William Yerazunis
MERL Research / Technical StaffSenior Research Scientist
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1987
Phone: (617) 621-7530
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William Yerazunis is a Senior Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He recieved the B.S., M.Eng, and Ph.D degrees in Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in 1978, 1979, and 1987, respectively. Since then, he has worked in a number of fields including optics, machine vision, and signal processing (for General Electric's jet engine manufacturing); computer graphics (at Rensselaer's Center for Interactive Computer Graphics); artificial intelligence and parallel symbolic computation (for DEC's OPS5, XCON and RuleWorks); radioastronomy and SETI ( at Harvard University), transplant immunology (for the American Red Cross), virtual and augmented reality, realtime physical and chemical sensing, and ubiquitous computing (for Mitsubishi Electric), and realtime statistical categorization of texts (the CRM114 Discriminator anti-spam system). He is also a Visiting Scientist at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland. He has appeared on numerous educational television shows, holds 29 U.S. patents, sports an Erdos number of three, a Kevin Bacon number of three, holds FCC ham radio Extra class and Commercial Broadcast/radar engineer licenses, and was voted one of the 50 most powerful people in networking by NetworkWorld magazine in 2006.
Recent Projects:
DiamondTouchFluid Level Encoder
Submerging Technologies
Recent Publications:
McGuire, M.; Matusik, W.; Yerazunis, W., "Practical, Real-time Studio Matting using Dual Imagers", Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR), June 2006 (EGSR 2006, TR2006-062)Lau, K-T; Yerazunis, W.S.; Shepherd, R.L.; Diamond, D., "Quantitative Colorimetric Analysis of Dye Mixtures Using an Optical Photometer Based on LED Array", Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Volume 114, Issue 2, pp. 819-825, April 2006 (ScienceDirect, TR2005-124)
Assis, F.; Yerazunis, W.; Siefkes, C.; Chhabra, S., "CRM114 versus Mr. X: CRM114 Notes for the TREC 2005 Spam Track", NIST Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), November 2005 (TREC 2005, TR2005-162)
Dietz, P.H.; Harsham, B.; Forlines, C.; Leigh, D; Yerazunis, W.; Shipman, S.; Schmidt-Nielsen, B.; Ryall, K., "DT Controls: Adding Indentity to Physical Interfaces", ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ISBN: 1-59593-271-2, pp. 245-252, October 2005 (ACM Press, TR2005-069)
Recent Technical Reports: | |
| A Low-cost Optical Sensing Device Based on Paired Emitter-detector Light Emitting Diodes | |
| Low-Cost Surface Mount LED Gas Sensor | |
