The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Mentors interested in:
AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision

• Jaerock Kwon at Kettering University (Flint, MI)
  Keywords: computational neuroscience, computational neuroanatomy, neuroinformatics, neural networks, neuroevolution, machine learning, sensorimotor learning, temporal aspects of brain function. 29July
• Irfan ESSA at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: Computational Video, Computational Photography, Activity Recognition, Computational Journalism, Human Behavior Modeling and Analysis, Human Robot Interaction, Sports Visualization, Interacting with and Authoring Video. 14July
• Ye Duan at University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)
  Keywords: Computer Graphics, Shape Modeling, Image-Based Modeling, Computer Vision, BioMedical Imaging 9July
• Ricardo Vilalta at University of Houston (Houston, TX)
  Keywords: machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition. 8July
• Ramesh Rao at University of California San Diego (Washington, DC)
  Keywords: Wireless Systems and Networks, Energy efficient algorithms and protocols, Resource management schemes, Medium Access Control, Cognitive Networking, Information Theory and Applications 25June
• Manoj B.S at CalSysNet Research Group at UCSD-CalIt2 (San Diego, CA)
  Keywords: cognition in wireless networks, cognitive wireless networks, cognitive radio, cognitive radio networks. 21June
• Karen Livescu at TTI-Chicago (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: speech and language processing, speech recognition, graphical models, articulatory models, multi-view learning, audio-visual speech processing 15June
• George Lauder at Harvard University (Boston, MA)
  Keywords: biorobotics, fish, locomotion, fluid dynamics 12June
• Sonia Martinez at University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA 92093)
  Keywords: cooperative control, distributed algorithms, multi-agent systems, optimization, nonlinear control, geometric control 10June
• Jim Hurley at Intel Labs (Santa Clara, CA)
  Keywords: Ray Tracing, Rendering, Micro-Polygon, Physical Simulation, Global Illumination, Social Networking, Image Processing, Statistical Algorithms, Audio Propogation, Rasterization, GPU, Larrabee, Algorithms, Amaturn Content Creation, Mobile Internet Devices 10June
• Edward Large at Center for Complex System & Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL)
  Keywords: music cognition, auditory neuroscience, nonlinear dynamical systems, nonlinear oscillation, neural networks, rhythm perception, pitch perception, tonality, pulse, beat, meter 10June
• Sharad Singhal at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: Web Services, Cloud Computing, Service Composition, Service Orchestration, Business Processes 10June
• Lydia Kavraki at Rice University (Houston, TX)
  Keywords: robot motion planning, hybrid systems, task planning, geometric computing, computational structural biology, bioinformatics 10June
• Sharad Singhal at HP Labs (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: Web Services, Cloud Computing, Service Composition, Service Orchestration, Business Processes 9June
• Robert Pastel at Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI)
  Keywords: HCI, Virtual Environments, Positioning, Navigating, Gesturing 9June
• Nilufer Onder at Department of Computer Science, Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI)
  Keywords: Artificial intelligence, planning, decision making under uncertainty, temporal and parallel planning, project management 9June
• Lisa Hellerstein at Polytechnic Institute of NYU (Brooklyn, NY)
  Keywords: Computational Learning Theory, Complexity Theory, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Boolean Functions 9June
• Bangalore Manjunath at University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
  Keywords: image analysis, vision, camera networks, data hiding and steganography, multimedia data mining, bioimage informatics, video activity analysis 9June
• Rahul Jain at University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: Network Economics, Network Algorithms, Game Theory, Stochastic control and learning 8June
• Greg Shakhnarovich at TTI - Chicago (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: Computer vision, Nearest neighbors, Recognition, Semi-supervised learning, Similarity learning, Distance learning, 3D scene understanding, Scene parsing, Motion, Active learning 8June
• Jure Leskovec at Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
  Keywords: information networks, graph mining, social networks, web mining, data mining, machine learning 8June
• Lori Pollock at University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware)
  Keywords: automating software testing support, automatically analyzing word usage in software for improved software maintenance tools, analyzing and optimizing parallel programs, building automatic program analysis for software developer tools 8June
• Justine Cassell at Northwestern University (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: Embodied Conversational Agents, Natural Language, Dialogue Systems, Graphics, Educational Technology, Autism, Under-represented groups, 8June
• Prakash Ishwar at Boston University (Boston, MA)
  Keywords: Network Information Theory, Communication Complexity Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Video Analytics, Statistical Learning Theory, Multidimensional Signal Processing 8June
• Maja Mataric at University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: socially assistive robotics, social robots, human-robot interaction, human activity modeling, health robotics, robotics for kids with autism, robot-assisted stroke rehabilitation, robotics for the elderly, robotics for improved quality of life 8June
• Jorge Cortes at University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
  Keywords: Cooperative Control, Sensor Networks, Distributed Coordination Algorithms, Nonlinear Control, Geometric Control, Distributed Robotics, Multi-Agent Systems 8June
• Christopher Brown at Computer Sc ience Department, University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
  Keywords: computer vision, robotics, augmented reality. 8June
• Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)
  Keywords: Speech enhancement, active perception, wearable physiological sensors, face recognition, chemical sensor arrays, audio-visual speech processing, mobile robotics. 8June
• Xin Li at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Computer Aided Design, Neural Signal Processing, Machine Learning 7June
• David Cox at The Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
  Keywords: object recognition, face recognition, machine vision, systems neuroscience, GPGPU 6June
• Steven Seitz at University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
  Keywords: computer vision, computer graphics, 3D reconstruction, image-based modeling, stereo, structure-from-motion, optical flow, face modeling, photo tourism, photosynth 6June
• Ashok Popat at Google (Mountain View, CA)
  Keywords: Signal and image processing, pattern recognition, machine translation, natural language processing, source coding, digital libraries, language modeling 6June
• Nina Bhatti at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, California)
  Keywords: Mobile Systems, media interation, mobile social computing, mobile media, computer vision, interactive media, pervasive computing, mobile consumer applications, usability, mobile HCI 6June
• Colin Dewey at University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)
  Keywords: bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, biological sequence analysis, sequence alignment, phylogeny, genomics, genome assembly 5June
• Siwei Lyu at University at Albany, State University of New York (Albany, NY)
  Keywords: natural image statistics, graphical probabilistic models, low level computer vision, digital image forensics, machine learning 5June
• Geetika T. Lakshmanan at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Cambridge, MA)
  Keywords: Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Data Integration, Data Analytics, Data Discovery, Web Services, SOA, Social Computing, Theory, Algorithms, Data Provenance, Business Process Management, Information Visualization, Graph Theory, Machine Learning. 5June
• Chung-chieh Shan at Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ)
  Keywords: code generation; quotation and reflection; domain-specific languages; probabilistic and rational programming languages; computational linguistics; control operators and monads; type systems; theory of mind 5June
• Venkatesh Saligrama at Boston University (Boston MA)
  Keywords: statistical learning theory, video analytics, information theory, statistical signal processing, systems theory 5June
• Neil Rowe at Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California)
  Keywords: suspicious behavior, surveillance, data mining, deception, decoys, forensics 5June
• Kar-Han Tan at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: Immersive Remote Collaboration, Computer Vision and Graphics, Computational Photography and Video 5June
• Georgios Fainekos at NEC Labs / Arizona State University (Princeton, NJ / Tempe, AZ)
  Keywords: Cyber-Physical Systems, formal methods and logic, control theory and hybrid, embedded and real-time systems, robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles 5June
• Frank Dellaert at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, Structure from Motion, Visual Odometry, Urban Reconstruction, Robot Navigation 5June
• Howard Chen at IBM Research Division (Yorktown Heights, New York)
  Keywords: Computer aided design 5June
• Kai Yu at NEC Labs America (Cupertino, CA)
  Keywords: machine learning, information retrieval, data mining, object recognition, image classification, deep learning, transfer learning, semi-supervised learning, Gaussian processes, relational learning, matrix factorization, collaborative filtering... 5June
• Natalie Glance at Google (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: social networks, social media analysis 5June
• Todd Zickler at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
  Keywords: computer vision, computer graphics, image and signal processing, computational photography, physics-based vision, internet vision, online photo collections, socially-aware computer vision 5June
• G. Michael Youngblood at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)
  Keywords: interactive artificial intelligence, games, agents, multi-agent systems, cognitive architectures, visual / graph-based data mining / knowledge discovery, computational geometry, learning, behavioral analysis, MMO games, social games, artificial life 5June
• Joseph Hellerstein at Google (Seattle, WA)
  Keywords: distributed scheduling, cluster management, machine learning and systems, performance modeling, control theory 5June
• Frank Ritter at Penn State (University Park, PA)
  Keywords: Parallel Genetic Algorithms, cognitive architectures, docking, function optimization, cognitive modeling, stress 5June
• Seth Goldstein at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Programmable Matter, Compilers, Architecture, Nanotechnology, Reconfigurable Computing 5June