William Yerazunis
MERL Research / Technical StaffSenior Research Scientist & Hardware Team Leader
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 received 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.
Publications:
Slater, C.; Cleary, J.; McGraw, C.M.; Yerazunis, W.S.; Lau, K.T.; Diamond, D., "Autonomous Field-deployable Device for the Measurement of Phosphate in Natural Water", SPIE Advanced Environmental, Chemical and Biological Sensing Technologies, Vol. 6755, September 2007 (SPIE Publications, TR2007-105)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)
Yerazunis, W.S.; Chhabra, S.; Siefkes, C.; Assis, F.; Gunopulos, D., "A Unified Model of Spam Filtration", MIT Spam Conference, January 2005 (MIT Spam Conference 2005, TR2005-085)
Lee, J.C.; Dietz, P.H.; Leigh, D.; Yerazunis, W.S.; Hudson, S.E., "Haptic Pen: A Tactile Feedback Stylus for Touch Screens ", ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ISBN: 1-58113-957-8, pp. 291-294, October 2004 (ACM Press, TR2004-133)
Siefkes, C.; Assis, F.; Chhabra, S.; Yerazunis, W.S., "Combining Winnow and Orthogonal Sparse Bigrams for Incremental Spam Filtering", European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) / European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD), September 2004 (ECML/PKDD 2004)
Lau, K.T.; Baldwin, S.; Shepherd, R.L.; Dietz, P.H.; Yerazunis, W.S.; Diamond, D., "Novel Fused-LEDs Devices as Optical Sensors for Colorimetric Analysis", Talanta, Vol. 63, Issue 1, pp. 167-173, May 2004 (Talanta, TR2003-150)
Yerazunis, W.S., "The Spam-Filtering Accuracy Plateau at 99.9% Accuracy and How to Get Past It", MIT Spam Conference, January 2004 (TR2004-091)
Raskar, R.; van Baar, J.; Beardsley, P.A.; Forlines, C.; Dietz, P.H.; Esenther, A.W.; Leigh, D.L; Ryall, K.; Shen, C.; Shipman, S.E.; Yerazunis, W.S., "Intelligent Clusters and Collaborative Projector-based Displays", NSF Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Reality and Visualization (CVRV), October 2003 (NSF Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Reality and Visualization, TR2003-086)
Dietz, P.H.; Yerazunis, W.S.; Leigh, D.L., "Very Low Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDS", International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), October 2003 (UbiComp 2003, TR2003-035)
Yerazunis, W.S., "Sparse Binary Polynomial Hashing and the CRM114 Discriminator", MIT Spam Conference, January 2003 (MIT Spam Conference)
Dietz, P.H.; Leigh, D.L.; Yerazunis, W.S., "Wireless Liquid Level Sensing for Restaurant Applications", IEEE Sensors, Vol. 1, pp. 715-720, June 2002 (IEEE Xplore, TR2002-021)
Yerazunis, W.S.; Carbone, M., "Privacy-Enhanced Displays by Time-Masking Images", Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI), November 2001 (OzCHI 2001, TR2002-011)
Dietz, P.H.; Yerazunis, W.S., "Real-Time Audio Buffering for Telephone Applications", ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ISBN: 1-58113-438-X, pps 193-194, November 2001 (Proc ACM Press)
Yerazunis, W.S., Leigh, D.L., Freeman, W.T. and Bardsley, R.S, "An Inexpensive, All Solid-State Video and Data Recorder for Accident Reconstruction", SAE International Congress and Exposition, 10-1299, March 1999 (TR1999-029)
Freeman, W.T., Anderson, D.B., Beardsley, P.A., Dodge, C.N., Roth, M., Weissman, C.D., Yerazunis, W.S., Kage, H., Kyuma, K., Miyake, Y.; Tanaka, K., "Computer Vision for Interactive Computer Graphics", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp. 42-53, May-June 1998 (IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, TR1999-002)
Technical Reports: | |
| A Low-cost Optical Sensing Device Based on Paired Emitter-detector Light Emitting Diodes | |
| Low-Cost Surface Mount LED Gas Sensor | |
| The ANSI C (Internal) Spline Version 3.0 Application Program Interface | |
| Diamond Park and Spline: A Social Virtual Reality System with 3D Animation, Spoken Interaction, and Runtime Modifiability | |