Graduate Students

Sasakthi Abeysinghe

My area of research is Computer Graphics focusing on its applicability to bio-medical applications.

Gazihan Alankus

I am working for Dr. Bayazit since September 2004. My research is focused on character animation, particularly on using motion capture data for motion planning. I also work on simulating sensor networks and using them for navigating robots.

Nuzhet Atay

My research area is motion planning and robotics. I am currently working on the use of wireless sensor networks in motion planning and using FPGA chips to speed up motion planning algorithms.

Tom Erez

I work on reinforcement learning in continuous spaces, with a focus on biologically-realistic learning mechanisms; in particular, I am looking for ways to make problems more tractable by "scaffolding" - scaling the problem such that initial success is both easy and instructive towards the harder variant.

Zac Freudenburg

I enjoy working at the intersection of neural science and computer science. Currently I am working on a brain computer interface (BCI) system that strives to control a semi-autonomous robot with an electrocorticograph (ECoG) acquired brain signal. My goal is to achieve real-time clustering and control signal generation of the brain signal.

Robert Glaubius

My research objectives focus on broadening the applicability of reinforcement learning strategies in terms of scalability to real state spaces. My current work focuses on improving value-function approximation in reinforcement learning by explicitly modeling the topology of the agent's state space.

Frederick Heckel

I'm interested in robotics, with an emphasis on human-robot interaction and error detection and self-healing in autonomous systems.

Nathan Jacobs

My research interests are in the areas of computer vision, data mining and visualization. In particular, I am interested in scene modeling for static cameras and embedding cyclic manifold.

Lu Liu

I am especially interested in the field of Computer Graphics. Now I am focusing on a project related to medical application, generating a 3D model for bone to analyze the change of the density of bone marrow in it.

Ly Phan

My field of research is computer graphics. I am currently working on using Isomap to parameterize animation data.

Ross Sowell

My field of research is computer graphics, and I am particularly interested in the problem of reconstructing surfaces from medical image data.