Faculty - Dr. Greg Shakhnarovich
PhD - MIT
Assistant Professor
Greg Shakhnarovich received a BSc degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in 1994, a MSc degree in Computer Science from the Technion, Haifa, in 2001, and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2005. His dissertation focused on novel methods for learning concepts of similarity defined for a particular task, and represented by a set of examples. Main applications of this work have been in computer vision, where it helped build systems for efficient analysis of human bodies in images and videos. He remains interested in statistical methods for learning similarity, and the closely related topic of example-based inference.
In 2005-2007, prior to joining TTI-Chicago, Greg was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and the Brain Sciences Program at Brown University. There he worked on computational methods for brain-machine interfaces, with applications in neuro-motor prostheses.
Greg's current interests focus on machine learning and its application to problems in computational vision and to brain-machine interfaces. He is interested in methods for semantic analysis of visual scenes, detection, recognition and categorization of objects, and in parsing and tracking complex articulated motion. In the area of brain-machine interfaces, his interests include statistical methods for decoding neural activity and using it to control complex movement.
Dr. Shakhnarovich also has a personally maintained website which can be found at http://www.tti-c.org/shakhnarovich