HONORS/AFFILIATIONS
NOAA CREST Fellowship
The City College of New York, CUNY, 2009-Present
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Fellowship
UC Berkeley, 2004-2006
Academic Excellence Award
Binghamton University, SUNY, 2004
IBM/Watson Fellow Scholarship
Binghamton University, SUNY, 2004
Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering honor society
2004
Tau Beta Pi Engineering honor society
2004
EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, CCNY Media Lab
New York, NY (08/2009-Present)
Research on computer vision and machine learning.
- Facial Expression Analysis and Recognition from both face and body gesture modalities.
- Image Scene Understanding using machine learning methods for Classification and Retrieval.
Research Assistant, Department of Homeland Security
Piscataway, NJ (06/2010-08/2010)
Research on automatically facial expression recognition using bi-modal features (facial and gesture features)
- Temporally segmented video frames of expression to neutral, onset, offset and apex phases.
- Designed Classifier to automatically recognize expressions combining both facial and gesture feature.
Electrical Engineer, Bladykas Engineering P.C.
Syosset, NY 07/2008-02/2009
Field survey and design fire alarm and electrical system for middle school and high school buildings.
- Created fire alarm and public address design for middle school building.
- Created field survey for fire alarm and electrical system for middle school and high school building.
Patent Examiner, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Alexandria VA 01/2008-07/2008
Reviewed and examined patent applications in the field of semiconductor device and package
Design Engineer, Supertex Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA 10/2007-01/2008
Designed Circuits for High Voltage EL Driver.
Advanced Design Engineer, Altera
San Jose, CA 06/2006-09/2007
Designed and verified FPGA CRAM. Maintain Spice model for Integrated Circuit design team.
- Verify FPGA CRAM Margins in error detection and configuration mode.
- Interact with CAD group to implement the cram function check using Perl script.
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