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In this page there is a list of all the faculty members of the RDLDL, including contact information and a two line research description. The first list of faculty member is the Steering Group. The second list is the growing number of associate faculty.
Nicholas Belkin studies people's interactions with information (in particular, their information seeking behaviors), and relates these results to the design of interactive information systems. This work in particular addresses the access and searching functions of the digital library.
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (SCILS) 311Endre Boros' main research interest is in combinatorial and discrete optimization, and in the theory of Boolean functions. He has a strong interest in applying optimization models and techniques, and in particular, Boolean logic based methods to information retrieval, and machine learning.
Professor of Operations ResearchBenjamin Martin Bly studies functional organization in the brain, in particular the cerebral basis of language and the mental representation of conceptual information.
Rutgers University, Psychology Dept.Sven Dickinson's research in digital libraries applies computer vision techniques to the problem of content-based image retrieval. His work focuses on generic shape description (both 2-D and 3-D), shape matching, and efficient indexing into large shape libraries.
Department of Computer ScienceStephen José Hanson's research focuses on learning, categorization, connectionist models, neural networks, cognitive, mathematical and computational modeling. He also has a recent focus in Cognitive Neuroscience; especially how cognitive function might be implemented and organized in spatio-temporal patterns as revealed by functional brain imaging and model (neural net) based methods.
Associate Professor ChairpersonPaul Kantor's interests are networked information environments, fundamental issues of human and machine information finding, and economic evaluation of digital libraries.
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (SCILS) 307Zenon Pylyshyn, Center for Cognitive Science (and Psychology, NB), studies the role of visual attention -- and in particular multi-locus attentional indexes -- in selecting and providing access to visual information such as appears in a video screen. This work also connects with the use of spatial cognition in navigating through more abstract informational spaces and the design of cognitive tools for augmenting this navigation process by capitilizing on the highly fluent human capacity for spatial orientation and object-based spatial recall.
Director, Center for Cognitive ScienceLisa M. Covi's research interests are in the area of digital library use, particularly examining the relationship between use and expertise in professional work domains. This work informs both the design of digital libraries and aims to inform best practice in their implementation.
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (SCILS)Dr. Flanagan's work is in voice and image processing, packet communication, teleconferencing, and acoustic systems. He is interested in the use of multiple modalities of interaction to more effectively put the human into the loop when using digital libraries.
Office: CAIPDavid J. Foran's participation in the RDLDL project is a natural outgrowth of his research in interactive telemedicine and computer assisted diagnosis. One aspect of his work focuses on developing improved methods for organizing and assimilating the visual and clinical essence of medical images and correlated patient data in order to provide clinical decision support and outcomes assessment.
DirectorAvigdor Gal specializes in the research areas of temporal and active databases and cooperative information systems. Within the area of digital libraries Avigdor's research involves the use of conceptual modeling for dynamic user-interfaces for domain-specific libraries, and research of the temporal aspects of data in digital libraries.
Department of Management Sciences and Information SystemsDavid Goodman is interested in technology for granting a mobile population access to large bodies of digitally stored information
Rutgers University WINLABHaym Hirsh's research studies the application of machine learning, information retrieval, and data mining methods to problems in intelligent information access and human-computer interaction. His work on digital libraries includes learning user preferences, mobile information access, data mining from collections of text, and multi-modal information acess.
Department of Computer ScienceCraig Nevill-Manning wants to make digital libraries easy to create and easy to use. To this end, he is involved in building Digital Library systems and toolkits (like the New Zealand Digital Library) and carrying out research on novel browsing interfaces.
Department of Computer Science
Sun Park's primary research interest has been in the area of agent-based systems and their application to real-world problems, such as auctions, e-commerce, digital libraries, and distributed configuration design.
Assistant ProfessorMichael H. Rothkopf is interested in applied mathematical modeling to support decision making, including in the design and evaluation of digital libraries.
ProfessorMatthew Stone works on natural language dialogue systems. He is interested in implementing models of language and conversation that would allow information systems, such as digital libraries, to elicit information more effectively from users and to provide more concise, natural, and helpful responses.
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