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January, 2025

The MSP laboraty moves to Carnegie Mellon University. Prof. Carlos Busso is now a Professor at the Language Technologies Institute.
Karen Rosero transferred to Carnegie Mellon University as a Ph.D. student.
Patarapornkan Anantarangsi joined the MSP lab as an MS student. She will work on multimodal machine learning in non-ideal conditions.

October 2024

Kayla Caughlin successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, "Classification Methods for Automated, Non-Invasive In Vivo Oral Cancer Diagnosis." Congratulations Dr. Caughlin.
Lucas Goncalves successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Robustness and Versatility in Multimodal Emotion Recognition." Congratulations Dr. Goncalves.
Seong-Gyun Leem successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Speech Emotion Recognition in the Presence of Background Noise." Congratulations Dr. Leem.
Ali N. Salman successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Personalized Video Facial Expression Recognition on the Edge." Congratulations Dr. Salman.

August 2024

Dr. Wei-Cheng (Winston) Lin was awarded the AAAC Student Dissertation Award. This is a well-deserved recognition. Congratulations!

March 2024

Prof. Carlos Busso was elevated to ISCA Fellow for contributions to speech and multimodal affective signal processing and their technology applications.

January, 2024

Christian Flores joined the MSP lab as an MS student. He will work on multimodal machine learning.

April 2023

Andrea Vidal successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, "Synthesizing lip movements and modeling human behavior by using generative models and graph neural networks." Congratulations, Dr. Vidal.

March 2023

Wei-Cheng Lin successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Improving Temporal Modeling and Generalization for Speech Emotion Recognition." Congratulations, Dr. Lin.

January 2023

Prof. Carlos Busso was elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to speech and multimodal affective signal processing and their technology applications.

January, 2023

Karen Rosero joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. She will work on multimodal speech production assessment.

August, 2022

Pravin Mote joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. He will work on generalization strategies for speech emotion recognition, especially in cross-lingual settings.

June 2022

Yuning Qiu successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Unsupervised Driving Anomaly Detection in Naturalistic Driving Scenarios." Congratulations, Dr. Qiu.

May, 2022

Luz Martinez-Lucas joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. She will work on speech emotion recognition using time-continuous annotations.

January, 2022

Abinay Reddy Naini joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. He will work on speech emotion recognition.

August, 2021

Kusha Sridhar successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Unsupervised personalization and deep uncertainty modeling for speech emotion recognition." Congratulations Dr. Sridhar.
Himanshi Yadav joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. She will work on multimodal emotion recognition.
Huang-Cheng (David) Chou joined the MSP lab as a visitor Ph.D. student. He comes from National Tsing Hua University under the supervision of Prof. Chi-Chun Lee. He will work on speech emotion recognition.

May, 2021

Olivia Bonin joined joined the MSP lab as an undergraduate student. She will work on in-vehicle systems.

March, 2021

Sumit Jha successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Novel Modeling of Driver Attention in Real World Scenarios using Probabilistic Salient Maps." Congratulations Dr. Jha.

February, 2021

Shruthi Subramanium received the UT Dallas Undergraduate Research Scholar Award. Congratulation.
Isaac Brooks received the UT Dallas Undergraduate Research Scholar Award. Congratulation.
Jarrod Luckenbaugh received the UT Dallas Undergraduate Research Scholar Award. Congratulation.
Luz Martinez-Lucas received the Jonsson School Undergraduate Research Experience Award. Congratulation.

December, 2020

Isaac Brooks received the TxACE Undergraduate TxACE Internship Program. Congratulation.

August, 2020

Kayla Caughlin rejoined the MSP lab, this time as a Ph.D. student. She will work on oral cancer detection using FLIM imaging.
Susmitha Gogineni joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. She will work on in-vehicle systems.
Lucas Gonçalves joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. He will work on audiovisual emotion recognition.
Seong-Gyun Leem joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. He will work on speech processing with noisy audio.

April, 2020

Shruthi Subramanium joined joined the MSP lab as an undergraduate student. She will work on speech emotion recognition.
Isaac Brooks joined the MSP lab as an undergraduate student. He will work on in vehicle safety system.
Dorothy Mantle received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulation!
Asim Gazi received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulation!

February, 2020

Tiancheng Hu received the Jonsson School Undergraduate Research Experience Award. Congratulation.

January, 2020

Luz Martinez-Lucas received the UT Dallas Undergraduate Research Scholar Award. Congratulation.

September, 2019

Wei-Cheng (Winston) Lin joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. He will work on emotion recognition from speech.

June, 2019

Kayla Caughlin joined the MSP lab as an undergraduate student. She will work on oral cancer detection using FLIM imaging.

May, 2019

Jarrod Luckenbaugh joined the MSP lab as an undergraduate student. He will work on speech processing with noisy audio.

March, 2019

Srinivas Parthasarathy successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulation Dr. Parthasarathy.
Mohammed AbdelWahab successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulation Dr. AbdelWahab.

January, 2019

Tiancheng Hu received the UT Dallas Undergraduate Research Scholar Award. Congratulation.

December, 2018

Tiancheng Hu received the 2019 Undergraduate TxACE Internship Program. Congratulation.

September, 2018

Elizabeth Higgins joined the MSP lab as an undergraduate student. She will work on human robot interaction.

August, 2018

Ali Salman joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. He will work on face analysis and human robot interaction.
Yuning Qiu joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. He will work on in-vehicle systems.
Fei Tao successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulation Dr. Tao.

June, 2018

Tiancheng Hu joined the MSP lab as an undergraduate student. He will work on in-vehicle systems.

May, 2018

Luz Martinez-Lucas joined the MSP lab as an undergraduate student. She will work on speech emotion recognition.
John Harvill joined the MSP lab as an undergraduate student. He will work on multimodal user interfaces.

March, 2018

Reza Lotfian successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulation Dr. Lotfian.

January, 2018

Andrea Vidal joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. She will work on behavior analysis.

December, 2017

Dorothy Mantle received the UT Dallas Undergraduate Research Scholar Award. Congratulation.
Michelle Bancroft received the UT Dallas Undergraduate Research Scholar Award. Congratulation.

November, 2017

Najmeh Sadoughi successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulation Dr. Sadoughi.

August, 2017

Kusha Sridhar Huliyar Sridhara Murthy joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. He will work on emotion recognition from speech.
Dorothy Mantle joined the MSP laboratory as a Undergraduate student. She will work on in-vehicle systems.
Asim Gazi joined the MSP lab as a Undergraduate student. He will work on human robot interaction.

July, 2017

A paper from Srinivas Parthasarathy was nominated for best paper award in Interspeech 2017.

January, 2017

Anil Jakkam received his Ms. degree in Electrical Engineering. His Ms. Thesis is titled "A Multimodal Analysis of Synchrony during Dyadic Interaction Using a Metric Based on Sequential Pattern Mining.".

December, 2016

Michelle Bancroft received the Jonsson School Undergraduate Research Experience Award. Congratulation.

September, 2016

A paper from Najmeh Sadoughi was nominated for best paper award in Interspeech 2016.

August, 2016

Sumit Jha rejoined the MSP lab, this time as Ph.D. student. He will work on driver visual attention.

June, 2016

Michelle Bancroft joined the MSP lab as undergraduate student. She will work on affective computing.

May, 2016

Sumit Jha received his Ms. degree in Electrical Engineering. His Ms. Thesis is titled "Analysis and Estimation of Driver Visual Attention using Head Position and Orientation in Naturalistic Driving Conditions".

February, 2016

Yunjie (Jimmy) Zhang joined the MSP lab as Master student. He will work on pain detection on mice.

October, 2015

Jaejin Cho received the UT Dallas Undergraduate Research Scholar Award. Congratulation Jaejin for this accomplishment.
Preston Luthy joined the MSP lab as undergraduate student. He will work on computer vision.

September, 2015

Dr. Nanxiang (Sean) Li received the third prize IEEE ITSS Best Dissertation Award.

August, 2015

Srinivas Parthasarathy rejoined the MSP lab, this time as Ph.D. student. He will work on speech emotion recognition.

April, 2015

Nanxiang (Sean) Li successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulation Dr. Li.

December, 2014

Sumit Jha joined the MSP lab as Master student. He will work on Driver Visual Attention.
Anil Jakkam joined the MSP lab as Master student. He will work on group interaction.

November, 2014

Dr. Busso received the ICMI Ten-Year Technical Impact Award.

October, 2014

Alec Burmania received the UT Dallas Undergraduate Research Scholar Award. Congratulation.

September, 2014

Jaejin Cho joined the MSP lab as undergraduate student. He will work on speech emotion recognition.

August, 2014

Alec Burmania received the Jonsson School UG Research Experience Award. Congratulation.

May 2014

Soroosh Mariooryad successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulation Dr. Mariooryad.

August, 2013

Najmeh Sadoughi joined the MSP laboratory as Ph.D. student. She will work on audiovisual attention modeling.
Mohammed Abd el-Wahab joined the MSP lab as Ph.D. student. He will work on speech emotion recognition.

July, 2013

Reza Lotfian joined the MSP lab as Ph.D. student. He will work on speech emotion recognition.

June, 2013

Yakup KUTLU is visiting us from Mustafa Kemal University, Iskenderum, Hatay, Turkey. He will work on Multimodal Speaker Identification.

March, 2013

Zackary Lindstrom joined the MSP lab as undergraduate student. He will work on speech-driven facial animations.
Srinivas Parthasarathy received the Ericsson Fellowship Student 2013-2014. Congratulation.

January, 2013

Zizhi Cheng joined the MSP laboratory as Ph.D. student. She will work on emotion recognition from speech.
Fei Tao joined the MSP lab as a Master student. He will work on audiovisual automatic speech recognition.

November, 2012

Srinivas Parthasarathy joined the MSP lab as a Master student. He will work on audiovisual emotion perception.

October, 2012

Alec Burmania joined the MSP lab as a Undergraduate student. He will work on emotional evaluation using crowdsourcing.

May, 2012

Tauhidur Rahman received his Ms. degree in Electrical Engineering. His Ms. Thesis is titled "Improving Robustness of Emotional Speech Detection System."

February, 2012

Sheldon Dsouza joined the MSP lab as a Master student. He will work on OpenCV algorithms for Android.

November, 2011

Tam Tran was selected to receive a UT Dallas Undergraduate Research Scholar Award. The official release can be read here.

September, 2011

Dr. Youngkwon Lim joined the MSP lab as Postdoctoral Research Associate. He will work on multimodal interfaces for mobile devices.
Nanxiang (Sean) Li joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. He will work on face and gesture analysis.

July, 2011

Our paper "Analysis of driver behaviors during common tasks using frontal video camera and CAN-Bus information" (Jinesh Jain) received the Hewlett Packard Best Paper Award at ICME2011. The paper can be downloaded here. The official release can be read here.

June, 2011

Tam Tran joined the MSP lab as undergraduate student. He will work on audiovisual whispered speech.

February, 2011

Jinesh Jain received his Ms. degree in Electrical Engineering. His Ms. Thesis is titled "Driver Distraction: Multimodal analysis and modeling of driver behavior in real-world scenarios."

August, 2010

Soroosh Mariooryad joined the MSP lab as a Ph.D. student. He will work on modeling and synthesis of human behavior.
Tauhidur Rahman joined the MSP laboratory as a Ph.D. student. He will work on speech emotion recognition.
Shalini Keshavamurthy joined the MSP lab as a M.S. student. She will work on multimodal biometrics.

January, 2010

Jinesh Jain joined the MSP lab as a Master student. He will work on sensing participant interaction.

November, 2009

Amand Batlagundu joined the MSP lab as a Master student. He will work on emotion recognition.

September, 2009

Somu Palaniappan joined the MSP lab as a Master student. He will work on synthesis of virtual characters.
Premkumar Sridhar joined the MSP lab as a Master student. He will work on extracting facial features from video images.
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