Misc

Awards

• Best Paper Finalist
  • Event: ACMM 2020
• Travel Grant
  • Event: ICMI 2014 (Doctoral Consortium)
• Best Student Paper Honorable Mention Award
  • Event: IEEE FG 2013
• Best Paper Award
  • Event: EmotiW’13 Challenge, ICMI 2013
• Runner’s Up
  • Event: EmotiW’13 Challenge, ICMI 2013
• Travel Grant
  • Event: IEEE FG 2013
• Jacobs Fellowship
  • Institution: UCSD
  • Year: 2010
• DAAD- German Academic Exchange Service, Undergraduate Internship Award
  • Year: 2009

Patents

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Press Coverage

• Article about our work on leveraging LLMs for planning in robotic navigation tasks. There is also a YouTube demo.

• Article about my work on using multimodal embedding models and other tools for improving social media discourse.

• News about DARPA Civil Sanctuary program at University of Pittsburg news. I was the PI for this project.

• Interview about my work on multimodal embedding by SRI media.

• Coverage of my work on automatic pain detection from human faces in San Diego Tribune, Engadget, and Gizmag.

List of researchers supervised

I have been lucky to have mentored and worked with some excellent researchers over the years.