Hossein Mobahi Postdoctoral Research Associate Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Location: The Stata Center, Office 32-D460 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA 02139. Contact: x@csail.mit.edu , where x is equal to hmobahi

I joined Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT in January 2013. I work as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the computer vision group, with Profs. Bill Freeman and John Fisher. I graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a PhD in Computer Science in December 2012. I was supervised by Prof. Yi Ma during my PhD and my dissertation was titled Optimization by Gaussian Smoothing with Application to Geometric Alignment.

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Research Philosophy: I believe Computer Vision should change to a "hard science". Below are some resources clarifying why this matters (I have highlighted some parts). Warning Signs of Bogus Progress in Research in an Age of Rich Computation and Information by Yi Ma, 2007. Is Computer Vision Possible? by Dmitry Chetverikov, 1995.