Universitas FordhamensisPicture of me taken by BrianDamian M. Lyons
Associate Professor
Department of Computer &Information Science
320A John Mulcahy Hall
Fordham University
441 E.Fordham Rd.
Bronx NY 10458
PH: (718) 817-4485 FX: (718) 817-4488
EM: dlyons(at)cis.fordham.edu 

 

Bio

Dr. Damian M. Lyons is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Science at Fordham University. He is the Director of Fordham's Robotics and Computer Vision Laboratory. Dr. Lyons has undergraduate degrees in Math (B.A.,1980) and Electrical Engineering (B.A.I., 1980) and a master's degree in Computer Science (M.Sc., 1981) from Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. He earned his doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Ph.D., 1986).

Dr. Lyons' research interests are in Robotics and Computer Vision. In Computer Vision, his interests include target tracking, camera handoff, multisensory fusion and behavior recognition. In robotics his interests include formal approaches to plan and program representation and analysis and hybrid deliberative-reactive systems. His background includes over 15 years as a researcher and research program manager at the US division of Philips corporate research laboratories; he was Department head for the Video and Display Processing research department, responsible for technical leadership and funding for this diverse group, and project leader for Philips' research activities in Automated Video Surveillance. He has served on numerous program committees, has published over 80 technical papers in conferences, journals and books, and is inventor/co-inventor of 13 US patents. Dr. Lyons is a member of ACM and IEEE.

 

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Teaching

Fall 2008:

  • CSLU 2530 Digital Video and Multimedia

Spring 2008:

  • CSRU 2530 Digital Video and Multimedia
  • CSRU 4900Seminars & Directed Study

Fall 2007:

  • CSLU 1100 Structures of Computer Science
  • CSGA 6525 Artificial Intelligence

Spring 2007:

  • CSLU 1100 Structures of Computer Science
  • CSRU 4597 Artificial Intelligence

Fall 2006:

  • CSLU 1100 Structures of Computer Science

Spring 2006:

  • CSRU 1400 Discrete Structures
  • CSGA 6875 Parallel Computation

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Research

My research interests are in Robotics and Computer Vision, in particular for systems that operate robustly in the same kind of dynamic and unstructured environments as humans. I am interested in the principles of perceptual systems that combine diverse channels of information about the robot and its environment in the service of behaviors such as target tracking, navigation, wayfinding and exploration. I conduct work in both the theoretical and experimental aspects of this problem domain. My approach is influenced by Arbib's perceptual and motor schema theory, by behavior-based systems as pioneered by Brooks, and by hybrid deliberative-reactive systems as championed by Arkin.

I work in the Fordham Robotics and Computer Vision (FRCV) Lab and my previous and current projects are described there.
Currently I’m involved in three pieces of work:

  • A combinatorial approach to sensory fusion for target tracking, camera handoff and navigation (with D. Frank Hsu)
  • ADAPT: an architecture for cognitive robotics: joint work with D. Paul Benjamin of Pace Univ.
  • An energy-efficient approach to legged locomotion, the rotopod.

Most recently I have become interested in how Beowulf computing can be applied to robot architecture and algorithms.

For more information, see my list of publications and also the FRCV Lab twiki.

My latest CV is here.

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student at Fordham University and interested in becoming involved in robotics or computer vision work
or you would like to find out more about this burgeoning field? Follow this link!

Publications

For a full list, see here .

Patents

For a full list, see here

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