Henry Kautz noted that accuracy is “really only one dimension we care about in theory and in practice.” Others, he said, include how much energy is used, how much data is required and how much skilled human effort is needed for A.I. technology to work.

A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will provide additional impetus to a University of Rochester initiative applying augmented and virtual reality in health, education, product design, remote communication, entertainment, and other fields.

ROC HCI (Hoque) to collaborate with colleagues from Georgia Tech (Arriaga, Ploetz) and Emory Veterans (Sherill, Rothbaum) to develop automated predictions to deliver better therapeutic treatment and individualized feedback, and patients with better understanding of the progress.

Final year Ph.D. student, Taylan Sen, collaborates with incoming Ph.D. student, Kurtis Haut, and wins the first place at the CASE challenge.

For contributions to artificial intelligence and computational social science, including fundamental results on the complexity of inference, planning, and media analytics for public health.

Ehsan Hoque receives a $1 million Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (ECASE-ARMY) from the Army Research Office (ARO).

Jesse Wang, an MD/PhD (Translational Biomedical Science) student advised by URCS Professor Henry Kautz, earned a spot as one of four finalists in the American College of Physicians’ Innovation Challenge based on his proposal to create a virtual assistant to facilitate patient-physician communication by automating eRecord maintenance using speech recognition and NLP.

Second-year URCS Ph.D. student Samuel (Sam) Lerman received Honorable Mention in the National Science Foundation’s 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Zhen Bai who has been awarded the Wadsworth C. Sykes Engineering Faculty Award to support the development of a new course “AR/VR Interaction Design”.

Congratulations to Sharfuz Z Sifat ’20 and Tolga Aktas ’20 for being accepted into the e5 (formerly Kauffman Entrepreneurial Year) program to launch a project and engage in an experiential pursuit, economic or social in nature. 

Research done by the Rochester Human-Computer Interaction (ROC HCI) was highlighted by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) of the Computing Research Association (CRA) in their “Great Innovative Ideas” series for December 2018.

The University of Rochester has been selected as a Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence in Parkinson’s Disease Research by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

Zhen Bai, our newest faculty member to co-lead ROC HCI.

Denis Lomakin, an undergrad research assistant in the lab, appeared on the WXXI/NPR Connections “Science Roundtable” along with professors from UR and RIT.

Henry Kautz, the founding director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science at the University of Rochester, will direct the National Science Foundation (NSF) division that supports artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and data science.

Vivian Li ’18 lives off campus and cooks all of her own food in order to save money. There’s one drawback. “I sometimes leave food in the fridge and—‘oh!’—two weeks later, it’s fuzzy,” she says.

Tenesaca, undergraduate research assistant in the ROC HCI lab, will use the grant to create a water supply system in Zimbabwe for a project titled “Water for Peace: Solving Mukwerera Conflict through Provision of Sustainable Water Supply.”

Award to study team dynamics, exchange of respectful behavior and productivity.

Ronald M. Epstein, M.D., professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry, Oncology to continue his studies of doctor-patient communication using AI.

Vivian Li receives a CRA undergraduate research award honorable mention. 

Ehsan Hoque has been named Science News 10 Scientists to Watch List for 2017.

Congrats to Xiong Zhang for an Honorable Mention at UIST 2017 (paper:https://goo.gl/sjXrhp) and Ru Zhao for a Best Paper Nomination at Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction – ACII (paper: https://goo.gl/KHojeC).