Computer Science
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Dr. Chung-chieh (Ken) Shan
I work to tap into and enhance the amazing human ability to create concepts, combine concepts, and share concepts, by lining up formal representations and what they represent.Email:
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Dr. Doug DeCarlo
My main interests are in the cognitive science of visual interaction: I explore how accounts of human perception and communication can inform computer systems that engage in natural and effective visual presentation. My recent projects in computer graphics have focused on shape depiction in line drawings, meaningful abstraction in images, and conversational animation.Email:
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Matthew Stone
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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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Vladimir Pavlovic
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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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Konstantinos Michmizos
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Basic Research: Computational Modeling of Sensorimotor Behavior, Psychophysics, Functional Neuroimaging
Applied research: Rehabilitation Games for children with disabilities, Robotic Neurorehabilitation
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Ahmed Elgammal
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Kostas Bekris
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Mubbasir Kapadia
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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.
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Dimitris Metaxas
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Dr. Laleh Najafizadeh
Functional Brain Imaging, Brain Connectivity, Diffuse Optical Brain Imaging, Electroencephalography, Cognitive Rehabilitation, Circuit Design and Microelectronics, Ultra Low-Power Circuits for Biomedical Applications, Data Converters, System on Chip, Wireless IC DesignEmail:
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Kristin Dana
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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. Professor Kristin Dana joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1999. Her research interests include computer vision, robotics, AI, computational photography, and machine learning.
Psychology
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Kasia M. Bieszczad
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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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Jacob Feldman
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Pernille Hemmer
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Zenon Pylyshyn - In Memoriam
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Before moving to Rutgers I was at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, where I was professor in the departments of Psychology, Computer Science, Philosophy and Electrical Engineering and supervised graduate students in all these departments. I joined the Rutgers Psychology Department in 1991 and, at the request of the provost and the dean of the faculty of Arts and Science, established the Center for Cognitive Science (known as RuCCS, and pronounced /ruckus/) which I directed until 1997 before returning to full-time research. I have done research on, and have written about mental imagery, visual attention and cognitive architecture. Some of this work is thought to be of interest to philosophy as well as psychology. Some of my studies are visual attention and pre-attentive location indexing with application to visual tracking, perceptual- motor coordination, and teleoperation; empirical constraints on cognitive architecture, especially for imagery.
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Eileen Kowler - In Memoriam
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Study of the sensory cues, spatial representations and cognitive factors that guide patterns of smooth and saccadic eye.
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John P. McGann
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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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Melchi Michel
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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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Manish Singh
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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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Karin Stromswold
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Elizabeth Torres
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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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David Vicario
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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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Jenny Wang
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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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Qiong Zhang
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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.
Anthropology
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Dr. Lee Cronk
My main interest is in the role of culture in the evolution of human behavior. I use a framework based on animal signaling theory to explore such topics as mate choice, cooperation, the relationship between culture and behavior, and cross-cultural differences and similarities in perception and aesthetic judgments. I recently assembled a team of behavioral ecologists and computer scientists to study dance as a courtship signal, using motion capture animation to separate dancers’ movements from their outward appearance.Email:
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Rutgers: Newark
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Dr. Maggie Shiffrar
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Biomedical Engineering
