Preethi Vaidyanathan is a 5th year doctoral student in Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science working under the supervision of Drs. Jeff Pelz, Anne Haake and Cecilia Alm at the Multidisciplinary Vision Research Lab. She received her Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2009. Her interests include eye-tracking, computer vision, multimodal data integration, machine learning. Her research aims at understanding images at semantic level and develop sophisticated image information systems. Currently she is working on developing a novel method of high-level image understanding via multimodal data integration.