Sanmay Das, Ph.D., April 2006. Thesis Title: Dealers, Insiders and Bandits: Learning and Its Effects on Market Outcomes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Alexander Rakhlin, Ph.D., April 2006. Thesis Title: Applications of Empirical Processes in Learning Theory: Algorithmic Stability and Generalization Bounds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences.

Thomas Serre, Ph.D., March 2006. Thesis Title: Learning a Dictionary of Shape-Components in Visual Cortex: Comparison with Neurons, Humans and Machines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences.

Gene W. Yeo, Ph.D., November 2004. Thesis title: Identification, Improved Modeling and Integration of Signals to Predict Constitutive and Alternative Splicing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Martin Szummer, Ph.D., September 2002. Thesis title: “Learning from Partially Labeled Data,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Ryan Rifkin, Ph.D., June 2002. Thesis title: “Everything Old Is New Again: A Fresh Look Historical Approaches in Machine Learning,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Operations Research.

Vinay Kumar, Ph.D., June 2002. Thesis title: “Towards Trainable Man-machine Interfaces: Combining Top-down Constraints with Bottom-up Learning in Facial Analysis,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Tony Ezzat, Ph.D., June 2002. Thesis title: “Trainable Vidoerealistic Speech Animation,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Christian Shelton, Ph.D., August 2001. Thesis title:”Importance Sampling for Reinforcement Learning with Multiple Objectives,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Sayan Mukherjee, Ph.D., June 2001. Thesis title: “Application of Statistical Learning Theory to DNA Microarray Analysis,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Nicholas Chan, Ph.D. February 2001. Thesis title: “Artificial Markets and Intelligent Agents,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Theodoros Evgeniou, Ph.D. June 2000. Thesis title: “Learning with Kernel Machine Architectures,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Maximilian Riesenhuber, Ph.D. June 2000. Thesis title: “How a Part of the Brain Might or Might Not work: A New Hierarchical Model of Object Recognition,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Constantine Papageorgiou, Ph.D. December 1999. Thesis title: “A Trainable System for Object Detection in Images and Video Sequences,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Operations Research.

Edgar Osuna, Ph.D. June 1998. Thesis title: “ Support Vector Machines: Training and Applications,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Operations Research.

Michael Jones, Ph.D. June 1997. Thesis title: “Multidimensional Morphable Models: A Framework for Representing and Matching Object Classes,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Robert Thau, Ph.D. June 1997. Thesis title: “Reliably Mapping a Robot’s Environment Using Fast Vision and Local, but not Global, Metric Data,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences.

Emanuela Bricolo, Ph.D. June 1996. Thesis title: “On the Representation of Novel Objects: Human Psychophysics, Monkey Physiology and Computational Models,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences.

Kah-Kay Sung, Ph.D., February 1996. Thesis title: “Learning and Example Selection for Object and Pattern Detection,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Pawan Sinha, Ph.D., August 1995. Thesis title: “Perceiving and Recognizing Three-Dimensional Forms,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

David Beymer, Ph.D. August 1995. Thesis title: “Pose-invariant Face Recognition Using Real and Virtual Views,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Partha Niyogi, Ph.D. February 1995. Thesis title: “The Informational Complexity of Learning from Examples,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

James Hutchinson, S.M., June 1986; Ph.D., February 1994. S.M. Thesis title: “Early Vision Problem Solving with Analog and Binary Resistive Networks,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Ph.D. Thesis title: “A Radial Basis Function Approach to Financial Time Series Analysis,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Brian Subirana-Vilanova, Ph.D., February 1994. Thesis title: “Mid-level Vision and Recognition of Non-Rigid Objects,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Anthony Passera, Ph.D., September 1992. Thesis title: “A Computational Model of Visuo-motor Development,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Thomas Breuel, Ph.D., June 1992. Thesis title: “Geometric Aspects of Visual Object Recognition,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Lyle Borg-Graham, Ph.D., January 1992. Thesis title: “On Directional Selectivity in Vertebrate Retina: An Experimental and Computational Study,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Woodward Yang, Ph.D., September 1990. Thesis title: “The Architecture and Design of CCD Processors for Computer Vision,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Ed Gamble, Ph.D., June 1990. Thesis title: “Integration of Early Visual Cues for Recognition,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Michael Villalba, Ph.D., January 1990. Thesis title: “Fast Visual Recognition of Large Object Sets,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics.

Davi Geiger, Ph.D., December 1989. Thesis title: “Visual Models with Statistical Field Theory,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics.

Anya Hurlbert, M.D./Ph.D., May 1989. Thesis title: “The Computation of Color,” Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences.

Bror Saxberg, S.M., May 1985; M.D./Ph.D., May 1989. S.M. Thesis title: “Parameters of a Three-Dimensional Free Fall Trajectory from its Two-Dimensional Central Projection,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Ph.D. Thesis title: “A Modern Differential Geometric Approach to Shape from Shading,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Jose Marroquin, Ph.D., September 1985. Thesis title: “Probabilistic Solution of Inverse Problems,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Christof Koch, Ph.D., October 1982. Thesis title: “Nichtlineare Informationsverar-beitung in Dendritischen Baummen Belicbiger Geometrie,” University of Tübingen, Germany.

FORMER MASTERS STUDENTS

Neha Soni, S.M., EECS, MIT, February 2006.  “Sequence Motifs Predictive of Tissue-specific Skipping.”

Jake Bouvrie, M.Eng., EECS, MIT, September 2004. "Multi-Source Contingency Clustering"

Sanmay Das, S.M., June 2003. Thesis Title: "Intelligent Market-Making in Artificial Markets," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Brian Kim, S.M., June 2003. Thesis Title: "Multi-Source Human Indentification," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Jennifer Louie, S.M., May 2003. Thesis Title: "A Biological Model of Object Recognition with Feature Learning," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Ezra Rosen, S.M., May 2003. Thesis Title: "Face Representation in Cortex: Studies Using a Simple and Not So Special Model," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Stanley Bileschi, S.M., February 2003. Thesis Title: “Advances in Component Based Face Detection,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Jennifer Huang, S.M. December 2002. Thesis title: “Component-based Face Recognition with 3D Morphable Models,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Andrew Crane, S.M. September 2002. Thesis title: “Object Recognition with Partially Labeled Examples,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Purdy Ho, S.M., May 2001. Thesis title: "Rotation Invariant Real-time Face Detection and Recognition System," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Luis Pérez-Breva, Ingeniería Superior Industrial Química, July 1999. Thesis title: “Applying Learning Techniques to Solve Engineering Problems: Preprocessing, Learning and Measuring,” Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain. [Internship Program]

Mike Drumheller, S.M., May 1999. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science.

Jon Wang, S.M. May 1999. Thesis title: “Information Aggregation and Dissemination in Simulated Markets,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science.

Janet Marques, S.M., May 1999. Thesis title: “An Automatic Annotation System for Audio Data Containing Music,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Christian Shelton, S.M., May 1998. Thesis title: “Three-Dimensional Correspondence,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Stephen Lines, S.M., June 1996. Thesis title: “The Photo-Realistic Synthesis of Novel Views from Example Images,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Elaine Yiu, Ph.D., June 1996. Thesis title: “Image Classification Using Color Cues and Texture Orientation,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Nicholas Chan, S.M., May 1995. Thesis title: “The Complexity and A Priori Knowledge of Learning From Examples,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science.

Anuj Mohan, S.M., June 1999. Thesis title: “Robust Object Detection in Images by Computers,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science.

James Hutchinson, S.M., June 1986; Ph.D., February 1994. S.M. Thesis title: “Early Vision Problem Solving with Analog and Binary Resistive Networks,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Ph.D. Thesis title: “A Radial Basis Function Approach to Financial Time Series Analysis,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Michael Jones, S.M., September 1992. Thesis title: “Using Recurrent Networks for Dimensionality Reduction,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Vijay Balasubramanian, S.M., June 1992. Thesis title: “Equivalence and Reduction of Hidden Markov Models,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Terry Sanger, S.M., June 1989. Thesis title: “Optimal Unsupervised Learning in Feedforward Neural Networks,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences.

Walter Gillett, S.M., June 1988. Thesis title: “Issues in Parallel Stereomatching,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences.

Harry Voorhees, S.M., June 1987. Thesis title: “Finding Texture Boundaries in Images,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Jonathan Bliss, S.M., February 1986. Thesis title: “Velocity-tuned Spatio-temporal Interpolation and Approximation in Vision,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Bror Saxberg, S.M., May 1985; M.D./PhD., May 1989. S.M. Thesis title: “Parameters of a Three-Dimensional Free Fall Trajectory from its Two-Dimensional Central Projection,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Ph.D. Thesis title: “A Modern Differential Geometric Approach to Shape from Shading,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Katie Cornog, S.M., February 1985. Thesis title: “Computer Controlled Eye-head Movement Coordination for a Robot: Fixation and Smooth Pursuit,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Michael Kass, S.M., June 1984. Thesis title: “Computing Stereo Correspondence,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

Eric Tiffany, S.M., June 1983. Thesis title: “Stereo Image Registration Using Monocular Image Features,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

FORMER POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Sayan Mukherjee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological & Computational Learning, 2001- 2004.

Federico Girosi, Postdoctural Fellow, Center for Biological & Computational Learning, 1988-1994; Associate Director, 1993-1998; Research Scientist, 1994-1998.

Maximilian Riesenhuber, Postdoctural Fellow, Center for Biological & Computational Learning, 2000-2003.

Bernd Heisele, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological & Computational Learning, 1999-2001.

Martin Giese, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological & Computational Learning, 1998-2000.

Massimiliano Pontil, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological & Computational Learning, 1997-2000.

Michael Oren, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological & Computational Learning, 1995-1997.

Pawan Sinha, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological & Computational Learning and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1995-1997.

Partha Niyogi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological & Computational Learning and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1996-1997.

>Amnon Shashua, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological & Computational Learning - McDonnell Pew Fellowship, 1992-1994.

Sebastian Tölg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological and Computational Learning - Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1992-1993.

Lyle Borg-Graham, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological & Computational Learning, 1992-1993.

Thomas Vetter, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological & Computational Learning, 1991-1993.

Norberto Grzywacz, Center for Biological Information Processing - Postdoctoral Fellow, 1984-1988; Research Scientist, 1988-1993.

John Harris, Postdoctoral Fellow, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory - NSF New Technologies Fellowship, 1991-1993.

Shimon Edelman, Center for Biological Information Processing, Postdoctoral Fellow - Weizmann Fellowship, 1988-1990; Postdoctoral Associate, 1990-1991.

Daphna Weinshall, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological Information Processing, 1988-1991.

Manfred Fahle, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological Information Processing - Heisenberg Award, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1989-1990.

James J. Little, Postdoctoral Fellow, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1985-1989.

Shimon Edelman, Center for Biological Information Processing, Postdoctoral Fellow - Weizmann Fellowship, 1988-1990; Postdoctoral Associate, 1990-1991.

Hanspeter Mallot, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Biological Information Processing, 1986-1988.

Alessandro Verri, Postdoctoral Researcher, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1986-1988.

Andrew Parker, Postdoctoral Fellow, MRC Fellowship, 1984-1985.

Christof Koch, Postdoctoral Fellow, Thyssen Foundation Fellowship, 1982-1984.

Keith Nielsen, Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH Fellowship, 1982-1984.