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Muchao Yeمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• AI Safety
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Muchao Ye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa. He earned his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University's College of Information Sciences and Technology in 2024 and a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Engineering from South China University of Technology. Ph.D., Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University (2024) B.Eng., Information Engineering, South China University of Technology His research focuses on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and AI Safety, particularly adversarial robustness in language models and vision-language models. He designs methods to enhance the security and reliability of deep learning systems for safety-critical applications like video surveillance and healthcare. Recent publications highlight adversarial robustness frameworks (e.g., UniT , PAT ), vision-language models for explainable video anomaly detection ( VERA ), and healthcare risk prediction techniques ( MedPath , MedRetriever ). His work appears in top venues such as NeurIPS, KDD, AAAI, ACL, and CVPR. Professional experience includes Applied Scientist internships at Amazon (2022–2023) and teaching roles at the University of Iowa and Pennsylvania State University. He serves as a reviewer for conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, and journals including IEEE TPAMI.

Richard M. Sternمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Speech Recognition
• Audio Signal Processing
• Music Information Retrieval
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Richard M. Stern is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), holding courtesy appointments in the Language Technologies Institute and Department of Computer Science, and serving as an Artist Lecturer in the School of Music since 2007. His interdisciplinary work bridges engineering and music technology through the School of Music's programs. Education: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1976 Professor Stern's research spans sound, speech, hearing, and music, with core emphases on robust speech processing in variable acoustic environments, music information retrieval, automated accompaniment, and foundational contributions to binaural perception theory. His work integrates psychoacoustic principles with machine learning to address challenges in speech recognition and human-robot interaction. Recent publications (2022-2025) reveal intensified focus on deep learning for speech enhancement in reverberant/noisy conditions, human-robot interaction scenarios, and music tagging—highlighting innovations in beamforming, source separation, and temporal modulation modeling. Awards and Honors: Fellow of the IEEE Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) ISCA Distinguished Lecturer Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence (1992) Lutron Award for Teaching Excellence (2018) Professor Stern has advised numerous graduate students in speech and audio research, though specific names are unlisted in source materials. His grant portfolio includes significant National Science Foundation and industry-funded projects in speech technology, with leadership roles in initiatives like Interspeech 2006. He actively collaborates with CMU's Language Technologies Institute and Music and Technology program. He maintains strong ties to CMU's interdisciplinary ecosystem through the Language Technologies Institute and School of Music's Music and Technology program, contributing to research that merges acoustic engineering with musical applications.

• Computer Vision
• Artificial Intelligence
• Multimodal Learning
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Dr. Hilde Kuehne is a Professor at the University of Tuebingen and a key researcher at the Tuebingen AI Center. She holds affiliations with MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and Goethe University Frankfurt, with a focus on computer vision, multimodal learning, and explainable AI. Her work bridges vision-language models, audio-visual alignment, and self-supervised methods. Co-organizer of the New Frontiers in Associative Memories workshop @ ICLR 2025 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Carl-Zeiss-Foundation Contributor to CVPR 2025's UTD dataset for unbiased video benchmarks Her research addresses critical challenges in: Explainability for Vision Transformers (LeGrad) Fine-grained audio-visual alignment (CAV-MAE Sync) Zero-shot visual recognition automation (Meta-Prompting) Spatio-temporal grounding without annotations Recent collaborative work spans 15+ publications across CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, and ICLR, with emphasis on multimodal foundation models, dataset bias mitigation, and differentiable logic networks. She actively contributes to workshop organization and peer review as evidenced by her involvement in CVPR 2025 and ICLR 2025 program committees.

Marco Pedersoliمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Marco Pedersoli serves as an Assistant Professor at École de technologie supérieure (ETS) in Montreal since February 2017, where he leads research in computer vision and machine learning. His work focuses on reducing computational costs and annotation requirements for deploying vision algorithms on embedded devices, positioning ETS at the forefront of Montreal's AI ecosystem. His academic journey includes: Ph.D. from Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) under Jordi Gonzàlez and Juan José Villanueva Post-doctoral research at INRIA Grenoble with Cordelia Schmid and Jakob Verbeek (2015-2016) Research at KU Leuven with Tinne Tuytelaars (2012-2015) Dr. Pedersoli's research tackles deep learning bottlenecks through weakly-supervised methodologies and computational efficiency innovations . His three core projects address: Reduced Supervision : Developing weakly/semi-supervised learning for images, video, audio and text Exploration Learning : Optimizing data selection in unstructured environments Efficient Computation : Accelerating deep learning training and inference These efforts enable vision algorithms to run on resource-constrained portable devices. Publication trends (2014-2022) reveal consistent focus on weak supervision (60% of works) and computational efficiency (30%), with recent expansion into medical imaging and multimodal emotion recognition. Key venues include CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS and ECCV. His accolades include: Best Paper Award at ICIAR 2019 NVIDIA Titan X Pascal hardware donation Dr. Pedersoli actively mentors 18 graduate students across PhD and MSc programs, with notable placements at Huawei and Radio Canada. His lab secures competitive tax-free funding for projects with international collaborations, including Element AI and European institutions. Current openings emphasize Python/C++ proficiency and deep learning expertise. He leads a dynamic research group at ETS developing open-source tools for Roi-Pooling, weakly-supervised detection, and 3D object recognition, maintaining active GitHub repositories with community contributions. Recent WACV 2023 acceptances demonstrate ongoing productivity following medical leave.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Science
• Machine Learning
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Lizi Liao is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems , Singapore Management University (SMU) , specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Conversational AI . Her research bridges Machine Learning , Natural Language Processing , and Multimodal Systems , focusing on proactive dialogue systems, multimodal conversational search, and task-oriented interactions. Education : PhD in Computer Science (2019) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) , advised by Professor Tat-Seng Chua . Research Interests center on principles of human conversational understanding and machine implementation, particularly in proactive conversational agents , multimodal dialogue systems , and target-driven conversation planning . Key applications include emotional support systems , intelligent shopping assistants , and learning companions . Recent Publications (2024-2025) highlight her work on LLM-based proactive dialogue , multimodal emotion recognition , and dynamic graph modeling , often integrating NLP , Multimedia , and Knowledge Graphs . Collaborative projects with her CoAgent Lab team emphasize human-AI interaction and ethical response generation . Scientific Awards : Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Award 2023 Lee Kong Chian Fellow Teaching includes Visual Analytics for Business Intelligence (undergraduate) and Text Analytics and Application (graduate). She also serves as Associate Editor for TOIS and TOMM , and organizes tutorials at ACL , SIGIR , and WSDM .

Chen Sunمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Computer Vision
• Deep Learning
• Machine Learning
• +۸ مورد دیگر

Chen Sun is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University and a part-time Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind . His research bridges computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence , focusing on multimodal representation learning, visual commonsense, and controllable video generation . He directs the PALM🌴 research lab , which explores scalable models for robotic planning, video understanding, and human activity recognition . Chen Sun earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (2016) , advised by Professor Ram Nevatia , and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Tsinghua University (2011) . His lab's work has been supported by Adobe, Honda, Meta, NASA, and Samsung , and he is affiliated with the NSF AI Research Institute on Interaction for AI Assistants . His research spans multimodal transformers, embodied agents, and physics-informed video generation . Key trends include Learning from unlabeled videos for human activity recognition Developing controllable generation techniques using motion trajectories and physics-based signals Advancing scalable frameworks for video-language tasks Scientific awards include the Brown University Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award and Samsung Global Research Outreach Award . He has served as Workshop Chair (CVPR 2025) , Action Editor (TMLR) , and Area Chair for top conferences like ICLR, CVPR, and NeurIPS . Chen Sun mentors a dynamic team including Ph.D. students Apoorv Khandelwal (Presidential Fellow) Calvin Luo (Research Mobility Fellow) Nate Gillman (Math Department) Shijie Wang Tian Yun (co-advised with Ellie Pavlick) Yuan Zang Zilai Zeng Zitian Tang and alumni now pursuing Ph.D. programs at Princeton, Cornell, UBC, and UNC . His teaching portfolio includes graduate-level courses on Deep Learning (CSCI 2470) , Advanced Topics in Deep Learning (CSCI 2952N) , and a short course on Multimodal Transformers at ICASSP 2022 and AAAI 2023 .

• Cybersecurity and privacy
• Privacy protection
• AI and machine learning
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Dr. Bo Liu is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where he serves as a core member and director of the AI Security and Privacy (AISP) Research Lab at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII). With expertise spanning cybersecurity, privacy protection, AI and machine learning, and wireless communications, Dr. Liu has established himself as a leading researcher in the field of AI security and privacy. Dr. Liu earned his PhD from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2010. His academic journey at UTS has progressed from Senior Lecturer (November 2019-December 2022) to his current position as Associate Professor (January 2023-present). Dr. Liu's research focuses on the critical intersection of artificial intelligence and security, particularly addressing emerging threats in the age of advanced AI systems. His work spans multiple dimensions of security and privacy, including deepfake detection, privacy-preserving data synthesis, AI model security, and fair machine learning. He has pioneered approaches to detect AI-generated content, protect visual privacy through de-identification techniques, and address the complex relationship between algorithmic fairness and privacy preservation. His publication record demonstrates significant contributions across multiple cutting-edge research areas, with particular emphasis on detecting and mitigating threats from generative AI systems. His recent work reveals a strong focus on deepfake detection across multiple modalities (images, video, and audio), privacy-preserving techniques for sensitive data, and the security implications of emerging AI architectures like Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems. Dr. Liu has secured substantial research funding, including as Lead Chief Investigator on multiple ARC Discovery and Linkage Projects, totaling over $3.5 million AUD. His industry collaborations include partnerships with the NSW Department of Planning and the Reserve Bank of Australia, demonstrating the practical applicability of his research. As an academic leader, Dr. Liu serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and actively contributes to the academic community through conference organization, peer review for top-tier venues, and assessment for ARC grant schemes. He also teaches courses including Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking and Offensive Security, and supervises Masters and PhD students in cybersecurity and privacy research.

• Computer Vision
• Natural Language Processing
• 3D Human Motion Synthesis
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Gül Varol is a permanent researcher at École des Ponts ParisTech's IMAGINE group, an ELLIS Scholar, and Guest Scientist at Max Planck Institute. She holds a PhD from Inria Paris/ENS with awards from ELLIS and AFRIF. Her academic service includes Program Chair at ECCV'24 and Area Chair roles at major conferences. Current affiliations: IMAGINE group (École des Ponts ParisTech), Max Planck Institute Previous roles: Postdoctoral researcher at University of Oxford Her research focuses on vision-language applications, particularly in 3D human motion synthesis, sign language technology, and audio description generation. Key techniques include text-conditioned diffusion models, temporal context modeling, and synthetic data utilization. Scientific contributions recognized through: Google Research Scholar award (2023) ELLIS PhD Award (2020) AFRIF PhD thesis award (2020) Best application paper at ACCV'20 Recent publications demonstrate expertise in: Text-driven 3D motion editing (MotionFix, 2024) Cross-dataset generalization studies (TMR++, 2024) Temporal action composition frameworks (TEACH, 2022) Sign language dense annotation methods (BOBSL, 2022) Zero-shot audio description generation (AutoAD-Zero, 2024) She actively contributes to dataset development including BOBSL (British Sign Language corpus) and SURREACT synthetic action dataset, while pioneering new evaluation metrics for audio description quality and motion retrieval benchmarks.

Wesley Willettمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Information visualization
• Human-computer interaction
• New media
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Wesley Willett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary, holding the NSERC CRC II Chair in Visual Analytics. His primary research focuses on information visualization, human-computer interaction, and new media applications. He leads the Data Experience Lab and Interactions Lab, exploring innovative methods for data representation and interaction in augmented/virtual reality environments. Education includes a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado (2006) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley (2012). His work bridges technical innovation with user-centered design principles, emphasizing ethical considerations in data visualization and inclusive representation. Key research contributions include: spatial visualization techniques for large environments, gesture-based interfaces for AR/VR, and physical data representations through projects like Cetonia (swarm robotics visualization) and Data Embroidery. His work has been recognized with Best Paper awards at CHI 2015 and Pervasive 2010. Current research emphasizes immersive analytics, wearable visualization systems, and demographically diverse anthropographics. He collaborates with urban designers, neurologists, and environmental scientists to apply visualization in diverse domains like epilepsy surgery planning and air quality monitoring.

Raymond J. Mooneyمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Machine Learning
• +۱۴ مورد دیگر

Raymond J. Mooney is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a faculty member since 1987. He is the Director of the UT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and affiliated with multiple research groups including the Machine Learning Research Group, UT Computational Linguistics Lab, and the UT Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his thesis was supervised by Gerald DeJong. His research spans diverse areas in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing: Natural Language Learning Connecting Language and Perception Statistical Relational Learning Information Extraction Transfer and Active Learning Abductive Reasoning Text Mining and Clustering Recommender Systems Knowledge-Base Refinement Recent publications highlight trends in grounded language processing, human-robot interaction, and multimodal reasoning. He has been recognized with prestigious fellowships including ACL (2014), ACM (2010), and AAAI (2005). Scientific awards: Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2014) Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2010) Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (2005) Classic Paper Award (2019) Best Paper Awards (2007, 2004, 1996) He teaches graduate courses like CS 371R: Information Retrieval and Web Search (Fall 2025) and CS 395T: Grounded Natural Language Processing (Spring 2025). His research labs include: UT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Machine Learning Research Group UT Computational Linguistics Lab UT Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Gaming and Animation
• Computer Graphics
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Yingying Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Computing and Software department at McMaster University , where she joined in January 2022. Her research focuses on generating expressive animations for AR/VR applications and games through interdisciplinary approaches combining Computer Graphics , Artificial Intelligence , and Human Behavior Analysis . Education : Bachelor and Master degrees from Nanjing University , Ph.D. from University of California, Davis (2017) Her research explores: Generative models for human motion style transfer Physics-based motion simulation Audio-driven character synthesis Dance choreography for virtual characters Cartoon animation perception Conversational character gesture synthesis Markerless hand motion capture Recent publications focus on 3D hand pose estimation , motion style transfer , gesture-locomotion coordination , and personality perception in virtual agents . Key methodologies include deep learning , multimodal data analysis , and real-time animation systems . Scientific contributions recognized through: $240,000 Labarge Catalyst Grant in Mobility in Aging (interdisciplinary team award) US Patent 10,796,482 (3D hand pose estimation) US Patent 9,811,937 (gesture-locomotion coordination) Teaching includes graduate and undergraduate courses in Computer Animation (CAS 737), Computer Graphics (COMPSCI 3GC3/SFWRENG 3GC3), and Software Development (COMPSCI 2ME3). Research group actively recruits Ph.D. and Master's students in graphics + deep learning domains.

Natalie Agusمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس ارشد

• Interactive Computing
• Room Acoustics
• Music Information Retrieval
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Natalie Agus is a Senior Lecturer at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), specifically within the ISTD (Information Systems Technology and Design) pillar. Her office is located at 1.402.28. She specializes in teaching undergraduate computing courses, including programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, and C/C++. Agus is dedicated to innovating teaching methods to enhance student engagement with academic materials. Her research focuses on room acoustics and music information retrieval, with a particular emphasis on binaural audio processing. Her doctoral work centered on developing perceptually realistic real-time binaural room reverberation algorithms. Agus holds a B.Eng. (Robotics, 2015) and a Ph.D. (Digital Audio Signal Processing, 2018), both from SUTD. Her recent publications explore topics such as binaural room modeling, perceptual evaluation of spectral variance, and energy-based acoustic simulation techniques. She actively participates in collaborative research projects within the audio engineering domain.

Hazel Doughtyمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Video Understanding
• Computer Vision
• Action Recognition
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Hazel Doughty is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University in the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) . Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and completed her PhD at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Prof. Dima Damen and Prof. Walterio Mayol-Cuevas. Research Interests: Video Understanding, Skill Determination, Self-Supervised Learning, Temporal Attention, and Adverb Recognition in Instructional Videos. Grants: Co-Applicant for DUAL-IMPACT (NWO High Tech Systems and Materials, €1.25M); Main Applicant for NWO Veni grant ( From What to How: Perceiving Subtle Differences in Videos , €280K). Scientific Recognition: Veni Grant (2023) ELLIS Member (2022) Outstanding Reviewer for CVPR, NeurIPS, ECCV, and ACCV Academic Service: Organizer of workshops at CVPR 2024, BMVC 2023, NCCV 2024, and NeurIPS'21. Area Chair for CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, AAAI. Teaching: Courses on Computer Vision (BSc) and Advances in Deep Learning (MSc) at Leiden University. Her work focuses on fine-grained video understanding with weak or incomplete supervision , including adverb analysis, self-supervised learning, and egocentric vision datasets. Her recent publications analyze benchmark sensitivity, motion-focused video-language models, and generalized category discovery. Collaborations include the HAVA lab at the University of Amsterdam and the EPIC-Kitchens-100 project. She leads the DUAL-IMPACT initiative on high-tech systems and co-organized workshops at CVPR, ICCV, and NeurIPS. Her students include PhD candidates Luc Sträter and Kaiting Liu , and former advisees like Fida Mohammad Thoker (now postdoc at KAUST) and Piyush Bagad (now PhD at Oxford).

• Computer Vision
• Deep Learning
• Robotics
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Dr. João Henriques is a Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) at the Visual Geometry Group (VGG), University of Oxford. His research focuses on advancing computer vision, deep learning, and robotics, particularly in areas like 3D scene understanding, reinforcement learning, and multi-agent systems. He is renowned for developing the KCF and SiameseFC visual trackers, which won the VOT Challenge and are deployed in consumer hardware. His work spans 3D geometry, self-supervised learning, causal inference, and neuro-symbolic systems. Key contributions include methods for egocentric video analysis, unsupervised reconstruction, and robot navigation. He leads the VGG's research on neural feature fields, hierarchical scene understanding, and real-time 3D perception. Recent publications emphasize 3D-aware segmentation, universal place recognition, and neuro-symbolic world modeling for robotics. His research often bridges theoretical guarantees with practical applications, such as medical imaging and autonomous systems. Dr. Henriques collaborates with industry and academia on AI ethics, friendly AI, and interpretable learning. His lab hosts DPhil students advancing creative AI applications, such as generative models for gameplay design and LLM evaluations in real-world editorial workflows.

Andrea Santilliمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Natural Language Processing
• Representation Learning
• Machine Intelligence
• +۱۰ مورد دیگر

Andrea Santilli is a Research Scientist at Nous Research and holds a PhD in Computer Science from GLADIA at Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on large language models (LLMs), robustness, reliability, and multimodal learning. He previously worked at Apple MLR, Hugging Face’s BigScience, and Pi School. He earned his MSc and BSc in Computer Science from Tor Vergata University and Sapienza. Education: PhD in Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome (2024) MSc in Computer Science, University of Roma Tor Vergata (2020) BSc in Computer Science, University of Roma Tor Vergata (2018) Research Interests: Santilli’s work spans LLM robustness , mechanistic interpretability , multimodal neural databases , and instruction-tuning . He introduced Parallel Jacobi Decoding and contributed to projects like BLOOM, Camoscio, and Fauno. His research bridges syntax-aware NLP, privacy-preserving LLMs, and cross-modal alignment. Publications: His work includes advancements in 3D-text latent space alignment (CVPR 2025), evolutionary merging (ICML 2025), and efficient decoding (ACL 2023). Over 15+ peer-reviewed papers span venues like ACL, CVPR, and ICLR. Awards: Received the Emanuele Pianta Award for his MSc thesis on continual language learning with syntax-based episodic memory. Grants & Projects: Winner of ‘Machine Learning Algorithms for Translation’ grant (2022), developing Parallel Decoding Co-PI for ‘Multimodal AI for 3D Analysis’ (2021) with Ecole Polytechnique Labs & Teams: Active in GLADIA (Sapienza), Apple MLR, and Hugging Face’s BigScience initiative. Core contributor to open-source projects like PromptSource and BLOOM.