Perona, Pietro

Committee Member — 160 thesises

• Schkolne, Steven — 3-D Interfaces for Spatial Construction (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mitros, Ania Karolina — A Compact System for Self-Motion Estimation (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Soatto, Stefano — A geometric framework for dynamic vision (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lanfranchi, Francesco (Frank) — A Multispecies Perspective on the Evolution of Form Vision (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Solomon, Samuel Aaron — A Path Towards Wearable Affective General Intelligence (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Song, Yang — A Probabilistic Approach to Human Motion Detection and Labeling (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jiang, Hao — Adaptive Feature Selection in Pattern Recognition and Ultra-Wideband Radar Signal Analysis (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pratap, Amrit — Adaptive Learning Algorithms and Data Cloning (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hall, David Christopher — Advancing a Machine's Visual Awareness of People (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Jennifer Jianing — AI for Scientists: Accelerating Discovery Through Knowledge, Data, and Learning (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pfister, Samuel Thomas — Algorithms for Mobile Robot Localization and Mapping, Incorporating Detailed Noise Modeling and Multi-scale Feature Extraction (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kondapaneni, Neehar — Aligning and Comparing Vision Representations to Improve Understanding and Performance (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Salam, Gamze Erten — An analog VLSI architecture for stereo correspondence (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Harrison, Reid R. — An analog VLSI motion sensor based on the fly visual system (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Urban, Luke Stuart — An Electrophysiological Study Of Voluntary Movement and Spinal Cord Injury (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Horiuchi, Timothy Ken — Analog VLSI-Based, Neuromorphic Sensorimotor Systems: Modeling the Primate Oculomotor System (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bagherian, Dawna Paria — Artificial Neural Networks for Nonlinear System Identification of Neuronal Microcircuits (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rao, Chaitanya Kumar — Asymptotic Analysis of Wireless Systems with Rayleigh Fading (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Billock, Joseph Gregory — Attentional Control of Complex Systems (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chalupka, Krzysztof — Automated Macro-scale Causal Hypothesis Formation Based on Micro-scale Observation (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fontaine, Ebraheem Ihsan — Automated Visual Tracking for Behavioral Analysis of Biological Model Organisms (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goncalves, Luis — Automatic observation and synthesis of human motion (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Simon, Jasper Chen — Behavioral Analysis of Exploration and Dispersal in Drosophila (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Talukder, Sabera — Beyond Text: The Rudiments of Next Generation Foundation Models (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Tony (Haoyu) — Biological Intelligence: from Behavior to Learning Theory (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Appel, Ron — Boosting Boosting (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hakimi, Shabnam — Characterization of the Neural Mechanisms Supporting the Implementation of Cognitive Control in Human Decision Making (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Basset, Christophe Jean-Michel — CMOS Imaging Technology with Embedded Early Image Processing (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meeker, Daniella Elena Patricia — Cognitive Neural Prosthetics: Brain Machine Interfaces Based in Parietal Cortex (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• de Oliveira Penna Tavares, Gabriela — Computation and Comparison of Value Signals in Simple Perceptual and Economic Choices (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eyjolfsdottir, Eyrun-Arna — Computational Methods for Behavior Analysis (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hou, Xiaodi — Computational Modeling and Psvchophysics in Low- and Mid-Level Vision (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wood, Zoë Justine — Computational Topology Algorithms for Discrete 2-Manifolds (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moradi, Farshad — Conscious Awareness Determined by Selective Gating of Information in Early Visual Areas (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Song, Xubo — Contextual pattern recognition with applications to biomedical image identification (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mulliken, Grant Haverstock — Continuous Sensorimotor Control Mechanisms in Posterior Parietal Cortex: Forward Model Encoding and Trajectory Decoding (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Batista, Aaron Paul — Contributions of Parietal Cortex to Reach Planning (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Murphey, Todd David — Control of Multiple Model Systems (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lu, Wei-Min — Control of Uncertain Systems: State-Space Characterizations (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Ling — Data Complexity in Machine Learning and Novel Classification Algorithms (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gandhi, Harshkooshal Kamlesh — Deep Stochastic Control for Regime-Dependent Utility Maximization Problems (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Neil, Patricia Ann — Development of Audiovisual Integration in Human Infants: The Effects of Spatial and Temporal Congruency and Incongruency on Response Latencies (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meyer, Mark — Discrete Differential Operators for Computer Graphics (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Holub, Alex David — Discriminative vs. Generative Object Recognition: Objects, Faces, and the Web (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ohayon, Shay S. — Dissecting Neural Circuits for Vision in Nonhuman Primates using fMRI-Guided Electrophysiology and Optogenetics (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bryan, Ronald Edward — Distance Based Visual Cues to Interpersonal Trust (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhattacharyya, Rajan — Egocentric Distance Encoding in the Posterior Parietal Cortex (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bruguier, Antoine Jean — Encoding of Financial Signals in the Human Brain (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hebert, Paul — Estimation and Inference for Grasping and Manipulation Tasks Using Vision and Kinesthetic Sensors (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bush, Eliot Christen — Evolution and Scaling in Mammalian Brains (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morris, John Christopher — Experimental Control: a Helicopter Case Study (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Waydo, Stephen J. — Explicit Object Representation by Sparse Neural Codes (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zheng, Stephan Tao — Exploiting Structure for Scalable and Robust Deep Learning (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosenbluth, David — Eye Position Modulation of Visual Cortex and the Sensory Set Hypothesis (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sauerbrei, Britton Alan — Firing Patterns of Cerebellar Purkinje Cells During Locomotion and Sleep (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Qilin — From Cells to Functional Tissue Units: Scale-Aware Deep Learning for Biological Microscopy Segmentation (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lin, Hsuan-Tien — From Ordinal Ranking to Binary Classification (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Yang — From Restoring Human Vision to Enhancing Computer Vision (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nicholson, Alexander Marshall — Generalization Error Estimates and Training Data Valuation (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• D'Andrea, Raffaello — Generalizations of H-infinity optimization. Control of rotating stall (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Korlakai Vinayak, Ramya — Graph Clustering: Algorithms, Analysis and Query Design (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lamperski, Andrew G. — Hierarchies, Spikes, and Hybrid Systems: Physiologically Inspired Control Problems (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Orlov, Sergei S. — Holographic storage dynamics, phase conjugation, and nonlinear optics in photorefractive materials (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lim, Rod S. — How Resources Control Aggression in Drosophila (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Perez, Frank Allen — Hue Segmentation, Color Circuitry, and the Mantis Shrimp (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Welinder, Nils Peter Egon — Hybrid Human-Machine Vision Systems: Image Annotation using Crowds, Experts and Machines (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meşe, Murat — Image halftoning and inverse reconstruction problems with considerations to image watermarking (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hsieh, Chia-Lung — Imaging with Second-Harmonic Generation Nanoparticles (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Woodka, Marc Dominic — Increased Classification Rates of Chemical Vapor Detectors Using Novel Sensor Types and Optimized Sensing Geometries (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Livingston, Scott Carlton — Incremental Control Synthesis for Robotics in the Presence of Temporal Logic Specifications (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hudson, Nicolas Henry — Inference in Hybrid Systems with Applications in Neural Prosthetics (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barbastathis, George — Intelligent holographic databases (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chung, Timothy Hahn Deut — Intelligent Information-Gathering: Using Control for Sensing and Decision-Making (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Walther, Dirk — Interactions of Visual Attention and Object Recognition: Computational Modeling, Algorithms, and Psychophysics (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rolfe, Jason Tyler — Intrinsic Gradient Networks (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Delbruck, Tobias — Investigations of analog VLSI visual transduction and motion processing (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fain, Daniel Cark — Kinematic Measurement and Feature Sets for Automatic Speech Recognition (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marino, Joseph Louis — Learned Feedback & Feedforward Perception & Control (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Griffin, Gregory Scott — Learning and Using Taxonomies for Visual and Olfactory Classification (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Zihui — Learning to Sample in Computational Imaging: Measurement Acquisition and Posterior Estimation (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Chiang-Shan Ray — Macaque Lateral Intraparietal Area and Oculomotor Behaviors (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Min — Mathematical Methods for Image Synthesis (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Loving Ngo, Rebekah Kiana — Methods for Long Read RNA-Seq Transcriptomics (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Feng, Xiaolin — Methods for the Analysis of Visual Motion (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spain, Merrielle Therese — Modeling and Predicting Object Attention in Natural Scenes (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suarez, Humbert H. — Modeling motion detection in striate visual cortex using massive excitatory feedback (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Itti, Laurent — Models of Bottom- Up and Top-Down Visual Attention (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leprince, Sebastien — Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics with Optical Imagery (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Greenspan, Hayit — Multi-resolution image processing and learning for texture recognition and image enhancement (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Williams, Kjerstin Irja — Multi-robot Systems: Modeling Swarm Dynamics and Designing Inspection Planning Algorithms (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhigulin, Valentin P. — Multiple-Scale Dynamics in Neural Systems: Learning, Synchronization and Network Oscillations (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barmpoutis, Dionysios — Network Structure Optimization with Applications to Minimizing Variance and Crosstalk (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McNamee, Daniel Ciarán — Neural and Computational Representations of Decision Variables (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mazor, Ofer — Neural Dynamics and Population Coding in the Insect Brain (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leonardo, Anthony Michael — Neural Dynamics Underlying Complex Behavior in a Songbird (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bohossian, Vasken Z. — Neural logic : theory and implementation (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vafeidis, Panteleimon — Neural Network Models of Learning and Generalization (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Perez-Orive, Javier — Neural Oscillations and the Decoding of Sensory Information (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Harel, Jonathan — Neural Pattern Similarity and Visual Perception (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chang, Grace C. — Neural Representation of Surface Ordering in Visual Areas V1, V2 and MT (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Olshausen, Bruno Adolphus — Neural Routing Circuits for Forming Invariant Representations of Visual Objects (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Shih-Chii — Neuromorphic models of visual and motion processing in the fly visual system (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhan, Eric — New Algorithms for Programmatic Deep Learning with Applications to Behavior Modeling (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bullo, Francesco — Nonlinear control of mechanical systems : a Riemannian geometry approach (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suver, Marie Patricia — Octopamine Neurons Mediate Flight-Induced Modulation of Visual Processing in Drosophila melanogaster (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tootoonian, Sina — On the Analysis and Design of the Locust Olfactory System (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sui, Yanan — Online Learning for the Control of Human Standing via Spinal Cord Stimulation (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Zhiwen — Optical Information Storage and Processing (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• González Palacios, Carlos Roberto — Optimal Data Distributions in Machine Learning (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Su, Yu — Optimizing Cloud AI Platforms: Resource Allocation and Market Design (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mumbrú, José — Optoelectronic Circuits Using Holographic Elements (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Simion, Claudiu — Orienting and Preference: An Enquiry into the Mechanisms Underlying Emotional Decision Making (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Backer, Alejandro (Alex) — Pattern Recognition in the Olfactory System of the Locust: Priming, Gain Control and Coding Issues (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weir, Peter Thomas — Polarization-Based Navigation in Drosophila (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moreels, Pierre — Probabilistic, Features-Based Object Recognition (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Santamaria-Perez, Fidel — Processing of Mossy Fiber Activity in the Cerebellar Cortex: a Combination of Computer Modeling and Electrophysiological Experiments (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Griffith, Virgil — Quantifying Synergistic Information (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Bo — Quantum of Vision (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ma, Jeremy Chee-Ming — Real-Time Applications of 3D Object Detection and Tracking (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Harrison, Laura Anne — Real-World Social Cognition: Context Effects in Face and Threat Processing (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burl, Michael C. — Recognition of visual object classes (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ryou, Serim — Representation of the Semantic Structures: from Discovery to Applications (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pezaris, John Stylianos — Response of Multiple Simultaneously Recorded Macaque Area LIP Neurons in a Memory Saccade Task (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Linden, Jennifer Fran — Responses to Auditory Stimuli in Macaque Lateral Intraparietal Area (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Du Toit, Noel Eduard — Robot Motion Planning in Dynamic, Cluttered, and Uncertain Environments: the Partially Closed-Loop Receding Horizon Control Approach (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Aly, Mohamed Alaa El-Dien Mahmoud Hussein — Searching Large-Scale Image Collections (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hayes, Adam Thomas — Self-Organized Robotic System Design and Autonomous Odor Localization (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Choset, Howard Marc — Sensor Based Motion Planning: The Hierarchical Generalized Voronoi Graph (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Savarese, Silvio — Shape Reconstruction from Shadows and Reflections (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cassenaer, Stijn — Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity and Synchronous Oscillations in an Invertebrate Olfactory System (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Del Vecchio, Domitilla — State Estimation in Multi-Agent Decision and Control Systems (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Choi, Jae-Woo — Surface Optofluidic Implementations towards the Development of a Biosensor (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kazadi, Sanza Nkashama Tsilobo — Swarm Engineering (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cremean, Lars Brör — System Architectures and Environment Modeling for High-Speed Autonomous Navigation (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wolf, Michael Timothy — Target Tracking Using Clustered Measurements, with Applications to Autonomous Brain-Machine Interfaces (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shi, Yuelin — The Brain’s Second Look: Generative Feedback and Dynamic Coding in Primate Vision (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nair, Aditya — The Neural Computation of Internal Affective States (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hoenselaar, Andreas — The Structure of Hippocampal Activity During REM Sleep (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bodenheimer, Robert Edward — The Whirling Blade and the Steaming Cauldron (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Jennifer Yun-Man — Three-Dimensional Shape from Shading: Perception and Mechanisms (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Van Horn, Grant Richard — Towards a Visipedia: Combining Computer Vision and Communities of Experts (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fanti, Claudio — Towards Automatic Discovery of Human Movemes (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gomes, Ryan Geoffrey — Towards Open Ended Learning: Budgets, Model Selection, and Representation (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Allen, Thomas F. — Two and Three Finger Caging of Polygons and Polyhedra (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kolb, F. Christopher — Two themes in perceptual ecology : visual attention and awareness (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Andreetto, Marco — Unsupervised Learning of Categorical Segments in Image Collections (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ronchi, Matteo Ruggero — Vision for Social Robots: Human Perception and Pose Estimation (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cole, Elijah Henry John — Visual and Spatial Representation Learning with Applications in Ecology (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gharib, Alma Mariam — Visual Behavior and Preference Decision-Making in Response to Faces in High-Functioning Autism (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Munich, Mario Enrique — Visual input for pen-based computers (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bouguet, Jean-Yves — Visual methods for three-dimensional modeling (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Angelova, Anelia Nedelcheva — Visual Prediction of Rover Slip: Learning Algorithms and Field Experiments (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Fei-Fei — Visual Recognition: Computational Models and Human Psychophysics (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pesavento, Alberto — Visual Sensors for Focal Plane Computation of Image Features (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McGill, Mason Benjamin — Visual Systems and the Forces That Shape Them (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peters, Robert Jacob — Visual, Attention and Object Categorization: From Psychophysics to Computational Models (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reiser, Michael Bernard — Visually Mediated Control of Flight in Drosophila: Not Lost in Translation (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mahowald, Michelle A. (Misha) — VLSI Analogs of Neuronal Visual Processing: A Synthesis of Form and Function (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Beery, Sara Meghan — Where the Wild Things Are: Computer Vision for Global-Scale Biodiversity Monitoring (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zellinger, Michael J. — White Elephants and Cash Cows: Economically Wrangling the Zoo of AI Models (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))