Islam received Google PhD fellowship
Md. Saiful Islam is one of the recipients of the Google PhD fellowship for health AI research.
AAAC doctoral disseratation award
Congratulations to Dr. Raiyan Abdul Baten for winning the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award.
Our work on Parkinson’s Disease gets featured by UR News
UR News has featured ROCHCI’s work on remotely assessing the severity of Parkinson’s symptoms. The study, published in npj Digital Medicine, describes the new tool: users tap their fingers 10 times in front of a webcam to assess motor performance on a scale of 0–4.
Caleb Wohn Receives CSGrad4US Graduate Fellowship
Congratulations to Caleb Wohn (2022) for receiving 2023 CSGrad4US Graduate Fellowship.
Dr. Yukang Yang joins the group
We are excited to welcome to Dr. Yukang Yan as an assistant professor and a co-director of the group.
Bai receives NSF CAREER award
Dr. Bai and her team will develop embodied AI learning tech for K-12 students.
Adira Blumenthal’s mission is to create assistive technologies
Adira Blumenthal, research assistant in ROC HCI Lab, has also been involved every semester with ROC Players, a student run club that puts on a full-length musical each semester for the University community. “I’ve really enjoyed helping productions come to life, either through management or design.”
Undergrad research assistants gets featured by UR news
With faculty and graduate student mentorship, undergraduate researchers thrive in the Rochester Human-Computer Interaction lab.
Adira wins CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
Congratulations to Adira Blumenthal for receiving an honorable mention award from the CRA for her excellence in undergraduate research.
Distinguished member of ACM
Ehsan Hoque, who works in the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and human-centered computing (HCC), has been named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his outstanding contributions to computing.
Best Paper Nominations in ACII and ACM MM
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Kurtis Haut, lead author on both papers.
700K of grant from US Army to study self-organizing social network
We will work on redesigning and maximizing human productivity through self-organizing social networks.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke highlights our work on Parkinson’s
In this video, patient representatives, leadership, and staff from the University of Rochester Udall Center describe their goals, work, impact, and how YOU can get involved.
Xiaofei Zhou receives a three-year Industry Fellowship
Xiaofei Zhou, a Ph.D. student at the ROC-HCI Lab, has received a three-year Industry Fellowship through the AR/VR Ph.D. Trainee Program at the University of Rochester.
James Spann wins best paper award at ACM SUI
In collaboration with Vivian Shen and Chris Harrison from CMU, Spann wins the best paper award at the ACM Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2021 conference.