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I am a Principal Research Scientist in the Applied Physics Laboratory and an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the ECE Department at the University of Washington in Seattle. Previously I was a Senior Research Scientist in the IVC group of the Dept. of Computer Science at Boston University. My interests are broadly in embodied AI, computer vision & natural language understanding, and statistical signal processing. Within these themes I explore connections between academic and real-world problems on topics including autonomous navigation, object recognition & tracking, predictive inference for spatio-temporal stochastic processes, multi-sensor fusion, and domain adaptation. My previous industry experience includes positions at Systems & Technology Research (STR), where I contributed to R&D efforts and led key technical areas on DARPA and IARPA programs, and Charles River Analytics (CRA), where I led projects in computer vision and vision system development. On the academic side, I earned a B.A. in pure mathematics from Brandeis University, and a Ph.D. in the IVC group at Boston University with Prof. Stan Sclaroff, working on graphical models for tracking; I subsequently held a post-doctoral appointment in the CVLab at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute (EPFL) in Lausanne, working with Prof. Pascal Fua and Prof. Vincent Lepetit on activity recognition and transfer learning. |