Faculty

PhD Students

Dina Bashkirova

Dina is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Boston University, who started in 2018 and is advised by Prof. Kate Saenko and Prof. Margrit Betke. Prior to starting the PhD, she received her BSc and MSc in Computer Science at Kazan Federal University. Her research is focused on computer vision, deep learning and pixel-level domain adaptation. Specifically, she is interested in realistic unsupervised image-to-image and video-to-video translation using generative models. She is also passionate about computer-aided healthcare systems.

Andrea Burns

Andrea is a second year PhD student in the Image and Video Computing Group. She is advised by Professor Kate Saenko and Professor Bryan A. Plummer. Andrea works on problems at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing (vision and language). Prior to joining Boston University, she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tulane University.

Qi Feng

Qi Feng, also know as Fred Fung, joined the Image and Video Computing group at Boston University in 2017. He is advised by Professor Stan Sclaroff. His research interests lie in the intersection of deep learning, computer vision with applications in natural language understanding. Before joining IVC, he received his Masters of Science degree in Computer Science at New York University.

Ping Hu

Ping Hu joined the Image and Video Computing Group as a Ph.D. student in 2018. He is advised by Prof. Stan Sclaroff and Prof. Kate Saenko. His research focuses on computer vision and deep learning, particularly on image segmentation and video analysis. Before joining IVC, he spent two years at Nanyang Technological University as a research student. He got his Master’s degree from China Academy of Science in 2016.

Mona Jalal

Mona is a CS Ph.D. student in computer vision working with Professor Margrit Betke. Prior to joining BU, she was an R&D Engineer 1 at University of California, Berkeley working on gesture recognition for augmented reality at Center for Augmented Cognition with Dr. Allen Yang. Prior to that she obtained a double degree master’s in EE and CS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014 and 2016 respectively. Her main interests are language and vision, semantic segmentation, action recognition, gesture recognition and facial analysis and in a broader term applying machine learning and deep learning methods to problems in the natural language understanding, computer/robot vision and human-centered artificial intelligence.

Donghyun Kim

Donghyun is a Ph.D. student in the Image and Video Computing Group, which he joined in 2017. He is advised by Prof. Stan Sclaroff. He received his Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, where he worked on 3D face modeling and recognition with Prof. Gerard Medioni and Dr. Jongmoo Choi in the Computer Vision Group. His research interests are in the areas of computer vision and deep learning.

Nannan Li

Nannan Li joined the Image and Video Computing group in 2021. She is advised by Prof. Bryan Plummer. Prior to her PhD, she graduated from Wuhan University with a Master’s degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems. Her research focuses on computer vision and machine learning.

Diala Lteif

Diala joined the Computer Science department in 2019. Before joining BU, she received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She is keenly interested in interpretable and efficient machine learning and computer vision. She is currently working on explainable AI with Professor Sarah Adel Bargal, and on cross-layer parameter sharing for resource-efficient on-device learning with Professor Bryan Plummer.

Samarth Mishra

Samarth is a PhD student in the Image and Video Computing group, advised by Prof. Derry Wijaya and Prof. Kate Saenko. He started his PhD in Fall 2019. Previously, he received his master’s degree in Spring 2019 from Georgia Tech, where he was advised by Prof. James Rehg at the Computational Perception Laboratory. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Spring 2017 from IIT Bombay, where his thesis work was advised by Prof. Suyash Awate.

Sid Mysore

Sid joined the Image and Video Computing group in 2017 and is advised by Prof. Kate Saenko. Prior to starting his PhD at BU, he obtained a MSE in Robotics from the University of Pennsylvania and a MEng in Mechatronic Engineering from The University of Nottingham. Sid’s interests are primarily in Reinforcement Learning applied to control in real settings. He is especially interested in the potential impact of such studies applied to robotics and video games.

Vitali Petsiuk

Vitali is a Ph.D student advised by Prof. Kate Saenko. He joined IVC group in 2017. His research interest focuses on computer vision and machine learning, particularly on explainable and interpretable AI. He got his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Belarusian State University where he did some research work on Image Segmentation.

Wenda Qin

Wenda is a Ph.D student advised by Prof. Margrit Betke. He joined IVC group in 2018. His primary research interests are in computer vision and machine learning. Prior to joining the PhD program, he received a Master’s in Computer Science at BU, and a Bachelor’s in Engineering at the South China University of Technology

Maan Qraitem

Maan joined the Image and Video Computing Group in 2020. Before that, he earned my B.A from Colby college in Computer Science and Statistics. His research is focused on multimodal vision and language problems.

Arijit Ray

Arijit Ray joined the Image and Video Computing group as a Ph.D. Student in Fall 2021. He is advised by Prof. Kate Saenko and Prof. Bryan Plummer. Prior to joining BU, he worked at SRI International (formerly, Stanford Research Institute) on Explainable AI. He received his MS from Virginia Tech, where he was advised by Prof. Devi Parikh and Prof. Dhruv Batra. In his research, he is excited about how to make human-AI and AI-AI teams solve tasks effectively. Consequently, he is interested in and works on models that leverage vision, language and audio to do societal good.

Nataniel Ruiz

Nataniel is a PhD Candidate in the Image and Video Computing group at Boston University, currently advised by Professor Stan Sclaroff. His research is centered around computer vision and machine learning. He has worked on several topics including visual data simulation, face and gesture analysis, scene understanding, first person vision, instructional video understanding and reinforcement learning. Previously he obtained an M.Sc. at Georgia Tech and his B.S./M.Sc. at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

Kuniaki Saito

Kuniaki is a Ph.D student advised by Prof. Kate Saenko, and join IVC group in 2018. He received his Master’s degree from the University of Tokyo, where he worked on domain adaptation with Prof. Tatsuya Harada and Dr. Yoshitaka Ushiku. His research interest focuses on computer vision and machine learning. Currently, he is working on domain adaptation for computer vision.

Ximeng Sun

Ximeng is a Ph.D. Student who joined the Computer Science Department at Boston University in Spring, 2019. She is advised by Prof. Kate Saenko. Her research mainly focuses on the deep learning and computer vision, with an emphasis on video-level deep generative models. Before joining IVC, she received her Master of Science degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Reuben Tan

Reuben joined the Image and Video Computing group as a PhD student in 2018. He is advised by Professor Kate Saenko. His primary research interests lie in applications of machine learning in vision-language tasks and video understanding.

Piotr Tetewark

Piotr joined the group in 2020 and is advised by Professor Kate Saenko. Prior to his PhD, he was an AI Resident on the Perception Team at Google Research, where he spent two amazing years, working with Dr. Dilip Krishnan, Dr. Ce Liu, Professor Mike Mozer, and many others. Prior to that, he spent time on the ML team at Apple, and worked at a startup called Turi. He got his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.

Ben Usman

Ben joined the Image and Video Computing group at Boston University in 2016. He is advised by Prof. Kate Saenko. His research interests lie in the intersection of deep learning, Bayesian inference and numerical linear algebra with applications in natural language and image understanding. Before that, he earned a degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Siqi Wang

Siqi joined the IVC group in 2020. Prior to joining the PhD program at BU, she obtained a Master’s degree in Computer Science at Brown University in 2020 and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Beihang University in 2018.

Zhongping Zhang

Zhongping started his PhD in 2019 and is advised by Prof. Bryan Plummer. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2016, and his master degree from University of Rochester in 2018. His research interest spans Computer Vision and its relations to Data Mining, Image Processing, Natural Language Processing, etc.

Yi Zheng

Yi started the PhD program in the computer science Department at Boston University in 2017. He is advised by Prof. Margrit Betke. Prior to joining BU, Yi graduated from the University of Southern California and worked as an algorithm engineer in image quality team in General Electrics, Healthcare department for one year. His primary research interests focus on computer vision and machine learning. In the past year, he has worked on object detection for digital radiography and X-ray equipment.

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