FYI
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto,
Room 5262, 40 Saint George Street,
Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Ph: +1 647 220 3482
web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/
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From: Alec Jacobson <jacobson(a)cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 12:59 AM
Subject: [jobs] Fwd: Snap Research Call for Interns
To: jobs(a)dgp.toronto.edu <jobs(a)dgp.toronto.edu>
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From: David Salesin <salesin(a)snap.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 14:57
Subject: Snap Research Call for Interns
To: David Salesin <salesin(a)snap.com>
Snap Research is offering internships for spring, summer, and fall of 2019.
We are looking for PhD students who are excited about pushing the state of
the art in computer science areas such as graphics, vision, human-computer
interaction, machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning,
data science and more -- in ways that could be of interest to Snap Inc. as
well as to the research community at large. We have just started
recruiting, and we would love to hear from you!
You will collaborate with one or more researchers, with access to
world-class product groups and design teams. We explore opportunities for
technology transfer and regularly publish in leading journals and
conferences. We are especially interested in fostering ongoing
collaborations and are open to projects that last beyond the internship. We
compensate interns well and provide access to large computational
resources. We strive to create an environment that is both productive and
fun.
Our team currently includes the following areas and researchers:
Computational Imaging --- New York City and Seattle:
Shree Nayar <snayar>: Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Computer
Graphics
Austin Reiter <areiter>: Computational Imaging, Action Recognition, 3D
Reconstruction
Guru Krishnan <guru>: Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Acoustic
Signal Processing
Jian Wang <jwang4>: Computational Imaging, Computational Photography, 3D
Reconstruction
Karl Bayer <kbayer>: Robotics, Human-Computer Interfaces, 3D Modeling,
Rapid Prototyping
Computer Vision and Deep Learning --- Santa Monica and San Francisco:
Ning Xu <ning.xu>: Deep learning, Image/Video Processing, Computer Vision,
Audio/Speech
Sergey Tulyakov <stulyakov>: generative modeling, facial analysis
Yuncheng Li <yuncheng.li>: object detection, pose estimation
Ziyu Zhang <zzhang3>: vision and language, generative modeling, instance
segmentation
Will Brendel <william.brendel>: unsupervised deep learning, quadratic
optimization, Computer Vision
Qieyun Dai <qdai>: object detection, semantic segmentation
Ian Enxu Yan <eyan2>: accelerating deep learning, inference, and search.
Computer Graphics --- Santa Monica and San Francisco:
Linjie Luo <linjie.luo>: 3D reconstruction and understanding, augmented and
virtual reality
Chen Cao <chen.cao>: 3D face modeling and tracking, facial image & video
manipulation
Chongyang Ma <cma>: deep generative models, 3D reconstruction, video
synthesis
David Salesin <salesin>: digital photography & video, non-photorealistic
rendering (NPR), visualization
Menglei Chai <mchai>: image-based reconstruction, image & video editing, 3D
portrait modeling
Yingying Wang <ywang>: deep learning for motion synthesis, motion style
transfer, 2D cartoon animation
Zehao Xue <zehao.xue>: character animation(face,body), character rigging,
AR&VR, mocap, 3D printing
Olly Woodford <oliver.woodford>: SLAM, 3D reconstruction, camera/object
tracking, AR
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) --- Santa Monica and Seattle:
Andrés Monroy-Hernández <amh>: social computing systems (lately using
wearables and AR)
Rajan Vaish <rvaish>: crowdsourcing, AR and Mixed Reality, mobile and
social computing
Maarten Bos <maarten>: behavioral science
Brian Smith <bsmith>: interaction design, interaction techniques, game
design, AR, input methods
Ian Wehrman <iwehrman>: user-experience design; web development
Joel Brandt <jbrandt>: creative design tools
Maria Pavlovskaia <maria>: rapid prototyping and new app development across
all research products
Natural Language Processing (NLP) --- Santa Monica:
Luis Marujo <luis>: Text Understanding, Multi-Modal Retrieval, Deep
Learning for NLP
Leo Neves <lneves>: Document Representation, Entity Linking, Multimodal
learning, Bias mitigation
Pradeep Karuturi <pradeep>: sentiment/emotion analysis, content
quality/sensitivity, NLP engineering
Data Science and Data Mining --- Santa Monica:
Neil Shah <nshah>: misbehavior detection, content moderation, user behavior
modeling, network analysis
Colin Eles <celes>: software engineering, infrastructure development,
inference and training pipelines
To apply, please send an email to research-internships(a)snap.com with your
CV, a list of your research interests, and any specific researchers you
would like to work with. Also feel free to contact researchers directly at
their email address: <researcher-alias>@snap.com. Internships will be
granted on a rolling basis, so apply as soon as possible.
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Hi All,
We have our HCI group meeting tomorrow at 12:30 PM at DGP Seminar room.
Dina Sabie will talk about designing technologies for refugees in Canada.
In addition, she will be talking about what she has done in her Ph.D. so
far and what is her future plan. Lunch will be provided during the meeting.
Please drop by and give your feedback. People who are very busy with
term-end items (exams, deadlines, etc.): you can still show up, say a hi to
Dina and others, have your lunch, and leave early before the presentation
starts. But please stay if you can. The presentation will start at 12:55 PM.
Thanks,
Rifat
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Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat
Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/
Hello all,
We will have a reading group session tomorrow (Monday, Dec 10th) from 2 to 3 pm at the seminar room. Jiannan will lead the discussion on the paper
Researcher-Centered Design of Statistics: Why Bayesian Statistics Better Fit the Culture and Incentives of HCI
Link: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2858465
Looking forward to seeing you then.
Thanks,
Jiannan
This is a super new initiative by a Cornell student and some of you may get
interested in it - http://md4sg.com/
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto, ON, CA
web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/
Hello all,
We are hosting Prof. Géry Casiez in our next HCI meeting on Tuesday,
November 27, 2018, at 12:30 pm at DGP Seminar room. Details about the talk
are below. Lunch will be provided during the meeting.
Title: The measure and compensation of latency in touch and mouse-based
systems
Abstract: Any interactive system exhibits some delay between a user’s
action and the corresponding system response, known as the end-to-end
latency. Users can perceive touchscreen latency as low as 2 ms and
performance degrades above 25 ms. In indirect interaction, it has been
shown that latencies above 50 ms affect performance. Yet, the latency of
current systems is above these thresholds of perception and performance.
How can we simply measure the latency of current touch systems and
mouse-based interfaces to know how performance is affected? How can we
determine where it comes from to try to reduce it? Can we compensate some
of the latency using trajectory prediction without introducing side-effects
caused by next-point prediction techniques?
Bio: Géry Casiez is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of
Lille (Science and Technology) and member of Inria Lille. In 2018, he has
been appointed junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France for 5
years. His research interests include input devices and interaction
techniques, transfer functions, system responsiveness, and hardware
fabrication. He is the co-author of more than 30 papers published at CHI
and UIST and he regularly serves in the program committees of these
conferences. Géry Casiez was president of the Association Franco-phone de
l’Interaction Homme-Machine (AFIHM) from 2014 to 2017. He received his
Ph.D. degree at the University of Lille in 2004.
Thanks,
Rifat
--
Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat
Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/
FYI
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto, ON, CA
web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/
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From: Aakash Solanki <aakash.solanki(a)mail.utoronto.ca>
Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 12:14 PM
Subject: Reminder: Next Development Seminar: November 30, 2018 at SS3130 in
Sidney Smith, 12p-2p
To: <DEVSEMEVENTS-L(a)listserv.utoronto.ca>
Hi all,
Polite reminder for the talk this week.
Sincerely,
Aakash
—
Aakash Solanki
PhD Student, Collaborative Program in Anthropology and South Asian Studies
Co-ordinator, Development Seminar
<https://utdevsem.wordpress.com>University of Toronto
Begin forwarded message:
*From: *Aakash Solanki <aakash.solanki(a)mail.utoronto.ca>
*Subject: **Next Development Seminar: November 30, 2018 at SS3130 in Sidney
Smith, 12p-2p*
*Date: *17 November 2018 at 16:46:17 GMT-5
*To: *DEVSEMEVENTS-L(a)LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA
THE TAMING OF KNOWLEDGE: DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES OF HUMANITARIANISM
Dr. Ryan Burns
Assistant Professor of Geography
University of Calgary
Date: Friday, November 30, 2018
Time: 12:00PM – 2:00PM
Venue: SS3130, Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto
Bio: Ryan Burns is an Assistant Professor at University of Calgary’s
Department of Geography, and a member of the O’Brien Institute for Public
Health. His research interests are in the social, institutional, and urban
transformations of big and open data, smart cities, digital
humanitarianism, and related digital spatial phenomena. His research
program interrogates the social and institutional struggles around
knowledge production emerging in the context of these new
spatial-technological developments. At the current moment he is looking at
digital humanitarianism and open data platforms within smart cities. Burns
has published in journals such as Computational Culture, Annals of American
Geographers, Geojournal, among others.
Abstract: The proliferation of crowdsourcing, social media, and
microtasking within humanitarianism is changing the nature of humanitarian
work – but not in the ways proponents like to claim. Although the “savior
narrative” of this “digital humanitarianism” is often the story that’s
told, a growing body of research is critically evaluating the promises,
assumptions, and implications of it. This research has uncovered the layers
of politics involved in collecting and acting on (digital) expressions of
need.
In this talk I build on this critical research to show that the deepening
digital condition of humanitarianism entails a new knowledge politics that
I call taming knowledge. Digital humanitarianism produces a tension: on the
one hand, its supposed power comes from being able to capture far more
voices than before, but paradoxically, these voices, as data, are unusable
in their raw format due to their enormous volume and non-expert origins.
Instead, humanitarians leverage digital infrastructures like databases,
categorization schema, social media, artificial intelligence, machine
learning, and maps to abstract, condense, and manipulate the original
expressions of need. In other words, digital humanitarianism tames
knowledge by getting it to tell a different story than it was originally
meant to tell. The implications of this are that voices of marginalized and
crisis-affected communities only become legible through relations of
digital power established by remote, volunteer, and usually Global North
interveners. Far from being emancipatory, digital humanitarianism
reinscribes problematic relations of dominance that privilege
geographically-distant frames of knowing, and usually those based in
Euro-American epistemologies.
This year’s series is co-sponsored with the Technoscience Research Unit
RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/ooUgPIsO8pQnRXcU2
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1780991795362115/
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Sincerely,
Aakash
—
Aakash Solanki
PhD Student, Collaborative Program in Anthropology and South Asian Studies
Co-ordinator, Development Seminar
<https://utdevsem.wordpress.com/>University of Toronto
Regards,
Ishtiaque
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From: Aakash Solanki <aakash.solanki(a)mail.utoronto.ca>
Date: Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 5:00 PM
Subject: Talk of interest: Artist Morehsin Allahyri lecture, and
performance on Tactics 4 Digital Colonialisms at the Mcluhan Center on
December 3, 2018
To: <DEVSEMEVENTS-L(a)listserv.utoronto.ca>
Hi all,
Our friends at the Mcluhan Center is hosting artist Morehsin Allahyri on
December 3, 2018. It promises to be a productive conversation for the
development seminar audiences in line with the seminar theme this year on
Infrastructures and Development. I plan to go, and I hope some of you will
be able to join in.
The details of the event are below. RSVP to the event via this link:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/monday-night-seminar-refiguration-digital-tacti…
DESCRIPTION
The “Monday Night Seminar” carries on the tradition of Marshall McLuhan's
public seminars at the University of Toronto. All seminars take place
within the same intimate Coach House setting where McLuhan once held court.
In this up-close and personal environment, a range of thinkers – academics,
activists, scientists, artists, designers and planners – will explore
digital culture from a feminist perspective.
The Monday Night Seminars are designed to challenge prevailing cultural
notions about technology and provoke new insight on the possibilities for a
more equitable technological future. Join us!
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Re/Figuration: Digital Tactics 4 Digital Colonialism
Featuring a lecturue and performance, followed by discussion.
Morehshin Allahyari (b. 1985 in Tehran, Iran) is a media artist, activist,
educator, and curator who uses computer modeling, 3D scanning and digital
fabrication techniques to explore the intersection of art and activism.
Inspired by concepts of collective archiving, memory, and cultural
contradiction, Allahyari’s 3D printed sculptures and videos challenge
social and gender norms. “I want my work to respond to, resist and
criticize the current political and cultural situation that we experience
on a daily basis,” she explains. She is developing a new body of work on
digital colonialism and ‘re-figuring’ as a feminist and de- colonialist
practice, titled She Who Sees the Unknown.
Allahyari's recent accolades include a research residency at Eyebeam Art +
Technology Center (2016-17), a sculpture award from the Institute of
Digital Art (2016), and Foreign Policy Magazine named her a Leading Global
Thinker of 2016. Other outlets featuring her work include Huffington Post,
Wired, NPR, National Geographic, Rhizome, Hyperallergic and Dazed Digital.
Her work has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops at
venues throughout the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York; Centre Pompidou in Paris, France; Venice Biennale di
Archittectura; Pori Museum, Finland and Museum für Angewandte Kunst,
Germany. Allahyari received her MFA at the University of North Texas, MA at
University of Denver and her BA at the University of Tehran, Iran. She is
co-creator of the 3D Additivist Manifesto and subsequent 3D Additivist
Cookbook.
Sincerely,
Aakash
—
Aakash Solanki
PhD Student, Collaborative Program in Anthropology and South Asian Studies
Co-ordinator, Development Seminar
<https://utdevsem.wordpress.com>University of Toronto
Hello All,
Prof. Géry Casiez (University of Lille (Science and Technology)) and Prof.
Dan Vogel (University of Waterloo) will visit our lab on Tuesday, Nov 27,
2018. Casiez conducts fantastic research on input devices and interaction
techniques, transfer functions, system responsiveness, and hardware
fabrication. Vogel works on fundamental input topics such as pointing,
control-display gain, input signal filtering, hand occlusion, and gestural
input.
They are available after the meeting from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. This is an
excellent opportunity to show and discuss our work with them and get
important feedback. Send me an email if you want to demo your research.
Thanks,
Rifat
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Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat
Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/