Biography:
I began studying at Boston University as an undergraduate in 2002, majoring in Computer Science. I started researching during my sophomore year under the aegis of the Image and Video Computation Group, where I coauthored a paper on human-computer interfaces for people with disabilities (EyeKeys). That summer, I worked at the US Naval Research Laboratory and developed a facial recognition method that used only the eyes of the subject (Synthetic Eyes), as well as a novel coastal detection method. During the fall of my junior year I studied abroad in Japan and gained fluency in the Japanese language. After my return I developed a novel human-computer interface method that was published in the 2005 ICCV Workshop on HCI. I am now a master's student in Computer Science, and I am currently working on developing an online database of American Sign Language videos and linguistic information, as well as creating web browsing mediators, particularly for people with disabilities.
Next year I will join the Human Dynamics Group at the MIT Media Lab, and my advisor will be Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland.
