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.
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.