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2020

• ​[ 12/25/2020 ] Officially graduated: dissertation delivered; thesis submitted; signatures collected!
• ​[ 11/24/2020 ] Delivered my dissertation! Check out recording [ link ]! Written report now public [bottom of projects]!
• ​[ 11/18/2020 ] 3rd consecutive year awarded 'Outstanding Reviewer' by IEEE Conference on FG [ link ]
• ​[ 10/12/2020 ] Promoted to SPC of IJCAI 2021!
• ​[ 10/09/2020 ] Virtual Chair of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Faces & Gestures Recognition!
• ​[ 10/05/2020 ] It is official! I will start full-time at MIT Lincoln Lab upon graduating in December! :) 
• ​[ 09/16/2020 ] Localin Reshuffle Net: Toward Naturally and Efficiently Facial Image Blending accepted by ACCV.
• ​[ 06/20/2020 ] Facial Recognition: Too Bias, or Not Too Bias? presented in CVPRW [paper, code]
• [ 05/01/2020 ] Awarded Best Teacher by the Department of ECE at COE NEU! Such an honor :)
• ​[ 03/10/2020 ] Check out our papers in 2020 IEEE FG Conference (facial rotation, motion caption, kinship challenge)
• ​[ 01/25/2020 ] Our AAAI paper presentation in New York: Joint Super-Resolution and Alignment of Tiny Faces [paper, code]
• ​[ 01/10/2020 ] Intend to blog regularly on Medium (Towards Data Science). Check out latest blogs! [ profile ]

​2019

• ​[ 12/29/2019 ] ACM News covered Kinship Recognition with mentioning of FIW [ web ]
• ​[ 11/30/2019 ] Presenting as part of the annual NECV (2019) at Brown University.
• ​​[ 07/22/2019 ] Laplace Landmark Localization accepted and to be presented at 2019 ICCV in Seoul, South Korea [ paper ]
• [ 07/12/2019 ] Thank you to all that attended our 2nd workshop on the FacesMM ICME 2019 [ web ]
• [ 06/17/2019 ] Thank you to all that attended our tutorial on Visual Kinship Recognition​ at CVPR 2019 [ web, slides ]​
• [ 05/27/2019 ] Started intern at ISMConnect !!!
• [ 05/18/2019 ] Thank you to all that attended our tutorial on the RFIW FG 2019 !
• [ 05/15/2019 ] Second consecutive year awarded Best Reviewer at IEEE FG Conference [ web ]
• [ 05/14/2019 ] Thank you to all that participate in our data challenge Workshop on the 3rd RFIW at FG 2019 [ web ]

​2018

• [ 12/16/2018 ] ​​​Workshop proposal for 9th Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures accepted for CVPR 2019
• [ 11/26/2018 ] ​​​Workshop proposal for the 2nd Faces in Multimedia accepted for ICME 2019
• [ 10/26/2018 ]  ​Gave tutorial To Recognize Families In the Wild: A Machine Vision Tutorial [ slides ]

• [ 09/06/2018 ] ​​​Fall Semester Began! Again teaching Computational Methods for Data Analytics (EECE 2300)
• [ 08/14/2018 ] ​Selected to give tutorial at this year's ACM MM in Seoul, South Korea [ abstract ]
• [ 08/01/2018 ] Another data challenge as a workshop in conjunction with FG2019 (RFIW2019)!
• [ 07/15/2018 ] PC for International Conference on Advances in Multimedia  (MMEDIA 2019)
• [ 06/22/2018 ] PC for 32nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19)
• [ 06/04/2018 ] ​​PC for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing & Retrieval (MIPR 2019)
• [ 05/21/2018 ] Started at Snap Inc.!!!
• [ 05/18/2018 ] ​Awarded Excellence in Reviewing at FG2018 in Xi'an, China
• [ 05/15/2018 ] ​Participated in the Doctoral Consortium at FG2018 in Xi'an, China
• [ 05/01/2018 ] Families In the Wild (FIW) dataset is now available for download [ project page ]
• [ 03/30/2018 ] Invited to serve the ECE Representative on NEU's PhD Council
  [ 02/28/2018 ] ​Our Visual Kinship Recognition of Families was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI, impact factor 8.329), Special Issue: Computational Face.
• [ 02/06/2018 ] ​Presented at NEU's 1st COE PhD Research Expo as a part of National Engineering Week
• [ 01/22/2018 ] Our work on Kinship Classification through Latent Adaptive Subspace was accepted by FG 2018
• [ 01/06/2018 ] Part-time faculty at NEU teaching Computational Methods for Data Analytics [course description]

2017

• [ 11/30/2017 ] Workshop Chair for the 2018 ICME Workshop on Faces in Multimedia (FacesMM) 
• [ 11/14/2017 ] ​Web & Publicity Chair for 8th CVPR Workshop on Analysis & Modeling of Faces & Gestures (AMFG)
• [ 11/01/2017 ] ​Chair and Organizer of FG Challenge RFIW2018 [webpage, challenge]
• [ 10/27/2017 ] Organizing Chair for upcoming 2017 New England Computer Vision workshop at NEU (NECV'17)
• [ 10/10/2017 ] Program Committee for 2nd Big Data Transfer Learning workshop in conjunction with 2017 IEEE Big Data Conference (BDTL'17)
• [ 10/08/2017 ] Program Committee for International Conference on Advances in Multimedia  (MMEDIA 2018)
• [ 10/01/2017 ] Co-Chair and Tech Support for 2017 New England Computer Vision Workshop at Northeastern University (NECV 2017).
• [ 08/27/2017 ] ​Serving as a TPC Member for the (1st) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval and Processing  (MIRP 2018).​​
• [ 07/05/2017 ] Serving on the Program Committee for the 2018 IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2018).
• [ 05/31/2017 ] Presented Kinship Verification on Families in the Wild with Marginalized Denoising Metric Learning at FG 2017 (main conference) [paper, poster]
• [ 05/26/2017 ] Presented The 1st Large-Scale Kinship Recognition Database: To visually recognize and understand families in the wild at FG 2017 (ASL4GUP Workshop) [poster]
• [ 05/18/2017 ] Awarded ASL4GUP Travel Grant to travel to Washington DC for FG 2017!
• [ 05/15/2017 ] RFIW competition has begun! (Track 1 - Kinship Verification and Track 2 - Family Classification)
• [ 04/07/2017 ] Started summer internship at STR
• [ 04/17/2017 ]  ​​Webpage (this) created!
• [ 04/10/2017 ] ​ACM-MM'17 Challenge Workshop proposal accepted, Recognizing Families In the Wild  [webpage]
• [ 01/15/2017 ] ​Kinship Verification on Families in the Wild with Marginalized Denoising Metric Learning to be presented at FG 2017​​​​​

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2016

• [ 11/21/2016 ] ​​Presented at 2016 NECV Workshop at BU [extended abstract, presentation (pdf, pptx)].
• [ 10/15/2016 ]  ​​FIW presented in Amsterdam, Netherlands at ACM MM 2016 [paper, poster].