Algorithms shape what we see and what we believe. Our latest work shows how small changes in recommendation algorithms can help restore diversity and openness.

The ROC HCI group is thrilled to celebrate Junjie Zhao, who has received an Honorable Mention for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award—a national recognition that highlights exceptional creativity, technical depth, and real-world impact

An AI-based Parkinson’s screening platform, PARK, developed by us has been recognized as one of the 175 inventions that transformed health and medicine over the university’s 170 years.

Our latest paper in NEJM AI shows artificial intelligence can detect Parkinson’s disease with 88% accuracy using nothing more than a smartphone video of someone smiling.

Ehsan Hoque has been named a finalist for the 2025 Letten Prize—one of just five selected from 158 global applicants!

Stela Ciko is among the 118 seniors at the University of Rochester to be inducted into the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

At UR’s Graduate Research Day, the poster “Accessible, At-Home Detection of Parkinson’s Disease Using Multi-Task Video Analysis” by Islam et al. receives the best engineering poster award.

Zhen and her collaborator Wyatte Hall from University of Rochester Medical Center recently appeared on WXXI’s Connections with Evan Dawson to discuss their work. Zhen Bai’s team is building an AI system — Tabletop Interactive Play System (TIPS) — to help parents learn American Sign Language in a natural setting.

Anis Kallel, a ROCHCI alumni, has been recognized in Forbes 30 under 30 for co-founding Flouci, a startup focused on providing financial services in Tunisia.

Professor Ehsan Hoque has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Sammy Potter wins an honorable mention at the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Competition.

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.