Elena Fedorovskaya is the Paul and Louise Miller Distinguished Professor at the School of Media Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She holds 30 U.S. patents and is an inductee of the Kodak Distinguished Inventors Gallery, having previously worked with human-centered imaging and computing for Eastman Kodak Research Labs. Her scholarly focus is human behavior, cross-media publishing, and communication. Among the range of methodologies for her human-centered research is eye tracking and user-behavior recording. She has developed models and algorithms for predicting subjective image quality and preferences of digital images. Fedorovskaya is an active member of Information Systems and Technology, International Society for Optics and Photonics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery, and Special Interest Group of Computer Human Interaction.
She holds a Ph.D. in Psychophysiology and master’s degrees in applied mathematics and psychology from Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia. She also was a postdoctoral fellow in Sweden and the Netherlands, studying image and color perception.