Ph.D. student, ECE department, 2005-now

Advisor: Manjunath

Research Interests

Multimedia, multimedia information retrieval, computer vision, object detection, object tracking, video summarization, video event detection, data mining, machine learning, multimodal fusion, active learning, signal processing and analysis.

Background

I completed my B.S.E.E.(1998) and M.S.E.E.(2000) at Rutgers University in my home state of New Jersey. As a graduate assistant at Rutgers I worked on speech and microphone arrays in Jim Flanagan's lab. My master's thesis addressed the topic of how to incorporate face detection with speaker location estimates for automatic hands-free videoconferencing.

In 2000, I took a position at Intel in Chandler, Arizona, in a DSP apps and architecture group. My job entailed writing IPP libraries for the jointly developed Analog Devices/Intel Micro Signal Architecture chip. I am still haunted by machine level opcodes in my sleep.

I spent the years 2002 to 2004 in the wild.

In Fall 2005, I reemerged at Santa Barbara, California, where I accepted a NSF fellowship in digital multimedia and began my Ph.D. studies.

In Fall 2007, I worked as an intern at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing in Wei Ying Ma's Web Search and Mining group.

Publications at UCSB

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