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I am an assistant professor of computer science at Brown University, where I direct the PALM🌴 research lab, studying computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. I am also a staff research scientist at Google Research.

Previously, I received my Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 2016, advised by Prof. Ram Nevatia. I completed my bachelor degree in Computer Science at Tsinghua University in 2011. I did research internships at Google and Facebook.

My ongoing research projects involve learning multimodal representation and visual commonsense from unlabeled videos, to recognize human activities, objects, and their interactions over time, and to transfer the representation to embodied agents. I believe multimodal learning is a pathway for computer vision to help language understanding, robotics, and cognitive science.

Our lab always welcomes highly motivated student researchers, please find information for prospective students.

Teaching

Group

PhD students

Alumni

• Usha Bhalla (class of 2022 at Brown, now PhD student at Harvard CS)
• Emily Byun (class of 2021 at Brown, now PhD student at CMU RI)
• Jake Sokol (class of 2021 at Brown, now at a startup)
• Michael Mao (class of 2021 at Brown, now software engineer at Microsoft)
• Trang Dang (ExploreCSR 2021, undergrad at NJIT)
• Girish Ganesan (ExploreCSR 2021, undergrad at Rutgers)

Mentorship

Recent Projects

Services

• Area Chair, CVPR 2020, 2021, and 2022.
• Area Chair, ECCV 2022.
• Senior PC, AAAI 2021, and 2022.
• Area Chair, WACV 2017, and 2018.