Project Team
UPDATED 12/21/07

Principal Investigators, Faculty & Researchers
Howard Wactlar, Project Director and PI. Also Vice Provost for Research Computing, SCS
Michael Christel, Senior Systems Scientist, CSD
Alex Hauptmann, Senior Systems Scientist, CSD
Takeo Kanade, Director of Robotics Institute, RI
Ashok J. Bharucha, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Christopher Atkeson, Professor, Robotics Institute & Human-Computer Interaction Inst.
Fernando de la Torre Frade, Research Scientist, Robotics Institute
Mark Derthick, Research Scientist, HCI
Christos Faloutsos, Associate Professor, CSD
John Lafferty, Associate Professor, CSD
Henry Schneiderman, Research Scientist, RI
Scott Stevens, Senior Systems Scientist, HCI
Jie Yang, Senior Systems Scientist, HCI

Research Staff
Robert Baron, Principal Research Programmer
Datong Chen, Post Doctoral Fellow
Colleen Everett, Communications Manager
Dale James, Technical Writer and Editor
Melissa Keaton, Production Assistant
Bryan Maher, Manager of Systems Engineering

Past Visiting Faculty
Pinar Duygulu, Post Doc, CSD. Now at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Hiro Kitagawa, Visiting Scientist
Jerome Pesenti, Visiting Scientist
Cees Snoek, Visiting Graduate Student, University of Amsterdam

Graduate Students
Sonya Allin, HCII PhD 2007.
Juan Casares - HCII Masters
Ming-yu (Robert) Chen, LTI Masters
Wei-hao Lin - LTI PhD
Chris Long, ECE PhD (postdoc)
Jiang Ni - RI PhD
Christopher Palmer - CS PhD
Jia-Yu Pan - CS PhD
Leejay Wu - CS PhD graduate 2005. Now at America Online (2005)
Rong Yan - LTI PhD
Jun Yang - LTI PhD

Undergraduate Students
Alan Hsu
Li Hu
Pe-Jin Lin
Kang Wei Tang

Past Project Members & Visitors
Ken Belferman, System Administrator
Rishi Bhatnagar, Research Associate
Panos Chrysanthis, Adjunct Associate Professor
Mark Dambacher, Production Assistant
Roberto Figuiera, Visiting Faculty
Jiang Gao, Project Scientist. Now Principal Scientist at Nokia Research Center (2006)
Yihong Gong, Project Scientist. Now Department Head at NEC Laboratories America (1999)
Ricky Houghton, Manager of Process Engineering
Mark Hoy, Research Programmer
Chang Huang, Research Programmer
Ellen Hughes, Senior Research Programmer
Photina Jaeyun Jang , Graduate Student
Paul Kennedy, Graduate Student
Hiro Kitagawa, Visiting Scientist
Andreas Olligschlaeger, Systems Scientist
Dorbin Ng, Systems Scientist, CSD
Danny Lee, Research Programmer
Yuichi Nakamura, Visiting Scientist
Jai-Yu (Tim) Pan, CS PhD 2007. Now at Google USA, California (2007)
Norman Papernick, Research Programmer
Krishna Pendyala, Assistant Director
Jerome Pesenti, Visiting Scientist
Jayshree Ranka, Senior Research Programmer
Toshio Sato, Visiting Scientist
Shin-ichi Satoh, Visiting Scientist
Bernhard Seeger, Visiting Faculty
Jianbo Shi, Research Scientist. Now Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
      Computer & Information Science (2003)
Michael Smith, Doctoral Student
Cees Snoek, Visiting Graduate Student, University of Amsterdam (2003)
Caetano Traina Jr., Visiting Faculty
Agma Juci Machado Traina, Visiting Faculty
Raul Valdes-Perez, Senior Research Scientist
Michael Witbrock, Systems Scientist

Past Graduate Students
Sonya Allin, HCII PhD 2007. Postdoc at University of Toronto (2007)
Ron Conescu, Research Associate and HCII Masters 2006
Laura Dabbish - HCII PhD 2006. Now Assistant Professor of Information Techology and
      Organiztions in the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy & Management at CMU
Pamela Hinds, HCI PhD (Asst Prof, Management Science & Eng, Stanford Univ)
Rong Jin - LTI PhD (Asst Prof, Dept Computer Science & Eng, Michigan State Univ)
Fang Lu
Neema Moraveji - HCI masters and staff
Yanjun Qi - LTI Masters
Matt Siegler
Michael Smith
Juan Andrei Villarroel
Anna Vtulochkina
Adrienne Warmack
Yi (Nathan) Hu
David Winkler
Leejay Wu - CS PhD graduate 2005. Now at America Online (2005)
Jing Xiao, RI PhD graduate. Research Scientist at Epson Research & Development Inc. (2005)
Sam Yip - ETC Masters
Yu Clark Zhong

Past Undergraduate Students
Paul Barr
Andrew Paul Begun
Jeffrey Chan
Scott Crosby
Eric Kwan
David Martin
Mohd Ridzwan Nordin
Mikhail Zlotnik