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Join us in celebrating the scholarly and service contributions of our faculty to their fields.

人妻少妇专区聽faculty regularly earn regional, national, and international awards and honors for their professional contributions to research, scholarship, education, and community engagement.

As part of an ongoing series, we鈥檙e spotlighting their accomplishments.

James Allen elected fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics

, an internationally renowned AI researcher, has been named a (ACL) for his 鈥渟ignificant contributions to natural language dialogue research, planning and plan recognition.鈥� ACL fellows are chosen for their 鈥渕ost extraordinary鈥� contributions in scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community, and educational or outreach activities.

During a career that spanned 43 years, Allen, an emeritus professor in the , did groundbreaking research on collaborative agents that reason and plan while interacting through language.

His early work focused on the development of a plan-based theory of speech acts, which launched him to immediate prominence and still serves as one of the most influential computational models of dialogue behavior developed to date. Two of his landmark papers on the topic received more than 15,000 citations. More recently, while most of the natural language processing field moved to statistical learning methods as the paradigm for language processing, Allen believed that deep-language understanding can only currently be achieved by significant hand-engineering of semantically rich formalisms coupled with statistical preferences.

Allen joined the computer science department as its fifth faculty member in 1978, after earning a PhD from the University of Toronto. He served as department chair from 1987 to 1990 and was named the John H. Dessauer Professor of Computer Science in 1992. Beginning in 2002, he also served as a senior research scientist and an associate director of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.

He authored Natural Language Understanding (Benjamin/Cummins 1987, with a second edition in 1995). Allen served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Computational Linguistics (now called Computational Linguistics) from 1983 to 1993; during his tenure as editor, the journal became the leading publication in the field. In 1984, Allen was one of the first recipients of the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation.

His other honors include receiving the University鈥檚 William H. Riker Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (1997); being elected a charter fellow of the AAAI (1990), a fellow of the Cognitive Science Society (2019), and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2020); and receiving the Herbert A. Simon Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cognitive Systems (2020).

• Learn more about Allen鈥檚 contributions to enabling effective human-computer interactions.

Marvin Doyley named IEEE fellow

, who develops novel imaging techniques to detect and track diseases, has been selected as a (IEEE). The institute is recognizing Doyley for his research involving ultrasound elastography, using inverse methods.

Fellows are nominated by peers and approved by the IEEE Board of Directors. Less than 0.1 percent of voting members are selected annually for outstanding qualifications and experience and important contributions to IEEE-designated fields.

Doyley, the Wilson Professor of Electronic Imaging and chair of electrical and computer engineering, joined the University in 2008 after serving as a research professor at Dartmouth College. His uses various optical, magnetic resonance, and ultrasound imaging techniques to develop new ways to detect disease more quickly and determine how well patients are responding to therapy. Elastography (elasticity imaging) is a state-of-the-art method for diagnosing abnormalities in soft tissue.

He was previously inducted as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2020). Doyley was also selected for the first cohort of the IAspire Leadership Academy, a program aimed at helping STEM faculty from underrepresented backgrounds ascend to leadership roles at colleges and universities. As department chair at Rochester, he (research experience for undergraduates) program aimed at introducing imaging in medicine and biology for underrepresented minorities.

• Discover how Doyley鈥檚 research could buy time for pancreatic cancer patients.

Golisano Children鈥檚 Hospital faculty selected for national health care equity program

, , and of the Department of Pediatrics will participate in the year-long Disparities Leadership Program. Led by the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, it is the first program of its kind in the nation and is designed for leaders from hospitals, health insurance plans, and other health care organizations who are seeking to develop practical strategies to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

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Jennifer Grotz鈥檚 cotranslation receives honorable mention from the Modern Language Association

In awarding its most recent , the (MLA) gave an honorable mention to , a professor of English, and Piotr Sommer, of Sulej贸wek, Poland, for their translation of Jerzy Ficowski鈥檚聽Everything I Don鈥檛 Know: Selected Poems. The citation from the professional organization鈥檚 Committee on Honors and Awards highlights the cotranslators鈥� 鈥渆xcellent representation of the development of [Ficowski鈥檚] poetic voice鈥� over the course of nearly five decades. 鈥淭his slim, impressive volume opens a window into the achievement of a poet who treated the traumas and joys of the twentieth century with disconcerting clarity,鈥� the committee notes.

Published by World Poetry Books in 2021, Everything I Don鈥檛 Know won the聽PEN American Literary Award for Poetry in Translation. In addition to her work as a translator, Grotz is the author of four books of poetry, most recently聽Still Falling (slated for release in spring 2023 from Graywolf Press). Her poems have appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, New York Times Magazine,听补苍诲听The New York Review of Books.

• Read more about Grotz and Sommer鈥檚 10-year 鈥榣abor of love鈥� translating Ficowski鈥檚 poems.

Elaine Hill appointed fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research

, an associate professor of public health sciences, of obstetrics and gynecology, and of economics, was recently selected as a faculty research fellow by the National Bureau of Economic Research for her work in health economics. Hill鈥檚 research focuses on the health consequences of shale gas development, the continuing health impact of racist housing policies, and how the economic, social, and health care disruptions caused by COVID-19 worsened the nation鈥檚 opioid epidemic.

• Learn more about Hill, who is at the helm of .

Ehsan Hoque named Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery

, who works in the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and human-centered computing (HCC), has been named a (ACM) for his outstanding contributions to computing. He is among 67 members of the world鈥檚 largest educational and scientific computing society who have been selected by their peers for work that has spurred innovation, enhanced computer science education, and moved the field forward.

Hoque, an associate professor of computer science and coleader of the Group, models and captures the dynamics of human behavior and their relationships using machine learning, computer vision, and network sciences. In collaboration with colleagues from the University鈥檚 Medical Center, his algorithmic intuitions improve the lives of disadvantaged, ill, disabled, and other individuals who struggle with socio-emotional communication, such as those with autism, severe anxiety, , , , and . Other applications of his work include using AI to help with , , , , , and .

Hoque joined the University in 2013 after receiving his PhD in 2013 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctoral thesis鈥斺�溾�濃�攚as the first of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to learn and improve their social skills by interacting with an automated system; the thesis was showcased at the MIT Museum as one of the most unconventional inventions at MIT.

His research has been supported with more than $20 million in grants from a wide variety of funders, including the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Army Research Lab, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Google, Microsoft, and the Moore Foundation. His work has resulted in more than 100 publications with eight best paper awards or nominations.

Hoque鈥檚 previous accolades include being named an Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine聽by the National Academy of Medicine (2020), one of by Science News (2017), an (2016). He past awards include an 聽(2019), an NSF CAREER Award (2018), and Google Faculty Research Awards (2014, 2016, 2020).

• Discover how Hoque and his collaborators can analyze the selfies people take to predict whether a person is likely to develop Parkinson鈥檚 disease.

Jiebo Luo, Benjamin Miller named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

, a leading expert in artificial intelligence, and , a pioneer in developing compact chips and biosensors for disease detection and personalized medicine, have been selected as fellows of the (NAI). The academy is recognizing Luo, Miller, and the other inductees for 鈥渁 prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on聽the聽quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society.鈥�

Luo, the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and a professor of , joined the University in 2011 after working 15 years for Eastman Kodak Co., where he was a principal contributor to the Digital Radiography System and other Kodak products. At the University, his pursuit of new research frontiers in multimedia and computer vision research includes investigating computational inference of sentiment and emotion in images and multimedia and also bridging images and video with language. Luo鈥檚 more than 500 publications and five books, which have garnered more than 41,000 citations, also span natural language processing, machine learning, data mining, computational social science, and digital health.

Luo has been issued 95 US patents. Recent awards include election to Academia Europaea (2022). He is also a fellow of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), SPIE (the international society for optics and photonics), and IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition), and has received major technical achievement awards from ACM, IEEE, and Eastman Kodak.

Miller, the Dean鈥檚 Professor of , joined the Rochester faculty in 1996. He also holds appointments in , , , and . His focuses on two fundamental research areas: the control of biomolecular interactions through the synthesis of new small-molecule probes, and the observation of biomolecular interactions through the development of novel optical sensing technologies. The applications include the production of compact, inexpensive biosensors that could replace current floor-standing clinical diagnostic systems with small, cell phone-sized devices.

Miller鈥檚 name appears on 30 issued US and international patents and 23 patents pending. They cover more than 20 novel detectors, biosensors, chips, and probe arrays. His previous honors include being named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019) and a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2020), as well as receiving the Rochester Business Journal Health Care Achievement Award (2009) and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2001鈥�2006).

Previous 人妻少妇专区 NAI fellows are Duncan Moore and David Williams (2021), Jannick Rolland (2020), Jim Zavislan (2018), Wayne Knox (2017), and Kevin Parker (2016).

• Check out Miller鈥檚 project to develop novel photonic sensors for detecting COVID-19 and other emerging viruses.
• Learn how Luo鈥檚 research group harnessed social media to gauge public opinion about anti-Asian hate crimes.

Medical Center faculty receive National Academy of Medicine鈥檚 Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award

, a psychiatry associate; , an associate professor of psychiatry; , an instructor of emergency medicine; and Kiah E. Nyame of the City of Rochester were recognized for their Intergenerational Mentoring to Promote Health Across the Lifespan project. The project will connect UR Medicine, local government, and the Rochester community to foster mentorships between older adults and younger mentees.

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Anthony Pisani receives BMA Medical Book Award

Suicide Prevention: Stahl鈥檚 Handbooks, a publication coauthored by Anthony Pisani, an associate professor of psychiatry, was for outstanding contributions to medical literature. The book provides quick tips for suicide screening, risk assessment, interventions, and follow-up communication to mental health and primary care professionals to ensure comprehensive and patient-oriented care.

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