About
Hello and welcome! I’m Tan Gemicioglu (pronounced Ton Geh-me-gee-oh-loo), a PhD Student in Information Science at Cornell University, located at Cornell Tech in New York City. I am co-advised by Tanzeem Choudhury in the People-Aware Computing Lab and Cheng Zhang in the SciFi Lab.
I am interested in combining sensors and haptics to develop wearable technology that monitors and modulates physical or behavioral health without requiring attention. Contrary to current commercial and clinical health devices, I aim to minimize the need for daily tasks and reminders for health improvements. Towards this end, I’ve designed brain-computer interfaces and haptic gloves for daily wear while broadly drawing from past research in human-computer interaction, machine learning and neuroscience. My research has been published in top human-computer interaction venues such as ACM CHI and UbiComp.
I serve as the BCI Society Postdoc and Student Committee Chair and as a member of the Futuring SIGCHI Committee.
Previously, I did my undergraduate at Georgia Tech, where I built haptic gloves and subtle interfaces as a research assistant for wearable computing pioneer Dr. Thad Starner. I’ve also worked with the Audio and Acoustics group at Microsoft Research, investigating brain-computer interfaces for VR/AR and tongue interactions.
In my free time, I enjoy cooking Mediterranean-Asian fusion food and I’m an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy.
News
| Oct 01, 2023 | A very busy October coming up! I will be a student volunteer at UbiComp/ISWC 2023 in Cancun, while Mike Winters presents our paper on multimodal tongue gesture recognition at ICMI 2023. Afterward, I’ll be remotely assisting with our first SIGCHI Emerging Scholars workshop at CSCW 2023. Finally, David Martin will be in NYC to present our poster on fingerspelling with TapStrap at ASSETS 2023. |
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| Aug 21, 2023 | Moved to NYC and started my PhD! I’ve also started a new role as Postdoc and Student Committee Chair for the Brain-Computer Interface Society. |
| Apr 01, 2023 | I’ll be starting my PhD at Cornell Tech in NYC in the Fall with a Cornell Fellowship. I’ll be advised by Dr. Tanzeem Choudhury and Dr. Cheng Zhang, researching closed-loop passive interventions and intent-driven interaction. |
| Mar 22, 2023 | Honored to receive the Sigma Xi Best Undergraduate Research Award and Donald V. Jackson Fellowship Award for my research involvement and leadership at Georgia Tech! |
| Mar 01, 2023 | I’ll be presenting my work on combining tongue gestures with gaze tracking at CHI 2023 Interactivity in April. Look forward to seeing everyone in Hamburg. |
| Dec 17, 2022 | Graduated from my Bachelor’s in Computer Science with highest honors. Starting a Master’s degree as part of my BS/MS in January. |
| Oct 05, 2022 | Excited to be a member of the newly-formed Futuring SIGCHI committee! |
| Sep 16, 2022 | Our live demonstration of passive haptic learning earned the Best Demo Award at UbiComp 2022! |
| Aug 22, 2022 | Finished my internship project on tongue gesture recognition and back to Georgia Tech. Look forward to sharing our findings at ISWC/UbiComp and beyond! |
| May 16, 2022 | Started internship at Microsoft Research with the Audio and Acoustics group’s brain-computer interface team! |