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Associates housed in various departments who play an active role in the intellectual life of the Center.

Faculty and 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.

Cell Biology and Neuroscience
	Dr. David Margolis This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Sensory processing, decision-making, and neural plasticity in mice. Record and manipulate specific neurons and neural circuits as mice perform learned tactile behaviors to understand sensory-guided decision-making from the synaptic to the network levels. We are also interested in how brain injury and neurological disorders impact neuronal activity and behavior.
Computer Science
	Dr. Alex Borgida This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Development of languages and models for knowledge representation and reasoning.
	Dr. Abdeslam Boularias This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Machine learning, robotics, planning and learning in partially observable domains, reinforcement learning.
	Dr. Mubbasir Kapadia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Aims to develop agent-centric models for simulating crowd dynamics that challenge foundational assumptions in crowd modeling, while providing solutions that are validated using comparisons to real data, and virtual reality experiments. These solutions can be used to optimize the behavioral dynamics of real crowds and model the relationships between crowd flow and environment features, with applications in predictive analytics and crowd management, and environment layout design. His other research interests include real-time multi-agent planning, character animation for autonomous virtual humans, and digital storytelling.
	Dr. Casimir Kulikowski This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Image interpretation using planning and learning techniques; methods of theory formation for classification, configuration, planning and design problems with biomedical applications.
	Dr. Dimitris Metaxas  (Biomedical Engineering) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. American Sign Language and Gesture recognition from video, human identification and intent recognition from video, human computer interaction, shape and motion representation for recognition.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
	Dr. Kristin Dana This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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 Applied and Professional Psychology
	Dr. Louis Sass (Psychology) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Philosophy and psychopathology (especially disorders of self); phenomenological philosophy; Wittgenstein; philosophical aspects of psychoanalysis.
La Salle University, Department of Psychology
	Dr. Sharon Lee Armstrong This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Clinical Counseling Psychology
Lexical Research
	Robert Krovetz This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Word sense disambiguation and lexical semantics; morphology; multiword expressions; applications of natural language processing to education and information retrieval.
Linguistics
	Dr. Veneeta Dayal This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Semantic theory and the syntax-semantics interface from a cross-linguistic perspective.
	Dr. Viviane Deprez This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Theoretical and comparative syntax of natural languages focusing on models of parameterization for deriving grammars from universal principles.
	Dr. Kenneth Safir This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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.
Mathematics
	Dr. Eduardo Sontag This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Alternative models of computation and the mathematical theory of neural networks.
Ohio State University
	Dr. Craige Roberts This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. I study linguistic semantics and pragmatics, and am also interested in closely related issues in the philosophy of language.
Philosophy
	Dr. Frances Egan This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Philosophy of mind and psychology, the epistemology of science and the explanatory role of representational content in computational psychology.
	Dr. Barry Loewer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Philosophical problems concerning intentionality and consciousness; issues of non-monotonic reasoning.
	Dr. Robert Matthews This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Foundations of cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics; intentional states and propositional attitude ascriptions; learnability properties of linguistic theories.
Psychology
	Dr. Shana Cole This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  Social cognitive and perceptual processes involved in successful goal pursuit; self-regulation and self-control.
	Dr. Arnold Glass This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Computer models of syntactic parsing and language comprehension.
	Dr. Judith Hudson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Cognitive development; autobiographic memory and development of planning skills.
	Dr. Terry Wilson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Behavior therapy; social learning theory; treatment of eating disorders.
Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
	Dr. Brian Keane This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Perceptual organization—how it works in healthy individuals and how it goes wrong among those with schizophrenia; the clinical and neural implications of visual abnormalities in psychotic disorders; how the mind constructs/maintains representations of objects.
School of Communication and Information
	Dr. Nicholas Belkin This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Human interaction with information, particularly in information retrieval.
	Dr. Sunyoung Kim This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Human-Computer Interaction, interaction design, mobile and ubiquitous computing, healthcare, everyday wellbeing, environmental sustainability, behavior change
Spanish and Portuguese
	Dr. Nuria Sagarra This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Psycholinguistics: linguistic and cognitive factors modulating morphosyntactic processing in adult learners (e.g., executive control, cognitive load, language experience), using behavioral (eye tracking, self-paced reading) and electrophysiological (ERPs) techniques.
	Dr. Liliana Sanchez  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Bilingual acquisition of syntax. Convergence and crosslinguistic influence in syntactic representations in bilinguals
William Paterson University of New Jersey
	Dr. Daniel Kolak  (Department of Philosophy) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, Philosophy of Physics.