People
Faculty
Hui Su
Founding Director, CISL
Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive User Experience, Visual Analytics, Cloud Computing, Neural Networks
Jonas Braasch
Professor and Associate Director for Research, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Selmer Bringsjord
Professor, Lab Director, Graduate-Program Director
Benjamin Chang
Professor, Director of GSAS
Qiang Ji
Professor
Marjorie McShane
Professor
Rich Radke
Professor
Silvia Ruzanka
Assistant Professor
Mei Si
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science & Graduate Program Director for Critical Game Design
Lirong Xia
Associate Professor
Bulent Yener
Associate Director, IDEA. Director, Data Science Research Center
Jianling Yue
Lecturer
Helen Zhou
Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director
Affiliated Faculty
Kelvin Qin
Senior Manager, IBM Research, China
Lee Sheldon
Professor of Practice
Game design and development, Multi-player games, Simulation
Research Staff
david allen
Research Associate
Computational Design, Visualization, Natural Interfaces, Live Performance
Gaurav Dass
Research Specialist
Computer Vision, Deep Learning, NLP
Jaimie Drozdal
Research Specialist
User studies, Human-computer interactions, Second language learning, Group dynamics
Tess Wainwright
Game Writer
Eric Walsh
Narrative Director
Games for Impact, Narrative Design, Usability
IBM Research Staff
Hui Su
Director, CISL
Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive User Experience, Visual Analytics, Cloud Computing, Neural Networks
Melina de V. Alberio Guerra
Research Software Engineer
Software Engineering, Conversational Systems, Devops Architecture.
Michael P. Perrone
AI Partnerships Program Director
Oktie Hassanzadeh
Research Scientist, IBM Research AI
Health Informatics, Knowledge, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Kavitha Srinivas
Research Staff Member, IBM Research AI
Mark D. Feblowitz
Engineer/Architect, Awareness for Scenario Planning
Knowledge, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Programming Languages & Software Engineering, Reasoning
Maíra Gatti de Bayser
Research Software Engineer
Multi-Agent Systems, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, NLP, Dialogue Systems, HCI
Rachel Bellamy
Distinguished Research Staff Member
Cognitive Environments and Objects, Cognitive User Interfaces, User Experience Design, Participatory Design Practice
Shiyu Chang
Researcher, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Arun K. Iyengar
Research, Development, and Consulting
Jeffrey O. Kephart
Distinguished Research Staff Member
Autonomic Computing, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Energy Consumption
Dakuo Wang
Research Staff Member - Human-Computer Interaction
Mo Yu
Research Staff Member, AI Foundations Lab
Former Research Staff
Sera Bruton
Research Specialist
Digital Art
Rachel Grigg
Research Specialist
Robert Rouhani
Media Integration Specialist, CISL
Students
Shannon Briggs
PhD Candidate in Communication and Media
Samuel Chabot
Ph.D. Candidate, Architectural Acoustics
Spatial data sonification
Fanny Chan
Undergraduate Researcher
Albert Chang
PhD Candidate, Architectural Acoustics
Annie Chang
Undergraduate Researcher
Digital/Traditional Art
Veronica "Vi" Ellis
Undergraduate Researcher
Roham Hussain
UI/UX Designer
User Experience, Interface Design, Human-Computer Interaction
Maria Khodak
Undergraduate Researcher
John Founthim Kongtcheu
Unity Developer
Virtual Reality and Game Development
Nick Lennox
Backend Software Developer
Scalable Backend Design, Data Viewing UI
Jon Mathews
Ph.D. Candidate, Architecture
Spherical microphone array
Sarah Elaine Mirekua
Game Artist
3D & 2D art
Lehar Mogilisetty
Undergraduate Researcher
Giovanni Morales
Game Designer / Technical Producer
Experience Designer
Xiangyang Mou
Ph.D., Computer Systems Engineering
Deep Learning, Multimodality, NLP, HCI
Sean Orelup
Undergraduate Researcher - Lead Unity Developer (Mandarin Project)
Game Development
Matthew Peveler
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
The usage of theory of mind reasoning and planning in cognitive and immersive systems
Gregory Saini
Undergraduate Researcher
Artificial Intelligence and Data
Jeramey Tyler
Ph.D. Candidate, Cognitive Science
Applied artificial intelligence, sensing and perception, acoustics, computer vision,
Manusri Viswanathan
Undergraduate Researcher
Tianjian Xu
Game Designer and Game Artist
Game design and 3D modeling
Bingsheng (Arthur) Yao
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
Machine Learning, Commonsense Reasoning
Jennifer Zhang
Unity Developer
Jingyu Zhuang
Undergraduate Researcher
Game Development
Alumni
Lilit Balagyozyan
UX/UI Designer
User experience and interface design
Linnea Cajuste
B.S. Computer and Systems Engineering
Craig Carlson
M.S, Cognitive Science
Computational creativity
Matthew Carlson
B.S. Computer Science, Game and Simulations Arts and Sciences
Web Development, UI/UX, immersive programming (VR, AR, MR)
Bohan Chen
B.S. Electronic Media, Art, and Communication (Interaction Design)
Interaction Design, UI/UX Design, IBM Enterprise Design Thinking
Aritra Chowdhurry
Ph.D. Computer Science
Healthcare image processing
Yueqing Dai
B.S. Communications & Media, Games & Simulation Arts & Sciences
Design
Rahul R. Divekar
Ph.D., Computer Science
Multimodal Conversational AI and Language Learning
Boning Dong
B.S. Computer Systems Engineering, Cognitive Science
Janice Ho
B.S. Arts
William Kim
B.S. Design, Innovation, & Society
Guangyong Li
B.S. Computer Systems Engineering
Hongyang Lin
B.S. Computer Science, Games & Simulation Arts & Sciences
Ziyi Lu
B.S. Computer Science
Fernando Mauri
B.S. Management Information Systems
Artificial Intelligence for Business Intelligence (AI for BI)
Rose Clare Pisacano
B.E. Environmental Engineering
Corey Robinson
B.S. Games & Simulation Arts & Sciences
Gyanendra Sharma
Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical, Computers and System Engineering
Occupant awareness; multi-surfaces
Ziyi Song
B.S. Computer Software Engineering and Computer Science
Kang Wang
Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering
Head pose, face recognition
Kelly Wang
Undergraduate Researcher
Yue Wu
Ph.D. Electrical, Computers and System Engineering
Rui Zhao
Ph.D. Electrical, Computers and System Engineering
Gesture recognition
Beiqi Zou
B.S. Computer Science, Mathematics
Huang Zou
B.S. Computer Science