Amin Jourabloo receives award

Amin Jourabloo was awarded First Place in the 2018-2019 Fitch Beach Outstanding Graduate Research Award competition. In this competition, each of the eight departments within the College of Engineering at Michigan State University nominates one candidate. The College of Engineering's Graduate Studies committee then selects the winner based on both their technical presentation and research record. Amin's former labmates, Dr. Joseph Roth and Dr. Xi Yin, received the same award in 2015-2016, and 2017-2018, respectively.

Amin received the M.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Iran in 2012. Since 2014, he has been pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering under the guidance of Dr. Xiaoming Liu. Amin designs advanced deep learning algorithms to solve challenging computer vision problems including face model fitting and face anti-spoofing. At MSU, he has authored 11 scientific publications, the majority of which are published in top venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, International Journal of Computer Vision, and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. His work has been cited more than 500 times with an H-index of 11.

(Date Posted: 2019-03-27)