News
- 2025: Won the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize at ICCV 2025 for VQA!
- 2025: Launched Scouts by Yutori!
- 2025: Yutori is out of stealth!
- 2024: I left my position as Associate Professor at Georgia Tech.
- 2024: (An unusual) Keynote at ICLR 2024 sharing five stories from my 20-year journey in AI so far.
- 2024: I left my role as a Senior Director in GenAI at Meta. Stay tuned for what’s next!
- 2023: Introduced Emu, Emu Edit, Emu Video, and Emu Video Edit!
- 2023: I moved to the new Generative AI org at Meta!
- 2023: Make-A-Video3D. Text-to-4D dynamic scene generation.
- 2022: Make-A-Video. First of its kind text-to-video generation.
- 2022: AudioGen. First of its kind text-to-audio generation.
- 2022: Make-A-Scene. Greater creative control for AI image generation.
- 2020: Introducing Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats! A series where I interview AI researchers to get to know them better as people.
- 2020: Introducing AI Paygrades! Statistics of industry job offers in AI. Goal is to reduce information asymmetry so candidates can make informed decisions. Submit your information and spread the word!
- 2019: I was added to GASP Gallery’s list of artists! It lets you create your own generative art in styles of several artists.
- 2019: I received the Lockheed Martin Inspirational Young Faculty Award at Georgia Tech.
- 2019: I got tenure at Georgia Tech. I will be an Associate Professor starting August.
- 2019: Featured in Vogue’s “Dream Makers. How the women in AI are shaping our future.”
- 2018: Samsung and Siemens are now sponsoring projects in our lab.
- 2018: Our team won the VizWiz Challenge at ECCV 2018 on Answering Visual Questions from Blind People.
- 2018: Our team won the Visual Question Answering Challenge at CVPR 2018. Our winning entry is publicly available via Pythia.
- 2018: I am serving as a Program Chair for CVPR 2021.
- 2018: Dhruv Batra and I are organizing a “How to be a Good Citizen of the CVPR Community” panel at CVPR 2018.
- 2018: I received the Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award at Georgia Tech.
- 2018: Dhruv Batra and I received an AWS ML Research Award.
- 2017: I was featured in the Forbes’ list of 20 “Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research”.
- 2017: I received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award.
- 2017: I received a Google Faculty Research Award for Making the V in VQA Matter: Elevating the Role of Image Understanding in Visual Question Answering.
- 2016: I received an Amazon Academic Research Award (AARA) for Counting Everyday Objects in Everyday Scenes.
- 2016: I am moving to Georgia Tech (School of Interactive Computing) starting Fall 2016. I will be splitting time between Georgia Tech and Facebook AI Research in Menlo Park, CA.
- 2016: I was selected in Rowan University’s 40 Under 40 list.
- 2016: I received a Rowan University Medal of Excellence for Alumni Achievement at Rowan’s College of Engineering commencement ceremony.
- 2016: A little piece on WVTF/Radio IQ on our Visual Question Answering (VQA) project.
- 2016: I am serving as a Senior Program Committee member for HCOMP 2016.
- 2016: I received the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award. ONR’s press release. All 2016 recipients.
- 2016: I received the Sloan Research Fellowship.
- 2016: Our work on (begining to) understand humor in images was covered in MIT Technology Review. Department’s featured news story.
- 2016: I received an NSF CAREER award on Visual Question Answering (VQA). Department’s featured news story. College’s featured news story.
- 2015: I will be speaking at the 2016 International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS) in Sicily this summer.
- 2015: I will be serving as an Area Chair for IJCAI 2016.
- 2015: Dhruv Batra and I received a Google Faculty Research Award for Visual Question Answering (VQA).
- 2015: Full release (v1.0) of our VQA Dataset is out. 254,721 images, 764163,861 questions, 9,934,119 answers. See www.visualqa.org.
- 2015: Our VQA: Visual Question Answering paper was mentioned in Bloomberg Business.
- 2015: I received an Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.
- 2014: I have been named an Allen Distinguished Investigator in Artificial Intelligence by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.
- 2014: I was awarded the Google Facultly Research Award for Learning from Visual Abstractions. List of recipients.
- 2014: I am serving as an Area Chair at CVPR 2015 (and most subsequent CVPR/ECCV/ICCVs) as well as ICVGIP 2014, as well as the Student Activities Co-chair at CVPR 2015.
- 2014: I am co-organizing two workshops at ECCV 2014: The Third International Workshop on Parts and Attributes and the workshop on Human-Machine Communication for Visual Recognition and Search (HMCV).
- 2014: I received the Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Program (YIP) 2014 award. Featured news story can be found here.
- 2014: We are organizing the first Mid-Atlantic Computer Vision (MACV) workshop on April 18th, 2014 at Virginia Tech.
- Slides and videos from our tutorial on Attributes at CVPR 2013 are now online.
- 2013: We started the Computer Vision and Machine Learning Reading Group at Virginia Tech.
- 2012: I won a Google Faculty Research Award for Relative Attributes-based Feedback for Image Search.
- 2012: I am serving as an Area Chair for the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2012.
- 2011: Our work on Relative Attributes won the Marr Prize at ICCV 2011.
- 2011: The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded my work on human-debugging.
- 2010: I organized a workshop on Advancing Computer Vision with Humans in the Loop (ACVHL) in conjunction with CVPR 2010, with Andrew Gallagher and Tsuhan Chen.
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