Dr. Tappert's Research Interests

Dr. Tappert currently has three main areas of research - pattern recognition, natural language processing, and security. Within the pattern recognition area he is particularly interested in biometrics and interactive visual image studies. Within the security area, in addition to the aforementioned biometrics, he is especially interested in forensics. Through his 25+ years of research work at IBM, he has considerable expertise in speech processing, mainly speech recognition, and in handwriting/pen computing, mainly handwriting recognition.

Dr. Tappert is the Associate Director of the Doctor of Professional Studies (DPS) in Computing Program in the Seidenberg School of CSIS at Pace University, where he teaches the two-semester research-seminar sequence for first-year students and the two-semester emerging information technologies sequence for second-year students. He also teaches the capstone course in the Master of Science in Computer Science program, where the students work on real-world projects for actual customers. These projects involve both external organizations and internal university schools/departments. The external organizations are mostly non-profit organizations, such as local hospitals, or other universities. In recent years, many of the internal projects have been designed to create the necessary infrastructure for DPS students to conduct their research, see the E-Learn 2007 conference paper Interplay of Projects and Research and the corresponding slides.

For more specifics of Dr. Tappert's research, see his list of publications.