Irfan Essa

Irfan Essa
Alma materMIT
Known forfacial recognition, video stabilization, computational photography, computational journalism
Scientific career
FieldsComputer vision, computational journalism, machine learning, computer graphics, robotics
InstitutionsGeorgia Tech
GVU Center
ThesisAnalysis, interpretation and synthesis of facial expressions (1995)
Doctoral advisorAlex Pentland
Websiteprof.irfanessa.com

Irfan Aziz Essa is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing of the College of Computing, and adjunct professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He is an associate dean in Georgia Tech's College of Computing[1] and the director of the new Interdisciplinary Research Center for Machine Learning at Georgia Tech (ML@GT).[2]