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Brian Kulis is an Associate Professor at Boston University with appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, and the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences. He holds the Peter J. Levine Career Development Professorship and has previously been an Amazon Scholar at Alexa AI (2019–2023) and an assistant professor at Ohio State University (2012–2015). His research focuses on machine learning, including large-scale optimization, metric learning, deep learning, Bayesian methods, and applications in audio and visual data analysis. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin (2008) and a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Cornell University.
Key awards include the NSF CAREER Award (2015), CVPR Best Student Paper (2008), and ICML Best Student Paper (2007, 2005). His work spans publications in top venues like CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, and ECCV, emphasizing scalable algorithms and domain adaptation. Current research explores metric learning, adversarial audio augmentation, and HPC anomaly detection. He advises multiple PhD students and collaborates on grants such as the NSF Traineeship for Sustainable Energy Solutions (2024).
He teaches advanced courses in machine learning, deep learning, and data structures. His lab focuses on foundational and applied ML challenges, with affiliations in the Intelligent, Autonomous & Secure Systems group. Recent service includes senior area chair roles at AAAI, NeurIPS, and ICML.
