Research

Research Scientist @ Meta AI    Sept. 2021 - Present

• Project EgoObjects: the first massive-scale egocentric dataset of objects.

Research Assistant @ CyLab Biometrics Center, CMU    Feb. 2014 - Aug. 2021

• Project BossaNova: real-time retail analyzing system for product out-of-stock and plug-in detection. Lead a team to develop dense object detection algorithm for packed retail environments. System is deployed in robots operating in the stores of world's largest retailers.

• Project ULTRON-FaceID: robust pose invariant face recognition system with advanced 3D modeling. Developed unconstrained face detection algorithm with robust performance for occluded, low-resolution, and off-angle faces in the crowd. System is deployed in land, air entry/exit surveillance programs. 

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant @ 18-794 Pattern Recognition Theory, CMU    Sept. 2017 - Dec. 2017

Graduate Teaching Assistant @ 18-794 Pattern Recognition Theory, CMU    Sept. 2018 - Dec. 2018

Academic Service

Journal Reviewer: IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, IEEE TIP, IEEE TNNLS, PRL, IEEE SPL

Conference Reviewer: CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICLR, NIPS, AAAI

Invited Talks: CVPR 2019 DIW Challenge Workshop, VALSE Webinar