RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Machine Learning
Multimodal Machine Learning
Deep Learning
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Computer Vision
Facial Expression Analysis
Facial Occlusion Detection and Localization
Gesture Recognition
Semantic Segmentation
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Affective Computing
Automatic Analysis and Recognition of Multimodal Social Signals
Synthesis of Human Affect
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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
EDUCATION
University of Central Florida
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, 2017
Dissertation: Complex Affect Recognition in the Wild
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 2012
Thesis: Personal Identification Based on Iris Patterns
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
• Associate Chair and Reviewer, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
• Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2017-2020
• Program Committee, The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2020
• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2018-2020
• Reviewer, ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2020
• Reviewer, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020
• Program Committee, AI Track and scholarship, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC), 2019-2020
• Reviewer, International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2019
• Reviewer, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2016
TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
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Machine Learning for Social Signal Processing
Guest Speaker, School of Management ,University of California, Davis, CA, May, 2020
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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