Favyen is an Applied Research Scientist on PRIOR at AI2. Prior to AI2, he was a Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised by Sam Madden. In addition to tackling challenges with employing computer vision methods in application domains, Favyen is interested in building systems that make it easier for users with little expertise to develop ML pipelines for analyzing their large-scale image and video datasets. Outside of research, he enjoys cycling, hiking, and reading science fiction and fantasy.
Christopher Clark received a PhD from the University of Washington, where he worked with Luke Zettlemoyer. His PhD work was on preventing models from picking up shallow heuristics that work on the training data, but do not generalize to out-of-domain settings. More broadly, he is interested in better understanding how deep learning systems learn and generalize when used for natural language processing or computer vision. Outside of research, he enjoys hiking, skiing and board games.
Tanmay received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he was advised by Prof. Derek Hoiem and closely collaborated with Prof. Alex Schwing. Tanmay's research interests include learning from vision and language, and building general purpose learning systems. Besides research, Tanmay enjoys playing guitar and creating somewhat musical acoustic covers.
Having received a Bachelor of Arts in Game Design from the DigiPen Institute of Technology, Winson Han hopes to bring modern Game Design principles to the Computer Vision team. His focus on User Experience, Game Feel, and Game Mechanics Design bridges the gap between immersion in a digital space and the potential of real world applications. Along with Game Design, his interests include piano, digital art, and playing games—MMOs being his favorite.
Rose is a research engineer on PRIOR, formerly of the AST team. She received her PhD from the University of Washington in Mechanical Engineering, where she researched human-robot interaction. Her current research interests center around reinforcement learning and embodied AI. Outside of work, she has too many interests and should probably narrow it down a little.
Alvaro Herrasti received a B.S. in computer science and engineering at ITESM in Mexico City. After graduating, he worked at Microsoft's Xbox Live Team. Alvaro's interests include machine learning, AI applied to interactive environments, computer vision and natural language hybrid tasks, graphics and game design. He is fond of music; from listening and collecting records, to DJing and production.
Yejin Kim is a Research Engineer on the PRIOR team, holding an undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University and a master's degree from Cornell University. Her prior experience encompasses diverse aspects of research and development in robotics, including mechatronics, computer vision, and simulation. Her research interests center on enhancing the capabilities of dexterous mobile robots. In addition, Yejin is a painter and mixed-media artist. She showcased her artwork in generative AI and robotics at various forums.
Ranjay Krishna is the director of PRIOR at AI2 and an Assistant Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. His research lies at the intersection of computer vision and human computer interaction. This research has received best paper, outstanding paper, and orals at CVPR, ACL, CSCW, NeurIPS, UIST, and ECCV, and been reported by Science, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and PBS NOVA. His research has been supported by Google, Amazon, Cisco, Toyota Research Institute, NSF, ONR, and Yahoo. He holds a bachelors degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering and in Computer Science from Cornell University, a masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Duong Le is a Predoctoral Young Investigator on the PRIOR team. He graduated from Ho Chi Minh city University of Technology in 2020 with a B.eng in Computer Science. Before joining AI2, he was at VinAI Research and also spent past summers interning at Stanford, NUS, and TUAT. Duong's research interests are in the area of learning from unlabeled data in vision domain.
Sangho Lee is a Young Investigator at AI2 on the PRIOR team. His research interests include multimodal representation learning, especially for high-level video understanding and reasoning. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University where he was advised by Prof. Gunhee Kim. Beyond research, he enjoys watching baseball or soccer games.
Wei-Chiu Ma is a Young Investigator at AI2 and an incoming Assistant Professor at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in EECS from MIT. His research lies at the intersection of computer vision, robotics, and machine learning.
Jordi received his Ph.D. from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Barcelona) in September 2011 and two M.Sc.'s, in Research on Information Technologies and in Telecommunication Engineering, from the same university in 2008 and 2006. Before joining AI2, he worked for Technicolor R&I and Amazon as a research scientist. His research interests range from multi-view reconstruction and machine learning-based image processing to applications of deep learning with main focus on computer vision. Besides research, he loves cooking, hiking, every piece of art of the Romantic era, science fiction and graphic novels.
Rohun is a research engineer in PRIOR. Before AI2, he was working at Amazon in video generation and scene understanding. His research interests are in generative computer vision, scene understanding and 3D vision. He attended school at Cornell Tech and IIT Kanpur. When he is not working, he enjoys basketball, snowboarding, reading and petting dogs on the street.
Eli VanderBilt graduated from the University of Idaho in 2012, with a Bachelor of Science in 3D Art and Animation. Since then, he has worked as an artist in the fields of gaming, virtual reality, and architecture, with an emphasis on visual storytelling through player interaction. His hobbies include traveling, film study, fantasy/sci-fi literature, and arts & crafts.
Piper received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Western Washington University in 2019 and 2021, where her research focused on few-shot learning for audio classification and event detection, as well as climate data emulation using generative adversarial networks. Piper's current research interests revolve around employing computer vision methods to various application domains. In her free time, she enjoys mountain biking, climbing, skiing, backpacking, and traveling.
Zichen "Charles" Zhang is a Predoctoral Young Investigator on the PRIOR team. He received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at Macalester College. His research interest lies in reinforcement learning, embodied AI, and multimodal learning, for developing generally capable autonomous agents. Apart from research, he enjoys travel, sports, and anything new.
