My main area of research at the moment is my Master's Thesis on the development and application of a Brain-Computer Interface. This, to me represents an extremely effective application of computers in medicine which can really make a difference in the lives of those who are completely paralyzed from Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or other such diseases.

I am also involved in the Vision Group at RIT's Laboratory for Applied Computing. We are trying to create an intelligent system which can look at a video stream of a particular place, learn what is the usual state of the scene and the usual behaviors of people in the scene, and then alert the operator if anything out of the ordinary occurs. One of its applications is in video surveillance, where the system might detect a car being stolen, for example, or a person leaving a suitcase in the middle of a train station.

One of my personal areas of research, which I am trying to find more time for, is the assembling of the oral histories of Soviet Americans who emigrated to the US. As part of that project, I have created an ethnology of one of the centers of Rochester's Soviet-American community, located on Bobrich Dr., where my family and I spent our first three years in Rochester.