Biography

I am a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google Research, working in computer vision and machine learning. Most recently, I lead a team of scientists and engineers on developing vision and language models for mobile products, such as Google’s first venture info Face Unlock on Pixel 4 & 4XL (2019) with NIR sensors, and Pixel 7 & 7 Pro (2022), Pixel Fold & 7a and Pixel 8 & 8 Pro (2023), Pixel 8a (2024) with only commodity RGB sensors.

Prior to Google, I was a Deep Learning Scientist at Apple, taking a major role of algorithm development for on-device technology, including Apple’s first Face ID on iPhone X (2017) and iPad Pro, real-time camera features (2018) shipped with decedent devices (XR, XS, XS Max) and next-gen products. Before Apple, I was a research staff in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University on Aug. 2010–2013, and received my Ph.D. from the same institute on Jan. 2017.

I (co-)authored over 30 publications in leading journals and conferences in computer vision and machine learning. I led the early development of IntraFace, an automated face analysis software that won the Best Demo Award in IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (AFGR) 2015. A spinoff of IntraFace, FacioMetrics, was later acquired by Facebook on Nov. 2016. I also serves as an Area Chair on AFGR and ICMI.

Litu Rout (UT Austin/Sanjay Shakkottai), 2023
“Beyond First-Order Tweedie: Solving Inverse Problems using Latent Diffusion”

Manli Shu (University of Maryland/Tom Goldstein), 2023
“Conditional Diffusion Models for Face Anti-Spoofing”

Yiyou Sun (University of Wisconsin-Madison/Sharon Li), 2022
“Rethinking Domain Generalization for Face Anti-spoofing: Separability and Alignment”

Giannis Daras (UT Austin/Alexandros Dimakis), 2021
“Solving Inverse Problems with NerfGANs”

Jason Chong (UIUC/David Froysth), 2020
“Retrieve in Style: Unsupervised Facial Feature Transfer and Retrieval”

Shlok Mishra (UMD/David Jacobs), 2020
“Improved Detection of Face Presentation Attacks Using Image Decomposition”

Esther Robb (Virginia Tech/Jia-Bin Huang), 2019
“Few-Shot Adaptation of Generative Adversarial Networks”

Jaymo Kang (UC Berkeley), 2018
“Image Domain Transfer using Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation”

Area Chair

• Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2024
• IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (AFGR), 2023
• ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2020
• ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2019
• IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (AFGR), 2019
• IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (AFGR), 2018

Organizing Committee

• ICMI 2021 (Sponsorship Chair)

Conference Review

• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014–present
• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015–present
• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2012–present
• Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (AFGR), 2015–present
• Asian Conference on Compute Vision (ACCV), 2012–2014
• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2016–present
• Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019–present
• International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2018–present
• Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2015

Journal Review

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
• International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
• Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
• Journal of Image and Vision Computing (IVC)
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAFFC)
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B
• IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging
• IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
• IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters
• Journal of Machine Vision and Applications
• Journal of Neurocomputing
• Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems
• Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Awards

• Best Demo Award: AFGR 2015.
• Outstanding Reviewer: ECCV 2016, AFGR 2015, ACCV 2012.
• Doctoral Consortium: ICCV 2015, ACII 2015.
• Best Paper Award: IPPR Conf. on Computer Vision, Graphics & Image Processing 2007.

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