Dr. Shayok Chakraborty

Dr. Shayok Chakraborty is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Prior to joining FSU in 2017, Dr. Chakraborty held a research faculty position at Arizona State University, where he was an associate director of the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 2013. He has worked as a Post-doctoral researcher at Intel Labs, Oregon and in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include machine learning, computer vision and assistive technology.

Dr. Chakraborty has published his research in the top-tier conferences and journals in this field, including the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, the IEEE CVPR, ACM SIGKDD and the ACM Multimedia conference. His paper on person-centered multimedia computing won the 2017 IEEE Multimedia Best Department Article Award. His research on artificial intelligence was featured in the Tallahassee Democrat in 2018 and in the ASU News in 2013 and 2017. Dr. Chakraborty has presented tutorials based on his research on active learning at IEEE ICME 2013 and IEEE WACV 2019. He also regularly serves in the program committee and as a reviewer of several reputed conferences and journals such as AAAI, IJCAI, IEEE CVPR, IEEE ICCV, ACM SIGKDD, ECCV, IEEE TPAMI and IEEE TNNLS among others.