I got my B.A. in Mathematics and M.A. in Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University in 2005.  There I became interested in vision while working in the Active Perception Lab under Professor Michele Rucci.  I researched the effects of saccadic eye movements on visual perception using visual psychophysics studies.

After graduation, I worked for 3 years in industry for Charles River Analytics, Inc (6 months), and then BAE Systems in Burlington, MA (formerly ALPHATECH) in the computer vision department.  My projects were related to real-time, robust video tracking algorithms for surveillance purposes as well as image registration for video mosaics and high-accuracy geo-registration of satellite imagery.  In addition, I worked on some structure-from-motion from UAV imagery and helped design an embedded system to run some of these vision algorithms on board an aircraft, efficiently and in real-time. 

I decided to go back to school to get my Ph.D., and joined Peter Allen’s group at Columbia University in January 2009, where I defended my thesis in “Assistive Visual Tools For Surgery” in January 2013.  My research interests are in the applications of computer vision to robotics.