Spotlight: Liz Marai, Assistant Professor

Dr. Liz Marai joined the Computer Science Department as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2007. She also holds an adjunct faculty appointment with the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Marai received her PhD in Computer Science in May 2007 from Brown University. While at Brown, she was a member of the Brown Graphics group. As a member of the Brown Graphics group, she worked closely with researchers at the Brown Medical School and in the Biology and Evolutionary Biology Department. In 1997, she received her BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the "Politehnica" University in Bucharest, Romania.

Dr. Marai's research interests are in computer graphics and visualization, with a focus on computational modeling, visualization and automated analysis of data across disciplines. Her doctoral work at Brown University focused on constructing predictive models of anatomical joints from incomplete data, an example of successful, close collaboration between computer scientists and life scientists. To date, she has published four journal papers, one book chapter, and numerous conference papers and abstracts.

In the Spring term, Dr. Marai will be teaching a graduate seminar on "Interdisciplinary Modeling and Visualization" (CS3610). The seminar is open to computer science students, and also to graduate students from other disciplines (biology, geology, history, physics etc.) who are interested in collaborating with computer scientists. Dr. Marai looks forward to working actively with students in tackling new and interesting scientific problems.

You can find more information about Dr. Marai's research projects from her personal web page.