I finished my Bachelors (2003) and Masters (2005) programs in computer science in UofT. I am currently a PhD student in computer vision in UofT under the supervision of Sven Dickinson and Cristian Sminchisescu, as well as working part time for CognoVision. In the summer of 2008, I was fortunate to have an internship in Google, Mountaiview. Prior to starting my PhD in 2006, I worked in a Waterloo based computer vision company, Tangam Gaming.

During my masters I worked on learning generic shape models of objects. While this is an admirable goal, the extraction and grouping of abstract shape features that is necessary for such a task is an open problem. In my PhD, I am concentrating on finding generic class-invariant regularities that would help me in tasks such as perceptual grouping, segmentation and generic part detection. Relying on advances in Machine Learning approaches, such as Conditional Random Fields, my hope is to make progress in the challenging tasks above starting from a single realistic 2D image.