John R. Kender

Welcome to my home page.
(Like much of life itself, continually under construction)

I am:

• Professor, Department of Computer Science
• Great Teacher, Society of Columbia Graduates
• Distinguished Faculty Teacher, Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association
• former Vice Dean, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
• at Columbia University in New York City
• and most recently co-General Chair of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

I do computer vision, video understanding, gesture recognition, artificial intelligence. See:

• Google Scholar
• Patents and Applications

My research has been supported by:

• Government: DARPA, IARPA/DTO/ARDA, NSF, NYState Sci&Tech Foundation, ONR
• Big Industry: AT&T, Digital Equipment, Ford Motor, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Philips
• Small Industry: D/ADA, Matrix, Unimation


• Information about the NSF IIS-Sponsored Project on
  "Tagging and Browsing Videos According to the Preferences of Differing Affinity Groups"

My graduated Doctoral students are:

• Emad Barsoum, 2019
• Chun-Yu (Claire) Tsai, 2017
• John R. Zhang, 2013
• Michelle Merler, 2012
• Heather Morris, 2011
• Alex Haubold, 2008
• Hassan Malik, 2007
• Ramon Lluis Felip, 2007
• Lijun Tang, 2006
• Yan Liu, 2005
• Lalitha Agnihotri, 2005
• Juan-Maria Sanchez-Secades, 2003
• Tiecheng Liu, 2003
• Aya Aner, 2002
• Samuel Fenster, 1999
• Frederik Kjeldsen, 1996
• David Yang, 1996
• Alicia Abella, 1995
• Il-Pyung Park, 1993
• Thomas Ellman, 1989
• Mark Moerdler, 1989
• Michalis Hatzitheodorou, 1989
• Dong Jae Choi, 1988
• Terrance Boult, 1986
• David Lee, 1985
• Hussein Ibrahim, 1984
• Steven Shafer, 1983

• Fall (all years):
  COMS W3107x: Clean Object-Oriented Design
• Spring (even years):
  COMS W4735y: Visual Interfaces to Computers
• Spring (odd years):
  COMS E6735y: Visual Databases
• Fall, Spring, and Summer (all years):
  COMS W4901: Projects in Computer Science
  COMS E6901: Projects in Computer Science
• On demand:
  A Lecture on Teaching