Lucas C. Parra

08/2003 - Current: City College of New York - Professor of Biomedical Engineering 

03/2002 - 07/2002: Columbia University - Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering 

04/1997 - 07/2003: Sarnoff Corporation - Technology Leader, Adaptive Signal and Image Processing

04/1995 - 03/1997: Siemens Corporate Research - MTS, Imaging Department

1985-1995: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany 

Ph.D. in Physics and Computer Science, 1996

BME I5100 Biomedical Signal Processing (3 credits, graduate) 

BME I5000 Medical Imaging and Image Processing (3 credit, graduate) 

BME 22000 Biostatistics and Research Methods (3 credits, undergraduate) 

BME 50500 Image and Signal Processing in Biomedicine (3 credits, undergraduate) 

See here a full list of publications, demos and code.

In the News:

The study on audiovisual speech recognition was featured in

• "Blinded by the lyric? Study reveals why we get the words wrong", MSNBC web site, Health Section (March 27, 2009)
• "Talking in person better", American Morning, CNN (March 4, 2009)

• BreakOut!: Your Brain's Search Engine, Forbes.com Video Network (January 2010)
• Documentary: The Brain, History Channel (November 10, 2008)
• "Tapping the Computing Power of the Unconscious Brain" IEEE Spectrum Video (August 2008)
• "A Brainy Approach to Image Sorting", IEEE Spectrum (April 2008).
• "When the brain is a component of the computer", Politiken (Danish newspaper, July 2007).
• "Brain-Computer Interfaces: Where Human and Machine Meet", IEEE Computer Magazine (January 2007)
• "Subliminal Search", MIT Technology Review (July 2006)
• "Man and machine vision in perfect harmony", New Scientist, (July 2006)
• "This Is a Computer on Your Brain", Wired News (July 2006)