The Third AI Summer
Talk presented Henry Kautz, winner of the Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2020) in New York, NY on February 10, 2020.
Ashely and Jianyuan are recognized as CRA outstanding undergraduate researchers
Ashely Tenesaca and Jianyuan Zhong won honorable mention award for the outstanding CRA undergraduate researcher award. This award recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.
Senior Shagun Bose combines STEM and art
A double major in computer science and psychology, Bose is passionate about human emotion and translates this into her projects.
Hoque participated in the 2019 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium by NAE
The 2019 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) was held November 18 – 20 in Stockholm, Sweden. About 60 outstanding engineers under the age of 45 met for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium.
Parkinson’s Analysis with Remote Tasks
Park is an online framework allowing individuals to perform neurological tests whenever and wherever they want.
Will AI enhance or replace human activity?
Ehsan Hoque weighs in on the impact of AI in society at the Daily connections by Evan Dawson at WXXI.
Sophomore Sangwu wins the O’Brien Book Award
Sangwu Lee is among the 16 students who were honored with the Suzanne J. O’Brien Book Award, recognizing those who excelled academically and in leadership roles in their first year at the College.
Melissa Wen wins one of the Wells Award
Wells Award, given each year to high-achieving students in the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences who also excel in the humanities, as determined by highest GPAs at the end of their junior year.
Multimodal Humor Understanding
We introduce a multimodal dataset, UR-FUNNY, and a sequence of algorithms to recognize humor from 1866 videos featuring 1,741 TED Talks.
ROC HCI participates at the inaugural ceremony for UofR President
Researchers from ROC HCI were invited to demo representing the Hajim College of Engineering at the inaugural ceremony of Sarah Mangelsdorf, 11th president of the University of Rochester.
Kautz is quoted in New York Times
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.
Co-PI Bai to initiate AR/VR training through $1.5M NSF grant
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.
$1.2M NSF grant to develop a computational toolkit for PTSD treatment.
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.
Strong presence at ACII and Ubicomp 2019
Researchers from the ROC-HCI lab attended two back-to-back conferences in the first half of September: ACII’19, held in Cambridge, and Ubicomp’19, in London.
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.