ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Division of Engineering's undergraduate program is the oldest in the Ivy League and the third oldest in the country. It spans a range of traditional engineering programs with strong connections to Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Cognitive Science, and the Medical School. The research efforts related to the brain sciences are twofold. First, the engineering of multimedia sensory systems, such as visual and auditory systems, necessitates an understanding of the underlying perceptual mechanisms. The modeling for such systems, in turn, has implications and potential impact for our understanding of perceptual processes in the human sensory systems. The computational vision work focuses on understanding shape and motion of an object and recognition of this object from a repository of representations of a large number of objects. The auditory work focuses on the understanding of speech and the development of models to tune to a single talker in a conference-room setting. Second, medical imaging analysis research focuses on the analysis of medical image datasets such as Brain MRI images and the challenges of segmentation of medical structures, registration across subject/time/scan, visualization, volumetric measurements, and creation of anatomical atlases.

DEPARTMENT FACULTY

• David Cooper
• Jerry Daniels
• Benjamin Kimia
• Arto Nurmikko
• Harvey Silverman
• Yoon-Kyu Song
• Jimmy Xu