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Current Members @ ART-Med Lab.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Jonathan ChongGang Kim (Ph.D.) received the BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA in 2004, 2009, and 2014, respectively. He developed a sonic signature and threat detection system using Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) and Hidden Markov models (HMMs). He also developed a multimodal-multitemporal classifier for classifying the levels of emotional dimensions. His research interests center on analyzing audio/speech signals, extracting features, and developing machine learning algorithms. He is an author of many conference and journal papers. His personal website can be found here (https://sites.google.com/site/gte111x/ home). In his free time, Jonathan enjoys writing/recording music. He has written about 50 songs in his life time, but none of them has become profitable yet.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Jonathan ChongGang Kim (Ph.D.) received the BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA in 2004, 2009, and 2014, respectively. He developed a sonic signature and threat detection system using Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) and Hidden Markov models (HMMs). He also developed a multimodal-multitemporal classifier for classifying the levels of emotional dimensions. His research interests center on analyzing audio/speech signals, extracting features, and developing machine learning algorithms. He is an author of many conference and journal papers. His personal website can be found here (https://sites.google.com/site/gte111x/ home). In his free time, Jonathan enjoys writing/recording music. He has written about 50 songs in his life time, but none of them has become profitable yet.
Graduate Research Assistants
(Prospective PhD students) Hifza Jabed, Soheil Gharatappeh
Rachael Beville (MS) is a current Master's student in Biomedical Engineering at the George Washington University. As a research assistant, Rachael is studying the use of robotic emotion and gesture expressions to stimulate emotional and social interaction in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Additionally, Rachael plans to use robotic motion learning to improve robotic therapy for children with ASD. Rachael has previously worked in the GW BioengineeringLaboratory for Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering, under Dr. Lijie Grace Zhang. Rachael was also a 2015 Cherry Blossom Princess - a goodwill cultural ambassador during DC's annual Cherry Blossom Festival.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaelbevill
(Prospective PhD students) Hifza Jabed, Soheil Gharatappeh
Rachael Beville (MS) is a current Master's student in Biomedical Engineering at the George Washington University. As a research assistant, Rachael is studying the use of robotic emotion and gesture expressions to stimulate emotional and social interaction in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Additionally, Rachael plans to use robotic motion learning to improve robotic therapy for children with ASD. Rachael has previously worked in the GW BioengineeringLaboratory for Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering, under Dr. Lijie Grace Zhang. Rachael was also a 2015 Cherry Blossom Princess - a goodwill cultural ambassador during DC's annual Cherry Blossom Festival.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaelbevill
Mahsa Alborz
Research Assistants
Justin Kim graduated B.S. in electrical engineering at University of Maryland College Park, James Clack School of Engineering. He worked as Faculty Assistant from University of Maryland College Park, Computational Sensorymotor System Lab where he conducted and published his research BatFlash: a Head-Mounted Led for Detecting Bat Echolocation, at IEEE BioCas 2016, Oct 2016. Currently, He works as an Electrical Engineer at UI-International Circuit Designer. At the same time he works as Research Assistant at George Washington University, ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS & TELE -MEDICINE LAB. He design an algorithm that recognizes motions of a robot by using C++. The algorithm is based on an openCV library. Use machine learning techniques to improve accuracy and efficiency.
Justin Kim graduated B.S. in electrical engineering at University of Maryland College Park, James Clack School of Engineering. He worked as Faculty Assistant from University of Maryland College Park, Computational Sensorymotor System Lab where he conducted and published his research BatFlash: a Head-Mounted Led for Detecting Bat Echolocation, at IEEE BioCas 2016, Oct 2016. Currently, He works as an Electrical Engineer at UI-International Circuit Designer. At the same time he works as Research Assistant at George Washington University, ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS & TELE -MEDICINE LAB. He design an algorithm that recognizes motions of a robot by using C++. The algorithm is based on an openCV library. Use machine learning techniques to improve accuracy and efficiency.
So Hee Park recently graduated from George Washington University with a BS in Biomedical Engineering. She is currently working on creating a wireless wearable device that will be used by autistic children, in which they will be able to transfer their voice to a computer in real time. She is also conducting research on the brain computer interface that will differentiate emotions collected from Electroencephalography via Epoc+, in order to control interactive systems, such as assistive robotic systems. She was previously a lab technician assistant where she worked in a pre-clinical animal lab with rodents. So Hee is looking forward to continue her studies in medical imaging and anatomy, and also hopes to pursue a career in the medical field.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Samuel Joseph Cowin is a Senior Electrical Engineering student at the George Washington University. Originally from Overland Park, Kansas, Samuel has joined Dr. Park's research lab working on wearable haptic feedback systems for medical purposes. Current work involves tracking device positioning and implementing force feedback systems. Samuel is interested in robotic systems and electronic design,
and hopes to eventually get a graduate degree pursuing these fields.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelcowin?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile
Samuel Joseph Cowin is a Senior Electrical Engineering student at the George Washington University. Originally from Overland Park, Kansas, Samuel has joined Dr. Park's research lab working on wearable haptic feedback systems for medical purposes. Current work involves tracking device positioning and implementing force feedback systems. Samuel is interested in robotic systems and electronic design,
and hopes to eventually get a graduate degree pursuing these fields.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelcowin?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile
Srineil Nizambad is a third year undergraduate majoring in Biomedical Engineering within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University (GW). Srineil was awarded a 2016 GW Institute of Biomedical Engineering Fellowship to work with Professor Park in the Assistive Robotics and Telemedicine (Art-MED) lab to study body language and emotion through Microsoft Kinect motion sequence recordings of gestures and movements and to help program Darwin Op2 to reconstruct human gestures. He is highly interested in neuro-behavioral analysis and in the potential clinical utility of the robotic framework for Autistic behavior. In the future, Srineil would like to attend medical school and is interested in pursuing neurology.
Paul Azzi
Conor Sheridan is a Junior undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the George Washington University. Originally from Westfield, New Jersey, Conor is working as a research assistant in Dr. Park's lab studying usage of robots to stimulate social interaction in children with Autism. Specifically, he is working on developing vocal recognition software for the system to allow it to become autonomous. Conor is interested in all facets of Compter Science, and is excited to continue his research.
Matthew Spadafora
Irene Morchio
Conor Sheridan is a Junior undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the George Washington University. Originally from Westfield, New Jersey, Conor is working as a research assistant in Dr. Park's lab studying usage of robots to stimulate social interaction in children with Autism. Specifically, he is working on developing vocal recognition software for the system to allow it to become autonomous. Conor is interested in all facets of Compter Science, and is excited to continue his research.
Matthew Spadafora
Irene Morchio
Interns
Alex Kimaivi
Luka Jeremic
Ben Bates
Alex Kimaivi
Luka Jeremic
Ben Bates
Previous Members @ ARHI Lab.
Research Assistants
Tabassum Azad (RA):
Education: B.S. NYIT Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research topic: Analysis and design of motions that can be used in a robotic framework to induce emotional response
from children with ASD and encourage social interactions.
Other Work and interests: Animation & graphics, Photography retouching, gaming.
Research Assistants
Tabassum Azad (RA):
Education: B.S. NYIT Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research topic: Analysis and design of motions that can be used in a robotic framework to induce emotional response
from children with ASD and encourage social interactions.
Other Work and interests: Animation & graphics, Photography retouching, gaming.
HyungJung Kim (RA):
Research topic: user studies on behaviors of children with ASD on different robotic characters.
Role: UX/Visual design, Research
Education: School of Visual Arts; Animation
NYU ; Interactive Telecommunications Program
Professional careers: UX designer at Samsung Electronics 2006- 2013
Hobby: sports, stock trading, drawing & painting
Website: http://hyungjoongkim.com
Research topic: user studies on behaviors of children with ASD on different robotic characters.
Role: UX/Visual design, Research
Education: School of Visual Arts; Animation
NYU ; Interactive Telecommunications Program
Professional careers: UX designer at Samsung Electronics 2006- 2013
Hobby: sports, stock trading, drawing & painting
Website: http://hyungjoongkim.com
JongWon Lee (RA): Jongwon Lee is a software engineer with master in Computer Engineering at Columbia University. He received his B.S from University of Texas at Austin in Computer Science graduating with honors in Dec 2011. He is currently working for Dr. Park at NYIT as a research Assistant, and have worked for Recognition Technologies, Inc., for the past six months.
Jongwon is currently in charge of designing a system to build a rapport with autistic children. He deployed multi-threaded server in Java, which communicate with other devices such as Kinect System and microphone. He also implemented an iOS application such that the system can accumulate responses from autistic children through devices, and analyze the data to promote the reaction of children and find therapies to help the children.
During the internship in the Recognition Technologies, Jongwon participated in experiment to develop a new engine using different Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithm, which gives comparable quality, but with more efficient order of magnitude. Besides, to enrich the training data, He revised automated scripts to parse two million words in each special field such as financial, medical, judicial texts, and analyze statistic results for those words.
Jongwon is currently in charge of designing a system to build a rapport with autistic children. He deployed multi-threaded server in Java, which communicate with other devices such as Kinect System and microphone. He also implemented an iOS application such that the system can accumulate responses from autistic children through devices, and analyze the data to promote the reaction of children and find therapies to help the children.
During the internship in the Recognition Technologies, Jongwon participated in experiment to develop a new engine using different Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithm, which gives comparable quality, but with more efficient order of magnitude. Besides, to enrich the training data, He revised automated scripts to parse two million words in each special field such as financial, medical, judicial texts, and analyze statistic results for those words.
Yaojie Li (MS): Yaojie Li is a current Master's student in computer science at New York Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. from Southwest Jiao Tong University in material science and engineering in June 2009. He was previously a testing engineer at United Information Technology(China) from 2009 to 2013. As a research assistant,he is currently working with Dr.park to study robotic learning of gestures and movements, especially using the dynamic motion primitives(DMP) algorithms. He is also a super sports fan, especially basketball and soccer.
Ahmed Qureshi (RA)
Fatimah Elsayed (MS): Works with Dr. Paolo Gasti, Dr. Chung Hyuk Park and Dr. Kiran Balagani at NYIT on Haptic-Based biometrics for user authentication, by collecting user data and measurable characteristics of the data.
Currently a Master's student in Computer Science at NYIT. She has a B.S. in Information Systems from Berkeley where she graduated with high honors (Summa Cum Laude). She received a Teaching Assistantship at NYIT in the Communication Arts department. In 2015 she was inducted into NYIT chapter Upsilon Pi Epsilon an international honor society for the Computing sciences.
In her spare time (which is something she has not had since starting graduate school) she loves painting, researching ancient proverbs from various cultures, playing and creating video games, and cosplaying at conventions.
Website www.fatimahelsayed.com
Twitter twitter.com/fatimahelsayed
Currently a Master's student in Computer Science at NYIT. She has a B.S. in Information Systems from Berkeley where she graduated with high honors (Summa Cum Laude). She received a Teaching Assistantship at NYIT in the Communication Arts department. In 2015 she was inducted into NYIT chapter Upsilon Pi Epsilon an international honor society for the Computing sciences.
In her spare time (which is something she has not had since starting graduate school) she loves painting, researching ancient proverbs from various cultures, playing and creating video games, and cosplaying at conventions.
Website www.fatimahelsayed.com
Twitter twitter.com/fatimahelsayed
Ibrahim Dawha (MS thesis)
Kazi Raihan (U.RA): Kazi Raihan is a senior at NYIT working towards a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is currently developing an Android application that extracts the volume, frequency, and energy of a subject's voice and use that information to determine their emotional state. He was previously a candidate for the NSF's REU program at NYIT where, alongside Chris DelBello, he evaluated the energy consumption of a mobile device as it encrypted and sent files to a back-end server. He is interested in chip design, verification, and teaching and, in the future, hopes to pursue a Master's degree and work in industry. In his spare time, he enjoys running, playing video games, and engaging in various sports with his peers.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/kazi-raihan/58/891/7b5
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/kazi-raihan/58/891/7b5
Nicole Gutierrez (U.RA): Nicole Gutierrez is an undergraduate senior majoring in electrical and computer engineering at NYIT. She is currently working on developing an Android application that can determine the tempo of music for a robot platform. Previously, she developed an application to collect WiFi and magnetic field strengths for research in Indoor Localization schemes as an NSF REU fellow. Nicole is interested in new technologies, game development, and programming. Upon graduation, she is planning on studying virtual reality technology and working in industry. In her free time, she enjoys video games, boxing, and playing musical instruments.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicole-gutierrez/67/664/5b7
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicole-gutierrez/67/664/5b7
Ariana Rennie (U.RA): I am the elder sibling of a brother affected with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in the Dean of Engineering Honors Program at New York Institute of Technology. My ultimate goal is to improve the lives of individuals affected with ASD by enhancing their communication and social skills as well as their restricted behaviors through the manufacture of digital and robotic devices. Furthermore, I plan to increase the level of independence so that autistic individuals are able to perform every day skills with minimal assistance and effectively contribute to their communities. As a Research Assistant, I am currently working with Dr. Park to program and design an environment that is effective in stimulating the senses of an individual with ASD as well as allowing the individual to engage with the robot. As most individuals with autism have several sensory issues that correlate with the following senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, vestibular and proprioception, I have based a scenario for the robot to go through the senses and display particular behaviors that an individual with ASD might show. The goal is to have the individual with ASD empathize and communicate with the robot as individuals with ASD have difficulty expressing emotions as well as socially interacting with others. I participate in numerous community service events such as Walk Now for Autism Speaks, East Meadow Little League Challenger Baseball, and My SHINE Equestrian Program. I enjoy swimming, horseback riding, signing songs (American Sign Language) and drawing.
Past Students
- Ryan Nath, Neetha Pai, Jayahasan, Mithilesh Shivapuram