News

Spring 2019:

I received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Fall 2018:

I received the Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (ECASE-Army).

Fall 2018:

Our team from FAIR won the VizWiz Challenge at ECCV 2018 on Answering Visual Questions from Blind People.

Summer 18:

Our team from FAIR won the Visual Question Answering Challenge at CVPR 2018. Our winning entry is publicly available via Pythia.

Spring 18:

Devi Parikh and I received an AWS ML Research Award.

2017-18:

I am serving as an Area Chair for CVPR 2018, ICLR 2018, ECCV 2018.

Aug 2017:

Our work on language emergence, studying the properties of languages invented by AI agents won a best paper award at EMNLP 2017!

Spring 17:

I received the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award!

Spring 17:

I received an Amazon Academic Research Award (AARA) for Visual Dialog.

2016

Fall 2016:

I am moving to Georgia Tech (School of Interactive Computing).

2016:

I am serving as an Area Chair for CVPR 2017, ICLR 2017, NIPS 2017, UAI 2017.

03/16/16:

Interview with WVTF Radio IQ for our work on Visual Question Answering!

2016:

2 papers accepted at NIPS16. 5 papers accepted at EMNLP16.
4 papers accepted at CVPR16. 2 papers accepted at NAACL16.
1 paper accepted at ICLR16. 1 paper accepted at WACV16.

2015

09/02/15:

2 papers accepted at ICCV15. 1 paper accepted at NIPS15.

08/14/15:

Devi Parikh and I received a Google Faculty Research Award for Visual Question Answering (VQA)!

2015:

I am serving as an Area Chair for CVPR 2016.

Fall 2015:

Teaching ECE 6504: Deep Learning for Perception.

05/03/15:

New arxiv paper on VQA: Visual Question Answering.
Check out the dataset at visualqa.org!

03/09/15:

2 papers accepted at CVPR15 (1 poster, 1 oral).

02/24/15:

I received the Outstanding New Assistant Professor award from the College of Engineering, VT.

Spring 15:

I am serving at the Doctoral Consortium Chair at ICCV 2015.

Spring 15:

Teaching ECE 5984: Intro to Machine Learning.

2014

Fall 2014:

New papers at NIPS14 and Signal Processing journal.

04/26/14:

I received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award!

03/26/14:

I received the Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award!

02/24/14:

2 papers accepted at CVPR14. 1 paper accepted at AISTATS14.

01/31/14:

Received an equipment gift (Tesla K40) as part of the NVIDIA Academic Hardware Donation Program. Thanks NVIDIA!

01/16/14:

Recieved Windows Azure for Research Award for CloudCV.

Spring 14:

Teaching ECE 6504: Advanced Machine Learning: Probabilistic Graphical Models.

2013

10/15/13:

Our CloudCV project was awarded an Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Education: Machine Learning Research Grant.

10/14/13:

Recognized as the VT Teacher of the Week by the Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research (CIDER), for developing new, innovative curriculum.
[ CIDER News Release | Fall 2013 class | Spring 2013 class ]

09/15/13:

My work in Diverse Structured Prediction was awarded an NSF Grant. [Project Page]

08/12/13:

My work with Chris Dyer, Kevin Gimpel and Greg Shakhnarovich, won the Google Faculty Research Award.

Fall 2013:

Teaching ECE 4984/5984: Introduction to Machine Learning & Perception. From now on, this class will be offered only in Fall.

09/01/13:

We are starting a Computer Vision and Machine Learning Reading Group. Please sign up if interested in participating.

08/29/13:

1 paper accepted at ICCV 2013. 1 paper accepted at EMNLP 2013.

07/01/13:

I taught a tutorial on Beyond MAP: Making Multiple Predictions from Probabilistic Models: Diversity, DPPs and more at CVPR13, with Alex Kulesza, Dennis Park and Deva Ramanan. Slides and videos are now online.

03/01/13:

I am serving as a Co-Guest-Editor of the TPAMI Special Issue on Higher Order Graphical Models in Computer Vision: Modelling, Inference & Learning.

Spring 13:

Taught ECE 4984/5984: Introduction to Machine Learning & Perception. Student poster/demo session featured in ECE News. Some demo videos available here.

02/24/13:

2 papers accepted at CVPR13 (1 poster, 1 oral). 1 paper accepted at AISTATS13 (oral).

01/01/13:

Moved to VT: My group (Machine Learning & Perception @ VT) has an opening for a post-doc. Please email me for details.

2012

• 1 paper accepted at NIPS12 (poster).
• 1 paper accepted at ECCV12 (oral).
• 1 paper accepted at UAI12 (oral).
• 2 papers accepted at BMVC12 (2 posters).
• 1 paper accepted at CVPR12 (poster).
• Call for Papers: Together with Karteek Alahari, Srikumar Ramalingam, Nikos Paragios>, Rich Zemel, I am organizing the 1st Workshop on Higher Order Models and Global Constraints in Computer Vision, at ECCV 2012.

2011

• 1 paper accepted at ICML11 (oral).
• 2 papers accepted at CVPR11 (2 posters).
• 1 paper accepted at AISTATS11 (poster).
• 1 paper accepted at IJCV.
• Call for Papers: Together with Greg Shakhnarovich, Brian Kulis, Kilian Weinberger, I am organizing the Workshop on Supervised Similarity Learning, at NIPS 2011.