I work with undergraduate students on research in computer graphics, artificial intelligence, multimodal data, and computing systems.
Student research highlights · Most recent first
We introduce MemeMatch, a large-scale multimodal meme dataset and retrieval system that bridges meme collection, annotation, and analysis. Nearly one million memes are represented through local textual context and global template context, enriched with emotion, topic, and usage-intent annotations for analysis and context-aware retrieval.
Read the Paper ↗We present a secure desktop application for monitoring school lanyard-policy compliance while protecting student data and maintaining reliable operation. The system combines authenticated and encrypted cloud synchronization, validation, administrative access controls, and local caching, and was successfully deployed in a middle-school environment.
Read the Paper ↗We investigate facial emotion recognition across 135 fine-grained classes. A combined U-Net and ResNet framework preserves spatial cues while learning discriminative features, improving classification accuracy over existing approaches and supporting nuanced behavior-analysis and cybersecurity applications.
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