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People > Faculty and Researchers Listed AlphabeticallyFaculty and Researchers Listed Alphabetically[Symbolic Systems Program faculty indicated by *] Joseph Adler Consulting Professor
of Classics. Co-founder of Stanford metaMedia
Lab. Applying digital technology to the Arts and Humanities in the
form of generic tools and complete productions and developing an underlying
theory of Metamedia. Member of Stanford Humanities Lab. Jeff Aldrich Technology Director, Stanford Humanities Laboratory. Hamid Aghajan Associate Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering.Research areas include cognitive networks of image sensors, collaborative processing algorithms and distributed reasoning, vision-based localization in sensor networks, distributed routing in event-driven networks, networks of sensors and mobile agents. Russ Altman Associate Professor
of Genetics and Medicine (and Computer Science, by courtesy), Director,
Biomedical Informatics Training Program. Application of computing technologies
to basic molecular biological problems (bioinformatics). Analysis of protein
and RNA structure and function, both in an individual problem-centered
manner and on a functional genomic scale. Development of probabilistic
algorithms for the determination of protein structure from sparse and
uncertain experimental data. Jeremy Bailenson Assistant
Professor of Communication.. Digital human representation, especially
in the context of immersive virtual reality; designs and studies collaborative
virtual reality systems that allow physically remote individuals to meet
in virtual space, and explores the manner in which these systems change
the nature of verbal and nonverbal interaction. Director of the Virtual
Human Interaction Lab. Dave Barker-Plummer Research
Scientist, CSLI. Research interests include the use of diagrams in reasoning,
particularly in mathematics, and information expressed in diagrams as
they are used by mathematicians in textbooks or in informal presentations.
Member of the Openproof research
team. Brigid Barron Assistant Professor
of Education. Collaborative learning in informal and school settings.How
individuals work together to create joint products and how what is learned
and created through their interactions is fundamentally related to the
quality of the dialogue that takes place. Documents adolescents' learning
ecologies for technological fluency development across diverse communities
in the Silicon Valley region. Also involved in a multi-year research and
development project that designs and studies high school level
project-based computer science courses. David Beaver* Assistant Professor
of Linguistics. Formal and computational syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
Specifically including dynamic semantics and dynamic logics, presupposition
and information structuring (topic/focus) of natural language, and potential
application of evolutionary programming to language systems. Henrik Bennetson Research Director, Stanford Humanities Lab Jonathan Berger Associate Professor
of Music, member of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.
Composer with research interests in neural net modeling of musical expectations,
computational models of generative procedures, feature detection in digital
audio using adapted local trigonometric bases and wavelet packets, development
of a unified representation of sound and analytical structure in music. Mark Bolas Consulting Assistant
Professor, Design Division, Mechanical Engineering Department. Virtual
interface systems. A pioneer of the virtual reality industry, Bolas was
affiliated with the Virtual Environment Workstation project at NASA Ames
Research Center for four years. He is currently Chairman and CEO of Fakespace
Laboratories. Michael Bratman* Professor of
Philosophy. Philosophy of action and moral psychology — including
issues about the nature of agency, intention and practical reason, free
will and moral responsibility, and shared agency. Elizabeth Owen Bratt CSLI Researcher.
Primary research interests include spoken dialogue interfaces, dialogue
strategies and characteristics promoting tutorial effectiveness, dialogue
system development with limited data, concept-to-speech generation and
automated evaluation of dialogue systems. Joan Bresnan* Professor of Linguistics.
Research focuses on syntactic theory and typology, and on the formal architecture
of universal grammar, including lexical function grammar (LFG) and Optimality
Theory. Special interest in the Bantu languages of Africa and Australian
Aboriginal languages. Chris Chafe* Associate Professor
of Music, Director of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.
Composer/cellist with research interests in using the computer as an aid
to music composition and performance, and automatic music recognition
for computer sound synthesis based on physical models of musical instrument
mechanics. Eve Clark* Professor of Linguistics
and CSLI faculty. Research focuses on children and includes first language
acquisition, cognitive development, word-formation, word meaning and lexical
structure, and pragmatic factors in lexical acquisition. Herbert Clark* Professor of Psychology
and CSLI faculty. Psycholinguistics; cognitive and social processes in
language use; interactive processes in conversation, from low-level disfluencies
through acts of speaking and understanding to the emergence of discourse,
word meaning and word use. Mark R. Cutkosky Professor of Mechanical
Engineering. Agent-based design environments for rapid prototyping with
graded materials and embedded components; biomimetic robotics, exploiting
shape deposition manufacturing to achieve compliance and robustness; haptics
and the perception of friction and texture; dexterous manipulation and
telemanipulation. Todd Davies* Lecturer and Coordinator
of the Symbolic Systems Program. Research interests include: theories
of human nature, rationality, judgment and decision making, political
psychology, and uses of the Internet for deliberation and collective decisions. Keith Devlin* CSLI Senior Researcher;
Executive Director, CSLI; Consulting Professor of Mathematics; Co-founder and Executive
Committee member, Media X. Current research interests include: theory of information,
models of reasoning, applications of mathematical techniques in the study
of communication; mathematical cognition; and the use of different media
to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences. Robert Dougherty Senior Research Scientist, Department of Psychology. Research on the functional organization of the human brain. Uses functional and structural MRI as well as behavioral measures to study brain organization. Also studies children with these techniques in order to understand how the functional and structural organization of the brain develops. Ingrid Erickson PhD Candidate,Management Science and Engineering John Etchemendy* Professor
of Philosophy. Research interests include: logic, semantics, and the philosophy
of language. Recent research has focused on the role of diagrams and other
nonlinguistic forms of representation in reasoning. [Currently Provost
of Stanford University.] Solomon Feferman* Professor of
Mathematics and Philosophy and Patrick Suppes Family Professor of Humanities
and Sciences. Current research interests include: logic, especially proof
theory; constructive and explicit mathematics; computability theory; foundations
of mathematics; and history of modern logic. Anne Fernald* Associate Professor
of Psychology. Research interests include: first language acquisition,
early development of speech perception abilities and language comprehension,
experimental studies of word recognition and speed of linguistic processing
by infants and young children, and cross-language research on prosody
and pragmatics in parent-child interaction. Dan Flickinger CSLI Senior
Research Scholar; Project Manager of the Linguistic Grammars Online (LinGO)
project. LinGO seeks to develop natural language technology that uses
precise grammars for parsing and generation. Formely Chief Technology
Officer at YY Software, where he parlayed his interest in natural language
processing and speech technologies into commercial products.
BJ Fogg CSLI Researcher, consulting
faculty in Computer Science and School of Education. Specializes in how
computing products — from web sites to mobile devices — can
motivate and persuade people. Recent emphasis on web credibility (what
makes online information believable) and mobile persuasion (how mobile
phones can change what people think and do). Armando Fox Assistant Professor of
Computer Science. Primary research interests are systems approaches to
improving dependability and system software support for ubiquitous computing.
Founder of ProxiNet, Inc. (now a division of PumaTech), which commercialized
the thin client mobile computing technology he helped develop at UC Berkeley. Larry Friedlander Professor
of English. Special interests include: theater and performance and interactive
technology; the meeting of art and technology; use of technology in education,
research, and public spaces; and the development of appropriate enabling
software. Co-director of the Interactive Shakespeare Research Group, based
mostly at MIT, which is creating a digital Shakespeare archive; and co-director
of the Wallenberg Global Learning Network, an international center for
exploration of learning in a global context. Renate Fruchter Senior Research
Associate, Department of Civil Engineering. Collaboration technologies
for multidisciplinary, geographically distributed teamwork, and e-Learning;
Web-based team building and teamwork; formal and informal knowledge capture,
sharing, and re-use; mobile solutions for global teamwork and e-Learning.
Director of the Project
Based Learning Laboratory, member of the Center
for Integrated Facilities Engineering (CIFE). John Gabrieli* Associate Professor
of Psychology. Current research focuses on human cognitive neuroscience;
neural basis of memory, perception, and thinking as revealed in experimental
analysis and brain imaging of normal function and of dysfunction in patients
with brain lesions; brain basis of cognitive and affective development
in children and disorders of development including dyslexia and attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); and pharmacological treatment of
memory disorders. Lauren Gelman Executive Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society and Dean of the State of Play Academy. Gelman’s litigation achievements at CIS include her authorship of an amicus brief in Apple v. Does, where she represented bloggers in a case that resulted in a landmark decision granting blogs and online news sites the same legal protections as traditional media outlets in protecting confidential sources. She teaches a course on Internet privacy. Chris Gerdes Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Application of dynamic modeling
to problems in nonlinear control, estimation and diagnostics. Specific areas of interest include the development of driver assistance
systems for lane keeping and collision avoidance, modeling and control of novel combustion processes for I.C. engines and diagnostics
for automotive drive-by-wire systems. Prior to joining Stanford, Professor Gerdes was the project leader for vehicle dynamics
at the Vehicle Systems Technology Center of Daimler-Benz Research and Technology North America. Ashish Goel Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering and (by courtesy)
Computer Science .Design and Analysis of Algorithms; Algorithms for Networking; Theory of Self-Assembly; Reputation Systems Andrea Goldsmith, Associate Professor of El;ectrical Engineering. Research focuses on capacity of wireless channels and networks, wireless information and communication theory, multi-antenna systems, joint source and channel coding, cross-layer wireless nerwork design, communications for distributed control and adaptive resource allocation for cellular systems, ad-hoc wireless networks, and sensor networks. James Gross Professor of Psychology and Director of the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory. One major postulate of many contemporary theories of emotion is that emotion imposes coherence across multiple response systems (e.g., experiential, behavioral, and physiological). Gross’ research team is obtaining continuous measures of emotion experience, expression, and physiology, and examining the conditions under which responses coherence is evident. David Grossman Engineering Research
Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering. 3-D modeling, machine
vision, and robotics. Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to robotics.
Managed research groups of up to 120 people at IBM, co-founded LiveCapital,
where he served in various engineering leadership capacities. Has 10 patents,
5 pending. Pat Hanrahan Canon USA Professor
of Computer Science. Research focuses on computer graphics, including
the design and implementation of shading language for programmable graphics
hardware, scalable rendering on clusters, the development of a ray tracing
architecture, simulating the appearance of different types of materials,
rendering natural environments, and cinematographic lighting. Also studies
the use of images in science and the methods used for scientific illustration. Ward Hanson Lecturer in Marketing,
Graduate School of Business. Interests include: internet marketing,
product line pricing, software economics and bundling, and technology
competition and its impacts. Hanson is involved in the Stanford Computer
Industry Project (SCIP), where he is the Director of the Internet Marketing
Project. Pamela Hinds Assistant Professor
of Management Science and Engineering. Research focuses on the interplay
between information technologies, information sharing, and human judgment,
the affect of remote and distributed work on employees' shared understanding
of work, the affect of intellectual property agreements on information
sharing, and the limitations of expertise. Member of the Center for Work,
Technology, and Organization. Robert Horn Visiting scholar, CSLI.
Horn is a political scientist with a special interest in policy communication,
social learning, and knowledge management (especially in biotechnology
and national security affairs). He is currently exploring the possibilities
for using highly visual cognitive maps to aid the policy making process
(especially science and security matters). He is a recipient of a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Association of Computing Machinery for his
work on the Information Mapping method. He is a fellow of the World Academy
of Art and Science, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and a recipient of the Outstanding
Research Award from the National Society for Performance and Instruction. Charles (Chuck) House Executive Director, Media X. House is anIEEE Fellow. He was instrumental in establishing the Center for Information Technology and Society at UC Santa Barbara, and was formerly Director of Social Impact Information Technology at Intel, VP of Multi-media Communication for Dialogic, President of Spectron MS, VP R&D for Informix. House was at HP for 29 years, including 5 years as Engineering Director. He is currently writing a book about the Hewlett Packard Company. Bernardo Huberman* SSP Faculty;
HP Fellow, Hewlett Packard Laboratories; Consulting Professor of Physics.
Research focuses on dynamics of distributed systems, the relation between
global behavior and local procedures, and the appearance of novel properties
in very large systems. Current research projects include: the emergence
and value of cooperation in large groups, coordination among agents, and
the dynamics of specialization. David Israel* Senior Research Associate,
CSLI; and Consulting Associate Professor of Philosophy; Senior Computer
Scientist, AI Center, SRI International. Research interests include: semantics
of natural language, text understanding, natural language processing (NLP)
and information retrieval, mind and action, and reasoning and representation. Dan Jurafsky Associate Professor of Linguistics, Speech Recognition, Understanding, and Synthesis, Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning of Natural Language, Computational Psycholinguistics. Maggie Johnson* Senior Lecturer
of Computer Science. Research interests include: computer simulation
and modeling, expert systems and neural networks, and computer music and
software engineering. Professional interests include software litigation.
She currently serves as a technical consultant and expert witness in litigation
involving software where tasks involve code analysis and user interface
testing to determine if code or interfaces have a common source; project
management analysis; and source code valuation. Ronald Kaplan* Consulting Professor
of Linguistics; CSLI Consulting faculty; Research Fellow, Information
Sciences and Technologies Lab, PARC. Research focuses on computational
linguistics, grammatical theory, finite-state morphology, and psycholinguistics
with particular interest in mathematical extensions and linguistic formalisms
that insightfully characterize various kinds of information propagation
phenomena such as long-distance dependencies, coordination, and default
feature assignments. Martin Kay* Professor of Linguistics;
Research Fellow, Information Sciences and Technologies Lab, PARC; and
CSLI faculty. Research interests include: computational linguistics with
a focus on morphology, syntax, parsing, generation, finite-state devices,
unification, and translation. David Kelley Professor of Mechanical
Engineering; Founder of IDEO Product Development. Interested in new product
development methodology from inception to production with an emphasis
on user-centered design. Collaborates with the art department on blending
innovation, human values, and aesthetic concerns and with the human-computer
interface (HCI) program - a joint program with Computer Science. Scott Klemmer Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Human-computer interaction, especially tangible user interfaces, user interface tools, and computer-supported cooperative work. Daphne Koller* Associate Professor
of Computer Science. Research focuses on dealing with complex domains
that involve large amounts of uncertainty. Uses the framework of probability
theory, decision theory, and game theory, together with techniques from
artificial intelligence and computer science. Vladen Koltun is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and is the John Koza* Consulting Professor,
Computer Science Department, and Medical Information Sciences Program.
Research interests include: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, artificial
life, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, machine learning,
molecular biology. Koza also serves as president of Third Millennium Venture
Capital Limited. John Kunz* Executive Director at
the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE) in the Department
of Civil Engineering. Current research includes: non-numeric (symbolic)
modeling of engineering products and processes; education, training and
technology-transfer. Pat Langley* CSLI Senior Research
Scholar and Consulting Professor of Symbolic Systems. Research interests
revolve around computational approaches to learning and discovery, including
applications in adaptive user interfaces, knowledge discovery, and architectures
for intelligent agents. Director of the Institute for the Study of Learning
and Expertise (a nonprofit research center) and former head of the Adaptive
Systems Group at DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology. Amy Ladd Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Orthopedics, and Surgery, by courtesy. Dr. Ladd specializes in Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery, and her clinical practice includes surgery of the hand, shoulder and elbow, with an emphasis in sports medicine, reconstructive surgery, pediatric surgery, and the spinal cord injured patient. Her research interests extend to the use of synthetic bone substitutes, outcome studies of hand surgery in congenital anomalies and epidermolysis bullosa, inflammatory disease markers in rheumatoid arthritis, and the use of multimedia in education of surgery, including interactive web teaching and surgical simulation. Kincho H. Law Professor of Structural Engineering and Computer-Aided Engineering Professor Law’s professional and research interests focus on the application of advanced computing principles and techniques to structural and facility engineering. His work has dealt with various aspects of computational science and engineering, computer aided-design, regulatory and engineering information management, engineering enterprise integration, computational mechanics, structural dynamics and control, structural health monitoring systems, numerical methods and analysis and simulation of large-scale systems using distributed workstations and high performance parallel computers. Larry Leifer Professor of Mechanical
Engineering. Special interest projects include: development of a collaborative
engineering environment for geographically distributed product development
teams; instrumentation of that environment for design knowledge capture,
indexing, reuse and performance assessment; and development of tele-assistive
robots for physically limited individuals. Also founding Director of
the Center for Design Research. Lawrence Lessig Professor of Law, at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. Lessig is the author of Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). He chairs the Creative Commons project, and serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. He is also a columnist for Wired. Professor Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace. Philip Levis Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He researches wireless sensor networks, particularly software systems and networking. The results of his research have been adopted by thousands of users and researchers worldwide. He is the chair of the TinyOS Core Working Group and is a member of both the TinyOS Network Working Group as well as the TinyOS Alliance Working Group. His prior work includes the nesC language for network embedded systems, software design patterns for static embedded programming, using application-specific virtual machines to enable safe, high-level programming of sensor nodes, and the Trickle network algorithm for rapid yet efficient data dissemination. Marc Levoy Associate Professor of
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Research includes: computer
graphics, particularly the digital archival storage and rendering of 3D
objects. Currently involved in the Digital Michelangelo Project, a 5-year
project to create a three-dimensional digital archive of the statues of
Michelangelo. Marion Lewenstein* CSLI Senior
Researcher; Professor Emerita, Communication. Research focuses on the
relationship of reading news from the web and participating in a democratic
society, in conjunction with the Advanced EyeTracking Lab. Chris Manning* Assistant Professor
of Linguistics and Computer Science. Research focuses on systems and
formalisms that can intelligently process and produce human languages,
probabilistic models of language and statistical natural language processing,
text understanding and text mining, constraint-based theories of grammar
and probabilistic extensions of them, computational lexicography, information
extraction, and syntactic typology. Ellen Markman* Professor of Psychology.
Research interests include: cognitive and language development, especially
conceptual organization, categorization, word learning, and inductive
reasoning in children and infants. John McCarthy* Professor Emeritus
of Computer Science, CSLI faculty. Interests include artificial intelligence
(AI) research involving the use of mathematical logical languages to formalize
common sense knowledge and reasoning so that computer programs can have
common sense capabilities. Raymond Mcdermott* Professor
of Education, and (by courtesy) Anthropology; Affiliated Research Scientist,
Institute for Research on Learning. Research focuses on cultural anthropology,
communications analysis and social structure, educational and psychological
anthropology, and information technologies literacy, currency, and video. Grigori Mints* Professor of Philosophy,
and (by courtesy) Computer Science. Research interests include: foundations
of mathematics, proof-theoretic methods and their applications to philosophical
logic and computer science. Rajeev Motwani
Professor of Computer Science. Databases, data mining, information retrieval, and web searching; privacy and security, particularly in the context of databases and information retrieval; optimization and scheduling problems, particularly for applications in computer systems, compilers, and databases; computational and combinatorial geometry with applications to robotics and vision; computational biology and automated drug design; design and analysis of algorithms with emphasis on approximations, online computations, and randomized algorithms, as well as related complexity theory. Cliff Nass* Professor of Communication.
Research focuses on how people use social rules and heuristics to assess
and respond to interfaces, particularly voice interfaces and character
interfaces; statistical methods; and organization theory. Andrew Ng Assistant Professor of Computer Science. His research interests include machine learning, reinforcement learning/control, and broad-competence AI. His group has won best paper and best student paper awards at ACL and at CEAS. He is also a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. Daniel Chavez-Clemente PhD Graduate with a major in Aeronautics and Astronautics and minor in Mechanical Engineering, and a research interest in robotics research and development for planetary exploration. Nils Nilsson* Kumagai Professor
of Computer Science, emeritus; CSLI faculty. Research focuses on communicating
computer agents that are capable of reason-guided, real-time behavior
in somewhat unpredictable environments; and machine learning. Geoffrey Nunberg CSLI Senior Researcher,
Consulting Professor in the Department of Linguistics. Research interests
include information access, genre and genre identification, multilingualism,
multilingualism on the Web, punctuation and text structure. Chair of the
usage panel of the American Heritage Dictionary. Regular language commentator
on the NPR show "Fresh Air." Roy Pea Professor of Education and
the Learning Sciences. Current research focuses on computer-supported
collaborative and on-line community learning; scientific visualization;
and hand-held computer learning. Also interested in exploring, defining,
and researching new issues in how information technologies can fundamentally
support and advance learning and teaching with particular focus on topics
in science, mathematics, and technology education. Deanne Perez-Granados Assistant
Professor of Education. Cognitive and language development, semantic and
conceptual development; sociocultural approach to teaching and learning
in the family context; transitions from learning in the home context to
learning in early schooling contexts. Ray Perrault* Director, AI Center,
SRI International; Consulting Associate Professor of Philosophy and CSLI
Consulting faculty. Research interests include: relation between language,
mental states, and action; semantic accounts of nondeclarative sentences
and extended discourse; and computational models of agents engaged in
extended discourse. John Perry* Henry Waldgrave Stuart
Professor of Philosophy. Research interests include: philosophy of mind
and the philosophy of language, metaphysics and the history of philosophy,
intentionality, propositional attitudes and the self. Co-founder of CSLI. Stanley Peters* Professor of Linguistics.
Research interests include: semantics, dialogue modeling, situation theory
and situation semantics, theory of information content, mathematical properties
of grammars, parallel processing and cooperative software. Charles Petrie Sr. Research Scientist
in Computer Science. Formalized support of collective work, extended web
services for dynamic virtual enterprises using AI planning techniques,
concurrent design and distributed process management, using software agents
with shared models for change propagation. Vaughan Pratt* Professor of Computer
Science. Research interests include: theoretical computer science, particularly
Chu spaces and linear logic, concurrency modeling, design and manufacture
of handheld PCs. Founder of TIQIT Computers. Margaret Jane Radin Wm. Benjamin
Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, Director, Stanford Program in
Law, Science and Technology and Director, LLM Program in Law, Science
and Technology. Contracts, intellectual property: patents and trade secrets,
high-tech property and contract, electronic commerce, intellectual property
in cyberspace Byron Reeves* Academic Director,
Media X; Paul C. Edwards Professor of Communication. Research focuses
on psychological processing of mediated communication and human-computer
interaction; attention, memory and emotional responses to interactive
media; and experimental studies of psychological processing of interactive
media with focus on conversation interfaces, and social and emotional
responses. Daniel Richardson Researcher, Psychology Department. Use of eye
tracking technology to study how people understand language and communicate with each other, and how they
process and remember information. Also investigates infant developmental processes. Don Roberts Thomas More Storke
Professor of Communication. Research focuses on how children and adolescents
use and respond to media. Roberts helped to design a parental advisory
system to label violence, sex/nudity, and language for the computer software
industry which has been adapted by the Internet Content Rating Association
for use on the World Wide Web. Eric Roberts* Associate Chair
for Education, Computer Science Department; President, Computer Professionals
for Social Responsibility. Research focuses on computer science education
and the social implications of computing. Jessica Rose Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Stanford Medical School and Director of the Motion & Gait Analysis Lab at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Research focuses on the neuromuscular and musculoskeletal mechanisms underlying gait abnormalities in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and other pediatric orthopedic conditions, and focuses on the energy cost of walking, muscle pathology, selective motor control, postural balance and motor-unit firing in CP, as well as the biomechanical factors that influence power generation of the elite golf swing. Joseph Rosen Senior Software Engineer,
Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning. Digital video, interactive
telecommunications. Member of the DIVER research team. Stanley Rosenschein* Consulting Professor of Computer Science; CSLI consulting faculty. Research interests include: mathematical models of information in embedded systems; robot perception, control and language; and formal software design methods for robots and embedded control systems. Martha Russell Associate Director, Media X. Russell has been involved in technology transfer between academic and industry researchers for U.S. universities (University of Minnesota and The University of Texas at Austin) and for technology-based regional economic organizations in the US (Minnesota Advanced Manufacturing Technology Centers, Minnesota Initiative Fund), as well as abroad (CSATA, Tecnopolis Novus Ortus, UNIDO.) In the field of market research she has developed benchmarking tools, developed metrics for measuring the impact of audience impact in experiential marketing and the study of brand engagement. Ivan Sag* Professor of Linguistics.
Current work focuses on the development of a theory of grammar that can
be directly embedded within a theory of communication and language processing.
Specific research interests include grammatical theory, English and French
syntax, semantics, and natural language processing (human and computer).
Co-creator of HPSG (Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar). Kenneth Salisbury Professor of Computer Science and of Surgery.
Robotics, haptics, telerobotics, human-machine interaction, human-centered robotics, cooperative haptics, surgical
simulation, robotic surgery, simulation-based training, mechanical design. Past projects include the Salisbury (Stanford-JPL)
Robot Hand, the JPL Force Reflecting Hand Controller, the MIT-WAM arm, and the Black Falcon Surgical Robot. His work
with haptic interface technology led to the founding of SensAble Technologies Inc., producers of the PHANTOM haptic interface
and 3D FreeForm software. Kristine Samuelson Professor
of Communication. A renowned independent film producer whose work has
been widely shown and has won several awards, her scholarly interests
include documentary digital video production and new media. Haun Saussy Professor of Comparative
Literature and Asian Languages. Use of new media to convey content to
new audiences. Uses research apparatus developed by psychologists of vision
to understand the visual and neurological patterns of response to different
kinds of art, leading to experimental installations that enable people
to become conscious of their own perceptional processes. Recent work includes
an installation in the new public library of San Jose. Baba Shiv Associate Professor of Marketing. Shiv's research is in the area of consumer decision making and decision neuroscience, with specific emphasis on the role of emotion in decision making, the neurological bases of emotion, and nonconscious mental processes in decision making. His recent work examines the potential for nonconscious placebo effects related to pricing and the empirical validity of the adage, "Eating Whets the Appetite," with findings suggesting that food samples ("appetizers") can have broader effects than previously conceived. Jeffrey T. Schnapp Professor of French & Italian and Comparative Literature, and Director of Stanford Humanities Laboratory. Trained as a medieval literary historian, Schnapps is a 20th century cultural historian broadly concerned with architecture, design and visual culture. Daniel Schwartz Associate Professor
of education. Student understanding and representation and the ways that
technology can facilitate learning. Works at the intersection of cognitive
science, computer science, and education, examining cognition and instruction
in individual, cross-cultural, and technological settings. How people's
facility for spatial thinking can inform and influence processes of learning,
instruction, assessment and problem solving. The creation and use of web-based
tools for instruction. Peter Sells* Professor of Linguistics;
CSLI faculty. Research interests include: syntactic and morphology theory;
optimality theory; Scandinavian syntax; and Japanese, Korean and Philippine
linguistics. Richard Shavelson Professor
of Education. Research interests include: social measurement and evaluation
methods, psychometrics and related policy and practice issues. Shavelson
works closely with teachers and scientists in the development of performance
assessments in science education, and their evaluation along psychometric,
cost, classroom use and social impact liens. Dan Siciliano Executive Director of Stanford Law School’s Program in Law, Economics & Business. Yoav Shoham Associate Professor
of Computer Science. Research focuses on artificial intelligence (AI)
and formal logics in computer science, including temporal logic. Paul Skokowski* Yahoo Corporation
and Consulting Associate Professor in Symbolic Systems. Research interests
include philosophy of mind, particularly the nature of mental content
and conscious experience; connectionism; internet behavior; epistemology;
metaphysics and philosophy of science. Julius Smith Associate Professor at the Center for Computer Research in Music and
Acoustics (CCRMA), Departments of Music and (by courtesy) Electrical Engineering.
Signal processing, music technology, signal processing techniques applied to music and audio. Former software engineer at NeXT
Inc., responsible for signal processing software pertaining to music and audio. Michael Strevens* Assistant Professor
of Philosophy. Research interests include: mental representation, especially
the nature of concepts; philosophical applications of cognitive science;
and the philosophy of science including complex systems, scientific explanation,
probability, and the social structure of science. Patrick Suppes Lucie Stern Professor
of Philosophy, Emeritus. Methodology, probability, and measurement, psychology
and the brain, foundations of physics, language and logic computers and
education. Director of the Education Program for Gifted Youth. Kenneth Taylor* Chair, Department
of Philosophy. Research focuses on the philosophy of language, philosophy
of the mind, and the foundations of cognitive science. Barbara Tversky* Professor of
Psychology. Research interests include: memory, categorization, spatial
cognition and language, picture memory and pictorial representations,
imagery, spatial thinking, spatial language, cognitive maps and graphs,
recollections and eye witness testimony, systematic distortions in memory,
human computer interaction (HCI), and mental models constructed from text. Johan Van Benthem* Professor of
Philosophy; Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, University
of Amsterdam; and Director of its Institute for Logic, Language and Computation.
Research focuses on modal and dynamic logics for information flow, logical
semantics and proof theory for natural language. William Verplank* Senior Researcher in Computer Science. Interaction design, human-factors engineering. At Xerox (1978-1986) he participated in testing and refining the Xerox Star graphical user interface. From 1986 to1992, he worked as a design consultant at IDTwo and IDEO to bring graphical user-interfaces into the product design world. At Interval Research (1992-2000), he directed research and design for collaboration, tangibility and music. Anthony Wagner Assistant Professor of Psychology. Decker Walker* Professor of Education.
Research focuses on the use of information technology in schools and classrooms,
and techniques of formative research to guide the development of interactive
multimedia systems in pre-college education. Brian Wandell* Professor of Psychology
and Electrical Engineering (by courtesy). Research interests include:
neuroscience aspects of human vision, image systems engineering involving
display devices that rely on human vision, foundations of vision, color
vision, neuroimaging (fMRI), and image systems engineering. Member of
Stanford Vision Science and Neuroimaging Group, and the Programmable Digital
Camera Group. Tom Wasow* Professor of Linguistics
and Philosophy. Research interests include: language processing, syntactic
theory, linguistic methodology, theory of grammar, psycholinguistics,
and philosophy of linguistics. Director of the Symbolic Systems Program.
Media X project: LinGO Terry Winograd* Professor of
Computer Science. Research focuses on human-computer interaction (HCI)
design with an emphasis on theoretical background and conceptual models.
Directs HCI research in the Stanford Interactivity Lab and is a principal
investigator in the Stanford Digital Libraries Project. A founding member
and past president of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Edward Zalta CSLI Senior Research
Scholar, Principal Editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Research interests include: metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of
language and intentional logic, philosophy of mind and intentionality,
and philosophy of mathematics/philosophy of logic. |
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