| 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 then received my MA in Computer Science for work where I created web browsing mediators , particularly for people with disabilities. I also developed an online database of American Sign Language videos and linguistic information. |
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I received my MA, I returned to Japan to work at the Hitachi
Central Research Laboratory for the summer to work on quantification
of information flow. I am now a doctoral candidate at the Human
Dynamics Group at the MIT Media Lab,
and my advisor is Prof. Alex
(Sandy) Pentland. I'm working on methods that will automatically shape social systems in real time as well as aid organizational forecasts.
My current research interests
include social networks, sensor networks, prediction mechanisms, and information flow. |
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