About Me
I began my college studies majoring in Computer Science at Cal Poly Pomona and completed my BS in 2004. I then joined the PhD program in Computer Science at the Bourns College of Engineering at UC Riverside and have been in the program since then.
For the past few years, I have been a member of the Riverside Lab for Artificial Intelligence Research (R-LAIR) and the Video Computing Group at UCR. The R-LAIR group is primarily concerned with developments in Machine Learning and probabilistic methods for Artificial Intelligence (graphical models). The Video Computing Group's emphasis is in Computer Vision (particularly in activity recognition and analysis). My personal focus is in applying Machine Learning and probabilistic models to activity recognition for video retrieval.
In the summer of 2009, I also worked at the University of Tokyo in the Sato Laboratory as a NSF/JSPS EAPSI Fellow. The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) program provides US graduate students with opportunities to conduct science and engineering research abroad in East Asian labs for a period of 8-10 weeks in the summer. The EAPSI program is jointly supported by the National Science Foundation and its foriegn counterpart. In my case, I was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for 10 weeks. Students apply for the summer grant by writing their own mini-proposal so it was a good experience for me to get a small taste of that! If any US graduate students are reading this, I highly encourage applying for this program!
The Sato Lab works on a number of interesting problems in Computer Vision, Human Computer Interaction, and multimedia related problems. When I was there, I collaborated with Yoichi Sato and Kris M. Kitani on applying Stochastic Context Free Grammars to activity recognition.