Scholar
Adriana Kovashka
Google Scholar ID: Dl949GoAAAAJ
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,556
H-index
21
i10-index
36
Publications
20
Co-authors
12
list available
Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- NSF CAREER Award (2021) for methods to handle noise and ambiguity in weak language and multimodal supervision for object detection
- Four top-tier publications in 2019: TPAMI (IF 17.7), CVPR oral (5.6% acceptance), ICCV (25%), NeurIPS (21.1%)
- One ECCV and four BMVC papers in 2018 (including 1 oral, 1 spotlight), plus Pitt CRDF award
- Google Faculty Research Awards in 2018 and 2016
- NSF Small Award (2017) with Rebecca Hwa for modeling vividness and symbolism to decode visual rhetoric
- NSF CRII CISE Award (2016) to automatically understand visual rhetoric in media
- University of Pittsburgh CRDF Award (2016)
- Area Chair for CVPR 2018; Tutorials Chair for WACV 2018
- Organized the first CVPR workshop on understanding advertisements and co-organized the first workshop on understanding subjective attributes in vision
- Released data and annotations for CVPR 2017 spotlight paper 'Automatic Understanding of Image and Video Advertisements' (April 2017)
Research Experience
- Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
- Leading an NSF-funded project (2025) with Indiana University Bloomington on AI models to support students in interpreting scientific diagrams
- NSF grant (2023) to study geographic diversity in visual/context appearance, language supervision, and object vocabularies for object detection
- NSF award (2020) with Erin Walker, Diane Litman, and Timothy Nokes-Malach on multimodal dialogue for human-robot collaborative math learning
- NSF award (2020) on generalization with shape and context
