CURRICULUM VITAE Vassilis Athitsos Computer Science and Engineering Department Phone: 817-272-0155 University of Texas at Arlington Fax: 817-272-3784 500 UTA Boulevard, Room 623 E-mail: [email protected] Arlington, Texas 76019 Web: http://vlm1.uta.edu/~athitsos RESEARCH INTERESTS Computer Vision, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Gesture and Sign Language Recognition. EDUCATION Boston University, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2006. University of Chicago, M.S. in Computer Science, 1997. University of Chicago, B.S. in Mathematics, 1995. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Sep. 2018 – present: Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington. Sep. 2012 – Aug. 2018: Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington. Aug. 2007 – Aug. 2012. Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington. Oct. 2006 – Jul. 2007. Postdoctoral Researcher, Computer Science Department, Boston University. Aug 2005 – Sep. 2006. Member of Technical Staff, Siemens Corporate Research. Princeton, New Jersey. Apr. 1998 – Jul. 2005. Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, Boston University. Oct. 1995 – Mar. 1998. Research and Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department, University of Chicago. HONORS AND AWARDS • Best Student Paper Award, in International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), March 2017. The conference had 272 submissions, and 63 accepted papers. • Outstanding Early Career Award, College of Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, February 2013. • NSF CAREER Award, 2010. • Outstanding Reviewer Award, CVPR 2010. • Best Paper Award, in IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis (CVPR4HB), June 2008. The workshop had 29 submitted papers. • Best Paper Award, in International Conference on Document Analysis and Retrieval (ICDAR), August 2005. The conference had 244 accepted papers. 1 • Research Excellence Award, by the Computer Science Department of Boston University, in August 2004. GRANTS As PI 1. Collaborative: Gesture Recognition Challenge. With Isabelle Guyon (PI, Clopinet). NSF ECCS 1128296, 09/01/2011 - 08/31/2012. Award to UTA: $55,920. 2. Collaborative Research: CI-ADDO-EN: Development of Publicly Available, Easily Searchable, Linguistically Analyzed, Video Corpora for Sign Language and Gesture Research. With Carol Neidle (PI, Boston University), Stan Sclaroff (Co-PI, Boston University), Dimitris Metaxas (PI, Rutgers), Ben Bahan (PI, Gallaudet). NSF CNS 1059235, 08/01/2011 - 07/31/2014. Award to UTA: $98,630. 3. CAREER: Large Vocabulary Gesture Recognition for Everyone: Gesture Modeling and Recognition Tools for System Builders and Users. NSF IIS 1055062, 04/01/2011 - 03/30/2017, $651,563. 4. Collaborative: II-EN: Development of Publicly Available, Easily Searchable, Linguistically Analyzed, Video Corpora for Sign Language and Gesture Research. With Carol Neidle (PI, Boston University), Stan Sclaroff (Co-PI, Boston University), Dimitris Metaxas (PI, Rutgers). NSF CNS 0958286, 04/01/2010 - 03/31/2011. Award to UTA: $10,000. 5. III-COR-Small: Collaborative Research: Time Series Subsequence Matching for Content-based Access in Very Large Multimedia Databases. With Gautam Das (Co-PI, UTA), George Kollios (PI, Boston University). NSF IIS 0812601, 09/01/2008 - 08/31/2012, Award to UTA: $281,001. 6. Large Lexicon Gesture Representation, Recognition, and Retrieval, subcontract from BU to UTA. With Stan Sclaroff (PI, Boston University), and Carol Neidle (co-PI, Boston University). NSF IIS 0705749, 09/01/2007 - 08/31/2011. Award to UTA: $208,968. As Co-PI 1. PFI:BIC: iWork, a Modular Multi-Sensing Adaptive Robot-Based Service for Vocational Assessment, Personalized Worker Training and Rehabilitation. With Fillia Makedon (PI, UTA), Nicolette Hass (co-PI, UTA), Morris Bell (PI, Yale). NSF IIP-1719031, 09/01/2017 – 08/31/2021, $1,031,638. 2. CHS: Large: Collaborative Research: Computational Science for Improving Assessment of Executive Function in Children. With Fillia Makedon (PI, UTA), Morris Bell (PI, Yale), Bruce Wexler (Co-PI, Yale). NSF IIS 1565328, 10/01/2016 - 09/30/2021. Award to UTA: $1,339,495. 3. Workshop: Doctoral Consortium at the PETRA 2016 Conference. With Fillia Makedon (PI), Vangelis Metsis (Co-PI). NSF IIS 1636543, 05/01/2016 - 04/30/2017, $27,580. 4. CI-P: Planning for SMART-MOVE: A Spatiotemporal Annotated Human Activity Repository for Advanced Motion Recognition and Analysis Research.With Fillia Makedon (PI), Vangelis Metsis (Co-PI), Heng Huang (Co-PI), Junzhou Huang (Co-PI). NSF CNS 1405985, 09/01/2014 – 08/31/2017, $116,000. 5. MRI Collaborative: Development of iRehab, an intelligent closed-loop instrument for adaptive rehabilitation. With Fillia Makedon (PI), Robert Gatchel (Co-PI), Mario Romero-Ortega (Co-PI), Heng Huang (Co-PI). NSF CNS 1338118, 10/01/2013 – 09/30/2018, $879,890. 6. Doctoral Consortium and Student-Author Travel for the PETRA 2013 Conference. With Fillia Makedon (PI), Heng Huang (Co-PI), Gian Luca Mariottini (Co-PI), Vangelis Metsis (Co-PI). NSF IIS 1329119, 02/15/2013 - 01/31/2014, $27,018. 7. GAANN - Educating Health Informatics Researchers at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the University of Texas at Arlington. With Gergely Zaruba (PI), Manfred Huber (Co-PI), Farhad Kamangar (Co-PI), David Levine (Co-PI), Jean Gao (Co-PI), Junzhou Huang (Co-PI), Heng Huang (Co-PI), Fillia Makedon (Co-PI), Gian-Luca Mariottini (Co-PI). Department of Education, 08/16-2012 – 08/15/2015, $533,064. 2 8. Workshop: Doctoral Consortium and Student-Author Travel for the PETRA 2012 Conference. With Fillia Makedon (PI), Heng Huang (Co-PI), Gian Luca Mariottini (Co-PI), Vangelis Metsis (Co-PI). NSF IIS 1238660, 04/15/2012 - 03/31/2013, $23,380. 9. Workshop: Doctoral Consortium at the PETRA 2011 Conference. With Fillia Makedon (PI), Heng Huang (Co- PI), Leonidas Fegaras (Co-PI), Gian Luca Mariottini (Co-PI). NSF IIS 1130207, 03/01/2011 - 02/28/2012, $20,660. 10. CPS: Medium: A Novel Human Centric CPS to Improve Motor/Cognitive Assessment and Enable Adaptive Rehabilitation. With Fillia Makedon (PI), Heng Huang (Co-PI), Zhengyi Le (Co-PI), Georgios Alexandrakis (Co-PI), Dan Popa (Co-PI), and Olga Dreeben (Co-PI). NSF CNS 1035913, 09/15/2010-08/31/2014, $730,001. 11. Doctoral Consortium and Student-Author Travel for PETRA’10 Conference. With Fillia Makedon (PI), Heng Huang (Co-PI), Zhengyi Le (Co-PI). NSF IIS 1015219, 05/01/2010 - 04/30/2011, $20,000. 12. Wireless Home-based Sleep Apnea Detection and Sleep Quality Monitoring. With Ishfaq Ahmad (PI - UTA), Hlaing Minn (PI - UTD), Lakshman Tamil (Co-PI - UTD), Larry Ammann (Co-PI - UTD),William Brock (Co- PI, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital). UTA/UTD,TI,THRE Collaborative Research Funding Program in Medical Technologies, 01/01/2010 - 12/31/2011, $100,000 (UTA portion of award: $50,000). 13. MRI: Development of a Next-Generation Multimodal Data Management Human-Sensing Instrument for Trustworthy Research Collaboration and Quality of Life Improvement. With Fillia Makedon (PI), Heng Huang (Co-PI), Zhengyi Le (Co-PI), Dan Popa (Co-PI). NSF CNS 0923494, 10/01/2009 - 09/30/2013, $770,622. TEACHING EXPERIENCE CSE 1310: Introduction to Computers and Programming. Summer 2012, Summer 2013, Spring 2015, Summer 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016. CSE 1311: Introductory Programming for Engineers and Scientists. Spring 2010. CSE 2312: Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming. Spring 2014, Summer 2014. CSE 2320: Algorithms and Data Structures. Spring 2014, Summer 2014. CSE 3392/5393: Study Abroad Summer Course in Greece. Summer 2011. CSE 4308/5360: Artificial Intelligence I. Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Summer 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Summer 2012, Summer 2013, Summer 2015, Fall 2015, Fall 2016. CSE 4309: Introduction to Machine Learning. Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020. CSE 4310: Introduction to Computer Vision. Spring 2019. CSE 4316: Senior Design I. Fall 2012, Fall 2013. CSE 4317: Senior Design II. Spring 2013, Spring 2014. CSE 5361: Artificial Intelligence II. Spring 2008. CSE 6363: Machine Learning. Spring 2017, Spring 2020. CSE 6367: Computer Vision. Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012. 3 SUPERVISED STUDENTS Thesis advisor for Ph.D. students: 1. Alex Dillhoff, (graduated August 2020, next stop: UTA, Senior Lecturer). 2. Sakher Ghanem, (graduated August 2020, next stop: University of Jeddah, Assistant Professor). 3. Xin Miao, (graduated May 2020, next stop: Kuaishou, Research Scientist). 4. Srujana Gattupalli (graduated May 2018, next stop: Intel, Deep Learning Engineer). 5. Wei Xiang (graduated May 2018, next stop: JD.COM US R&D Center, Algorithm Engineer). 6. Amir Ghaderi (graduated May 2018, next stop: uSens, Deep Learning Researcher). 7. Christopher Conly (graduated August 2016, next stop: UTA, Senior Lecturer). 8. Pat Jangyodsuk (graduated May 2016, next stop: Capitalogix Trading, Senior Data Scientist). 9. Zhong Zhang (graduated May 2015, next stop: Cardlytics, Big Data Engineer). 10. Alexios Kotsifakos (graduated May 2014, next stop: Microsoft, Software Engineer). 11. Paul Doliotis (graduated December 2013, next stop: Wynwright, Computer Vision Engineer). Thesis advisor for Masters students: 1. Fadiah Qudah (graduated August 2019). 2. Jai Shah (graduated December 2018). 3. Bhaskar Trivedi (graduated December 2018). 4. Saif Sayed (graduated December 2017). 5. Siddhartha Goutham Swaminathan (graduated