News
2025: Won the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize at ICCV 2025 for VQA !
2025: Launched Scouts by Yutori!
2025: Yutori is out of stealth !
2024: I left my position as Associate Professor at Georgia Tech.
2024: (An unusual) Keynote at ICLR 2024 sharing five stories from my 20-year journey in AI so far.
2024: I left my role as a Senior Director in GenAI at Meta. Stay tuned for what’s next!
2023: Introduced Emu , Emu Edit , Emu Video , and Emu Video Edit !
2023: I moved to the new Generative AI org at Meta!
2023: Make-A-Video3D . Text-to-4D dynamic scene generation.
2022: Make-A-Video . First of its kind text-to-video generation.
2022: AudioGen . First of its kind text-to-audio generation.
2022: Make-A-Scene. Greater creative control for AI image generation .
2020: Introducing Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats ! A series where I interview AI researchers to get to know them better as people.
2020: Introducing AI Paygrades ! Statistics of industry job offers in AI. Goal is to reduce information asymmetry so candidates can make informed decisions. Submit your information and spread the word!
2019: I was added to GASP Gallery’s list of artists! It lets you create your own generative art in styles of several artists.
2019: I received the Lockheed Martin Inspirational Young Faculty Award at Georgia Tech.
2019: I got tenure at Georgia Tech. I will be an Associate Professor starting August.
2019: Featured in Vogue’s “Dream Makers. How the women in AI are shaping our future. ”
2018: Samsung and Siemens are now sponsoring projects in our lab.
2018: Our team won the VizWiz Challenge at ECCV 2018 on Answering Visual Questions from Blind People.
2018: Our team won the Visual Question Answering Challenge at CVPR 2018 . Our winning entry is publicly available via Pythia .
2018: I am serving as a Program Chair for CVPR 2021.
2018: Dhruv Batra and I are organizing a “How to be a Good Citizen of the CVPR Community” panel at CVPR 2018.
2018: I received the Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award at Georgia Tech.
2018: Dhruv Batra and I received an AWS ML Research Award .
2017: I was featured in the Forbes’ list of 20 “Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research” .
2017: I received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award .
2017: I received a Google Faculty Research Award for Making the V in VQA Matter: Elevating the Role of Image Understanding in Visual Question Answering .
2016: I received an Amazon Academic Research Award (AARA) for Counting Everyday Objects in Everyday Scenes.
2016: I am moving to Georgia Tech (School of Interactive Computing ) starting Fall 2016. I will be splitting time between Georgia Tech and Facebook AI Research in Menlo Park, CA.
2016: I was selected in Rowan University’s 40 Under 40 list.
2016: I received a Rowan University Medal of Excellence for Alumni Achievement at Rowan’s College of Engineering commencement ceremony.
2016: A little piece on WVTF/Radio IQ on our Visual Question Answering (VQA) project.
2016: I am serving as a Senior Program Committee member for HCOMP 2016 .
2016: I received the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award. ONR’s press release . All 2016 recipients .
2016: I received the Sloan Research Fellowship .
2016: Our work on (begining to) understand humor in images was covered in MIT Technology Review . Department’s featured news story .
2016: I received an NSF CAREER award on Visual Question Answering (VQA) . Department’s featured news story . College’s featured news story .
2015: I will be speaking at the 2016 International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS) in Sicily this summer.
2015: I will be serving as an Area Chair for IJCAI 2016 .
2015: Dhruv Batra and I received a Google Faculty Research Award for Visual Question Answering (VQA) .
2015: Full release (v1.0) of our VQA Dataset is out. 254,721 images, 764163,861 questions, 9,934,119 answers. See www.visualqa.org .
2015: Our VQA: Visual Question Answering paper was mentioned in Bloomberg Business .
2015: I received an Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.
2014: I have been named an Allen Distinguished Investigator in Artificial Intelligence by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation .
2014: I was awarded the Google Facultly Research Award for Learning from Visual Abstractions. List of recipients .
2014: I am serving as an Area Chair at CVPR 2015 (and most subsequent CVPR/ECCV/ICCVs) as well as ICVGIP 2014, as well as the Student Activities Co-chair at CVPR 2015 .
2014: I am co-organizing two workshops at ECCV 2014 : The Third International Workshop on Parts and Attributes and the workshop on Human-Machine Communication for Visual Recognition and Search (HMCV) .
2014: I received the Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Program (YIP) 2014 award. Featured news story can be found here .
2014: We are organizing the first Mid-Atlantic Computer Vision (MACV) workshop on April 18th, 2014 at Virginia Tech.
Slides and videos from our tutorial on Attributes at CVPR 2013 are now online .
2013: We started the Computer Vision and Machine Learning Reading Group at Virginia Tech.
2012: I won a Google Faculty Research Award for Relative Attributes-based Feedback for Image Search.
2012: I am serving as an Area Chair for the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2012 .
2011: Our work on Relative Attributes won the Marr Prize at ICCV 2011.
2011: The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded my work on human-debugging .
2010: 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 .
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