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Ali Farhadi, a Recipient of 2009 Google Fellowship

Ali Farhadi who started Computer Vision with Mehrdad Shahshahani at IPM Computer Vision Group has been selected as the winner of one of the Google Fellowships in Computer Vision Image Interpretation. The inaugural Google Fellowships were awarded to thirteen exemplary Ph. D. students in computer science or related research areas and Ali had the potential of being the recipient of one of these prestigious Google awards.

Ali is now a Ph. D. Student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He visited IPM last December and gave several excellent lectures while collaborating with IPM Computer Vision Group on his two recent papers on computer vision.

So far he has worked on:

Image segmentation,
Sign language recognition,
Transfer learning, scene understanding,
Aspect issues in human activity recognition, and
Object recognition.

You can get more information about this fellowship on the Google weblog. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/best-and-brightest.html