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Richard Russell

Director of the Artificial Intelligence Initiative (Psychology)
Psychology
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Phone
Campus Box

0407

Address
McCreary Hall
Room 319

How do we perceive faces?

I apply techniques and knowledge from the vision sciences to answer questions about how we perceive people. A major focus is the development of a biologically based account of makeup and other techniques of personal decoration.

What does it mean to be human in the age of AI?

In a newer line of work, I am exploring how humans, societies, and cultures affect AI, and are affected by AI.

Education

BA, Pomona College, 1998PhD, MIT, 2005

Academic Focus

Visual perception and person perception