My research interests are in computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on creating robust visual recognition systems that can learn to understand the visual world with minimal human supervision.
He is a recipient of the Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award (2017), UC Davis Hellman Fellowship (2017), National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2018), AWS Machine Learning Research Awards (2018, 2019), Adobe Data Science Research Awards (2019, 2022), UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2019), Sony Focused Research Awards (2020, 2023), and UW-Madison SACM Student Choice Professor of the Year Award (2022). He and his collaborators received the Most Innovative Award at the COCO Object Detection Challenge ICCV 2019 and the Best Paper Award at BMVC 2020