Daniel Lopresti

Daniel Lopresti is a professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. He came to Lehigh in 2003, and served 10 years as chair of CSE ending in 2019. He was interim dean of the college from 2014 to 2015. Since 2015, he has also served as Director of the Data X Initiative and played a major role in the design of the renovation of Mountaintop Building C.  Lopresti received a Bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth in 1982, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton in 1987. After completing his doctorate, he joined the computer science department at Brown, then went on to help found the Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory in Princeton. Later he served on the research staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. His work addresses algorithmic and systems-related questions in document analysis, pattern recognition, bioinformatics, and security, where he has over 150 publications in refereed conferences and journals, and holds 24 patents. He has applied his technical expertise to the controversial topic of electronic voting, and has recently been helping to lead the Code 8.7 international collaboration on applying AI in the fight against human trafficking. Since 2015, he has served on the Computing Community Consortium Council of the Computing Research Association. He is also on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Pattern Recognition.

For Lehigh's Nano/Human Interfaces Initiative, Lopresti is leading research on human-in-the-loop AI, developing visual models and interfaces to mediate communication between machine learning-based computer vision techniques and human users, whether expert or novice. The ultimate goal is to produce systems that are faster than a human working alone, and more accurate than a machine.