Primary methods of research include the field of machine learning, in which patterns identified in one set of data are used to identify similar patterns in other, novel data sets.   Several current projects in the lab focus on inferring the 3D structure of DNA ...

Dr. El Ghaoui's research is tackling information excess and data discovery. The platform StatNews.org provides a service to  researchers from social sciences and humanities, allowing them to obtain a summarized image of a given topic from a large database of news, like that of the BBC,&nbs ...

  Dr Stone is the founder and team leader of the UT Austin Villa robot soccer teams at The University of Texas at Austin.  Dr. Stone is also the Vice President of the RoboCup Federation. Within the robot soccer domain, he is studying reinforcement learning which enables ...

Dr. Seals' current research focuses on discovering the most effective ways to maintain good physiological function and health as we age. This will allow us to remain productive and independent, and preserve our quality of life throughout the aging process. To accomplish this goal, Dr. S ...

Dr. Esener's work does not stop at cancer research. He is simultaneously working on improving brain mapping and imaging to be able to attack Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. His sophisticated nanocapsules containing various enzymes allow for a better imaging and understanding of neurotransmitte ...

  Dr. Culurciello's research is driven by the desire to develop synthetic vision systems and efficient communication systems for computers and machines, enabling them to understand the content of images, videos, audio, speech, and music. With these abilities, computers will be a ...

  Dr. Kilian Weinberger and his team of researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm that can reduce web search energy usage by 90%, while maintaining the same search results as traditional web searches. The saving percentage of 90% was confirmed by Dr. Weinberger and his t ...

Solutions are needed to deliver the fruits of science to patients for whom they are intended. With DCA, Dr. Stacpoole's team has developed a uniquely acting compound that is a prototype of new class of drugs to increase the efficiency of normal metabolic processes essential for cell survival. Indeed ...

Dr. Dennis Barbour at Washington University in St. Louis believes that video games have a potential that far surpasses entertainment value. Dr. Barbour is designing portable video games constructed from auditory tasks handled differently by individuals with hearing difficulties compared to individua ...

Dr. Pless' current research can be divided into three categories, each working with images and their relationship with the environment in which they were taken. Repeat photography is the layering of one image over an earlier one through time. Dr. Pless and his team have developed and shared th ...

Nearly a billion years of evolution have led nature to develop a variety of complex and extremely efficient sensory systems. Dr. Viktor Gruev of Washington University in St. Louis realizes the advances natural systems boast and is working to draw inspiration from nature to develop more efficient and ...

Today, Smith's research program at Carnegie Mellon University develops algorithms that process language data in order to extract information and make useful inferences. Vast amounts of text are produced every day as a by-product of every human pursuit: science, finance, government, and social commun ...

Marc Jacobs once said "Clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear." Aspects of our identities are revealed by the clothing we wear and more generally by the pictures we post online. Dr. Berg has been interested in fashion her whole life. Memories of ...

His team is developing a new tool called the BIDMach to analyze big data using machine learning on very large datasets.  BIDMach is unique in several ways often out matching other available tools by several orders of magnitude.  The tool can scale to thousands of nodes with 'near-linear' s ...

In addition to the ethical, political, and legal implications raised by this lack of trust in photography, studies have shown that doctored photographs can alter our own memories of actual events. In one such study participants were shown original and doctored photographs of memorable public events ...

Dr. Jernej Barbic identifies with Verne's message: film visual effects inspire us. They cultivate our imagination and instill within us the notion that, much in the way Captain Nemo's 19th century submarine became a reality, anything that can be dreamt, visualized or simulated, can later be realized ...

Such neurological decoding, combined with BMI technology, has vast implications for millions of people around the world. The Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses (CNEP) is a cross-campus collaboration at the University of California Berkeley and San Francisco working to integrate cutting- ...

AAV, or Adeno-associated virus, is a virus that is known to infect nearly 90% of humans but that does not cause any disease and invokes very little immune response. This virus, which integrates into a single site into Chromosome 19 of the human DNA sequence, infects almost all cell types, without in ...

As the only investigator to be awarded both the Dobzhansky Prize in evolution and the Mercer Award in ecology, Dr. Bolnick uniquely combines both evolutionary biology and ecology in his research on immune function. As a result of this work, he is also one of the only evolutionary biologists to win a ...

Dr. Bahill's previous work includes modeling physiological systems, using engineering tools and techniques to measure, model, and understand the human control of movement and adding to the science of baseball where he sought to model the physics behind baseball. Thus, his expertise in developing mod ...

As a mathematician, Dr. Wegmann's unique perspective uses simulation and novel sampling processes to generate pseudo test data that mimic true data in order to measure recognition performance. The results of such research are startling enough that they should provoke future studies and a reexaminati ...

More specifically, Dr. Kostelecky pioneered the idea that there may be tiny deviations from the accepted laws of relativity. His research shows that these relativity violations could emerge from a fundamental theory unifying gravity with quantum physics such as string theory. His comprehensive theor ...

Dr. Kockelman and her team's research involves the use of econometrics to to anticipate travel choices, emissions, human health and other impacts of multiple environmental policies. Dr. Kockelman's research begins by developing an urban forecast of the environment we live in. Urban forecasting helps ...

Dr. Art Markman at the University of Texas at Austin investigates activities that people perform on a regular basis including generating new ideas, deciding where to eat for lunch, and how they communicate with other people.  As a cognitive scientist, he explores a variety of different discipli ...

Dr. Lovley's interest in such research was motivated by an interest in solving environmental problems that will affect the global community. The continued study of basic science has encouraged Dr. Lovley to elucidate the fundamentals of how microorganisms make electrical connections with their envir ...