Bryant Lee

Bryant Lee, Doctoral Student
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University

Office: 1315 Wean Hall

Email: Email Address

Research Interests:
I work with Prof. Luis von Ahn to develop online games that produce useful computation as a side effect. My previous work has been in parallel computing, cellular automata, and natural language processing.

Book Chapters:

Uzi Vishkin, George Caragea, and Bryant Lee. Models for advancing PRAM and other algorithms into parallel programs for a PRAM-On-Chip platform in Handbook of Parallel Computing: Models, Algorithms, and Applications, S. Rajasekaran and J. Reif, eds., Chapman and Hall, 2007.

Journal Papers:

Michael Boyle and Bryant Lee. Jointly periodic points in cellular automata: Computer explorations and conjectures. Experimental Mathematics, 2007.

Conference Papers:

Aniket Kittur, Bryant Lee, and Robert Kraut. Coordination in Collective Intelligence: The Role of Team Structure and Task Interdependence. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009.

Thomas Dubois, Bryant Lee, Yi Wang, Marc Olano, and Uzi Vishkin. XMT-GPU: A PRAM architecture for graphics computation. International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2008.

Michael L. Anderson, Bryant Lee, Shuda Li, Jon Go, Ben Sutandio, and Luo Yan Zhou. On the types, frequency, uses, and characteristics of meta-language in conversation. 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2006.

Michael L. Anderson and Bryant Lee. Meta-language for dialog management. 16th Annual Winter Conference on Discourse, Text, and Cognition, 2005.

Michael L. Anderson, Andrew Fister, Bryant Lee, Luwito Tardia, and Danny Wang. On the types and frequency of meta-language in conversation: A preliminary report. 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, 2004.

Honors:
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2006
NDSEG Graduate Research Fellowship, 2006
Banneker Key Full Scholarship (U. Maryland), 2002

Education:

Carnegie Mellon University, 2006 - Present
Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Luis von Ahn
Expected Graduation 2011

University of Maryland, College Park, 2002 - 2006
B.S. Computer Science
B.S. Mathematics (double degree)
GPA 4.0/4.0

Media Appearances:

I have been interviewed in the media several times because of my site VoteChooser.com, which has attracted 1.5 million users.

Pittsburgh WTAE Channel 11 News 1/23/2008

Pittsburgh WPXI Channel 4 News 3/27/2008

Pittsburgh KDKA Radio 3/26/2008

Pittsburgh KQV Radio 3/12/2008

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 3/25/2008