Hoque moderates ‘workforce of the future’ panel at Microsoft
Rizzo (USC), Iqbal (MSR), Pizzo (Stanford), and Kleinberg (Cornell) weigh in on the role of AI in developing the future workforce at the Microsoft Faculty Summit.
Sen and Haut win 1st place in the IARPA CASE challenge
Final year Ph.D. student, Taylan Sen, collaborates with incoming Ph.D. student, Kurtis Haut, and wins the first place at the CASE challenge.
Poster presentations by the summer NSF REU and Xerox fellows
The range of work involved quantifying the movements of Parkinson’s symptoms to using AR/VR to help individuals learn sign language to better understand the impact of automated interview training and the subtle uses of emoji.
Summer retreat through an improv class
As part of a team-building exercise, we performed a two-hour improv session conducted by The Focus Theater. It was a lot of fun to get out of our comfort zone, try fun exercises, and share a lot of laughter.
Congrats to Dr. Iftekhar Tanveer
Dr. Tanveer is off to Comcast AI Lab to refine the way to engage with our multimedia content.
Henry Kautz receives ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award
For contributions to artificial intelligence and computational social science, including fundamental results on the complexity of inference, planning, and media analytics for public health.
Hoque receives $1M Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (ECASE)
Ehsan Hoque receives a $1 million Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (ECASE-ARMY) from the Army Research Office (ARO).
Being Human in the Digital Age
From Alexa to Uber, music to medicine, and drones to driverless cars, technology plays a huge part of our daily lives. Rochester researchers are tapping into the potential—and ethics—of it all and how virtual reality, artificial intelligence, data science, and more can transform everything from education to health care to entertainment.
Jesse Wang named a finalist in the ACP Innovation Challenge
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.
Sam Lerman receives Honorable Mention in NSF GRFP Competition
Second-year URCS Ph.D. student Samuel (Sam) Lerman received Honorable Mention in the National Science Foundation’s 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition.
Zhen Bai Receives Sykes Engineering Faculty Award
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”.
Sharfuz Sifat and Tolga Aktas get into the e5 program
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.
ROC HCI Group is featured on CCC’s “Great Innovative Ideas” series
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.
ROC HCI to be part of Parkinson’s research center at URMC
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).
Welcoming Zhen Bai
Zhen Bai, our newest faculty member to co-lead ROC HCI.
ROC HCI undergrad, Denis Lokakin, appears at NPR
Denis Lomakin, an undergrad research assistant in the lab, appeared on the WXXI/NPR Connections “Science Roundtable” along with professors from UR and RIT.
Poster sessions with ROC HCI summer undergraduate RAs
Poster sessions with part of the ROC HCI summer undergraduate Research Assistants took place on Monday, 20 July 2018.
ROC HCI Summer party 2018
Yearly summer party of the lab to celebrate our hard work with some of our collaborators.
Henry Kautz to direct intelligent systems division for NSF
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.
Dailymail.co.uk: “Can YOU spot the liar?”
Billions of dollars and years of study have been poured into research trying to discover if someone is lying or not.
Vivian Li helps develop a voice-enabled mobile app that works with smart home assistants
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.
Ashely Tenesaca ’20 wins Davis Projects for Peace
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.”
Hoque receives NSF CAREER Award
Award to study team dynamics, exchange of respectful behavior and productivity.
Epstein, in collaboration with ROC HCI, wins prestigious American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship
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
Vivian Li receives a CRA undergraduate research award honorable mention.
Ehsan Hoque, among ‘10 Scientists to Watch’
Ehsan Hoque has been named Science News 10 Scientists to Watch List for 2017.
ROC HCI wins two best paper nominations
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).
ROC HCI Summer party 2017
A beautiful day to the celebrate all the members of the ROC HCI Lab and their accomplishments.
Human-Computer Interaction class creates programs, apps to improve lives
In many traditional computer science classes, students acquire a specific set of technical skills such as programming or algorithm design. In Ehsan Hoque’s Human-Computer Interaction class, along with acquiring new technical skills, students spend time thinking creatively about computers and ways they can use computing to solve pressing problems in society.
Hoque an inaugural member of Future of Computing Academy
The academy is an initiative of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest scientific and educational computing society, to enable “the next generation of researchers, practitioners, educators, and entrepreneurs to develop a coherent and influential voice that addresses challenging issues facing the field and society in general.”