Cyber SYSTEMS and Technology
Merrielle Spain
Merrielle Spain
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cyber Systems and Technology Group
244 Wood Street
Lexington, MA 02420-9108
voice: 781-981-3541
fax: 781-981-0186
email: merrielle.spain@ll.mit.edu
Dr. Merrielle Spain is a Technical staff member in the Cyber Systems and Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Dr. Spain joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory in September 2011, and has been working on tamper resistant systems, physical unclonable functions, and side channel analysis. She applies machine learning techniques to these problems, with a focus in mathematical optimization and noise reduction. Prior to joining Lincoln Laboratory, she was a member of the Computational Vision Lab at Caltech, studying human and computer vision. Her research was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Dr. Spain earned her B.S., summa cum laude, in cognitive science with a minor in mathematics from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2005, and her Ph.D. in computation and neural systems from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2011. Her thesis “Modeling and Predicting Object Attention in Natural Scenes” exploited statistical regularities in how humans automatically attend to certain objects in a scene, and applied machine learning to predict the important objects in a scene.
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