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People at MSP lab

Faculty

Carlos Busso
Professor
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Members

Ali Salman
Ph.D. Student
Face analysis

Kayla Caughlin
Ph.D. Student
Oral cancer detection

Lucas Gonçalves
Ph.D. Student
Multimodal emotion recognition

Seong-Gyun Leem
Ph.D. Student
Noisy Speech Processing

Abinay Reddy Naini
Ph.D. Student
Speech Emotion Recognition

Luz Martinez-Lucas
Ph.D. Student
Emotion Recognition

Pravin Mote
Ph.D. Student
Multimodal emotion recognition

Karen Rosero
Ph.D. Student
Multimodal Emotion Recognition


MSP Team over the years


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MSP team in 2010
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MSP team in 2014
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MSP team in 2015
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MSP team in 2018
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MSP team in 2019
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MSP team in 2020 (COVID-19 Edition)
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MSP team in 2021
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MSP team in 2022


MSP Alumni


PhD Students

Andrea Vidal (2018-2023)
PhD Thesis: "Synthesizing lip movements and modeling human behavior by using generative models and graph neural networks"
First position after UTD: TBA
Current position: TBA
Wei-Cheng Lin (2019-2023)
PhD Thesis: "Improving Temporal Modeling and Generalization for Speech Emotion Recognition"
First position after UTD: Research Scientist, Robert Bosch, Pittsburgh, PA
Current position: Research Scientist, Robert Bosch, Pittsburgh, PA
Yuning Qiu (2018-2022)
PhD Thesis: "Unsupervised Driving Anomaly Detection in Naturalistic Driving Scenarios"
First position after UTD: AI Solution Engineer at Intel, Austin, TX
Current position: AI Solution Engineer at Intel, Austin, TX
Kusha Sridhar (2017-2021)
PhD Thesis: "Unsupervised personalization and deep uncertainty modeling for speech emotion recognition."
First position after UTD: Postdoctoral researcher at Rice University, Houston, TX
Current position: Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Sony PlayStation, San Mateo, CA
Sumit Jha (2016-2021)
PhD Thesis: "Novel Modeling of Driver Attention in Real World Scenarios using Probabilistic Salient Maps"
First position after UTD: Senior Research Engineer at Samsung Research America, Irvine, CA
Current position: Senior Research Engineer at Samsung Research America, Irvine, CA
Srinivas Parthasarathy (2015-2019)
PhD Thesis: "Novel Frameworks for Attribute-Based Speech Emotion Recognition using Time-Continuous Traces and Sentence-Level Annotations."
First position after UTD: Amazon, Sunnyvale, CA
Current position: Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, Sunnyvale, CA
Mohammed AbdelWahab (2013-2019)
PhD Thesis: "Domain Adaptation for Speech Based Emotion Recognition."
First position after UTD: AT&T Labs Research, Bedminster, NJ
Current position: Senior inventive scientist at AT&T Labs Research, Bedminster, NJ
Fei Tao (2013-2018)
PhD Thesis: "Advances in audiovisual speech processing for robust voice activity detection and automatic speech recognition."
First position after UTD: Uber, San Francisco, CA
Current position: Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, Sunnyvale, CA
Reza Lotfian (2013-2018)
PhD Thesis: "Machine Learning Solutions for Emotional Speech: Exploiting the Information of Individual annotations."
First position after UTD: Cogito, Boston, MA
Current position: Machine Learning Scientist at Cogito, Boston, MA
Najmeh Sadoughi (2013-2017)
PhD Thesis: "Synthesizing Naturalistic and Meaningful Speech-Driven Behaviors."
First position after UTD: EMR.AI, San Francisco, CA
Current position: Applied Scientist at Amazon, Seattle, WA
Nanxiang (Sean) Li (2011-2015)
PhD Thesis: "Modeling of Driver Behavior in Real World Scenarios using Multiple Noninvasive Sensors."
First position after UTD: Honda Research Institute, Mountain View, CA
Current position: Principal Research Scientist at Motional, Mountain View, CA
Soroosh Mariooryad (2010-2014)
PhD Thesis: "Improving Robustness of Emotion Recognition Systems: Continuous Emotion Descriptors, Contextual Information and Lexical Compensation."
First position after UTD: Software Engineer at Google, Mountain View, CA
Current position: Senior Software Engineer at Google, Mountain View, CA

Visiting Scholars and Post-Doctoral Researcher

Huang-Cheng (David) Chou (2021-2022)
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
Yakup KUTLU (2013)
Iskenderum Technical University, Iskenderum, Hatay, Turkey
Youngkwon Lim (2011-2012)
Samsung Telecommunications America, Richardson, TX
Juan Pablo Arias (2010-2011)
Fortinet, Santiago, Chile

Master Students

Lucas Gonçalves (2020-2023)
First position after UTD: PhD student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
Current position: PhD student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
Alec Burmania (2016-2018)
MS. Thesis: "Methods and experimental design for collecting emotional labels using crowdsourcing"
First position after UTD: Lennox International, Richardson, TX
Current position: Lennox International, Richardson, TX
Yunjie Zhang (2016-2017)
First position after UTD: PhD student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
Current position: PhD student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
Anil Jakkam (2015-2017)
MS. Thesis: "A Multimodal Analysis of Synchrony during Dyadic Interaction Using a Metric Based on Sequential Pattern Mining."
First position after UTD: Knowles Intelligent Audio, Mountain View, CA
Current position: Knowles Intelligent Audio, Mountain View, CA
Sumit Jha (2015-2016)
MS. Thesis: "Analysis and Estimation of Driver Visual Attention using Head Position and Orientation in Naturalistic Driving Conditions."
First position after UTD: PhD Student at UTD
Current position: Samsung, Irvine, CA
Srinivas Parthasarathy (2013-2014)
MS. Thesis: "Relation Between Emotion Classification Performance and Evaluator Agreement with Absolute and Relative Descriptors."
First position after UTD: Robert Bosch LLC, Palo Alto, CA
Current position: Amazon, Sunnyvale, CA
Sheldon Dsouza (2012)
First position after UTD: Apple, Cupertino, CA
Current position: Apple, Cupertino, CA
Tauhidur Rahman (2010-2012)
MS. Thesis: "Improving robustness of emotional speech detection system."
First position after UTD: PhD student at Cornell University
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Shalini Keshavamurthy (2010-2011)
UtopiaCompression Corp, Los Angeles, California
First position after UTD: UtopiaCompression Corp, Los Angeles, CA
Current position: Humana, Boston, MA
Jinesh Jain (2010-2011)
MS. Thesis: "Driver Distraction: Multimodal analysis and modeling of driver behavior in real-world scenarios."
First position after UTD: Belkin International, Los Angeles, CA
Current position: Ford Motors Company, Palo Alto, CA
Anand Batlagundu (2010)
First position after UTD: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
Current position: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
Somu Palaniappan (2010)
First position after UTD: Nokia Siemens Networks, Dallas, TX
Current position: McKesson, Irving, TX
Premkumar Sridhar (2009)
First position after UTD: Ericsson Inc, Dallas, TX
Current position: Ericsson Inc, Dallas, TX

Undergraduate Students

Shruthi Subramanium (2020-2023)
First position after UTD: Product Engineer at Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX
Current position: Product Engineer at Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX
Isaac Brooks (2020-2023)
First position after UTD: Engineer at Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX
Current position: Engineer at Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX
Olivia Bonin (2021)
First position after UTD: BS Student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
Current position: Failure Analysis at Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX
Luz Martinez-Lucas (2018-2021)
First position after UTD: MS Student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
Current position: PhD Student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
Jarrod Luckenbaugh (2019-2021)
First position after UTD: Software Developer at General Motors, Austin, TX
Current position: PhD student at the University of California at San Diego, La Joya, CA
Kayla Caughlin (2019-2020)
First position after UTD: PhD Student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
Current position: PhD Student at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX
Tiancheng Hu (2018-2020)
First position after UTD: MS Student at ETH Zurich
Current position: PhD student at Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
John Harvill (2018-2019)
First position after UTD: PhD Student at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Current position: PhD Student at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elizabeth Higgins (2018-2019)
First position after UTD: BS student at UTD, Richardson, TX
Current position: Applications Engineer at Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX
Asim Gazi (2017-2018)
First position after UTD: PhD Student at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Current position: PhD Student at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Michelle Bancroft (2016-2018)
First position after UTD: Central Appraisal Services, Forney, TX
Current position: Central Appraisal Services, Forney, TX
Dorothy Mantle (2017-2018)
First position after UTD: PhD Student at Stanford University
Current position: PhD Student at Stanford University
Alec Burmania (2012-2016)
First position after UTD: Software Engineer II at Lennox International, Richardson, TX
Current position: Product Manager at Lennox International, Richardson, TX
Preston Luthy (2015)
First position after UTD: BS student at MIT
Current position: Data Science Lead at Biotech Company, Stealth Mode, Cambridge, MA
Jaejin Cho (2014-2015)
First position after UTD: PhD student at John Hopkins University
Current position: PhD student at John Hopkins University
Zackary Lindstrom (2013-2014)
First position after UTD: M.S. UT Dallas (Systems Engineering and Management)
Current position: TBA
Tam Tran (2011-2014)
First position after UTD: Sema Wireless, Dallas, TX
Current position: Sema Wireless, Dallas, TX


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