I am a graduate student in computer science at Yale University, in New Haven, CT, working in both the Social Robotics Laboratory under the advisement of Professor Brian Scassellati and the Yale Child Study Center's Yale Early Social Cognition Lab under the mentorship of Professor Katarzyna Chawarska. My interests include computational models of visual attention, eye-tracking, autism, models of human development, and human subservience to our silicon masters.
Before becoming a graduate student, I was previously a researcher at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes, where I conducted research in magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and, previous to that, a Playstation video game programmer for the Sony Interactive Studios of America. Prior to that, there was death, murder, and intrigue, but not always at the same time, and not always by me.
My email address is currently frederick.shic at yale.edu. I strive to answer my email as quickly as possible, but my spam detector sometimes fails, which is to say that sometimes I accidentally delete your message and sometimes I just don't want to answer you. But let us not dwell on whether you are being accidentally or intentionally ignored. Let us live in ambiguity. Let us love the long days but especially the long nights. Let us cast away fear and hatred; let us wallow in our own self-delusions. If you want to, or need to find me, friend, you will.
