CV
Education
- Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Fall 2024 (expected)
- M.S. in Computer Science, Indiana State Universtity University, 2017
- B.S. in Computer Science, Indiana State Universtity University, 2015
Work experience
- Summer 2021: Research Scientist Intern
- Research focused on analyzing facial cues for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
- Developed a tool-kit for facial expression recognition which improved inference time by over 4x.
- Fall 2018 - Present: Research Assistant
- Multimodal Signal Processing (MSP) Lab, Richardson, TX.
- Developing machine learning algorithms focused on expressive behavior analysis, encompassing emotion recognition, supervised learning, personalization, multimodal modeling, and video signal processing.
- Collecting the largest spontaneous speech emotion dataset based on ‘in-the-wild’ podcast audios.
- Supervisor: Dr. Carlos Busso
- Spring 2018: Part Time Lecturer
- Indiana State University.
- Taught CS 256 (Principles of Structured Design in C).
- Fall 2017: Research in Bioinformatics
- Indiana State University.
- Research in Computational methods identifying clusters for miRNA and mRNA pairs in cancer networks.
- Improved look-up and MiRNA and RNA matching by over 10x, developed a visualization tool to display results.
- Spring 2016 - Spring 2017: Graduate Assistant
- Indiana State University.
- Teaching assistant and lab instructor for CS151 (Intro. Python Programming).
- Instructor for CS101 (Intro. Web/Unix Programming).
- Supervisor: Dr. Jeff Kinne
- Summer 2013: Undergraduate Research Intern
- Indiana State University.
- Group research in creating efficient parallel and concurrent programs to find large prime numbers.
- Findings: largest 12th, 13th, and 18th Sophie Germain prime. 14th twin prime. 208th known prime (at the time).
- Supervisor: Dr. Jeff Kinne
Leadership & Volunteer Work
- Ongoing: Reviewer
- Reviewed a plethora of papers in the field of deep learning, speech, and image processing.
- Springer JRTIP, IEEE-FG (outstanding reviewer award), ACM-ICMI
- June 2024: Organizing Committee Member
- Odyssey, Quebec, Canada
- Organizing the first MSP-Podcast speech emotion recognition challenge.
- October 2021: Hybrid Chair
- International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Canada
- Responsible for organizing instructions, papers, slides, and videos for conference attendees, while also minimizing the gap between physical and virtual participants’ experience.
- Spring 2019: Technical Mentor
- UTDesign Senior Project, Universtity of Texas at Dallas.
- Guided senior CS students at UTD in the development of a cloud-based behavioral analysis platform.
- Fall 2018 - Present: Lab Manager
- Multi-modal Singal Processing (MSP) Lab, Universtity of Texas at Dallas.
- Developed and implemented infrastructure to support deep learning research initiatives.
- Led and coordinated data collection efforts with a team of over 20 annotators. Excelled in simplifying complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
- Fall 2014 - Spring 2016: ACM Chapter President/Vice-President
- Manage weekly meetings for the ACM club, as well as field trips. Organized coding sessions for new students.
- Fall 2014 - Fall 2015: Unix/Linux Lab Assistant
- Assisted undergraduate CS students in mastering programming concepts, languages, algorithms, and data structures.
Skills
- Programming Languages
- Python
- C/C++
- Bash
- PHP
- Javascript
- Matlab
- Java
- DataBases
- Frameworks & Tools
- Pytorch
- Tensorflow & Keras
- OpenCV
- OpenFace
- Amazon MT
- Amazon WS
- Unity
- Spoken Languages
Publications
HuggingFace