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Irfan Essa

Assistant Professor,
College of Computing

Irfan A. Essa is an Assistant Professor & Imlay Fellow in the College of Computing, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

In addition to the GVU Center, Dr. Essa is affiliated with the Intelligent Systems Group and the Future Computing Environments effort in the College of Computing. He has founded the Computational Perception Laboratory and also interacts with the Center for Signal and Image Processing, in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Dr. Essa received his B.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago in 1988. After his Bachelor's work, he joined the MIT Media Laboratory as a Research Assistant. Irfan earned his M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990, writing a Thesis on physically-based modeling for virtual worlds and vision systems. He worked on his Ph. D. also at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finishing in September 1994. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with visual analysis and interpretation of facial expressions. Irfan has also worked at Thinking Machines and has held several other positions. Prior to joining the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Irfan worked as a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory.

Dr. Essa was born in Karachi, Pakistan and has lived in US for over 12 years (in Chicago & Boston). He is married. Loves the outdoors and enjoys gadgets, teaching, skiing, biking, hiking, golf, squash, basketball, etc.

Contact information:

    Irfan Essa
    Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center
    College of Computing
    801 Atlantic Drive
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280

 

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