bnojavan / openface

OpenFace – a state-of-the art tool intended for facial landmark detection, head pose estimation, facial action unit recognition, and eye-gaze estimation.

Hi there 👋

My name is Behnaz Nojavanasghari and I am a lead machine learning scientist. I am experienced in leading and developing machine learning projects from conception through finished, shippable products in user modeling, NLP, multimodal machine learning and computer vision domains. I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science and I am passionate about building data-driven products and bringing creative ideas to life. I enjoy working with different teams and serving as the ”translation layer” between cross functional stakeholders. I love building high performing teams and helping team members to discover their strengths and find challenges for them to gain new skills. Feel free to checkout my full profile.

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Domains of interest

Machine Learning

• Representation learning
• Time-series modeling
• Transformers
• Multimodal learning
• Deep learning
• Multi-task learning
• Transfer learning
• Interpretable machine learning
• Multi-armed bandits
• Recommendation Systems
• Generative AI

Computer Vision

• Image and video understanding
• Face and gesture recognition
• Aesthetic enhancement of Photographs
• Affective computing