Sommer Gentry
  Assistant Professor, Mathematics
  U.S. Naval Academy

    Phone: 410-293-6724
    Email: gentry@usna.edu
    Deprecated: Sommer Gentry's MIT website

 

Background

Sommer Gentry graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with a B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science and a M.S. in Operations Research. She spent a year at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories before completing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005. As a graduate student, she received a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship and a Best Student Paper award at the 2003 IEEE Systems, Man, Cybernetics Conference. Her work on haptic interaction has been profiled in Science and TIME magazine, and she discussed her research on optimizing kidney transplantation on the Diane Rehm show.
 

Media Mentions

TIME Magazine, Innovators, The Kidney Connection 9/12/05 (JPEG)
The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio 3/18/05 (RealPlayer)
Science 3/12/04 (PDF)
Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation Technology 6/04 (PDF)
5678 dance magazine Spring 2004 (PDF)
TV News story at ScienCentral 3/23/04 (Quicktime)
Radio interview on KMOX News 5/12/04
MIT News Office press release (Web)
MIT Tech Talk 2/4/04 (PDF)
Boston Globe 3/16/04 (PDF)
DEIXIS 2004-2005 CSGF Annual Report
SIAM News, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics December 2004 (Web)
 

Publications

Material contained herein is made available for the purpose of peer review and discussion and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Navy or the Department of Defense.

D. Segev, S. Gentry, J.K. Melancon, and R.A. Montgomery. Characterization of waiting times in a simulation of kidney paired donation.  American Journal of Transplantation, 2005, October 5(10): 2448-55.

S. Gentry, D. Segev, and R. M. Montgomery, "A comparison of populations served by kidney paired donation and list paired donation", to appear, American Journal of Transplantation, August, 5(8): 1914-21, 2005.

D. Segev, S. Gentry, D. Warren, B. Reeb, and R. M. Montgomery, "Kidney paired donation: Optimizing the use of live donor organs", Journal of the American Medical Association, 293, p. 1883-1890, 2005.

S. Gentry and E. Feron, "Modelling musically meaningful choreography", IEEE Systems, Man, Cybernetics Conference 2004.
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S. Gentry and E. Feron, "Musicality experiments in lead and follow dance", IEEE Systems, Man, Cybernetics Conference 2004.
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E. Hsu, S. Gentry and J. Popovic, "Example-based control of human motion", Eurographics / ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, 2004.
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S. Gentry and R. Murray-Smith, "Haptic dancing: human performance at haptic decoding with a vocabulary", IEEE Systems, Man, Cybernetics Conference, vol. 4, pp.3432-3437, 2003.
Student Best Paper award.
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S. Gentry, S. Wall, I. Oakley and and R. Murray-Smith, "Got Rhythm? Haptic-only lead and follow dancing", Proceedings of Eurohaptics, pp. 481-488, Dublin, Ireland, July 2003.
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V. Kulkarni and S. Gentry, "Optimal Mode Changes for Highway Transportation Safety", IEEE Systems, Man, Cybernetics Conference, vol. 2, pp.1235-1240, 2003.
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J. De Mot, V. Kulkarni, S.Gentry,V. Gavrilets and E. Feron, "Coordinated Path Planning for a UAV Cluster". The First AINS Symposium, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, May 2002.
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J. De Mot, V. Kulkarni, S.Gentry and E. Feron, "Spatial
Distribution Results for Efficient Multi-Agent Navigation". IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, vol. 4, pp. 3776-3781, December 2002.
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S. Gentry, "Partial Inverse Optimization", MIT Lab for Information and Decision Systems Report, LIDS-P-2532, December, 2001.
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S. Gentry, V. Saligrama and E. Feron, "Dynamic Inverse Optimization", Proceedings of American Control Conference, Volume 6, pp. 4722-7, 2001.
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S. Gentry, S. Venkatesh and E. Feron, "Identifying Constrained Receding Horizon Controllers", 2000 Allerton Conference.
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