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[May 2011]
I am organizing the 1st workshop on
Machine Learning for Affective Computing, as part of
ACII.
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[May 2011]
Mood Meter gets press
coverage at
Popular Science,
MSNBC,
PBS,
MIT Tech (1,
2),
Boston innovation etc.
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[April 2011]
Our project MIT
Mood Meter, designed to assess how friendly the MIT campus
is by sensing affective information at 4 different locations within
MIT, goes live. My specific contribution involved development and
implementation of all the vision algorithms of the project. Further details at
http://moodmeter.media.mit.edu/
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[March 2011]
I just attended
Automated Face and Gesture Conference (FG'11) to deliver a oral
presentation of our
paper, as well as to attend doctoral consortium.
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[November 2010]
I have received a grant from IEEE to advance my
project, "Tell
Me More: A Multimodal Virtual Platform to help people with Social
Phobia".
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[Summer 2010]
I interned at IBM T.
J. Watson Research Lab integrating affect sensing technologies
in retail advertisement.
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I have finally set
up an online portfolio for my photography at
http://ehsanphotography.com
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[Fall 2009] I have recently
attended Interspeech09
and IVA09 to present my papers.
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[Summer 2009]
I interned at
Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development developing the world's first
autonomous
Audio-Animatronics,
who is aware
of the emotion of its audience
at. My work has
resulted in two patents. Here is the
show that I
have helped to build during my internship.
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I was the
recipient of IEEE Gold Humanitarian Fellowship designed for
engineering students in recognition of their skills and knowledge to
aid humanitarian work (10 fellowships are granted per year around
the world).