Tanya Yonit Berger-Wolf
Email Address: tanyabw@uic.eduCollege: Engineering Department: Computer Science
Secondary Department: Bioengineering
Title: Professor
Office: 1136 SEO M/C 152 Phone: 4138719
Webpage: http://www.cs.uic.edu/~tanyabw
Participating in the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Awards program: No
Research Interest:
Computational ecology, at its unique intersection of computer science, wildlife biology, and social sciences.Particularly in creating computational solutions to help answer biological questions of why do social animals (including humans) do what they do: from computer vision to identify individual animals in photos to social network analysis for understanding how leaders emerge and affect group decisions Two specific project: * Wildbook: a cloud-based system that starts from crowdsourced images and, using machine learning, computer vision, and data science, transforms them into information about animals. (wildbook.org) * Using sensor systems and network analysis to track, identify, and understand individual, pairwise, or group level behavior. Minimum time commitment in hours per week: 10 Qualifications of a Student:
At least one of the following (but not necessarily exclusively): * theoretical computer science background or mathematical combinatorial background * good programming skills in Python * good programming skills in Java or C or C++ and ability to evaluate different existing software to incorporate and modify it. * ability to understand existing computational methods and interface with scientists from other disciplines
NOTE: This researcher is currently not accepting applications for the Undergraduate Research Experience program.
