Email: wasidennis [at] gmail [dot] com
I am the Co-Founder and CTO at Atmanity where we are building new technologies to bring AI to life. Stay tuned for the official launch in 2025!
Biography
I was the AI/ML Tech Lead Manager at Google, working on edge AI for perception and scene understanding. Before this, I was the Director of AI at Phiar (acquired by Google) leading the team to improve real-world AR navigation in vehicles, and a senior researcher at NEC Laboratories America working with Prof. Manmohan Chandraker on fundamental computer vision/deep learning research.
I received my Ph.D in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Merced in 2017 advised by Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang in the Vision and Learning Lab. Before coming to UC Merced in 2012, I received my M.S. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2012, and my B.S. degree in the Department of Electronics Engineering from National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 2009.
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CV & Research Statement (upon request)
Research Interest
Avatar, Multimodal Learning, Scene Understanding, Video Analysis, Representation Learning
Professional Activity
Area Chair/Senior Program Committee: CVPR (2023-2025), NeurIPS (2023-2025), ICLR (2024, 2025), ICCV (2023, 2025), ICML (2025), WACV (2020, 2023), AAAI (2021-2024), BMVC 2021, IJCAI 2021
Reviewer Award: ICLR'23, CVPR'21, ECCV'20, ICCV'19, BMVC'19, CVPR'18, ICCV'17, ECCV'16
News & Events
06/2025: Two ICCV'25 papers are accepted on "LLM for 3D Meshes" and "Video Representation Learning". Stay tuned for more details!
06/2025: Check our new work on "Avatar Personalization" and "Controllable Video Generation with Scene Illumination".
05/2025: Check our new work on "Teach multimodal LLM when to speak".
05/2025: I will serve as Area Chair for NeurIPS'25.
04/2025: One paper on "Multimodal Incremental Learning" is accepted at the Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning Workshop at CVPR'25.
03/2025: One CVPR'25 paper is accepted on "BEV Perception via Gaussian Splatting".
02/2025: One WACV'25 paper is accepted on "Room Layout Estimation".
02/2025: I will serve as Area Chair for ICML'25 and ICCV'25.
01/2025: One ICLR'25 paper is accepted on "Teach CLIP for Image Ordering".
12/2024: Check our new work on "Mitigate Hallucination of Large Vision-Language Models".
10/2024: Check our new work on "Audio-driven Talking Head Generation".
10/2024: I will serve as Area Chair for ICLR'25 and CVPR'25.