Numerous papers accepted in top conferences such as ICCV, CVPR, NeurIPS, ECCV, etc. Including 7 papers at ICCV 2025, 8 papers at CVPR 2024, and so on. Also published in high-impact journals like Nature Scientific Data and PNAS.
Research Experience
Former Deputy Director of the AI Initiative at KAUST, now the Chair/Director of the Center of Excellence in Generative AI. Published numerous papers in top conferences and journals, and served as an Area Chair in multiple international conferences.
Education
Graduate research assistant at the Computer Vision and Robotics Lab (CVRL) at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Advisor was Professor Narendra Ahuja. PhD work focused on modeling dynamic textures from video for non-trivial synthesis, recognition, compression, extraction, and activity recognition.
Background
Currently a Professor of ECE and CS at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Chair/Director of the Center of Excellence in Generative AI (GenAI). Leads the Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL). Research interests broadly in computer vision and machine learning, specifically in large-scale video understanding, 3D understanding, and foundations of machine learning.