I'm Robert Pless --- chair of the Computer Science Department at GWU, and I'd like to briefly introduce myself.
I was born in Baltimore, Maryland and have lived also in Columbus, Ohio, and Washington D.C. and Warsaw, Poland (although I was 4 at that time).
Within Computer Science, I work mostly on problems in Computer Vision (trying to automatically understand images), and Computational Geometry (building data structures for points and lines and shapes in space), and Machine Learning. A few of my favorite papers that I've written are here.
I'm especially interested in problem domains where new algorithms can help to improve social justice, healthier interactions with social media, and medical image understanding.
Outside of Computer Science, I have a four-and-a-half year old daughter who is learning to argue more and more effectively, and a grumpy dog. I'm interested in ultimate frisbee and modern art. My favorite artists are Dan Flavin and David Hockney, and I've written papers about the Art of Hajime Ouchi and Isia Leviant.