SATHYANARAYANAN AAKUR, NOW AT OKLAHOMA STATE
CSE ALUMNI RANSFORD HYMAN RECEIVES
UNIVERSITY, WON THE PRESTIGIOUS NSF CAREER
2021 ADOBE FOUNDERS AWARD
AWARD FOR HIS RESEARCH.
January 21, 2022
April 29, 2022 Aakur, a 2019 PhD graduate of USF CSE and an advisee of Prof. Sudeep Sarkar, won the Faculty Early Career Development Award, a distinguished honor given to junior faculty who balances the role of teacher and scholar through research, education and integration of the two within the mission of their university. The award, “CAREER: Towards Casual Multi-Modal Understanding with Event Partonomy and Active Perception,” is distributed over five years, totaling $514,186. Aakur will use the funds to support his research on building visual understanding agents,
CSE Alumni (‘ 11) Ransford Hyman, Ph.D., is the recipient of the 2021 Adobe Founders Award. Adobe’s founder, Geschke, created the annual award to recognize talent and contribution to Adobe’s workplace. He is a Sensei On-Device ML Engineering Manager at Adobe. He completed his doctoral program at USF in 2011, focusing on the reliability and optimization of microprocessors under the late Distinguished University Professor
which are more complex, interactive and useful in real-
Nagarajan Ranganathan.
world environments than the current passive recognition of
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events from multimodal data.
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