Bio

With more than 150 published articles in leading academic journals and conferences, Irfan Essa is a highly-respected expert in the field of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. A professor for the School of Interactive Computing and associate dean in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Essa works in the areas of computer vision, machine learning, computational perception, robotics, social computing, computer graphics and computer animation, with potential impact on video analysis and production (e.g., computational photography & video, image-based modeling and rendering, etc.), human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, computational behavioral/social sciences, and computational journalism research.

He has been awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has held extended research consulting positions with Disney Research and also as an adjunct faculty member at The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently working as a consultant to Google. Essa joined Georgia Tech in 1996 after his earning his master's in science and Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also held a research faculty position and served in the Media Lab from 1988-1996.