Wearables to Measure Focus
- Captivates: A Smart Eyeglass Platform for Across-Context Physiological Measurement. Chwalek, P, Ramsay, DB, and Paradiso, J. IMWUT 2021. DISTINGUISHED PAPER AWARD (top 2.5% of ~200)
- Peripheral Light Cues as a Naturalistic Measure of Focus Ramsay, DB, and Paradiso, J. IMX 2022.
- Equinox: Exploring Naturalistic Distortions of Time Perception Ramsay, DB, and Paradiso, J. SmartWear 2022. BEST PAPER AWARD
- Publications for 'Feather' and 'Equinox' under review (as of 2022).
Learn More about the captivates smartglasses, the Equinox smartwatch, or the Feather leg strap.
Interventions to Alter Engagement
- Huxley: Intelligent Book as Essentialist Artefact Ramsay, DB, and Paradiso, J. DesFORM 2019.
- YourAd: A User Aligned, Personal Advertising System Ramsay, DB, and Paradiso, J. CHI EA 2019.
- Publications for 'Guitarbot', 'Stagehand', and 'Emailed' forthcoming.
Learn More about the Huxley smartbook, the Emailed email client, or the Stagehand and Guitarbot projects.
Machine Learning for Perception
- Towards "Gestalt" Computation in Sound Ananthabhotla, I, Ramsay, DB, and Paradiso, J. NeurIPS, Creativity in ML Workshop 2021.
- Cognitive Audio Interfaces: Mediating Sonic Information with an Understanding of How We Hear. Ananthabhotla, I, Ramsay, DB, Duharte, C, and Paradiso, J. IEEE Pervasive 2021.
- Towards Causal Psychophysiology in the Wild: Probabilistic Programs for Skin Conductance Analysis. Ramsay, DB, Chwalek, P, van de Meent, JW, and Paradiso, J. PROBPROG 2020.
- Low-Dimensional Bottleneck Features for On-Device Continuous Speech Recognition. Ramsay, DB, Kilgour, K, Roblek, D, and Sharifi, M. Interspeech 2019. (research performed at Google AI)
- HCU400: An Annotated Dataset for exploring aural phenomenology through causal uncertainty. Ramsay, DB, Ananthabhotla, I, and Paradiso, J. IEEE ICASSP 2019.
- The Intrinsic Memorability of Everyday Sounds. Ramsay, DB, Ananthabhotla, I, and Paradiso, J. AES Immersive and Interactive Audio 2018.
Learn More about David's machine learning work.
Audio System Engineering
- Methods and Apparatus for Auditory Attention Tracking Through Source Modification. [PATENT] D.B. Ramsay, J. Paradiso. US 16846300 B2. Filed Apr 11, 2020. Granted Nov 23, 2021.
- Collaboratively Processing Audio between Headset and Source to Mask Distracting Noise. [PATENT] D. Gauger Jr., C. Ickler, D.B. Ramsay. US 20150281829 A1. Filed Mar 26, 2014. Granted Nov 22, 2016. (completed at Bose Research)
- GroupLoop: A Collaborative, Network-Enabled Audio Feedback Instrument. Ramsay, DB, and Paradiso, J. NIME 2015. (try it)
- A Novel Fourier Approach to Guitar String Separation. Ramsay, DB, Burke, T, Barry, D, and Coyle, E. ISSC 2011. (completed on Fulbright scholarship)
Learn More about these audio systems.
Scalable Air Quality Monitoring
- The LearnAir Network. Ramsay, DB and Paradiso, J. IEEE Pervasive, 2019.
- Making Air (Quality) Visible: Exploiting new technologies to dramatically improve atmospheric monitoring. Ramsay, DB, Paradiso, J, and Hamburg, S. IEEE Pervasive, 2018.
- Automated Characterization of Consumer Grade Sensor Accuracy from Supporting Data in Heterogeneous Air Quality Monitoring Networks. (Conference presentation). Ramsay, DB and Paradiso, J. NEMC, 2017.
- LearnAir: towards Intelligent, Personal Air Quality Monitoring. (Master’s Thesis). Ramsay, DB. MIT Media Lab, 2016.
Learn More about David's master's work.
Misc.
- Base plate mechanics of the barnacle Balanus Amphitrite. Ramsay, DB, Dickinson, G, Orihuela, B, Rittschof, D and Wahl, K. Biofouling 2008. (completed at NRL)
David has also written (in non-peer reviewed settings) about additional work including modeling respiratory neural networks at NIH, an avatar app for behavior change, and machine learning for parent-child dialog classification.
David is also engaging in the psychology community, with a lightning talk at the recent SIPS 2022 (Society for Improving Psychological Science) conference and a poster upcoming in SPP 2022 (Society for Philosophy and Psychology).
Teaching
David created and was primary lecturer for; the first for-credit MIT course explicitly addressing psychology's replication crisis: MAS.S73: Moving Beyond the Replication Crisis. David received the department nomination for MIT's Goodwin Medal for Exceptional Graduate Instruction as a result of this effort.
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MAS.S73 Moving Beyond the Replication Crisis IAP ‘22
Creator and primary lecturer for class on replication crisis in psychology, Check it out here. -
MAS.S61 AI and Mental Health (Roz Picard) Spring ‘21
2 hr lecture on loneliness and solitude, lead TA -
MAS.836 Sensor Technologies for Interactive Environments (Joe Paradiso) Spring ’16, ’17, ’19, ’22
2 hr lecture on chemical sensing, redesigned labs, several recitation lectures on circuit design -
MAS.S76 Adventures in Sensing (Joe Paradiso) Spring ’21
MC of discussion with Shoshanna Zuboff and Bunnie Huang -
Texas Instrument Internet of Things Introduction IAP ‘15
Lecture on electronics, practical project guidance
David is also active as a big brother in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, has mentored 5 Undergraduate researchers during his time at MIT, and serves as an Graduate Resident Assistant in MIT's East Campus dorm.
Quick Facts
- MS from the MIT Media Lab; skills include hardware system design and deep probabilistic computation applied to perception and psychology
- Dual Degree in Electrical Engineering (conc. signal processing) and Music from Case (CWRU) in Cleveland, OH
- Six months researching at Google; half in Mountain View and half in Zurich at Google AI
- Two summers in Shenzhen at a manufacturing boot camp run by Andrew 'bunnie' Huang
- Work experience at NIH, NRL, GE, and (three years @) Bose Research giving a strong variety of Research, Systems, & EE/CS skills
- Fulbright Recipient, worked in Ireland at DIT on musical DSP project for people with disabilities
- AI Grant Recipient, for work on Machine Learning models to predict auditory perception
- Creator of the first MIT for-credit class explicitly focused on psychology's replication crisis
- Department nominee for the MIT Goodwin Medal for excellence in Graduate Teaching, 2022
- Highly-rated TA (7x classes), GRA (5x years), UROP Mentor (5x mentees), and 'big brother'
- 14 peer reviewed publications, 2 patents, numerous conference presentations
- Projects have been discussed on NPR and appeared in the MIT Museum
- Avid musician and gearnut with a professional certificate from Berklee for music production
- Heavy traveler (30+ countries)
Old Projects
Click here to explore some of David's really old prior work.