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Biography
James M. Rehg (pronounced “ray”) is a Founder Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Previously, he was a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he co-Directed the Center for Health Analytics and Informatics (CHAI). He received his Ph.D. from CMU in 1995 and worked at the Cambridge Research Lab of DEC (and then Compaq) from 1995-2001, where he managed the computer vision research group. He received an NSF CAREER award in 2001 and a Raytheon Faculty Fellowship from Georgia Tech in 2005. He and his students have received a number of best paper awards, including best student paper awards at ICML 2005, BMVC 2010, Mobihealth 2014, Face and Gesture 2015, and a Distinguished Paper Award from ACM IMWUT and a Method of the Year award from the journal Nature Methods. Dr. Rehg served as the General co-Chair for CVPR 2009 and the Program co-Chair for CVPR 2017. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and holds 26 issued US patents.
Introduction to the Rehg Lab
We conduct foundational research in computer vision and machine learning, with broad applications in human-centered and interdisciplinary domains. Our work spans developmental and social psychology, autism research, mobile health, and robotics. A central theme of our work is understanding human social and cognitive behavior. We develop novel sensing technologies and computational models that capture behavior in real-world contexts and connect health-related behaviors to clinical outcomes, enabling new forms of assessment and treatment. In addition, we explore machine learning paradigms inspired by child development, and biologically-inspired methods for robot perception, navigation, and control. Our recent work has expanded to multimodal foundation models, social AI, and large-scale video datasets such as Ego4D, reflecting a broader vision at the intersection of human behavior, health, and intelligent systems.
Prospective Students: We welcome Masters and undergraduate students, as well as (remote) global interns. If you are interested in joining our group and are a current/incoming UIUC student, please fill out this form. If you are not currently at UIUC, please apply directly to the university.
People
Principal Investigator
James M. Rehg
Founder Professor
Lab Members
Junho Kim
Postdoc
Harish Haresamudram
Postdoc
Fiona Ryan
PhD Student
Max Xu
PhD Student
Bolin Lai
PhD Student
Xiang Li
PhD Student
Ozgur Kara
PhD Student
Wenqi Jia
PhD Student
Xu Cao
Ph.D. Student
Ana Jojic
PhD Student
Wanting Mao
PhD Student
Bikram Boote
Ph.D. Student
Nan Huang
PhD Student
Vipin Gunda
PhD Student
Aditya Radhakrishnan
PhD Student
Brian Zhao
Ph.D. Student
Zirui Wang
Master Student
Pranav Virupaksha
Master Student
Vedant Mahajan
Master Student
Tarik Ozden
Master Student
Sachidanand VS
Master Student
Yifan Xu
Master Student
Alumni
Stefan Stojanov
Stanford Post Doc
Supriya Nagesh
Amazon
Meera Hahn
Miao Liu
Meta
Sangmin Lee
Korea Univ.
Zixuan Huang
Meta
Anh Thai
Dolby
Varol Burak Aydemir
Bodyport
News
Projects
AutoRally
Developmental Machine Learning
Mobile and Computational Health
Publications
Leveraging Object Priors for Point Tracking
ECCV 2024 ILR Workshop
Datasets
Sponsors
NIH R01 DC020048: Discovering novel predictors of minimally verbal outcomes in autism through computational modeling
DARPA RACER Program: Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency
NIH R01 HD104624: Infants’ self-generated visual statistics support object and category learning
NIH NIBIB P41-EB028242: mHealth Center for Discovery, Optimization, and Translation of Temporally-Precise Interventions (mDOT)
NSF C-Accel 2033413: Inclusion AI for Neurodiverse Employment
NSF CNS 1823201: CRI: mResearch: A platform for Reproducible and Extensible Mobile Sensor Big Data Research
Contact
- jrehg [at] illinois.edu
- Health Care Engineering Systems Center, 1206 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801