Education

New York University PhD Experimental/Mathematical Psychology 1980
Stanford University MS Electrical Engineering 1971
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn BS Electrical Engineering
Summa cum laude		 1970
RCA Institutes Technical Degree 1968
2002 - Present Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Codirector of Orcatech, Oregon Health and Science University.

Prior Affiliations

2001 - 2003 Interim Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering Oregon Health and Science University, OGI School of Science and Engineering.
1997 - 2002 Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology.
1997 - 1999 Technology Leader, AT&T Labs West, Research and applications of Internet technology and communications.
1993 - 1997 Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology.
1990 - 1994 Associate Professor, Center for Neural Science and the Department of Psychology, New York University, tenure granted 1994.
1983 - 1990 Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Departments of Psychology and Symbolic Systems; Teaching and research in the (Applied) Cognitive Science Program, Liaison to industrial and research organizations including NASA Ames Research Center, SRI International, FMC Corporation, and XEROX PARC.
1980 - 1983 Assistant Research Professor, Department of Psychology, New York University: Administration and supervision of departmental technical services and computer facilities, teaching, and supervision of doctoral students, and independent research and scholarship.
1976 - 1980 Research Scientist, New York University, Design and implementation of special purpose hardware and computer interfaces. Consultant to faculty and students in their experimental efforts. Research in computer assisted instruction.
1970 - 1976 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Analyses and modeling of human behavior and telephone network performance. Design and analysis of psychological experiments. Scientific and real-time programming. Design and implementation of special purpose electronic apparatus.
1966 - 1968 Electronic Technician, Winters Radio Laboratory. Servicing of electronic equipment, such as EICO, HAM equipment, TV, radio, etc.

Professional Interests

  • Application of computational, statistical and empirical approaches to the analysis of behavioral and physiological data.
  • Development of computational models and using them to enhance our understanding of the relationship between brain functions and behaviors.
  • Development and evaluation of engineering systems that improve the care of patients with neurodegenerative disease and elders, improve their quality of life and enable such care to be delivered at the point of care, outside of clinics, e.g. homes.
  • Specific examples include the unobtrusive monitoring and modeling of gait, activities of daily living, analysis and modeling of computer games, medication adherence, and similar domains where behavioral markers may reveal aspects of cognitive function.

Current Projects

Early detection of Cognitive Decline

  • Jimison, H.B., Pavel, M., McKanna, J., Pavel, J. (2004). Unobtrusive Monitoring of Computer Interactions to Detect Cognitive Status in Elders, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 8(3), September 2004, pp. 248-252.
  • Hayes T.L., Pavel M., Schallau P.K., Adami A.M. (2003). Unobtrusive Monitoring of Health Status in an Aging Population. 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, October 12-15, 2003; Seattle, WA

Data Fusion for Unobtrusive assessment of mobility, Oregon Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging

Augmented Cognition

  • Pavel, M., Wang, G., Li, K., Kehai Li. (2003). Augmented cognition: Allocation of attention. Proceedings of 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences January 6-9, 2003, Big Island, HI, USA. IEEE Computer Society, 2003, ISBN 0-7695-1874-5

Assessment of Sleep Patterns

  • Adami, A. M., Hayes, T. L. and Pavel, M. (2003). Unobtrusive Monitoring of Sleep Patterns. 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering In Medicine And Biology Society, 17-21 September, 2003; Cancun, Mexico.

Implementation of Patient-Centered Medication Information System

Novel Computer-based Techniques for the Assessment of ADHD Information Fusion based on high-Diminesional Representation

  • Song, X, Pavel, M. (2004). Performance Advantage of Combined Classifiers in Multi-category Cases: An Analysis. In Nikhil R. Pal, Nikola Kasabov, Rajani K. Mudi, Srimanta Pal, Swapan K. Parui (Eds.): Neural Information Processing, 11th International Conference, ICONIP 2004, Calcutta, India, November 22-25, 2004, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3316 Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-23931-6 750-757
  • Wang, G., Pavel, M., Song, X. (2003). Robust Recognition Based on Combination of Weak Classifiers. International Joint Conference of Neural Networks, July 2003.

Collaborations

Selected Publications

Monitoring and Assessment of Behavioral Markers

(2008) Gunzler, S. A., Koudelka, C., Carlson, N. E., Pavel, M., &Nutt, J. G. Effect of low concentrations of apomorphine on parkinsonism in a randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover study. Archives of Neurology, 65 (2), 193-198.
(2008) Kaye, J., Hayes, T., Zitzelberger, T., Yeargers, J., Pavel, M., Jimison, H. B., Larimer, N., Payne-Murphy, J., Earl, E., Wild, K., Boise, L., Williams, D., Lundell, J., &Dishman, E. Deploying wide-scale in-home assessment technology. Technology and Aging, In press.
(2008) Pavel, M., Jimison, H. B., Hayes, T. L., Kaye, J., Dishman, E., Wild, K., &Williams, D. Continuous, Unobtrusive Monitoring for the Assessment of Cognitive Function. In S. Hofer &D. Alwin (Eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Aging: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
(2007) Hayes, T. L., Pavel, M., Larimer, N., Tsay, I. A., Nutt, J., &Adami, A. G. Distributed healthcare: Simultaneous assessment of multiple individuals. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 6(1), 36-43.
(2007) Lundell, J., Hayes, T. L., Vurgun, S., Ozertem, U., Kimel, J., Kaye, J., Guilak, F., & Pavel, M. Continuous activity monitoring and intelligent contextual prompting to improve medication adherence. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering In Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France
(2007) Pavel, M., Hayes, T. L., Tsay, A., Erdogmus, D., Paul, A., Larimer, N., Jimison, H., & Nutt, J. Continuous Assessment of Gait Velocity in Parkinson’s Disease from Unobtrusive Measurements. 3rd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 700-703, Hawaii, USA.
(2007) Vurgun, S., Philipose, M., & Pavel, M. A Statistical Reasoning System for Medication Prompting. In Ubiquitous Computing, 9th International Conference (Vol. 4717, pp. 1-18): Springer.
(2006) Lundell, J., Kimel, J., Hayes, T. L., Dishongh, T., Kaye, J., & Pavel, M. Why Elders Forget to Take Their Meds: A Probe Study to Inform a Smart Reminding System. 4th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics - ICOST2006, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
(2006) Pavel, M., Adami, A., Morris, M., Lundell, J., Hayes, T. L., Jimison, H., & Kaye, J. A. Mobility Assessment Using Event-Related Responses. Proceedings of the IEEE Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Healthcare, Washington, D.C., USA.
(2006) Pavel, M., Hayes, T. L., Adami, A., Jimison, H. B., & Kaye, J. Unobtrusive assessment of mobility. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, New York, NY.
(2005) Adami, A. M., Hayes, T. L., Pavel, M., & Singer, C. M. Detection and classification of movements in bed using load cells. 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Shanghai, China.
(2003) Adami, A. M., Hayes, T. L., & Pavel, M. Unobtrusive monitoring of sleep patterns. 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2, 1360-1363, Cancun, Mexico.
(2003) Hayes, T., Pavel, M., Schallau, P. K., & Adami, A. M. Unobtrusive monitoring of health status in an aging population. 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Seattle, Washington.
(2003) Hayes, T. L., Pavel, M., & Kaye, J. A. An unobtrusive in-home monitoring system for detection of key motor changes preceding cognitive decline. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2, San Francisco, CA.
(2003) Jimison, H. B., & Pavel, M. Monitoring of Body Weight for Heart Failure Patients: Variability of weight and Self-Reporting. Proceedings of the 25th Annual IEEE Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Cancun, Mexico.

Assessment of Cognitive Function Using Computer Games

(2007) Jimison, H. B., Pavel, M., Bissell, P., & McKanna, J. A framework for cognitive monitoring using computer game interactions. 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics, 129, 1073-1077.
(2007) Jimison, H. B., Pavel, M., Larimer, N., & Mullen, P. A General Architecture for Computer Based Health Coaching. Proceedings of the International Conference on Technology & Aging, Toronto.
(2007) Jimison, H. B., Pavel, M., Wild, K., Bissell, P., McKanna, J., Blaker, D., & Williams, D. A Neural Informatics Approach to Cognitive Assessment and Monitoring. 3rd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 696-699, Hawaii, USA.
(2007) Jimison, H. B., Pavel, M., Wild, K., Bissell, P., McKanna, J., Blaker, D., & Williams, D. A Neural Informatics Approach to Cognitive Assessment and Monitoring. 3rd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 696-699, Hawaii, USA
(2006) Jimison, H. B., & Pavel, M. Embedded Assessment Algorithms for Home-Based Cognitive Computer Games Exercises for Elders. Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Conference, New York, NY.
(2006) Jimison, H. B., Pavel, M., Wild, K., Williams, D., McKanna, J., & Bissel, P. Embedded Assessment of Cognitive Performance with Elders’ Use of Computer Games in a Residential Environment. Proceedings of the Workshop on The Cognitive Science of Games and Gaming, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
(2004) Jimison, H., Pavel, M., McKanna, J., & Pavel, J. Unobtrusive monitoring of computer interactions to detect cognitive status in elders. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 8(3), 248-252.
(2004) Jimison, H. B., Pavel, M., McKanna, J., & Pavel, J. Home Monitoring of Computer Interactions for the Early Detection of Dementia. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, San Francisco, CA,.

Neural Engineering, Computational Models of Cognition and HCI

(2007) Dorneich, M. C., Whitlow, S. D., Mathan, S., Ververs, P. M., Erdogmus, D., Adami, A., Pavel, M., & Lan, T. Supporting Real-time Cognitive State Classification on a Mobile Individual. Journal of Cognitive Engineering & Decision Making(Special Issue on Augmented Cognition: Past, Present, and Future).
(2006) Mathan, S., Ververs, P. D., Dorneich, M., Whitlow, S. D., Carciofinin, J., Erdogmus, D., Pavel, M., Huang, C., Lan, T., & Adami, A. Neurotechnology for Image Analysis: Searching for needles in haystacks efficiently. HCI2006, San Francisco.
(2005) Erdogmus, D., Adami, A., Pavel, M., Lan, T., Mathan, S., Whitlow, S., & Dorneich, M. Cognitive State Estimation Based on EEG for Augmented Cognition. Proceedings of NER’05,, 566-569, Arlington, Virginia.
(2005) Mathan, S., Mazaeva, N., Whitlow, S., Adami, A., Erdogmus, D., Lan, T., & Pavel, M. Sensor-Based Cognitive State Assessment in a Mobile Environment. Proceedings of AUGCOG’05 (jointly with HCII’05), Las Vegas, Nevada.
(2005) T. Lan, A. Adami, D. Erdogmus, & M. Pavel. Estimating Cognitive State Using EEG Signals. Proceedings of EUSIPCO’05.
(2005) T. Lan, D. Erdogmus, A. Adami, & M. Pavel, Feature Selection by Independent Component Analysis and Mutual Information Maximization in EEG Signal Classification. Proceedings of IJCNN’05, Montreal, Quebec.
(2005) T. Lan, D. Erdogmus, A. Adami, M. Pavel, & S. Mathan. Salient EEG Channel Selection in Brain Computer Interfaces by Mutual Information Maximization. Proceedings of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Shanghai, China.
(2005) Thomson, J., Hetzler, B., MacEachren, A., Gahegan, M., & Pavel, M. A Typology for Visualizing Uncertainty. Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis 2005 (part of the IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2005), San Jose, CA, USA.
(2005) Wang, G., & Pavel, M. A Spiking Neuron Model of Auditory Neural Coding. Proceedings of The Second International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2005), Chongqing, China.
(2004) Luk, C. H., Gao, C., Hammerstrom, D., Pavel, M., & Kerr, D. Biologically inspired enhanced vision system (EVS) for aircraft landing guidance. IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 3, 1751 - 1756.
(2004) Song, X., & Pavel, M. Performance Advantage of Combined Classifiers in Multi-category Cases: An Analysis. Neural Information Processing, 11th International Conference, ICONIP 2004, 750-757, Calcutta, India.
(2004) Song, X., Yang, K., & Pavel, M. Density Boosting for Gaussian Mixtures. Neural Information Processing, 11th International Conference, ICONIP 2004, 508-515, Calcutta, India.
(2003) Hayes, T. L., Pavel, M., & Li, K. Augmenting Attention Allocation. DARPA Bionics 2003 Winter Meeting, Kona, HI.
(2003) Kerr, J. R., Luk, C. H., Hammerstrom, D., & Pavel, M. Neural Net Based Processor for Robust, High-integrity Multisensor and Synthetic Vision Fusion. The 22nd Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC '03, 2, 9D410 - 419D412., Orlando, Florida.
(2003) Jimison, H. B., Pavel, M., & Pavel, J. Adaptive Interfaces for Home Health. 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing., Seattle, Washington.
(2003) Kerr, J. R., Luk, C. H., Hammerstrom, D., & Pavel, M. Advanced integrated enhanced vision systems, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision. SPIE Aerosense, 5081, Orlando, Florida.
(2003) Wang, G., Pavel, M., & Song, X. Robust Recognition Based on Combination of Weak Classifiers. International Joint Conference of Neural Networks.
(2002) Shental, N., Hertz, T., Weinshall, D., & Pavel, M. Adjustment Learning and Relevant Component Analysis. Proceedings of the 7th European conference of Computer Vision, 4, 776-792, Copenhagen.
(2002) Song, X., Abu-Mostafa, Y. S., Sill, J., Kasdan, H. L., & Pavel, M. Image Recognition by Fusion of Contextual Information. Information Fusion Journal, 3, 277-287.
(2002) Jimison, H. B., Goodman, C. A., & Pavel, M. Participatory Design for Home Care Technology. Proceedings of the Second Joint Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, 1873-1875, Houston, TX, USA.
(2001) McGee, D. R., Pavel, M., & Cohen, P. R. Context shifts: Extending the meanings of physical objects with language. Human Computer Interaction; Special issue on Context-aware computing, 16.
(2001) Araujo, C., Kowler, E., & Pavel, M. Eye movements during visual search: the costs of choosing the optimal path. Vision Research, 41(25-26), 3613-3625.
(2001) McGee, D. R., Pavel, M., Adami, A., Wang, G., & Cohen, P. R. A Visual Modality for the Augmentation of Paper. The Proceedings of the Workshop on Perceptive User Interfaces (PUI'01), Orlando, FL.
(2000) Palmer, J., Verghese, P., & Pavel, M. The psychophysics of visual search. Vision Research, 40(10-12), 1227-1268.
(1999) Sharma, R. K., Leen, T. K., & Pavel, M. Multi-Stream video fusion using local principal components analysis. SPIE, 3436.
(1999) Sharma, R. K., Leen, T. K., & Pavel, M. Probabilistic image sensor fusion. In M. S. Kearns, S. A. Solla & D. A. Cohn (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Vol. 11). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
(1998) Sharma, R. K., Leen, T. K., & Pavel, M. Multi-Stream video fusion using local principal components analysis. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 3436(2), 717-725.
(1997) N. Kanendera, T. Arai, H. Hermansky, & M. Pavel. The importance of various modulation frequencies for speech recognition. Proceedings of Fifth Europian Conference on Speech Communication and Technology - Eurospeech'97, 1079-1082., Rhodes, Greece.
(1997) Pavel, M., & Sharma, R. K. Model-Based Sensor Fusion for Aviation. Proceedings of SPIE, 3088.
(1997) Sharma, R. K., & Pavel, M. Multisensor Image Registration. Society for Information Display International Symposium, XXVIII, 951-954.
(1996) Arai, T., Pavel, M., Hermansky, H., & Avendano, C. Intelligibility of speech with filtered time trajectories of spectral envelopes. ICSLP 96, Philadelphia, PA USA.
(1996) Hermansky, H., Greenberg, S., & Pavel, M. A Brief (100-200 ms) History of time Feature Extraction of Speech. XV Annual Speech Research Symposium, Baltimore, MD USA.
(1996) Hermansky, H., Tibrewala, S., & Pavel, M. Towards ASR on partially corrupted speech. Proceedings of the ICSLP, Philadelphia, PA.
(1996) Hong, S., & Pavel, M. Determinants of symmetry perception. In C. W. Tyler (Ed.), Human Symmetry Perception and its Computational Analysis. Zeist, Netherlands: VSP.
(1996) Pavel, M., & Sharma, R. K. Fusion of radar images: Rectification without the flat earth assumption. SPIE, 2736, 108-118.
(1996) Sharma, R. K., & Pavel, M. Adaptive and statistical image fusion. SID Digest, 27, 969-972.
(1995) Hermansky, H., & Pavel, J. Psychophysics of Speech Engineering Systems. Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
(1995) Landy, M., Maloney, L. T., & Pavel, M. Exploratory Vision: The Active Eye. New York: Springer.
(1995) Pavel, M., & Cunningham, H. Eye movements and the complexity of visual processing. In M. Landy, L. T. Maloney & M. Pavel (Eds.), Exploratory Vision: The Active Eye. New York: Springer.
(1994) Suppes, P., Pavel, M., & Falmagne, J. C. Representations and models in psychology. Annual Review of Psychology, 45, 517-544.

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