michael j tarr

I will not be taking new trainees for 25-26

but CMU just hired Maggie Henderson, Jenelle Feather,
Jonathan Tsay, Xaq Pitkow, and Aran Nayebi

You should reach out to them!

interests in natural and artificial systems:

• the inductive biases of biological systems that enable intelligent behavior

• better articulated models of the intermediate and high-level vision

• the functional organizational principles of vision

• the interaction between vision and other modalities

• tools drawn from cognitive science, machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics, and large-scale neuroimaging, including fMRI, DTI, MEG, EEG

how one person ended up working with me...

When people ask how I got into human-computer interaction, I tell them, "Well, originally I wanted to be a graphic designer, but a few serendipitous events changed my course. The first is that on my first day at college, in line at the computer store, I got into a conversation with a young guy with blue hair. It turned out he was a professor! He offered me a work-study job in his lab, and that opened my eyes to cognitive science. From there, one thing led to another…" 

— Scott Klemmer, Professor of Computer Science, UCSD (the blue-haired professor being me)

stuff i like to do besides science

• bike riding / bike repair / bike building [1]

• wood working / furniture etc. / see some things I made here

• science fiction (iain m banks [2], terry pratchett [2], neal stephenson [3], ann leckie, william gibson, arkady martine, ted chiang [4]