Organizers

Keith Curtis

National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Keith Curtis is a researcher on the TRECVID project in the Retrieval Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He has a PhD in Computer Science from Dublin City University (2018) and his research interests are in Multimedia Summarization and Retrieval and Multimodal Interaction. Keith recently co-organized the ViRaL workshop at ICCV2019, DVU workshop at ICMI2020 and DVU ACM MM grand challenge 2020.

George Awad

Georgetown University & National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

George Awad is an Assistant Research Professor at Georgetown University and the TRECVID project leader at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. He has a PhD in Computer Science (2007) from Dublin City University. He previously co-organized tutorials at ICMR2017, ECCV2018, ViRaL workshop at ICCV2019, DVU workshop at ICMI2020 and the DVU ACM MM grand challenge 2020. He was awarded jointly the 2018 IEEE Computer Society PAMI Mark Everingham Prize.

Shahzad Rajput

Georgetown University & National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Shahzad Rajput is an Assistant Research Professor at Georgetown University where he supports the Retrieval Group at National Institute of Standards and Technology in evaluation of the TAC/AIDA program. Shahzad received his PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern University. Shahzad's research interests include machine learning, information retrieval, and natural language processing. He co-organized the DVU workshop at ICMI2020 and the DVU ACM MM grand challenge 2020.

Ian Soboroff

National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Ian Soboroff is a computer scientist and leader of the Retrieval Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Alongside TRECVID, the Retrieval Group organizes the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) and the Text Analysis Conference (TAC). These are all large, community-based research workshops that drive the state-of-the-art in information retrieval, video search, web search, information extraction, text summarization and other areas of information access.