Gary Holness

Gary Holness is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Clark University, where he directs the Laboratory for Intelligent Perceptual Systems (LIPS). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2008) focusing on machine learning ensembles, robotics, and distributed systems.

Research spans:

• Machine learning ensembles and error diversity
• Robotic perception and autonomous systems
• Nonparametric density estimation
• Human-robot interaction for autism therapy
• Distributed frameworks for medical alerting
• Interactive AI with manifold learning

His publications show progression from theoretical machine learning to applied systems, with recent work on spectroscopic analysis and kernel methods. Maintains active student research programs in robotics, GPU acceleration, and terrain classification.