I use technology in order to hate it more properly.
- Nam June Paik

I have been involved in research at the University of Rochester since I was eighteen. I was fortunate enough to be able to work on several projects under the supervision of Professor Chris Brown as a sophomore. I helped implement the Hough Transform for the Image Understanding Environment. I also made a small contribution to the Computer Science Department's Mobile Robotics project. The project is eulogized in a series of reports to the National Science Foundation.

I started working with Professor Kyros Kutulakos in the Dermatology Department's Body Imaging Lab in 1997. Much of my time as an undergrad was spent working with Rodrigo Carceroni and Rahul Bhotika on projects related to their Ph.D. theses. In 2000, I made the transition from student to staff. While a member of the lab, I designed image analysis software for a National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored clinical trial. Descriptions of the trial for both patients and health professionals are available online through the NCI's CancerNet service. The trial was mentioned in the skin cancer cover story of the August 20th, 2001 issue of Newsweek.

The Body Imaging Lab became part of the interdisciplinary Center for Future Health in 1999. Kyros departed for the University of Toronto's CS department in 2001, while I stayed on as staff in the Center for Future Health. While there, I wore many hats and worked on several projects related to motion analysis and computer vision. During my last year at the Center, the majority of my time was spent writing grants, including a successfully funded grant that I wrote with Adrian Leibovici, MD, for the Alzheimer's Association's Everyday Technology for Alzheimer's Care (ETAC) program. The grant is described on the ETAC website, and in a Strong Health Press Release written by my friend Tom Rickey.

I was hired by Richard Aslin in May of 2004 as the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging's first employee. The Center is home to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine with a 3-Tesla magnet that is primarily used for neuroscience research. I was involved in all aspects of the Center's day-to-day operations, including renovations (in a building that was part of the Manhattan Project), data analysis and image processing, administration and system administration, and troubleshooting problems with the magnet - including a lightning induced quench that nearly destroyed the three million dollar machine.

I joined Henry Kautz's Assisted Cognition research group in September of 2007. We are currently collaborating with Attention Control Systems and Sendero Group on federally funded research projects to use machine learning algorithms to develop assistive devices for veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).