Studying Computer Science and Psychology
at University of Massachusetts Amherst

I am a senior double-majoring in Computer Science (AI concentration) & Psychology.
I am currently doing research in unsupervised segmentation for my undergraduate honors thesis with Professor Erik Learned-Miller in the Computer Vision Lab. I do freelance development as Imaginary Number and hack on personal and open source projects on github.

Interests

My interests are computational & biological vision, the generation of perception from sensation, and more broadly unsupervised machine learning. I’m most interested in the process of learning to see and the kinds of representations that underlie vision. I’m curious about how observations of the world are captured by the brain and how these encodings are transmuted into models.

Research

I am working on or have worked on:

  • Information-theoretic visual segmentation
  • Character alignment for scene text recognition
  • Medical image registration by maximization of mutual information
  • Creating a data set for estimating the 3D pose of faces

Coming soon: real details!

Coursework

In Progress

Graphical Models: Representation, Inference, and Learning (Graduate)
Mathematical Models of Behavior (Graduate)
Capstone Research

AI & Machine Learning

Computer Vision (Graduate)
Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
Reasoning Under Uncertainty: combinatorics, probability, bayesian reasoning,
markov models, game theory, intro to coding theory
Research in Genetic AI and Genetic Programming

Core CS & Mathematics

Discrete Mathematics: logic, intro set theory, intro graph theory, grammars, automata, intro theory of computation
Linear Algebra
Calculus I & II

Algorithms

Applied Information Theory (Graduate)
Statistics I

Psychology

NeuroCognition and Perception Lab Research Practicum
Perceptual Neuroscience (Independent Study)
Behavioral Neuroscience (Honors)
Behavioral Decision Making
Cognitive Psychology – at Université Denis–Diderot, Paris
Social Psychology – at Université Denis–Diderot, Paris
Research & Statistical Methods of Psychology

Linguistics

Syntax (Honors)
Introduction to Linguistic Theory