Devi Parikh

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Assistant Professor   Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   Virginia Tech Email: parikh@vt.edu Office: 440 Whittemore Hall Lab: Computer Vision Lab, 415 Whittemore Hall

News

• We will be presenting demos of various applications of relative attributes at CVPR 2013. Do stop by!
• I will be teaching a one-day short course (tutorial) on Attributes at CVPR 2013 with Ali Farhadi, Kristen Grauman, Tamara Berg and Abhinav Gupta.
• I won a Google Faculty Research Award for Relative Attributes-based Feedback for Image Search.
• I will be joining the ECE department at Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor starting January 2013.
• I am serving as an Area Chair for the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2012.
• Our work on Relative Attributes won the Marr Prize at ICCV 2011.
• The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded my work on human-debugging.
• 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.

About me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Virginia Tech. Previously, I was a Research Assistant Professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), a philanthropically endowed computer science academic institute on the University of Chicago campus. I received my Ph.D. and MS. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009 and 2007 respectively. My advisor was Prof. Tsuhan Chen (now at Cornell University). I got my BS, also in ECE, at Rowan University in 2005, where I worked with Dr. Robi Polikar on several pattern recognition problems.

I've spent several months at:

• Robotics Institute (RI), CMU (Visiting Research Assistant Professor, Summer 2012) collaborating with Martial Hebert
• CSAIL, MIT (Visiting Scientist, Spring 2011) collaborating with Antonio Torralba and Aude Oliva
• University of Texas at Austin (Research Fellow, Fall 2010) collaborating with Kristen Grauman
• Microsoft Research (Redmond) (Visiting Researcher, Summer 2010; Research Intern, Summer 2008) collaborating with Larry Zitnick
• Microsoft Research (Redmond) (Research Intern, Summer 2007) working with Gavin Jancke
• Intel Research (Pittsburgh) (Research Intern, Summer 2006) working with Rahul Sukthankar 

Research

• Computer Vision
• Human-Machine Collaboration
• Contextual Reasoning for Visual Recognition
• Pattern Recognition
  

Research opportunities

I am looking for talented and higly-motivated individuals for research positions at any level (undergradute, graduate or post-doc). Please contact me with your resume and a brief description of how your interests are relevant to mine.