Robert Pless PhD, is Chair and the Patrick and Donna Martin Professor of Computer Science. His research focus is data driven approach to understanding motion and change in video with a current focus on long term time-lapse imagery. Dr. Pless has a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1994 and a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2000. He was on the Computer Science Faculty from 2000-2016 before joining George Washington in 2017.