Andrea Burns
PhD Student @Boston University
Andrea Burns is a third year PhD student at Boston University and a member of the Image and Video Computing (IVC) group. She is advised by Professors Kate Saenko and Bryan A. Plummer. Her research specializes in vision and language tasks and representation learning, with a particular interest in applications that have positive societal impact, such as improving assistive technology. Andrea has published peer-reviewed work on improving language representations for vision-language tasks at reputed venues such as ECCV and ICCV. She also participated in a research internship with Google Cambridge this past Fall and will be returning to work with the same team again summer 2020.
PhD Student @Boston University
Andrea Burns is a third year PhD student at Boston University and a member of the Image and Video Computing (IVC) group. She is advised by Professors Kate Saenko and Bryan A. Plummer. Her research specializes in vision and language tasks and representation learning, with a particular interest in applications that have positive societal impact, such as improving assistive technology. Andrea has published peer-reviewed work on improving language representations for vision-language tasks at reputed venues such as ECCV and ICCV. She also participated in a research internship with Google Cambridge this past Fall and will be returning to work with the same team again summer 2020.
Demba Ba
Professor at Harvard University
Demba Ba serves as an Associate Professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering in Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he directs the CRISP group. Recently, he has taken a keen interest in the connection between artificial neural networks and sparse signal processing. His group leverages this connection to solve data-driven unsupervised learning problems in neuroscience, to understand the principles of hierarchical representations of sensory signals in the brain, and to develop explainable AI. In 2016, he received a Research Fellowship in Neuroscience from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Mandy Lu
MS @Stanford University
Mandy Lu is a master’s student at Stanford University and a member of the Stanford Vision and Learning (SVL) group, directed by Professors Fei-Fei Li, Juan Carlos Niebles and Silvio Savarese. She has worked on a variety of machine learning problems, focusing on new ways to solve healthcare problems with AI and correcting distributional bias in neural models. She will be joining Google Scholar in the summer to work on democratizing knowledge and making research accessible to more people around the world. In her spare time she sings, plays all kinds of games, loves learning new languages, and hangs out with her dog.
Sanjay Kamat
Former Managing Partner of Bell Labs Consulting
Sanjay has an independent advisory practice focused on individual and organizational learning and growth. He has a penchant for discovering underappreciated growth catalysts in new technologies. Sanjay received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University and MBA from Columbia University. He has worked at IBM Research and Bell Laboratories. He lives in Pleasanton, California, with his wife and twin daughters.
Former Managing Partner of Bell Labs Consulting
Sanjay has an independent advisory practice focused on individual and organizational learning and growth. He has a penchant for discovering underappreciated growth catalysts in new technologies. Sanjay received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University and MBA from Columbia University. He has worked at IBM Research and Bell Laboratories. He lives in Pleasanton, California, with his wife and twin daughters.