{"id":23694,"date":"2021-05-28T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=23694"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T18:05:03","slug":"eshed-ohn-bar","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/eshed-ohn-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Eshed Ohn-Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/profile\/eshed-ohn-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eshed Ohn-Bar,<\/a> PhD, is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science (affiliate), and <\/span><span>a Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow \u00a0(2023) at Boston\u00a0University. <\/span><span>He leads the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eshed1.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human-to-Everything (H2X) Lab<\/a><span> where the research spans multiple areas of real-world system design, from machine learning and perception to decision-making and human-machine interaction. His<\/span>\u00a0research lies at the intersection of machine intelligence, computer vision, and systems for human-machine interaction (particularly for accessibility). Prior to BU, he was a Humboldt Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. His work has received the 2017 best PhD dissertation award from the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, the best paper award at the the 2019 Web for All conference, honorable mention for the best student paper award at the 2014 and 2016 International Conference on Pattern Recognition, and best paper award at the Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures at CVPR 2013. His team was also a semi-finalist at the 2022 Department of Transportation\u2019s Inclusive Design Grand Challenge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eshed1.github.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=p9zVBV4AAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar Profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32596,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23694\/revisions\/32596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}