People
Yang Cai, Ph.D. Director of Instinctive Computing Lab
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Yang's main interest is visual computing including vidio understanding and visualization. He created theories of Instinctive Computing, Empathic Computing and Ambient Diagnostics. He is Senior Systems Scientist of Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University. He was NASA Faculty Fellow in 2002 and 2003 and he has organized international workshops in Instinctive Computing, Ambient Intelligence and Digital Human Modeling. Read more |
Douglas Robertson, MD and Ph.D., Research Fellow
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Doug is a Radiologist and specialized in 3D imaging and articulated bone modeling. He is interested in Teraherz imaging technologies and 3D archeological reconstruction from CT data. Doug conducts clinical studies in Jefferson Ragional Hospital and research in Bioengineering Department of University of Pittsburgh. |
Howard Lipton, Ph.D., Research Fellow
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Howard's research area includes survivable network architecture, intrusion and vulnerability detection. He is senior member of staff in Center for Emergency Response Team (CERT), Software Engineering Institute. |
Brian Zeleznik, Research Fellow
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Brian is a retired NAVY officer who has over 10 years of broad technical and field experience. He is interested in intelligent sensors and philosophy. |
Samantha Stevick, Administrative Coordinator
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Samantha coordinates seminars, workshops and administrative processes. She has BA in Psychology and Art. |
Pat Sweeney, Research Assistant
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Pat is a full-time research staff in ICL. His research topics include video analytics. His work includes pattern recognition in videos and general image understanding. |
Parineeta Sinha , Research Assistant
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Pari is a student at INI. She research interests include digital forensics. |
Colin Fralick, Research Assistant
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Colin is working on video understand and mixed reality project. |
Vincent Liu, Research Assistant
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Vincent comes from Electrical Engineering background and he is working on computer imaging systems. |
Rutwik Parikh, Research Assistant
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Rutwik is working on smart environments project and he is also interested in OS development. |
Emily Durbin, Research Assistant
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Emily Durbin is a sophomore in BHA for Fine Art and Creative Writing. Her interests include fiddling about with language to find new ways to create meaning, astronomy, poetry and the human brain. She spends her free time searching for coffee and graphic novels. |
Hannah Post, Assistant Editor
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Hannah is double majored in Professional Writing and French at Carnegie Mellon. She is working on editing for the publications such as the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book for the Lab. |
Lizzee Solomon, Research Assistant
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Lizzee Solomon is double majored in Fine Art and Spanish at Carnegie Mellon. She is working on computer assisted technologies for disabled people. She is also Art Editor of the Tartan (Carnegie Mellon's newspaper), and enjoys doing political cartoon. |













