| | Frank Batiste, frbatiste@patmedia.net, is a 3rd year student in Anthropology. His advisor is Lee Cronk. Frank's research interests are taking their time in making themselves fully known to him, but he has caught glimpses of such topics as the evolution of theory of mind, empathy, and gaze following. Before coming to Rutgers, Frank received a B.S. in psychology, and an M.A. in clinical psychology. He blindly continued most of the way towards a PsyD before realizing that's not what he wanted to do, after all. So he did the only logical thing: he spent the next 10 years working at a bookstore. Frank was born, raised, married, and started a family in Illinois. When he's not studying or spending time with his wife and daughter, Frank enjoys running. |
 | Steven Cholewiak, scholewi@eden.rutgers.edu, is a 2nd year student in Cognitive Psychology. He is working with Manish Singh, Jacob Feldman, and Doug DeCarlo. Steve received his B.A. from the University of Virginia with majors in Psychology and Physics. After graduation, he worked for a year at the Haptic Interface Research Laboratory at Purdue University with Dr. Hong Tan conducting haptics research. His research interests include cutaneous and visual perception, haptics and human-machine interfaces, and modeling of cognitive processes. While he was born and raised in central New Jersey, Steve tries to find time to travel and visit fun and exciting places around the country and world. He also loves cooking (and eating) new and interesting foods. |
 | Kristina Denisova, denisova@rci.rutgers.edu, is a 5th year graduate student working with Manish Singh on shape perception. She is studying questions that help us uncover the underlying representation of visual shape, specifically, that of non-rigidly moving objects. She is interested in the differences in representations engaged by dynamically moving, biological entities, compared to moving inanimate objects. She is originally from St. Petersburg, Russia. She graduated from New York University with a BA in Psychology and a minor in English. |
 | Edinah Koffi Gnang, gnang@eden.rutgers.edu, is a 1st year student in the Computer Science Department. Having graduated in 2005 with a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Montreal, Edinah worked for two years at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey doing research and development in the field of Medical Imaging. His research interests include robustness of human visual perception, mathematical foundations of shape analysis, modeling and inferring visual pseudo grammar/semantics. |
  | Gabriel Greenberg, ggreenberg@philosophy.rutgers.edu, is a 4th year student in the Department of Philosophy. Gabriel is interested in how people use pictures and other non-linguistic media to communicate meaning. Working with Matthew Stone, he is thinking about how non-linguistic meaning can be modeled formally. Gabriel received hi B.A. from Yale University, with a double major in philosophy and art. He was born in Vermont and fancies himself a man of nature. |
 | Harry Haroutioun Haladjian , haladjian@ruccs.rutgers.edu, is a 4th year student in Cognitive Psychology working with Zenon Pylyshyn on object individuation and representation in early vision. His interests include low-level perception, visual attention, phenomenal awareness, and the philosophical implications of these topics. He also appreciates "design" (of all forms) and thinks it should be informed by science. Harry received his B.A. in philosophy and psychology from Boston College in 1995 and worked in public health research at Stanford before moving back to the east coast. |
 | Nora Isacoff, nisacoff@ruccs.rutgers.edu, is a 1st year student in Cognitive Psychology. She is working with Karin Stromswold in the Language Acquisition and Processing Lab. Nora is interested in the relationship between lexical meaning and concepts, including investigations into the possibility of a system that defines lexical and conceptual meaning by selecting only essential data from the mind's vast knowledge of the world. She is currently looking at word association from a developmental perspective. Nora has a B. A. in linguistics from University College London. In addition to taking classes in psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science, Nora enjoys singing in the Voorhees Choir at the Mason Gross School of the Arts. |
 | Melissa Kibbe, kibbe@ruccs.rutgers.edu, is a 3rd year student in the Psychology Department. She is interested in how cognitive resources are allocated when we deal with complex situations involving complex objects. In her research, this means trying to find trade-offs in performance on tasks requiring attention, working memory, and higher-level cognitive processes. It also means studying how these systems, especially working memory, develop over the first year of life. She is currently working with Alan Leslie and Eileen Kowler. Melissa completed her B.S. in Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. When she is not doing science, she divides her time between choral singing, composing electronica, and reading science fiction. |
 | Sung-Ho Kim, sungho4@eden.rutgers.edu, is a 3rd year student in the Psychology Department. He is currently studying how figure/ground organization constructs and reconstructs surface structure of the visual world. He is interested in issues such as how factors like motion or object shape influence surface representation, how the perceptual system interacts and coordinates with the action system, and how the perceptual system is self-organized. He is working with Jacob Feldman and Manish Singh. Sung-Ho received his BA and MA in Psychology from Seoul National University in Korea. His past work in Korea was on the object-based encoding effect in visual working memory. |
| Chris Mansley is a 3rd year student in Computer Science. He completed his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University in 2003. He left academia to pursue a real job developing aerospace software for general aviation. Eventually, he returned to the ivory tower to earn his M.S. in Computer Science at Lehigh in 2006, where he had the opportunity to work in robotics, performing optimization problems on cute robotic dogs. In a slight detour, he abandoned robotics to work in machine learning. He now hopes to bridge the gap between the computational worlds of computers and neurophysiology, psychology, and philosophy to extend robotics and machine learning in new and interesting directions. |
 | Peter Pantelis, petercp@eden.rutgers.edu, is a 2nd year student in Cognitive Psychology, working with Jacob Feldman. Peter received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania with majors in psychology and political science, and performed his undergraduate research on face-name association with Dr. Michael Kahana. He is currently exploring how people infer the mental states of animate objects in the world, using their motion as a cue. Peter is quite proud to have been born and raised in beautiful New Jersey. |
 | Nick Ross, nickross@eden.rutgers.edu, is a 1st year student in the Cognitive Psychology program. He received a B.A. in Psychology from Stockton College in New Jersey ('08). He is working with Dr. Eileen Kowler on how different streams of information, presented in either the same or different modalities, are integrated during a divided attention task. |
 | Paul Ringstad, pringsta@cs.rutgers.edu, is a 2nd year student in the Computer Science Department. Having graduated in 2006 with a B.S. in Computer Science from Southern Connecticut State University, Paul worked as a programmer in a financial firm before coming to Rutgers. His research interests include human perception, language acquisition, swarm intelligence, and human-computer interaction. |
 | Kevin Sanik, ksanik@eden.rutgers.edu, is a 2nd year student in the Computer Science department. Kevin received his B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Purdue University. During his studies he started his (soon to be) career in research through the Psychology Department, spurring his choices in his field of study. He is interested in computer vision and modeling human vision, and is working with Doug DeCarlo. |
  | Elio Santos, santos86@eden.rutgers.edu, is a first year student working with Dr. Eileen Kowler. He is interested in eye movements and visual perception. Elio went to Hunter College of the City University of NY for his undergraduate studies and majored in psychology and minored in biological sciences. |
 | Rachel Sparks, rsparks@eden.rutgers.edu, is a 2nd year student in biomedical engineering. She completed her B.S. in bioengineering from the University of Washington in Seattle. She is tied into the Perceptual Science program because she is interested in using techniques of computer vision to aid classification of medical images leading to more robust diagnostic tools. Her current project is in Dr. Metaxas' lab, focusing on classifying heart motion using tagged MRI images. |
 | Marta Suárez, martats@eden.rutgers.edu, is a 1st year student in the Cognitive Psychology program, working with Dr. Musolino in his Psycholinguistics lab. She is interested in natural language quantification and scalar implicature in adults and children. She is studying acquisition of number words and quantifiers. Her interests also include linguistic effects on statistical reasoning, the organization of the mental lexicon and the effects of gesture on word retrieval. When Marta is not working, her husband and son compete with the NY Mets for her attention. |
 | Ari Weinstein, aweinst@rutgers.edu, is a 2nd year student in the Computer Science department. In 2005 he received a joint B.S./M.S. from Washington University in St. Louis, also in Computer Science. After two years at Microsoft working on developer tools, Ari decided to return to academia, which brings the story to the present day. He is working with Michael Littman on machine reinforcement learning, and is interested in comparisons of models of processing information. |
 | John Wilder, jdwilder@ruccs.rutgers.edu, is a 3rd year student. He is interested in computational vision and visual attention. He is currently working with Dr. Eileen Kowler, studying visual attention and saccadic eye movements, and Dr, Jacob Feldman, studying shape perception. He hopes to use the experience in both areas to create a model of natural scene viewing. John attended St. John's University/College of St. Benedict's in Collegeville, MN for his undergraduate education, earning a B.A. in Computer Science and Psychology, with a minor in Spanish. |
 | Chia-Chien Wu, chiachie@eden.rutgers.edu, is a 2nd year student working with Dr. Eileen Kowler. He received his B.S. in Psychology from National Taiwan University in 2005. Chia-Chien is interested in visual perception, action, and eye movements. He is currently working on the speed accuracy trade-off and saccadic planning. |
 | Min Zhao, minzhao@eden.rutgers.edu, is a 1st year student in Cognitive Psychology. She is currently working with Dr. Eileen Kowler, studying visual attention, perception and eye movements. She is also interested in the Human Factors and Ergonomics issues. Min graduated from Zhejiang University in China with a B.S. in psychology and a certificate in ITP (Intensive Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship). |
 | Xiaohua Zhuang, xzhuang@eden.rutgers.edu, is a 6th year graduate student in Cognitive Psychology working with Dr. Thomas Papathomas on attention and binocular rivalry. Her interests include feature-based attention, the similarity and difference between feature-based and spatial attention, binocular rivalry, and inattentional blindness. Xiaohua received her B.S. in psychology and economics from Peking University in 2003. |
| Bethany Leffler was in the Computer Science Department. She studied machine learning with Michael Littman in the RL3 group. |
 | Erica Briscoe After receiving a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and an M.S. in Information Systems, Erica completed her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology under Jacob Feldman, studying shape categorization. |
