Mar 26, 2025 | 🎉 Congratulations, John, on being selected for the Joseph F. Nelson Award through the UGR program with your project, “AI-Vision Driven Rear-Collision Detection and Trajectory Estimation on Edge Devices for Worker Safety”! |
Dec 11, 2024 | 🎉 Congratulations, John, on being selected for the Future Innovator of America fellowship program with your project, “AMBER – Affordable Multimodal Sensor-Based Environmental Risk Detector”! |
Nov 20, 2024 | 🎉 Congratulations, Farzaneh, on successfully defending your Master’s thesis, “Evaluating the Impact of Perceptual Loss in Generative Adversarial Models and Diffusion Models for Document Image Enhancement”! |
Nov 18, 2024 | 🎉 Congratulations, Omesham, on your new role as a software engineer at the Office of Information Technology, SDSU! |
Oct 30, 2024 | 🎉 Congratulations, Harsh, for your work “Leveraging Textual Memory and Key Frame Reasoning for Full Video Understanding Using Off-the-Shelf LLMs and VLMs” being accepted for publication at the AAAI Student Abstract! |
Aug 21, 2024 | 🎖️ Research Grant awarded: USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Women and Minorities in STEM Program. Co-PI. $155,310. 2024-2026. |
May 24, 2024 | 🏅 Congratulations, Sai, for your work “A Deep Learning Approach for Precision Phenotyping of Corn Stomata” being selected for the Best Paper Award at SPIE’s conference! It was a pleasure collaborating with you. Keep it up! |
Aug 30, 2023 | 🎉 My work, “Perceptual Cue-Guided Adaptive Image Downscaling for Enhanced Semantic Segmentation on Large Document Images” was accepted for publication in IJDAR. |
Jun 26, 2023 | 🎉 My work, “Weakly-supervised Semantic Segmentation on Historical Document Images” was accepted for publication in ACM RACS 2023 conference. |
Apr 25, 2023 | 🎉 I have recently been offered a position as Assistant Professor at South Dakota State University. |
Apr 12, 2023 | 🎓 Successfully defended Doctoral Dissertation “Enhancing Document Layout Analysis on Historical Newspapers: Visual Representation, Pseudo-ground-truth, and Downscaling”, and has officially graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Deepest appreciation to my advisor, Dr. Leen-Kiat Soh! |