Students
Zoë LaLena
Zoë is a graduate student in the Master of Science Computer Vision Program at Carnegie Mellon University. Zoë graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in spring 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Imaging Science. While at RIT, she did in research in cultural heritage imaging, going on to present her work at the 2021 International Congress on Medieval Studies. This semester Zoë focused on capturing data and trying ways to transform captured data to fit the training data distribution.
Jing Gao
Jing is a Master’s student in Computer Vision at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University in China. Her passion lies in computer vision, deep learning, and multi-model applications. Jing’s primary focus revolves around advancing techniques to enhance models’ utilization of multi-modal data, with a particular emphasis on visual information. She is dedicated to optimizing these models to tackle real-world challenges effectively.
Advisor
Zackory Erikson
Zackory is an Assistant Professor in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he leads the Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction (RCHI) Lab. His research focuses on developing new robot learning, mobile manipulation, and sensing methods for physical human-robot interaction and healthcare, with an emphasis on empowering older adults and people with disabilities to live more independently and maintain a higher quality of life. Zackory received his PhD in Robotics and M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.