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.

Billions of dollars and years of study have been poured into research trying to discover if someone is lying or not.

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).