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Ryan Bernstein
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2016 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
University of Washington, Seattle
IGERT faculty advisor:
Yaniv Erlich, Itsik Pe'er
Primary email:
ryan.bernstein@columbia.edu
Research Area:
I work on machine learning for computational biology applications. Currently, I am working at the New York Genome Center to uncover patterns in large human genome datasets.
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Nishi Cestero
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2016 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
Boston University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Julia Hirschberg
Primary email:
nc2576@columbia.edu
Research Area:
I work in the Speech Processing Lab, and I'm interested in applying computational methods to neuroimaging in order to inform natural language processing problems, such as deceptive and emotional speech.
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Robert Colgan
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2014 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
Columbia University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Peter Belhumeur
Primary email:
colgan@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
I work on problems in computer vision, including visual classification and video analysis. I am also interested in machine learning and applying learning techniques to improve the performance of vision systems. |
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Tom Effland
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2015 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
SUNY, University at Buffalo
IGERT faculty advisor:
Luis Gravano
Primary email address: teffland@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
I work on information extraction from natural language text. Currently, I'm particularly interested in extracting information from social media to inform decisions and investigations in public health. |
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Joseph Ellis
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2012 - current
Department:
Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Institution:
University of San Diego
IGERT faculty advisor:
Shih-Fu Chang
Primary email address: jge2105@columbia.edu
Research Area:
I work on problems on video analysis and understanding. I am particularly interested in novel ways to combine and utilize features from separates modalities such as audio, video, text, and metatdata that can be found multimedia content.
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Felix Grezes
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2012 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate
Institution:
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC Paris 6)
IGERT faculty advisor:
Pr. Andrew Rosenberg
Primary email address: fgrezes@gc.cuny.edu
Research Area:
My research area centers on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. My current focus is on Reservoir Computing, a recent development in Neural Networks. In the past I have worked on Acoustic Prosody, Computational Biology, and Artificial Intelligence. |
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Craig Gutterman
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2014 - current
Department:
Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Institution:
Rutgers University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Gil Zussman
Primary email:
clg2168@columbia.edu
Research Area:
I work in the Wireless and Mobile Networking Lab, focusing on networking protocols. My current research interests include network sciences, distributed algorithms and mobile network protocols. |
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Chris Hidey
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2014 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
University of Maryland
IGERT faculty advisor:
Kathleen McKeown
Primary email:
chidey@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
My interests are in natural language processing, focusing on question answering. |
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Tyler Joseph
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2016 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
CUNY - The City College of New York
IGERT faculty advisor:
Yaniv Erlich
Primary email:
tjoseph@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
My research interests are in computational biology. In particular, I am interested in developing statistical and computational techniques to analyze genetic data. |
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Melody Ju
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2015 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Institution:
Columbia University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Kathleen McKeown
Primary email address: melody@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
I am interested in natural language processing and its applications to literary and cultural studies. |
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Fei-Tzin Lee
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2016 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Institution:
Columbia University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Kathleen McKeown
Primary email address: feitzin@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
My areas of interest are natural language processing and machine learning. I'm interested in applying deep learning to text in order to gain insight into human behavior.
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Alain Lemaire (Affiliate)
Year(s) active in IGERT: Affiliate
Department:
Marketing- Columbia Business School
Institution:
Columbia University- SEAS
IGERT faculty advisor:
Oded Netzer
Primary email address: alemaire18@mail.gsb.columbia.edu
Research Area:
My research revolves around the analysis of behavioral data, with the goal of understanding and predicting customer shopping/purchasing activities, and conducting customer relationship management. |
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Sarah Ita Levitan
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2012 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Institution:
Brooklyn College (CUNY)
IGERT faculty advisor:
Julia Hirschberg
Primary email address: sarahita@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
I am interested in natural language processing, specifically spoken language processing. I am currently working on a project that aims to identify cues to deceptive speech across cultures, with the goal of developing techniques to automatically detect deception in spoken language. |
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Alexander Loh
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2015 - current
Department:
Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Institution:
Rutgers University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Gil Zussman
Primary email:
al3475@columbia.edu
Research Area:
I am interested in the fields of communications and networking. |
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Laura Long
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2016 - current
Department:
Electrical Engineering (Program: Neurobiology and Behavior)
Undergraduate Institution:
University of Virginia
IGERT faculty advisor:
Nima Mesgarani
Primary email:
lkl2124@columbia.edu
Research Area:
Language processing, especially speech perception, in the human brain. |
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Daniel Miau
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2014 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
IGERT faculty advisor:
Steven Feiner
Primary email:
dmiau@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
My research interests include computer vision, visualization and augmented reality. My current focus is on designing personalized interactive visualization techniques to support understanding of location-based data, particularly on mobile and wearable devices. In the past, I have worked on computational imaging and computational photography. |
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Tasha Nagamine
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2014 - current
Department:
Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Institution:
Brown University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Nima Mesgarani
Primary email:
tanagamine@gmail.com
Research Area:
Neural basis of speech processing and perception, deep neural networks for automatic speech recognition. |
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Jessica Ouyang
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2012 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
University of Pennsylvania
IGERT faculty advisor:
Kathy McKeown
Primary email address: ouyangj@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
I work on automatically detecting narrative structure. I am interested in exploring the relationship between narrative structure and discourse relations, as well as how structure impacts narrative quality and reader interest. |
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Rimma Pivovarov
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2012 - 2015
Department:
Biomedical Informatics
Undergraduate Institution:
Northeastern University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Noémie Elhadad
Primary email address: rp2521@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Area:
My research interest is large-scale mining of the electronic health record (EHR). I am currently focusing on EHR summarization across heterogeneous and irregularly sampled clinical data. |
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Anna Prokofieva (Affiliate)
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2012 - 2016
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
McGill University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Julia Hirschberg
Primary email address: prokofieva@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
Hedge words are indicators of a lack of speaker commitment to what is being said. I'm investigating anomaly in speech and text by looking at hedging behaviors in dialogue. |
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Colin Raffel
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2012 - current
Department:
Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Institution:
Oberlin College
IGERT faculty advisor:
Dan Ellis
Primary email address: craffel@gmail.com
Research Area:
Learning-based methods for processing, analyzing, and synthesizing signals with applications to audio and music. |
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Victor Rodriguez
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2016 - current
Department:
Biomedical Informatics
Undergraduate Institution:
University of California, Berkeley/San Francisco State University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Noémie Elhadad
Primary email address: var2112@cumc.columbia.edu
Research Area:
I am interested in mining the electronic health record to create models for disease risk assessment. I am particularly focused on leveraging physiologic data and health provider notes to forecast disease and mortality risk for patients in the ICU.
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Ethan Rouen (Affiliate)
Year(s) active in IGERT: Affiliate
Department:
Accounting - Columbia Business School
Undergraduate Institution:
University of Wisconsin - Madison
IGERT faculty advisor:
TBD
Primary email:
ethanrouen@columbia.edu
Research Area:
My research interests involve developing ways to structure diffuse business, economic, and political data to provide new insights into firm and market behavior. I'm currently working on a project that examines what the relationship between naturally occurring mathematical properties and corporate financial reports can tell us about the accuracy of those reports. |
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Matthew Ryan Sisco
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2015 - current
Department:
Psychology
Undergraduate Institution:
Fairleigh Dickinson University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Prof. Elke Weber
Primary email:
ms4403@columbia.edu
Research Area:
I work on methods for measuring psychological variables through automatically retrievable data (e.g. digital news data, social media data, etc.). I pair these measurements with other abundant data sources such as climate and weather data to study psychological processes related to global environmental problems. |
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Rose Sloan
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2016 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
Yale University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Julia Hirschberg
Primary email:
rns2144@columbia.edu
Research Area:
I am interested in problems in natural language processing. |
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Brian A. Smith
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2015 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
Columbia University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Shree Nayar
Primary email:
brian@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
My research combines computer vision, ubiquitous computing, data analytics, and game design to help technology fit into the bigger picture of people's everyday lives. |
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Max Lee Tucker da Silva
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2014 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Augustin Chaintreau
Primary email:
mlt2158@columbia.edu
Research Area:
I am interested in computational problems with social implications. My current work is focused on online tracking and targeted advertising systems with applications towards privacy preservation. |
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Elsbeth Turcan
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2016 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
George Washington University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Kathleen McKeown
Primary email:
eturcan@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
I am interested in natural language processing, particularly combined with psychology and linguistics to compare our computer methods with people's understanding and generation of natural languages. |
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Laura Willson
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2013 - 2015
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
Barnard College
IGERT faculty advisor:
Julia Hirschberg
Primary email address: willson@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
I work in the Spoken Language Processing lab on Speech to Speech Translation. My research focuses on cross-lingual prosody -- how to translate not just what people say but how they say it. |
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Olivia Alicea Winn
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2014 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
Columbia University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Smaranda Muresan
Primary email:
olivia@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
I am interested in studying how to correlate textual descriptions and image features, specifically for finding discriminatory detail useful for fine-grained classification. |
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Jie Yuan
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2015 - current
Department:
Computer Science
Undergraduate Institution:
Cornell University
IGERT faculty advisor:
Yaniv Erlich
Primary email:
jyuan@cs.columbia.edu
Research Area:
I am interested in applications of machine learning to problems in statistical genetics, such as the detection of family relationships using gene sequencing data. |
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Minshu Zhan
Year(s) active in IGERT: 2014 - 2015
Department:
Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Institution:
MIT
IGERT faculty advisor:
Dan Ellis
Primary email:
mz2468@columbia.edu
Research Area:
I am interested in machine learning and signal processing techniques as applied to music information retrieval and generic audio recognition. |
