People at the LATLab
Faculty
Matt Huenerfauth
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
CUNY Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center
Email: matt (at) cs.qc.cuny.edu
Homepage: http://eniac.cs.qc.cuny.edu/matt
Interests: Assistive Technology and Accessible Computing, Natural Language Processing, Sign Language Computational Linguistics, Virtual Human Animation, User-Based Evaluation of Assistive Technology.
Graduate Students
Lijun Feng
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
CUNY Graduate Center
Email: lijun7 (dot) feng (at) gmail (dot) com
Homepage: http://lijun.symptotic.com/
Interests: natural language processing (NLP), in particular readability, text comprehension and text simplification, and machine learning.
Allen Harper
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
CUNY Graduate Center
Email: avrharper (at) gmail (dot) com
Interests: User-interface design for people who are deaf, use of sign language animations and videos in user-interfaces.
Pengfei Lu
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
CUNY Graduate Center
Email: pengfeilv (at) gmail (dot) com
Homepage: http://latlab.cs.qc.cuny.edu/pengfei
Interests: Motion-capture data analysis and the computational linguistics of sign languages.
Josh Waxman
Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
CUNY Graduate Center
Email: joshwaxman (at) gmail (dot) com
Interests: Computational linguistic techniques for low-density languages, automatic cognate-identification, and machine transliteration.
Research Staff
Jonathan Lamberton
Research Assistant
Research Foundation of CUNY
Email: lamberton (at) latlab (dot) cs (dot) qc (dot) cuny (dot) edu
Interests: Collection and annotation of ASL motion-capture data, experiments involving Deaf research subjects, and educational outreach activities.
Alumni of the LATLab
Amanda Krieger
Undergraduate student researcher
Gallaudet University
Interests: Collection and annotation of ASL motion-capture data.
Summer 2009
Kelsey Gallagher
High school student researcher
Oyster Bay High School
Interests: Collection and annotation of ASL motion-capture data.
Summer 2009
Wesley Clarke
High school student researcher
Lexington School for the Deaf
Interests: Collection and annotation of ASL motion-capture data.
Summer 2009
Aaron Pagan
High school student researcher
Middle College High School
Interests: Collection and annotation of ASL motion-capture data.
Summer 2009