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Career

· Staff Software Engineer, Google DeepMind2024–
· Staff Software Engineer (Tech Lead Manager), Google2020–2024
· Senior Software Engineer, Google2018–2020
· Software Engineer, Google2015–2018
· Senior Research Scientist, Comcast2013–2015
· Post-Doctoral Researcher, Disney Research2011–2013
· Research Intern, Microsoft2010–2010
· Teaching Assistant, UCLA2008–2008
· Graduate Research Assistant, UCLA2006–2011

Publications (29)

Real-time classification of dance gestures from skeleton animation
Symposium on Computer Animation · 2011
340
cited
Discovering discriminative action parts from mid-level video representations
2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2012
251
cited
Poselet Key-Framing: A Model for Human Activity Recognition
2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2013
244
cited
Tracklet Descriptors for Action Modeling and Video Analysis
European Conference on Computer Vision · 2010
164
cited
Sparse Occlusion Detection with Optical Flow
International Journal of Computer Vision · 2012
147
cited
Towards Unconstrained End-to-End Text Spotting
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision · 2019
138
cited
Towards End-to-End Unified Scene Text Detection and Layout Analysis
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2022
114
cited
Occlusion Detection and Motion Estimation with Convex Optimization
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2010
53
cited
No Bias Left behind: Covariate Shift Adaptation for Discriminative 3D Pose Estimation
European Conference on Computer Vision · 2012
49
cited
Action is in the Eye of the Beholder: Eye-gaze Driven Model for Spatio-Temporal Action Localization
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2013
44
cited
From Subcategories to Visual Composites: A Multi-level Framework for Object Detection
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision · 2013
31
cited
Unified Autoregressive Visual Generation and Understanding with Continuous Tokens
arXiv.org · 2025
30
cited
ICDAR 2023 Competition on Hierarchical Text Detection and Recognition
IEEE International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition · 2023
24
cited
Spike train driven dynamical models for human actions
2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2010
19
cited
Flexible Dictionaries for Action Classification
2008
18
cited
Nonparametric Clustering with Distance Dependent Hierarchies
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence · 2014
16
cited
Cross-Domain Matching with Squared-Loss Mutual Information
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2015
12
cited
Covariate Shift Adaptation for Discriminative 3D Pose Estimation
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2014
11
cited
SuperFloxels: A Mid-level Representation for Video Sequences
ECCV Workshops · 2012
11
cited
Hierarchical Text Spotter for Joint Text Spotting and Layout Analysis
IEEE Workshop/Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision · 2023
9
cited
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