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Faculty

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  (Laboratory of Vision Research(RuCCS))

  • Visual perception of motion, stereo (depth), and texture, and the development of neurophysiologically plausible computational models.
Brain Behavior Center
  • Dr. Daniel Kolak-BBC 

  • Cognitive Science(cognitive neuroscience; self-representation; information processing; knowledge representation; mental models; the logic and mathematics of mental processes; autism, confabulation, self-deception, MPD; dreaming), Philosophy of Mind (personal identity, consciousness, and self; philosophical psychology; psychoanalytic theory)
Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS)
  • Dr. Lila Gleitman  (VIsiting Faculty)

  • Psycholinguistics: morphological and syntactic structure. Language acquisition: representation of the soundwave; syntax; construction of the lexicon.
  • Dr. Daniel Kolak-RuCCS 

  • Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, Philosophy of Physics
  • Dr. Zenon Pylyshyn  (Psychology)

  • 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.
Center for Discrete Mathematics (DIMACS)
  • Dr. Michael Leyton  (Psychology)

  • Foundational analyses of memory and perception in terms of symmetry principles; application to the structure of paintings, aesthetics and the structure of science.
Computer Science
  • Dr. Michael L Littman 

  • Research in machine learning examines algorithms for decision making under uncertainty.
  • Dr. Alex Borgida 

  • Development of languages and models for knowledge representation and reasoning.
  • Dr. Doug DeCarlo  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • 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 

  • Machine Learning; Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Molecular Biology and in Automated Design.
  • Dr. Casimir Kulikowski 

  • Image interpretation using planning and learning techniques; methods of theory formation for classification, configuration, planning and design problems with biomedical applications.
  • Dr. Thorne McCarty  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • 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  (Biomedical Engineering)

  • 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. Ken Shan 

  • Linguistics and computer science, from formal semantics and natural language processing to programming languages and randomized algorithms.
  • Dr. Matthew Stone  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Reasoning systems for natural language generation and human-computer interaction; formal models of plans, context and mutual knowledge, and linguistic meaning and interpretation.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Dr. Kristin Dana 

  • 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. Peter Meer 

  • Application of modern statistical methods to computer vision and pattern recognition; probabilistic algorithms for machine vision problems; representation of semantical visual information.
Graduate School of Education
  • Dr. Richard Duschl 

  • Science Education
Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
  • Dr. Louis Sass  (Psychology)

  • Philosophy and psychopathology (especially disorders of self); phenomenological philosophy; Wittgenstein; philosophical aspects of psychoanalysis.
La Salle University, Department of Psychology
  • Dr. Sharon Lee Armstrong 

  • Clinical Counseling Psychology
Laboratory of Vision Research (RuCCS)
  • Dr. Yu Chin(Sunnia) Chai 

  • Research Assistant, Laboratory of Vision Research
Linguistics
  • Dr. Mark Baker  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Comparative syntax, linguistic universals, semantic roles, Amerindian and African languages.
  • Dr. Veneeta Dayal 

  • Semantic theory and the syntax-semantics interface from a cross-linguistic perspective.
  • Dr. Viviane Deprez 

  • Theoretical and comparative syntax of natural languages focusing on models of parameterization for deriving grammars from universal principles.
  • Dr. Jane Grimshaw  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Representation and acquisition of lexical information; development of minimalist and optimality-based theories of phrase structure and functional projections.
  • Dr. Alan Prince  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Phonological theory and the cognitive science of language; interaction of universal constraints on representational well-formedness to define grammatical systems.
  • Dr. Kenneth Safir 

  • 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 

  • Natural language semantics, semantics/pragmatics interface, recent work on intonational focus and on plurals.
  • Dr. Bruce Tesar  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Computational theory of learning, parsing, and their interactions. Optimality Theory. Dynamic programming, nonlinear optimization, connectionism.
Mathematics
  • Dr. Eduardo Sontag 

  • Alternative models of computation and the mathematical theory of neural networks.
Philosophy
  • Dr. Frances Egan 

  • Philosophy of mind and psychology, the epistemology of science and the explanatory role of representational content in computational psychology.
  • Dr. Jerry Fodor  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Philosophical problems about psychology, including theoretical and experimental investigations of cognitive architecture, psycholinguistics and cognitive development.
  • Dr. Alvin Goldman  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Simulationist versus theory-theory approaches to mindreading, including reading emotion in faces; self-knowledge, self-report, and consciousness; descriptive and normative issues in reasoning; folk ontology.
  • Dr. John Hawthorne 

  • Metaphysics, epistemology, language, mind, Leibniz.
  • Dr. Ernest Lepore  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
  • Dr. Brian Loar 

  • Philosophy of Mind; philosophy of language; theories of mental content.
  • Dr. Barry Loewer 

  • Philosophical problems concerning intentionality and consciousness; issues of non-monotonic reasoning.
  • Dr. Robert Matthews 

  • Foundations of cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics; intentional states and propositional attitude ascriptions; learnability properties of linguistic theories.
  • Dr. Brian McLaughlin 

  • The nature of cognitive architecture, including the connectionism/classicism debate; psychosemantics and the theory of meaning for mental representations.
  • Dr. Stephen Neale 

  • Language and information content, specifically: the underspecification of information content by linguistic form; the nature and role of syntactic structure in identifying content; the nature and role of logical form; the nature and role of inferential and other computational processes; the nature and role of background information and local contextual information; problems of anaphora and binding; methodology in linguistics.
  • Dr. Jason Stanley  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Phil. of Language, Phil. Logic, Epistemology, Early Analytic Phil.
  • Dr. Stephen Stich  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Nature and viability of commonsense (or "folk") psychology, moral cognition & moral reasoning and rationality.
Psychology
  • Dr. Kimberly Brenneman  (Center for Cognitive Science)

  • Cognitive Development and Learning Laboratory
  • Dr. Jacob Feldman  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Formal, computational and empirical studies of categorization, shape representation, grouping and perceptual inference in visual perception.
  • Dr. Charles Gallistel  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • 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  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Causal and quantitative reasoning, constraints on concept acquisition, and the role of informal environments (e.g., in cognitive development).
  • Dr. Arnold Glass 

  • Computer models of syntactic parsing and language comprehension.
  • Dr. Judith Hudson 

  • Cognitive development; autobiographic memory and development of planning skills.
  • Dr. Eileen Kowler  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Study of the sensory cues, spatial representations and cognitive factors that guide patterns of smooth and saccadic eye.
  • Dr. Alan Leslie  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • 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. Julien Musolino  (Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS))

  • Specializes in psycholinguistics and research focuses on language acquisition and language processing.
  • Dr. Manish Singh  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • 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  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Language acquisition and learnability theory; the cognitive and neural bases of language, language acquisition, and language processing; studies of sentence processing using neuroimaging.
  • Dr. Terry Wilson 

  • Behavior therapy; social learning theory; treatment of eating disorders.
Psychology-Newark
  • Dr. Stephen Jose Hanson  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Research focuses on learning, categorization, connectionist models, neural networks, cognitive, mathematical and computational modeling.
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
  • Dr. Nicholas Belkin 

  • Human interaction with information, particularly in information retrieval.
UMDNJ
  • Dr. Michael Lewis  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

  • Emotional development and the role of cognition. Cognition, attribution and psychopathology.
William Paterson University of New Jersey
  • Dr. Daniel Kolak  (Department of Philosophy)

  • Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, Philosophy of Physics.