I received my PhD from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, in August 2014. My adviser was Kristen Grauman. My research interests lie in computer vision (specifically attribute-based recognition, image retrieval, human-machine communication for improved recognition, and exploring the interactions between vision and language), machine learning, and crowdsourcing. I got my undergraduate degree at Pomona College in California, with majors in Computer Science and Media Studies.
I am the chair of the CVPR 2016 Doctoral Consortium. At CVPR 2015, I co-organized the WiCV 2015: Women in Computer Vision workshop. At ECCV 2014, I co-organized a workshop on Human-Machine Communication for Visual Recognition and Search.
News: In April 2017, we released the data and annotations for our CVPR 2017 spotlight "Automatic Understanding of Image and Video Advertisements".
News: In June 2016, I received a University of Pittsburgh Central Research Development Fund (CRDF) award.
News: In May 2016, I received an NSF CRII CISE award to automatically understand visual rhetoric in the media.
News: In February 2016, I received a Google Faculty Research Award.
Note to prospective students:
- If you are at the University of Pittsburgh and interested in working with me, send me an email or come by my office.
- If you are applying to the University of Pittsburgh, and my research interests align with yours, please mention my name (or computer vision) in your application. If you are admitted, I will reach out to you. Unfortunately I cannot respond to email from applicants.