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Executive Council Faculty

Computer Science

  • Kostas Bekris

    Kostas Bekris

    Motion and task planning for autonomous robots; Integration of perception and planning for manipulating and interacting with the physical world; Coordination of multiple physical agents, including human-robot interaction.

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    Info Page | Personal Website | PRACSYS Lab Website

  • Ahmed Elgammal

    Ahmed Elgammal

    Computer Vision and Machine Learning;  statistical models for learning visual manifolds of objects; computational models for recognition of articulated objects; computational art history.

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    Info Page | Personal Website | The Art and Artificial Intelligence Lab Website

  • Konstantinos Michmizos

    Konstantinos Michmizos

    Basic Research: Computational Modeling of Sensorimotor Behavior, Psychophysics, Functional Neuroimaging

    Applied research: Rehabilitation Games for children with disabilities, Robotic Neurorehabilitation

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    Info Page | Personal Website | Computational Brain Lab (COMBRA) Website

  • Vladimir Pavlovic

    Vladimir Pavlovic

    Vladimir's research interests include Bayesian system modeling, time-series analysis, and statistical computer vision. More recently, his research has focused on modeling of human emotions and affect, as well as design of fast, robust, face tracking and identification systems. He is also interested in modeling and analysis of human crowd behavior from the perspective of distributed sensing and decision making systems.

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    Info Page | Sequence Analysis and Modeling Lab (SEQAMLAB) Website

  • Matthew Stone

    Matthew Stone

    Reasoning systems for natural language generation and human-computer interaction; formal models of plans, context and mutual knowledge, and linguistic meaning and interpretation.

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    Info Page | Personal Website | Intelligent Systems

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Kristin Dana

    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.

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    Info Page | Computer Vision Lab Website

Linguistics

  • Mark Baker

    Mark Baker

    Comparative syntax, linguistic universals, semantic roles, Amerindian and African languages.

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    Info Page | Personal Website

  • Simon Charlow

    Simon Charlow

    Formal semanticist working on scope and binding, questions and indefiniteness, focus, dynamic semantics, continuations and monads, ellipsis, and their interactions, especially interested in using insights from other disciplines (in particular, theoretical computer science) to address fundamental questions in linguistic theory.

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    Info Page | Personal Website

  • Kristen Syrett

    Kristen Syrett

    Language acquisition and development, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, pragmatics, prosody, representation and processing

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    Info Page | Personal Website | Laboratory for Developmental Language Studies (LDLS) Website

  • Bruce Tesar

    Bruce Tesar

    Computational models of language learning, phonology, Optimality Theory, the role of linguistics within cognitive science.

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    Info Page | Personal Website

Philosophy

  • Michael Glanzberg

    Michael Glanzberg

    Philosophy of language, semantics, pragmatics, and the syntax-semantics interface. I have focused on such topics as the nature of linguistic meaning, the ways meaning and context of utterance interact, and mechanisms of semantic composition and how they relate to syntax.

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    Info Page | Personal Website

  • Ernest Lepore

    Ernest Lepore

    Philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

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    Info Page | Personal Website

  • Brian McLaughlin

    Brian McLaughlin

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

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  • Paul Pietroski

    Paul Pietroski

    What are meanings? How are they related to concepts, grammatical structure, logical structure, and truth?

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    Info Page | Personal Website

  • Susanna Schellenberg

    Susanna Schellenberg

    Perceptual content and mental content more generally, attention, perceptual evidence, the relationship between the phenomenological and epistemological role of perceptual experience, the situation-dependency of perceptual experience, imagination, mental capacities.

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    Info Page | Personal Website 

  • Stephen Stich

    Stephen Stich

    Nature and viability of commonsense (or "folk") psychology, moral cognition & moral reasoning and rationality.

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    Info Page | Personal Website

Psychology

  • Kasia M. Bieszczad

    Kasia M. Bieszczad

    Neurobiology of learning and memory. Applies epigenetic, molecular, and electrophysiological techniques in animals to understand the basis of associative learning and memory determined by behavior; combines sensory neurophysiology (in the auditory system) with behavioral neuroscience to study how memory and perception intertwine.

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    Info Page | Cortex Learning Epigenetics & Function (CLEF) Lab Website

  • Jacob Feldman

    Jacob Feldman

    Formal, computational and empirical studies of categorization, shape representation, grouping and perceptual inference in visual perception.

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    Info Page | Personal Website | Visual Cognition Lab (VCL) Website

  • Pernille Hemmer

    Pernille Hemmer

    The influence of prior knowledge on memory and decision making in naturalistic environments.

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    Info Page | Priors and Memory (PRIME) Lab Website

  • Eileen Kowler

    Eileen Kowler

    Study of the sensory cues, spatial representations and cognitive factors that guide patterns of smooth and saccadic eye.

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    Info Page | Personal Website | Perceptual Science Website

  • Alan Leslie

    Alan Leslie

    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.

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    Info Page | Cognitive Development Laboratory (CDL) Website

  • John P. McGann

    John P. McGann

    Professor/RuCCS Faculty Director

    Research in my laboratory employs neurophsyiological, behavioral, and theoretical methods to explore how humans and rodent models learn information about the world and apply this knowledge to the neural processing of incoming sensory stimuli. We are also interested in how dysfunction in these processes could manifest in mental and neurological disorders.

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     Info Page | The McGann Laboratory on the Neurobiology of Sensory Cognition Website

  • Melchi Michel

    Melchi Michel

    Study of visual search and saccadic eye movements, short-term visual memory, perceptual learning and cue integration. Formal computational and ideal observer modeling of visual tasks and of population coding in visual cortex

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    Info Page | Computational Vision & Psychophysics Lab Website

  • Julien Musolino

    Julien Musolino

    Specializes in psycholinguistics and research focuses on language acquisition and language processing.

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    Info Page | Human Computational Cognition Lab

  • Manish Singh

    Manish Singh

    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.

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    Info Page | Personal Website

  • Karin Stromswold

    Karin Stromswold

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

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    Info Page | Personal Website | Language Acquisition and Processing Lab (LAPL) Website

  • Elizabeth Torres

    Elizabeth Torres

    My interest lies in the study of voluntary actions in general and the emergence of symbolic intelligence from them. In particular, I have been studying natural voluntary arm movements in the context of reaching for and grasping an object, obstacle avoidance, the acquisition and retrieval of a motor program, and more recently on the performance of a parietal patient and of patients with Parkinson's disease. I am also doing research on autism.

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    Info Page | Sensory Motor Integration Lab (SMIL) Website

  • David Vicario

    David Vicario

    Neuroethology. Using behavioral, neurophysiological, and anatomical methods in songbirds to study sensory and motor processes that subserve vocal learning, including auditory memory, perception, and production of learned vocalizations.

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    Info Page | Vicario Lab Website

  • Jenny Wang

    Jenny Wang

    Jenny Wang investigates the origins of our knowledge, how we master complicated concepts (such as mathematics), and how we learn about the world around us.

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    Info Page | Personal Website

  • Qiong Zhang

    Qiong Zhang

    Dr. Zhang's research combines computational modeling, behavioral methods and neural imaging to understand human memory. She is interested in how the human memory system uses its limited cognitive resources to efficiently retrieve past experiences and knowledge, and how we as researchers can design methods to improve human memory performance.

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    Info Page | Memory Optimization Lab

Psychology-Newark

  • Stephen Jose Hanson

    Stephen Jose Hanson

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

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    Info Page | Personal Website | Rutgers University Brain Imaging Center (RUBIC) Website

RWJMS

  • Michael Lewis

    Michael Lewis

    Dept. of Pediatrics - Child Health Institute of NJ (CHINJ)

    Emotional development and the role of cognition. Cognition, attribution and psychopathology. Face-voice integration in ASD.

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    Info Page | Dr. Lewis' Wikipedia Page

  • David Zald

    David Zald

    RBHS/Brain Health Institute

    Affective neuroscience, the interaction of emotion with attention and decision-making, and the neural substrates of these functions in both health and neuropsychiatric illness.

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    Info Page | Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research Website

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