Jeffrey F. Cohn, PhD

University of Pittsburgh
4327 Sennott Square
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

jeffcohn@pitt.edu

412.624.8825 office
412.624.2023 fax
412.624.8826 lab
412.624.6682 lab

Jeffrey Cohn is Professor of Psychology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and Adjunct Faculty at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and completed his Clinical Internship at the University of Maryland Medical Center. For the past 20 years, he has conducted investigations in the theory and science of emotion, depression, and nonverbal communication. He has co-led interdisciplinary and inter-institutional efforts to develop advanced methods of automatic analysis of facial expression and prosody; and applied these tools to research in human emotion, social development, non-verbal communication, psychopathology, biomedicine, and biometrics. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Science Foundation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Naval Research Laboratory.


Research


Affect Analysis Group


Face Group

Current Projects

“Facial Expression Analysis by Computer Processing.” National Institute of Mental Health: 5/1/06 to 4/30/11.

“Properties of Pain Expression.” Canadian Institutes of Health Research. 10/1/05 to 9/31/08.

“Collaborative Research DHB: Coordinated Motion and Facial Expression in Dyadic Conversation.” The National Science Foundation, 9/1/05 to 8/31/08.

“Automated Measurement of Facial Expression in Autism: Deficits in Facial Nerve Function,” Autism Speaks, 10/1/07 to 9/30/2010.

“Reinforcing Effects of Alcohol during Group Formation.” National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.”

“Computer Assisted System to Increase Speed and Reliability of Manual FACS Coding.” RealleaR, LLC. & Naval Research Laboratory, 9/1/07 to 8/31/09.

“Mobile Examination of Physiological Cues for Automatic Behavior Recognition,” General Electric Corporation & Department of Homeland Security, 1/1/08 to 12/31/09.

Recently Completed Projects (last five years)

“Psychophysiology of Risk for Depression.” National Institute of Mental Health: 8/1/07 to 6/30/07.

“Multimodal Analysis of Face and Body Gesture Indicators of Communicative Intent,” Naval Research Laboratory, 5/1/05 to 4/30/06.

“Facial Expression Analysis by Computer Processing.” National Institute of Mental Health: 5/1/01 to 4/30/06.

“Space-Time Face- and Body Biometric for Human Identification from Video.” Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 8/1/00 to 7/31/04.

“Collaborative Proposal: Automated Measurement of Infant Facial Expressions and Human Ratings of Their Emotional Intensity.” National Science Foundation, 8/01/04 to 7/31/05.

“Consortium on Nonverbal Communication for Human-Computer Interaction.” Advanced Telecommunications Research Media Integration Center, Kyoto, Japan: 2/1/00 to 1/31/03.

“Parental Depression and Infant Development.” National Institute of Mental Health: 4/1/97 to 3/31/02.

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

  • Abnormal Psychology
  • Developmental Psychopathology
  • Psychology of Emotion


Graduate Courses

  • Psychological Assessment
  • Seminar in Infant Social and Emotional Development
  • Seminar in Emotion

Recent Collaborators

Nick Allen, University of Melbourne
Zara Ambadar, University of Pittsburgh
Steven Boker, University of Virginia
Fernando De la Torre, Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Ekman, University of California, San Francisco
Nathan Fox, University of Maryland
Ralph Gross, Carnegie Mellon University
Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University
Simon Lucey, Carnegie Mellon University
Iain Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University and Weta Digital Ltd
Maja Pantic, Imperial College, UK
Daniel Messinger, University of Miami
Ken Prkachin, University of Northern British Columbia
Michael Sayette, University of Pittsburgh
Barry John Theobald, University of East Anglia, UK

Publications


Curriculum Vitae [PDF][DOC]

Selected Publications