RESEARCH INTERESTS
EDUCATION
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Affective Computing
Automatic Analysis and Recognition of Multimodal Social Signals
Synthesis of Human Affect
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Computer Vision
Facial Expression Analysis
Facial Occlusion Detection and Localization
Gesture Recognition
Human Pose Estimation
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Machine Learning
Multimodal Machine Learning
Deep Learning
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Human Computer Interaction
Designing Affect Sensitive User Interfaces
Building Social Agents
Child Computer Interaction
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Computational Aesthetics
Beauty Assessment of Videos and Still Images
Analyzing and Predicting Affective Response to Multimedia
University of Central Florida
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, 2017
Thesis: Complex Affect Recognition in the Wild
University of Central Florida
Master of Science in Computer Science, 2015
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 2012
Thesis: Personal Identification Based on Iris Patterns
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
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Research Assistant at Synthetic Reality Lab (UCF), Orlando, FL [08/2017– 12/2017]
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Research Intern at Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, NJ [05/2017 - 08/2017]
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Research Assistant at Synthetic Reality Lab (UCF), Orlando, FL [01/2017– 05/2017]
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Visiting Research Assistant at MultiComp Lab (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA [08/2016–12/2016]
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Research Intern LTI (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA[05/2016–08/2016]
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Visiting Research Assistant at MultiComp Lab (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA[08/2015–05/2016]
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Research Assistant at Synthetic Reality Lab (UCF), Orlando, FL [01/2015 – 08/2015]
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Research Assistant at Computer Vision Lab (UCF), Orlando, FL [08/2012–01/2015]
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Teaching Assistant, Operating System Concepts (UCF)
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Teaching Assistant, Design and Analysis of Algorithms (UCF)
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Teaching Assistant, Data Structures and Design of Algorithms (UCF)
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Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of IT (UCF)
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Teaching Assistant, IT Project Management (UCF)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES/MEMBERSHIPS
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Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2018
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Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2017
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Reviewer, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2017
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Reviewer, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2016
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Student Volunteer, ACM Multimedia 2014
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Student Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Student Member, IEEE
TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
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Artificial Social Intelligence for Human Centric Systems
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, December, 2017
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Artificial Social Intelligence for Human Centric Systems
Columbia University, New York, NY, November, 2017
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Hand2Face: Automatic Synthesis and Recognition of Hand Over Face Occlusions
The 7th Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, San Antonio, Texas, 2017
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Interactive GAN: Interactive generative adversarial networks for generation of facial expressions in dyadic interactions
Educational Testing Service (ETS), August 2017
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Artificial Social Intelligence: A Visual Perspective
Doctoral Consortium, The 12th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Washington, DC, 2017
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Exceptionally Social: Design of an Avatar-Mediated Interactive System for Promoting Social Skills in Children with Autism
Poster presentation, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, Colorado, 2017
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Hands-on: Context-driven Hand Gesture Recognition for Automatic Recognition of Curiosity
Poster presentation, CHI Workshop: Designing for Curiosity, Denver, Colorado, 2017
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The Future Belongs to the Curious: Towards Automatic Understanding and Recognition of Curiosity in Children
The 5th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction, San Francisco, California, 2016
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Towards a Comprehensive Computational Model for Aesthetic Assessment of Videos
The 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Barcelona, Spain, 2013