Contributors to the Site
Serge Belongie
Serge Belongie was born in Sacramento, California, in 1974. He received the B.S. degree (with honor) in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1995 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at U.C. Berkeley in 1997 and 2000, respectively. While at Berkeley, his research was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. He is also a co-founder of Digital Persona, Inc., and the principal architect of the Digital Persona fingerprint recognition algorithm. He is currently an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at U.C. San Diego. His research interests include computer vision and pattern recognition. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2004 MIT Technology Review named him to the list of the 100 top young technology innovators in the world (TR100).
sjb at cs.ucsd.edu
Micha Cardenas
Micha Cardenas / dj lotu5 / Azdel Slade is a
transgender artist, theorist and trouble maker. She will be a Lecturer
in the Visual Arts department at UCSD in Fall and Winter of 2009. She is
an Artist/Researcher at the Experimental Game Lab at CRCA and at CalIT2.
Her interests include the interplay of technology, gender, sex and
biopolitics. She blogs at Transreal.org. Micha
holds an MFA from the University of California San Diego, an MA in Media
and Communications with distinction from the European Graduate School
and a BS in Computer Science from Florida International University.
Micha recently joined the Lui Velazquez space in Tijuana as a curator
and collective member. She has exhibited in Los Angeles, San Diego,
Tijuana, New York, San Francisco, Montreal, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain and
many other places. Micha has received grants from UCIRA, calit2 and Ars
Virtua and her work has been written about in the LA Times, San Diego
Union Tribune and Rolling Stone Italy among other places.
mcardenas@ucsd.edu
Tiffany Fox
Although her journalistic background is predominantly in the arts (literature, music and film), Tiffany Fox has discovered her inner techno-geek since joining Calit2 this year as a senior Web writer. She comes to the institute by way of UCSD's campus Web sites and the San Diego Union-Tribune, which continues to employ her as a freelance book review columnist (she writes "Strictly Fictional" under her maiden name, Tiffany Lee-Youngren). Fox also served in the U.S. Peace Corps as an English teacher and A.I.D.S. educator in a village called Bogo in Cameroon, Central Africa. Her pursuits and interests change with the weather, but the topics that have grabbed her attention these days are yoga, urban art, data visualization, Bollywood films, world travel and Zen philosophy.
tfox at ucsd.edu
Jim Hollan
Jim Hollan is Professor of Cognitive Science and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science. In collaboration with Ed Hutchins, he directs the Distributed Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory. In addition, he helps lead the Ubiquitous Computing and Social Dynamics research group. After completing a Ph.D. at the University of Florida and a postdoctoral fellowship in artificial intelligence at Stanford University, Hollan was on the faculty at the University of California, San Diego for a decade. Along with Ed Hutchins and Don Norman, he led the Intelligent Systems Group in the Institute for Cognitive Science. He left UCSD to become Director of the MCC Human Interface Laboratory and subsequently established the Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Research Group at Bellcore. In 1993, he moved to the University of New Mexico as Chair of the Computer Science Department. In 1997, Hollan returned to UCSD as Professor of Cognitive Science. Professor Hollan's research explores the cognitive consequences of computationally-based media. The goal is to understand the cognitive, computational, and social ecology of dynamic interactive media as a basis for designing computer-mediated interaction and communication. His current research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Microsoft Research, the UC MICRO Program, and the Chancellor's Interdisciplinary Collaboratories Program. Recently completed research was funded by California's Digital Media Innovation Program, Darpa, Intel, Microsoft, Nissan, NSF, and Sony.
hollan at cogsci.ucsd.edu http://cogsci.ucsd.edu
Atom Leonhart
Atom Leonhart received her Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts from UCSD in 2009. She considers herself an animator and electronic performance artist. In 2008, she left UCSD for Germany and spent the year working on a number of electronic and internet-based artistic endeavors and living deep in the culture-packed and gloriously seedy underbelly of the former East Berlin. During her time at UCSD, she picked up a minor in Computing Media and joined artistic forces with UCSD ICAM graduate Angela Black to form Corazon Negro. The two soon became the world's best and most famous electronic artists. Their efforts since then have been spent in convincing the rest of the world of this fact. The most recent Corazon Negro project was Digichotomy--a mobile performance utilizing professional wifi equipment and GPS data to sync movement and sound between our world and the digital world of Second Life. You can follow her work at off-beats.com
at0mbxmb at googlemail.com
Shellie Nazarenus
With her initial foray into technology as a part-time computer key punch operator, Shellie Nazarenus soon discovered that her appetite for the novel had been whetted. She began her journalism career in the early 80s hosting a National Public Radio mid-morning news and variety show that included a "talking techno" segment. Moving from radio to television news, Nazarenus anchored and reported for a variety of mid-western NBC affiliates including a stint as the medical and technology beat reporter for WEAU-TV - a station located next to Seymour Cray's R&D supercomputer facilities. The birth of the World Wide Web and consequential changes to the news industry prompted her to enter graduate school in the mid-90s at the University of Missouri, where she studied what was then called "new media" journalism. Nazarenus learned html coding to build news and public affairs websites and converted her analog broadcast skills into digital language. She found her way to California at the turn of the century and landed at UCI's Calit2, where she directs the marketing communications and outreach efforts.
snaz at calit2.uci.edu
Doug Ramsey
Doug Ramsey is the Director of Communications for the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). He joined UCSD in 2001 as Senior
Public Information Representative for Calit2 and the Jacobs School of
Engineering. From 1994 to 2001, Ramsey was President of Global Media Associates,
Inc., Business Editor of KUSI-TV, and host of "NetWorth" on United Airlines.
Before moving to San Diego in 1994, he spent two decades in international and
business journalism. He was an anchor at CNBC and WNBC-TV; anchor and managing
editor at Financial News Network; New York business correspondent for NBC News;
executive producer and managing editor of Business Times on ESPN; senior editor
in charge of business and technology for Newsweek magazine; Far East and energy
correspondent at The Economist (Tokyo and London); and Brussels
correspondent for the Washington Post. Ramsey received his M.A. in International
Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1973
(Washington D.C.); Diploma of Higher European Studies from the College of Europe
(Bruges, Belgium); and B.A. in Political Science from UCLA in 1970. His
non-fiction book, "The Corporate Warriers", was published in 1987 by
Houghton-Mifflin.
dramsey at ucsd.edu
Ramesh Rao
Ramesh Rao is Director of the UCSD Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and holds the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Communications and Information Technologies in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering. He joined the UCSD faculty in 1984, after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to assuming his current post in 2001 at Calit2, Rao was Director of UCSD's Center for Wireless Communications. He is a senior member of IEEE and sits on the society's Board of Governors. Rao chaired a National Research Council committee on IT in disaster management and co-edited the published report, "Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery" (National Academies Press, 2007). He is a PI on the NSF-funded RESCUE and ResponSphere projects and co-PI on the NIH-funded WIISARD project.
rrao at soe.ucsd.edu
Jerry Sheehan
Jerry Sheehan acts as a manager for Government Program Development at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2)/UCSD and leads efforts to investigate how emerging Web technologies can be used to support e-Science. He has an extensive background in science and technology policy, having worked in the Lt. Governor's Office in Illinois, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Purdue University. Jerry is an information omnivore, producing content daily for the Calit2 Research Intelligence portal (http://ri.calit2.net), using Facebook to keep connected with colleagues ( http://www.facebook.com
jerry at ucsd.edu
Larry Smarr
Larry Smarr is director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and Harry E. Gruber professor in the Jacobs School's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. Smarr is Principal Investigator on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project, the Moore Foundation CAMERA marine microbial metagenomics project, and is Co-PI on the NSF LOOKING ocean observatory prototype. As founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the National Computational Science Alliance, Smarr has driven major contributions to the development of the national information infrastructure: the Internet, the Web, the emerging Grid, telepresence, and scientific visualization. He was a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee for President Clinton and served until 2005 on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the NASA Advisory Council. He was named a member of the California Governor's Task Force on Broadband in December 2006. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006 he was presented with the ESRI Lifetime Achievement Award and received the IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for distributed computing systems achievements.
lsmarr at soe.ucsd.edu
Anna Lynn Spitzer
Web 2.0 has been a real revelation for Anna Lynn Spitzer, communications manager and principal writer at Calit2 Irvine. Having graduated from journalism school in the 70s, when newspaper articles were composed on a typewriter and printed in galleys, she's a late arrival - albeit an enthusiastic one - to the social networking applications of the new millennium. After beginning her career in corporate communications, Anna Lynn spent 15 years as a freelance corporate writer before joining UC Irvine's central communications office in 2001. She moved to Calit2 in September 2004, just in time to plunge into preparations for the grand opening of the Irvine Calit2 Building. A public transportation aficionado, Anna Lynn has found that commuting by bus has given her extra time to read and nap, two of her favorite activities.
aspitzer at calit2.uci.edu
Trish Stone
Trish Stone is the Tour Director and Gallery Coordinator at the UCSD Division of Calit2. She is a new media artist and curator, and has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. In 2005 she was the artist in residence for the Experimental Media Arts program at Stanford University. She has curated exhibitions at Works San Jose and Keys That Fit gallery in Oakland. Trish comes to UCSD from the Bay Area, where she managed Media Services for the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She holds an MFA (2003) from California College of Arts and Crafts, and continues her conceptual and interventionist art practice here in San Diego. http://www.trishstone.com.
As a new media artist and educator, Trish Stone is pleased to have found a new home at Calit2 San Diego. She comes to UCSD from the Bay Area, where she managed Media Services for the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Trish's conceptual media art projects have been exhibited widely, and have received much attention. In 2005 she was an artist-in-residence at Stanford University where she produced the CharlesSpySchwab project, in which she "spied" on the Charles Schwab office buildings, took photos, and created an abstracted, satirical website. This garnered praise from her peers, and legal action from Charles Schwab. Thus, she changed the project to CharlesSpy.com, where visitors can learn about her near-trials and tribulations. In December 2007, Trish curatedan exhibit of video installations made by four female artists working in the field of educational technology in the Bay Area. The show, EVP (for Electro Voice Phenomenon) opened at the Keys That Fit Gallery in Oakland.Trish holds an MFA (2003) from California College of Arts and Crafts, and continues her interactive, interruptive, interventionist art practice since her move to San Diego. She finds her position as Tour Director at Calit2 inspiring and exciting, and looks forward to her future within the CalIt2 community.
tstone at ucsd.edu
Mike Toillion
Mike Toillion received his Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts (ICAM) from the University of California, San Diego in 2007. As an undergraduate, Mike held the positions of Programming Director, Engineer and Manager of Student Run Television (SRTV) at UCSD. He currently works at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2) at UCSD as a Media Specialist and Producer/Director.
Mike's art practice is inherently interdisciplinary and explores the concepts of media remixability in video, animation, photography, music and performance. His latest work involves the use of High-Definition video footage in making Hip Hop inspired 4K Super High-Definition video art.
jettisonhigh.com
mtoillion at soe.ucsd.edu
Bill Tomlinson
Bill Tomlinson is an Assistant Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and a researcher in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. He studies the fields of multi-agent systems, human-computer interaction, real time graphics and environmental technologies. He has authored more than thirty scholarly publications over the last five years, including work at the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems conference, ACM CHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning conference and numerous other conferences and journals. Previous interactive projects have been shown in the Emerging Technologies program at ACM SIGGRAPH ('97, '98, '99, '01, '05), at the Game Developers Conference, and at Ars Electronica, and have been reviewed by CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Sculpture Magazine, Scientific American Frontiers, the LA Times, Wired.com and the BBC. In 2007, he received an NSF CAREER award, and in 2008 he was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow. In addition his animated film, Shaft of Light, screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by the Anti-Defamation League in its Anti-Bias/Diversity Catalog. He holds an A.B. in Biology from Harvard College, an M.F.A. in Experimental Animation from CalArts, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the MIT Media Lab.
wmt at uci.edu
Amin Vahdat
Amin Vahdat is a Professor and holds the Science Applications International Corporation Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is also the Director of the Center for Networked Systems at the University of California San Diego. He received his PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1998 under the supervision of Thomas Anderson after spending the last year and a half as a Research Associate at the University of Washington. Before joining UCSD in 2004, he was on the faculty at Duke University from 1999-2003. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2000, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2003, and the Duke University David and Janet Vaughn Teaching Award in 2003.
vahdat at cs.ucsd.edu
Laura Wolszon
Laura Wolszon's role as Manager of Strategic Partnerships at Calit2 is to foster novel and high-impact collaborations among researchers from UCSD, Industry and non-profit organizations. Her goal is to create new multidisciplinary projects by making potential partners aware of the unique intellectual and technical resources that Calit2 can bring to bear, and to identify faculty at UCSD who are eager to cross disciplinary boundaries in order to participate in exciting, cutting-edge research. Laura's former career in technology transfer and licensing helps Calit2's partners navigate issues surrounding intellectual property, commercialization and university policy, and her 10 years as an academic neuroscientist post-Ph.D. give her an insider's understanding of the needs of our academics.
Laura has a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Biophysical Sciences from SUNY/Buffalo.
lwolszon at soe.ucsd.edu
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