associated with RuCCS represent a variety of disciplines. The list below organizes faculty and researchers by their department of affiliation. Clicking on a person's name will direct you to their web page, where information regarding their research interests and recent publications may be found.     BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   Dr. Thomas Papathomas (Lab. of Vision Research) papathom@rci.rutgers.edu  Visual perception of motion, stereo (depth), and texture, and the development of neurophysiologically plausible computational models.    COGNITIVE SCIENCE Dr. Zenon Pylyshyn (RuCCS) zenon@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Studies of visual attention and preattentive location indexing with application to visual tracking, perceptual- motor coordination, and teleoperation; empirical constraints on cognitive architecture, especially for imagery.    COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION & LIBRARY STUDIES   Dr. Nicholas Belkin nick@belkin.rutgers.edu  Human interaction with information, particularly in information retrieval.   COMPUTER SCIENCE   Dr. Saul Amarel amarel@cs.rutgers.edu  AI approaches to decision, representation, and modeling incomputational design and intelligent automation.  Dr. Alex Borgida borgida@cs.rutgers.edu  Development of languages and models for knowledge representation and reasoning.  Dr. Doug DeCarlo (RuCCS) decarlo@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Application of computer vision to human-computer interaction (in particular, through the non-intrusive tracking of a user's activities).Perceptual issues in computer graphics. Dr. Haym Hirsh hirsh@cs.rutgers.edu  Machine Learning; Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Molecular Biology and in Automated Design.  Dr. Casimir Kulikowski kulikows@athos.rutgers.edu  Image interpretation using planning and learning techniques; methods of theory formation for classification, configuration, planning and design problems with biomedical applications.  Dr. Thorne McCarty mccarty@cs.rutgers.edu  Problems of knowledge representation in AI and applications legal reasoning; the role of different logics (intuitionistic, nonmonotonic, action, deontic) in formal theories of argumentation.  Dr. Dimitris Metaxas dnm@central.cis.upenn.edu American Sign Language and Gesture recognition from video, human identification and intent recognition from video, human computer interaction, shape and motion representation for recognition. Dr. Matthew Stone (RuCCS) mdstone@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Reasoning systems for natural language generation and human-computer interaction; formal models of plans, context and mutual knowledge, and linguistic meaning and interpretation.   ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   Dr. Kristin Dana kdana@ece.rutgers.edu  Computer vision and graphics; computational models for object appearance and image texture with applications in pattern recognition and scene rendering; optical systems for measurements of surface appearance. Dr. James Flanagan (CAIP) jlf@caip.rutgers.edu  Voice and image processing, packet communication, teleconferencing, and acoustic systems. Dr. Peter Meer meer@caip.rutgers.edu  Application of modern statistical methods to computer vision and pattern recognition; probabilistic algorithms for machine vision problems; representation of semantical visual information.     LINGUISTICS   Dr. John Alderete alderete@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Phonological theory and the phonology-morphology interface, Optimality Theory, Athabaskan languages Dr. Mark Baker mabaker@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Comparative syntax, linguistic universals, semantic roles, Amerindian and African languages.  Dr. Veneeta Dayal dayal@rci.rutgers.edu  Semantic theory and the syntax-semantics interface from a cross-linguistic perspective.  Dr. Viviane Deprez deprez@rci.rutgers.edu  Theoretical and comparative syntax of natural languages focusing on models of parameterization for deriving grammars from universal principles.  Dr. Jane Grimshaw (RuCCS) grimshaw@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Representation and acquisition of lexical information; development of minimalist and optimality-based theories of phrase structure and functional projections.  Dr. Alan Prince (RuCCS) prince@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Phonological theory and the cognitive science of language; interaction of universal constraints on representational well-formedness to define grammatical systems.  Dr. Kenneth Safir safir@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Syntactic theory; explanation of anaphora crosslinguistically and across the boundaries of syntax, semantics, pragmatics and language acquisition; formal learnability theory as applied to language acquisition.  Dr. Roger Schwarzschild sroger@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Natural language semantics, semantics/pragmatics interface, recent work on intonational focus and on plurals.  Dr. Bruce Tesar tesar@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Computational theory of learning, parsing, and their interactions. Optimality Theory. Dynamic programming, nonlinear optimization, connectionism.  Dr. Hubert Truckenbrodt hubertt@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Syntax-phonology interface, prosodic structure, phonology-phonetics relation in intonation, register in systems of tone and intonation.   MATHEMATICS   Dr. Eduardo Sontag sontag@control.rutgers.edu  Alternative models of computation and the mathematical theory of neural networks.   NEUROSCIENCE AND CELL BIOLOGY   Dr. Ira Black black@mbcl.rutgers.edu  Environmental regulation of brain gene expression; role of growth and trophic factors in mammalian nervous system; regulation of brain synaptic plasticity.   PHILOSOPHY Dr. Frances Egan fegan@rci.rutgers.edu Philosophy of mind and psychology, the epistemology of science and the explanatory role of representational content in computational psychology. Dr. Jerry Fodor (RuCCS) fodor@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Philosophical problems about psychology, including theoretical and experimental investigations of cognitive architecture, psycholinguistics and cognitive development.  Dr. Ernest Lepore (RuCCS - Director) lepore@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.  Dr. Brian Loar loar@rci.rutgers.edu  Philosophy of Mind; philosophy of language; theories of mental content.  Dr. Barry Loewer loewer@rci.rutgers.edu  Philosophical problems concerning intentionality and consciousness; issues of non-monotonic reasoning  Dr. Robert Matthews rjm@rci.rutgers.edu  Foundations of cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics; intentional states and propositional attitude ascriptions; learnability properties of linguistic theories.  Dr. Brian McLaughlin brianmc@ruccs.rutgers.edu  The nature of cognitive architecture, including the connectionism/classicism debate; psychosemantics and the theory of meaning for mental representations.  Dr. Stephen Stich (RuCCS) stich@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Nature and viability of commonsense (or "folk") psychology, moral cognition & moral reasoning and rationality.   PSYCHOLOGY   Dr. Vidal Annan avidal@ruccs.rutgers.edu Visual processing of light and shading. Dr. Szilvia Biro Dr. Erik Blaser (Lab. of Vision Research) blaser@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Spatial resolution and amplification of attention to color;  attention in depth during 3D Multielement Tracking;  color-contingent depth aftereffects.  Dr. Gretchen Chapman gbc@rci.rutgers.edu  Judgment & decision making, especially medical decision making. Normative and descriptive decision models; physician reasoning; patient utility assessment; time preferences.  Dr. Jacob Feldman (RuCCS) jacob@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Formal, computational and empirical studies of categorization, shape representation, grouping and perceptual inference in visual perception.  Dr. Ori Friedman ori@ruccs.rutgers.edu Theory of mind in children and people with Turner's Syndrome. Dr. Randy Gallistel galliste@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Fully automated, highly diagnostic behavioral screens for abilities in learning and memory in the mouse and zebra fish. Also, animal cognition: spatial, temporal, and numerical learning and reasoning in animals. Dr. Rochel Gelman rgelman@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Causal and quantitative reasoning, constraints on concept acquisition, and the role of informal environments (e.g., in cognitive development).  Dr. Judith Hudson jhudson@rci.rutgers.edu  Cognitive development; autobiographic memory and development of planning skills.  Dr. Stephen Jose Hanson (Newark) jose@psychology.rutgers.edu  Research focuses on learning, categorization, connectionist models, neural networks, cognitive, mathematical and computational modeling.  Dr. Felicia Hurewitz Dr. Bela Julesz (Lab. of Vision Research) julesz@cyclops.rutgers.edu  Early stages of vision, such as texture, motion and stereopsis, and its links to neurophysiology and to higher processing stages, such as those involving focal attention; Applications to ophthalmology and display technology.  Dr. Ilona Kovacs (Lab. of Vision Research) ikovacs@cyclops.rutgers.edu  Early vision, perceptual organization, organizational rules and plasticity of visual perception.  Dr. Eileen Kowler kowler@psych.rutgers.edu  Study of the sensory cues, spatial representations and cognitive factors that guide patterns of smooth and saccadic eye   Dr. Petra Kozma (Lab. of Vision Research) petra@zeus.rutgers.edu Visual perception, normal and impaired visual development, spatial integration and perceptual learning using psychophysical and electrophysiological techniques. The visual functional consequences and possible basis of all conditions (e.g.strabismus, amblyopia) that result in impaired visual development. Dr. Alan Leslie (RuCCS) aleslie@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Conceptual development and the representation of the physical world, of Agency, and of "theory of mind" in infants and preschoolers; also their impairment in autism.  Dr. Michael Leyton leyton@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Foundational analyses of memory and perception in terms of symmetry principles; application to the structure of paintings, aesthetics and the structure of science.  Dr. Louis Sass (GSAPP) lsass@rci.rutgers.edu  Philosophy and psychopathology (especially disorders of self); phenomenological philosophy; Wittgenstein; philosophical aspects of psychoanalysis.  Dr. Charles Schmidt (RuCCS) chuck@rci.rutgers.edu  Planning, problem solving, and learning by persons and machines; cooperative problem-solving, plan recognition and person-machine interaction.  Dr. Manish Singh manish@ruccs.rutgers.edu Formal and empirical study of visual object and surface representations. Part-based description of object shape; Computation of surface structure under partial occlusion and transparency; Visual attention. Dr. Karin Stromswold (RuCCS) karin@ruccs.rutgers.edu  Language acquisition and learnability theory; the cognitive and neural bases of language, language acquisition, and language processing; studies of sentence processing using neuroimaging.  Dr. Arlene Walker-Andrews arlenewa@rci.rutgers.edu   Development of perception in infants; development of production and perception of emotion in autism; development of intermodal perception and of pretend play in children.  Dr. James Walkup walkup@rci.rutgers.edu  Cultural and scientific influences on concepts of psychopathology, psychiatric illness, and psychiatric disability. Health care policy.   Dr. Robert Woolfolk rwool@rci.rutgers.edu  The nature of self-knowledge and its relation to psychopathology; the sociocultural and philosophical underpinnings of psychology and psychiatry.    SOCIAL WORK   Jerome Wakefield jcw2@rci.rutgers.edu  Conceptual foundations of the mental health professions.   UMDNJ   Dr. Michael Lewis lewis@umdnj.edu Emotional development and the role of cognition. Cognition, attribution and psychopathology.