Publications in venues such as CVPR, WACV, FG, IJCB, T-BIOM, TTS; Passed AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate Exam; Joined Wayfair as ML Scientist.
Research Experience
2024/06 - 2024/08: Graduate Research Intern, Comcast, Media Analytics Framework Team, Mentor: Dr. Mahmudul Hasan; Research projects include building multimodal models for contextual emotion prediction in video content.
Education
2021/08 - Present: Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Advisor: Dr. Kevin Bowyer; 2021/05: B.S. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Mississippi
Background
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering, with research interests including bias mitigation in face recognition technology, optimizing neural networks for efficiency on edge devices, ensuring biometric system security, and improving the reliability of face identification search. Also working on improving face foundation models for strong text-vision alignment for granular facial attributes.
Miscellany
Had full-time and part-time co-op experiences at Thyssenkrupp AG