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Ian HarrisThe Ray Project device recognizes and responds to touch and movement to help users more easily interact with technology. more
Chen LiComputer Science Professor Chen Li's research team is studying how to make information access easier by supporting fuzzy search, even interactively. more
Ramesh JainDonald Bren Professor of Computer Science Ramesh Jain and his research group are taking an event-centric approach for realizing E2E connection. more
Tatsuya SudaCommunication plays a crucial role in our lives – from the daily interactions we have with people to the molecular connections of our cells that keep us alive. more
Max WellingProfessor Max Welling’s research group are using new statistical techniques to learn more about the brain's use of visual object class taxonomies in the recognition of what objects we see. more
Chris DavisonThe ResponSphere project has installed multifunction sensor motes throughout the Calit2 building which contain a series sensors and an alert system that activates whenever any of the sensors reaches a pre-determined level. more
Padhraic SmythDevices called “people-counters” have been installed near every door of the Calit2 building to track the number of people entering and exiting – information that could prove crucial during an emergency evacuation. more
Ramesh JainBren Professor Ramesh Jain and his colleagues at the National University of Singapore hope the new framework they created will ease the job of art experts by performing a wide range of annotation of artwork. more
Ian HarrisAssociate professor of computer science, Ian Harris, and members of his Systems Test lab are trying to prevent VOIP phones from becoming a hackers next target. more
Isaac SchersonApplying techniques and skills gleaned from their Bren School classes, Team XAR students have constructed an autonomous vehicle capable of navigating a 60-mile urban course in six hours, unassisted, while obeying traffic laws and avoiding obstacles. more
Sharad MehrotraProject ResCUE has created Evac-Pack, a wearable, wireless, multimodal communications system allowing first responders in emergency evacuations to maintain two-way communication with an operations center. more
Rick LathropProfessors G. Wesley Hatfield and computer science professor Rick Lathrop, have developed a method for making synthetic genes that express proteins in heterologous hosts. more
Sudeep PasrichaComputer Science Ph.D. candidate Sudeep Pasricha is looking at the fundamental problems of software modeling, exploration and synthesis of communication architectures within modern, high performance embedded systems. more
Eric MjolsnessComputer science professor Eric Mjolsness and his colleague are researching how genetic makeup and the environment interact to shape intricate developmental processes that lead to functional tissues, organs and organisms from undifferentiated plant cells. more
Natasa PrzuljComputer science professor Natasa Przulj is researching large real-world networks with the emphasis on biological networks. Understanding the inner workings of the cell constitutes the foremost fundamental problem of modern biology. more
Wayne HayesComputer science professor Wayne Hayes is interested in the numerical reliability of simulations of physical systems. more
David EppsteinInspired by a popular Japanese newspaper puzzle, computer science professor David Eppstein has been working on a computer algorithm for finding paths in graphs. more
Padhraic SmythProfessor of computer science Padhraic Smyth and colleagues are developing statistical image analysis and tracking algorithms for analyzing satellite images of large-scale atmospheric disturbances over time. more
Gene TsudikComputer science professors Gene Tsudik and Michael Goodrich are working on a Loud-and-Clear (L&C) system to assist in secure pairing of devices that lack any previous association. more
Rick GrangerComputer Science professor Rick Granger, through his work in the Brain Engineering Laboratory, is researching powerful new brain-derived computational systems to apply in military, medical and other industries. more
Aditi MajumderBren School assistant professor Aditi Majumder is researching a comprehensive model to elimate seams created by the color variation between displays. more
Sharad MehrotraComputer Science professor Sharad Mehrotra and UCSD collaborator Ramesh Rao, are researching how first responders, as well as key decision makers, share information and communicate during a crisis or disaster. more
