My name is Md. Iftekhar Tanveer. I am a Ph.D. student of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Rochester. My research interest is in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction. I use deep learning and statistical machine learning tools to develop algorithms capable to sense, model and predict human behaviors from multimodal data. These algorithms can help humans to improve their social communication skills. I implemented automated systems capable to analyze and predict public speaking performances, job interview performances, and non-verbal behaviors like facial expressions, body language, and mannerism. I work with Dr. M. Ehsan Hoque in ROCHCI to push the boundaries of science and to touch the lives of people.
I am currently in the job market, looking for either an academic or industrial research position. Here are my research and teaching statements.
Highlighted Projects
Highlighted Publications
Awe the Audience: How the Narrative Trajectories Affect Audience Perception in Public Speaking, CHI’18, Montreal, Canada, 2018
AutoManner: An Automated Interface for Making Public Speakers Aware of Their Mannerisms, IUI’16, Sonoma, CA, USA, 2016
Unsupervised Extraction of Human-Interpretable Nonverbal Behavioral Cues in a Public Speaking Scenario, ACMMM’15, Brisbane, Australia, 2015
Automated Prediction of Job Interview Performance: The Role of What You Say and How You Say It“, FG’15, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2015.
News and Presentations
| April 25, 2018 | I presented our TED Talk work in CHI 2018 | Slides |
| April 21, 2018 | The team I led, “The Soothsayers” got Bronze medal in UPStat Data Analytics Competition for predicting crime in Rochester. Congrats to all the members of the team! | |
| April 8, 2018 | We submitted a paper in ACM Multimedia | |
| Feb 16, 2018 | I presented Chapter 5 from the Deep Learning book in Lab | Slides |
| Jan 2018 | Our paper got accepted in CHI 2018 | |
| Oct 6th, 2017 | My thesis proposal got accepted | |
| Sep 26, 2017 | Invited to Brain and Cognitive Science for presenting my work in NSF Research Traineeship Program (NRT) | Slides |
| Aug 10, 2017 | I presented a pyTorch Tutorial in our lab | Slides |
| May 15, 2017 | I am going to work as an intern at the Comcast AI Research Lab this summer | |
| July 24th, 2016 | I was invited for a presentation at RIT for One-Day REU Symposium | Slides |
| Sep 1st, 2016 | AutoManner code is released | |
| Sep 1st, 2016 | AutoManner code is released | |
| Jan 15th, 2016 | IUI travel grant award approved | |
| Dec 7th, 2015 | Our paper got accepted in IUI 2016 | |
| 15th Sep, 2015 | I got the ACMMM travel grant award 2015 | |
| 4th July, 2015 | Our short paper in ACM Multimedia got accepted | |
| 26th June, 2015 | One item in my bucket list is checked — I met Prof. Gilbert Strang!! | |
| 16th April, 2015 | Our IUI paper (Rhema) is being featured in UoR news and other news: NY Magazine, wxxinews, Engadget, Gizmag, Eurekalert, Entrepreneur, InnovationTrail. |
