Graduate Student Neeley Pate is the recipient of the GFSD graduate fellowship.

ROC HCI Researchers volunteer their time for pre-college programs for high school students.

Ehsan Hoque has been selected by The Academy of Medical Sciences (UK) and the National Academy of Medicine (US) to help shape the future of climate and health policy.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has spotlighted our AI project on movement disorders as a prime example of AI innovation.

Congratulations to Sangwu Lee and Alex Martin–winner of the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award.

This Fellowship allows the University to honor and encourage outstanding faculty early in their careers.

Hasan was invited to give a talk at the  Flower City AI, a local conference on artificial intelligence innovation, education, healthcare, art, business, and research. 

Our research poster, “Unmasking Parkinson’s Disease using Smiles: An AI-enabled Screening Framework,” received the “Best Abstract in Clinical Research” award at the Future of Parkinson’s Disease conference.

Adira Blumenthal ’23 (computer science), ’24 T5 was featured in a recent Q&A for the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Student Pathways into Research in Computing series.

Hoque et al. received 10-year-impact award at ACM UbiComp for “MACH: My Automated Conversation coacH”

Md. Saiful Islam is one of the recipients of the Google PhD fellowship for health AI research.

Congratulations to Dr. Raiyan Abdul Baten for winning the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award.

UR News has featured ROCHCI’s work on remotely assessing the severity of Parkinson’s symptoms.  The study,  published in npj Digital Medicine, describes the new tool: users tap their fingers 10 times in front of a webcam to assess motor performance on a scale of 0–4.

Congratulations to Caleb Wohn (2022) for receiving 2023 CSGrad4US Graduate Fellowship.

We are excited to welcome to Dr. Yukang Yan as an assistant professor and a co-director of the group.

Dr. Bai and her team will develop embodied AI learning tech for K-12 students.

Adira Blumenthal, research assistant in ROC HCI Lab, has also been involved every semester with ROC Players, a student run club that puts on a full-length musical each semester for the University community.  “I’ve really enjoyed helping productions come to life, either through management or design.”

Congratulations to Adira Blumenthal for receiving an honorable mention award from the CRA for her excellence in undergraduate research.

Ehsan Hoque, who works in the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and human-centered computing (HCC), has been named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his outstanding contributions to computing.

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Kurtis Haut, lead author on both papers.

We will work on redesigning and maximizing human productivity through self-organizing social networks.