Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University
Research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision, natural language processing, and psychology
Aims to build intelligent agents that understand the visual world without expensive human annotations
Focus areas include self-supervised predictive learning for video event segmentation, commonsense reasoning for perception grounding, and generative modeling for knowledge construction
Current group work emphasizes analyzing, modeling, and synthesizing complex video scenes and their semantic structures
Also conducts use-inspired AI research with applications in agriculture and animal diagnostics