A S M Iftekhar, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Microsoft
I am a deep learning and computer vision researcher. My research mainly revolves around detecting complex human activity with a broader interest in compositional learning. I am very efficient in developing deep learning models to tackle different sorts of real-life problems.
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Recent News
Jan 2024: I am joining Microsoft ROAR (Responsible and Open AI Research) team as a research scientist.
December 2023: Got my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCSB.
March 2023: Our work in methane detection from hyper-spectral images has been accepted in CVPR 2023 as a highlight.
Jan 2023: Our work in dynamic scene-graph generation is in arxiv. [Paper]
Jan 2023: Serving as a reviewer in CVPR 2022. [Paper]
October 2022: One paper got accepted in BMVC 2022. [Paper]
June 2022: I will joining as an intern at Zoox, Inc.
May 2022: Serving as a reviewer in ECCV 2022 .
March 2022: Paper got accepted for oral presentation in CVPR 2022. [Paper].
Jan 2022: Serving as a reviewer in CVPR 2022 .
June 2021: I will be joining as Amazon Science Intern at the Amazon Rekognition team (June 2021 - September 2021).
December 2020: Received MS.c. Degree from University of California Santa Barbara.
November 2020: Paper got accepted in WACV 2021. [Paper] .
October 2020: Serving as a reviewer in WACV 2021.
April 2020: Repository for our CVPR 2020 paper has been published.
March 2020: Our paper titled "VSGNet: Spatial Attention Network for Detecting Human Object Interactions Using Graph Convolutions" has been accepted to CVPR 2020.
October 2019: Successfully passed the Ph.D. screening exam.
Education
PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering. Sept 2018 - June 2023 (expected).
Masters in Electrical & Computer Engineering. Sept 2018 - December 2020.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Feb 2017.
Professional Experiences
Graduate student researcher in Vision Research Lab, Apr 2019 - Present.
Perception Intern, Perception Team, Zoox Inc, June 2022 - Sept 2022.
Applied Science Intern, AWS AI Labs, June 2021 - Sept 2021.
Teaching assistant in ECE Dept. at University of California Santa Barbara , California. Sept 2018 - Dec 2019.
Adjunct Lecturer in EECE Dept. at Military Institute of Science and Technology March 2017 - August 2018.