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.

• Dr. Thomas Papathomas  (Laboratory of Vision Research(RuCCS))

Visual perception of motion, stereo (depth), and texture, and the development of neurophysiologically plausible computational models.

• 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)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Dr. Richard Duschl 

Science Education

• Dr. Louis Sass  (Psychology)

Philosophy and psychopathology (especially disorders of self); phenomenological philosophy; Wittgenstein; philosophical aspects of psychoanalysis.

• Dr. Sharon Lee Armstrong 

Clinical Counseling Psychology

• Dr. Yu Chin(Sunnia) Chai 

Research Assistant, Laboratory of Vision Research

• 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.

• Dr. Eduardo Sontag 

Alternative models of computation and the mathematical theory of neural networks.

• 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.

• 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.

• Dr. Stephen Jose Hanson  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

Research focuses on learning, categorization, connectionist models, neural networks, cognitive, mathematical and computational modeling.

• Dr. Nicholas Belkin 

Human interaction with information, particularly in information retrieval.

• Dr. Michael Lewis  (Center for Cognitive Science(RuCCS))

Emotional development and the role of cognition. Cognition, attribution and psychopathology.

• Dr. Daniel Kolak  (Department of Philosophy)

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