VINEETH N BALASUBRAMANIAN

Assistant Research Professor Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 (480) 544 5182, vineeth.nb@asu.edu, http://www.public.asu.edu/~vnallure RESEARCH INTERESTS THEORY APPLICATIONS EDUCATION Ph.D. (Computer Science) Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Masters in Technology (Computer Science) Sri Sathya Sai University, India Masters in Science (Math) Sri Sathya Sai University, India Bachelors in Science (Math) Sri Sathya Sai University, India HONORS & AWARDS ASU GPSA Travel Grant award for travel to International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2010 PhD Dissertation nominated for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award by Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University (an award presented annually to the author of the best doctoral dissertation in computer science and engineering across ACM), 2010 PhD Dissertation nominated for Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, Department of Computer Science, Arizona State University (ASU) Nominated for Teaching Excellence Award, Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA), ASU IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Volunteer/Student Travel Grant IEEE Computers in Cardiology Rosanna Deganni Young Investigator Award finalist Senior Design Project Funding award, Fulton School of Engineering, ASU IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Conference Travel Grant award; ASU GPSA Travel Grant award Winner, Entrepreneurship Advantage Program (EAP), Office of Public Affairs, ASU for research on a Head-based Communications Tool for Autistic Children ($2000) Co-author, Best Paper Award, IEEE HAVE (Haptic Audio Video Environments) Workshop, Ottawa, Canada NASA MUST (Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology) Scholars Mentor, Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields 2010 2010 CGPA: 4.17/4.00 2003 CGPA: 5.00/5.00 2001 CGPA: 4.97/5.00 1999 CGPA: 4.95/5.00 Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Human-centered Multimedia Computing Assistive, Rehabilitative and Healthcare Technologies

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 Graduate College Conference Travel Grant award, ASU Future Faculty Fellow, Selected to participate in University-wide Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program, Arizona State University Invited to membership in The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Arizona State University for academic success in the graduate program Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India, Gold Medal for Academic Excellence in Masters of Technology program Gold Medal for Academic Excellence in Bachelors of Science (Math) program NTSE (National Talent Search Examination) Scholarship, a prestigious scholarship awarded by NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training), India (top 0.25%) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Research Professor, Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), Arizona State University Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), Arizona State University Research Associate, Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC), Arizona State University Teaching Associate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University Applications Engineer, Oracle Corporation Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Sri Sathya Sai University, India PROJECTS

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ACTIVE Socio-Assistive Technologies for Children with Autism (Collaboration with Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center) Machine learning and pattern recognition techniques for person-centered assistive and rehabilitative technologies (Collaboration with California State University Long Beach) Retail Shopping Assistant to help individuals with visual impairments shop independently (Collaboration with University of Nevada Las Vegas, Utah State University and National Federation for the Blind) Conformal predictors for reliable confidence estimation in healthcare systems (Collaboration with Mayo Clinic) Wearable Social Interaction Assistant to help individuals with visual impairments experience enriched social interactions; including components on head pose estimation, multimodal person recognition, haptic user interfaces and reliable confidence estimation. Confidence estimation in multimodal biometrics (Collaboration with Tecnologico de Monterey) Perceptual training in computer-aided medical diagnosis: A computer-aided system based on eye gaze tracking to train and support radiologists (Collaboration with Mayo Clinic) PAST Confidence Estimation in Computer-Aided Medical Diagnosis: A clinical decision support system for diagnosis/prognosis of cardiac patients who have undergone a Drug Eluting Stent procedure (Collaboration with Advanced Cardiac Specialists, Arizona). Dimensionality Reduction Toolbox: A C#-based open-source dimensionality reduction toolbox

that has been made publicly available under the GNU license. 3D Visualizations of Medical Images using the Marching Cubes algorithm (Collaboration with Partnership for Research in Spatial Modeling (PRISM), ASU) Movement Analysis of Novice and Expert Surgeons in Surgical Tasks (Collaboration with Banner Good Samaritan Hospital, Arizona) Multi-Resolution Based Image Mosaicing, managed and funded by Defence Research Development Organization, India - included components on automated video mosaicing and scene change detection techniques in the MPEG compressed domain PUBLICATIONS PATENTS 2. S. Chakraborty, V Balasubramanian, S Panchanathan, Apparatus, System and Method for Adaptive Batch Mode Active Learning for Evolving a Classifier, US Patent Application No 61/491,530 (provisional, patent pending), May 2011. 1. S Krishna, T McDaniel, V Balasubramanian, D Colbry, S Panchanathan, Vibrotactile Communication for Social Interaction, US Patent Provisional M9-051P, Jan 2009-2010. REFEREED JOURNALS/BOOK CHAPTERS 9. S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, Dynamic Batch Mode Active Learning, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2011 (manuscript under preparation). 8. V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, Efficient Conformal Region Prediction for Head Pose Estimation, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2011 (manuscript under preparation). 7. V. Balasubramanian, S. Chakraborty, S. Panchanathan, Generalized Query by Transduction for Online Active Learning, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2011 (manuscript under preparation). 6. S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, Generalized Batch Mode Active Learning for Biometric Recognition, Pattern Recognition, 2011 (under review). 5. S. Marcel, C. McCool, S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, J.Nolazco, L. Garcia, R. Aceves, et al., On the Results of the First Mobile Biometry (MOBIO) Face and Speaker Verification Evaluation, Lecture Notes on Computer Science (ICPR 2010 Contest Series), 2010. 4. S. Nataraju, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, An Integrated Approach to Visual Attention Modeling for Saliency Detection in Videos, Springer book on Machine Learning for Vision-based Motion Analysis, Springer book series on Pattern Recognition, 2010. 3. V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, Biased Manifold Embedding: Supervised Isomap for PersonIndependent Head Pose Estimation, Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications, 2009, pp. 177-188. 2. S Krishna, V Balasubramanian, J Black, S Panchanathan, Person-Specific Characteristic Feature Selection for Face Recognition, Biometrics: Theory, Methods, and Applications, Wiley Publications, 2008. 1. V Balasubramanian, S Krishna, S Panchanathan, Person-Independent Head Pose Estimation using Biased Manifold Embedding, Eurasip Special Issue on Advanced Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition for Biometrics, Nov 2007. REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS/WORKSHOPS 33. S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, "Dynamic Batch Mode Active Learning via L1 Regularization", AAAI 2011 (Student Abstract and Poster Program), San Francisco, Aug 2011.

32. S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, "Dynamic Batch Mode Active Learning", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Colorado Springs, June 2011. 31. S. Panchanathan, S. Krishna, V. Balasubramanian, "Human-Centered Multimedia Computing: Inspirations through Enriching the Lives of Individuals with Sensory, Motor, Perceptual and Cognitive Disabilities", 7th International Conference on Trends in Industrial Measurements and Automation (TIMA 2011), Chennai, India, Jan 2011 (Keynote Talk). 30. S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, "An Optimization Based Framework for Dynamic Batch Mode Active Learning", 3rd International Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning at Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Whistler, Dec 2010. 29. V. Balasubramanian, S. Chakraborty, S. Krishna, S. Panchanathan, "Enhancing Social Interactions of Individuals with Visual Impairments: A Case Study for Assistive Machine Learning", Workshop on Machine Learning for Assistive Technologies at Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Whistler, Dec 2010. 28. V. Balasubramanian, S. Chakraborty, S. Panchanathan, "Multiple Kernel Learning for Efficient Conformal Predictions", Workshop on New Directions in Multiple Kernel Learning at Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Whistler, Dec 2010. 27. V. Balasubramanian, J. Ye, S. Chakraborty, S. Panchanathan, "Kernel Learning for Efficiency Maximization in the Conformal Predictions Framework", 9th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'10), Washington DC, Dec 2010. 26. S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, "Dynamic Batch Size Selection for Batch Mode Active Learning in Biometrics", 9th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'10), Washington DC, Dec 2010. 25. S. Krishna, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, "Enriching Social Situational Awareness in Remote Interactions: Insights and Inspirations from Disability Focused Research", ACM Multimedia 2010 (Brave New Ideas), Firenze, Italy, Oct 2010. 24. S. Marcel, C. McCool, S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, J. Nolazco, L. Garcia, R. Aceves, et al., "Mobile Biometry (MOBIO) Face and Speaker Verification Evaluation", 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2010), Istanbul, Turkey, Aug 2010. 23. S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, "Learning from Summaries of Videos: Applying Batch Mode Active Learning to Face-based Biometrics", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR10) Workshop on Biometrics, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2010. 22. S. Chakraborty, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, "Batch Mode Active Learning for Biometric Recognition", SPIE International Conference on Biometric Technology for Human Identification, SPIE Defense, Security & Sensing, Orlando, Florida, USA, Apr 2010. 21. M. Alzubadi, V. Balasubramanian, J. A. Black, A. Patel, S. Panchanathan, What Catches a Radiologists Eye? A Comprehensive Comparison of Feature Types for Saliency Prediction, SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, Feb 2010. 20. V. Balasubramanian, S. Chakraborty, S. Krishna, S. Panchanathan, "Human-Centered Machine Learning in a Social Interaction Assistant for Individuals with Visual Impairments", Symposium on Assistive Machine Learning for People with Disabilities at Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Dec 2009. 19. V. Balasubramanian, S. Chakraborty, S. Panchanathan, "Online Active Learning using Conformal Predictions", Workshop on Analysis and Design of Algorithms for Interactive Machine Learning at Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Dec 2009. 18. S. Nataraju, V. Balasubramanian, S. Panchanathan, "Learning Attention Based Saliency in Videos from Human Eye Movements", IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC), Snowbird, UT, Dec

2009. 17. V. Balasubramanian, S. Chakraborty, S. Panchanathan, "Generalized Query by Transduction for Online Active Learning", IEEE ICCV 2009 International Workshop on Online Learning for Computer Vision, Kyoto, Japan, Oct 2009. 16. V Balasubramanian, RK Gouripeddi, J Vermillion, A Bhaskaran, RM Siegel, S Panchanathan, "Support Vector Machine Based Conformal Predictors for Risk of Complications Following a Coronary Drug Eluting Stent Procedure." Computers in Cardiology 2009 (CinC 2009), Park City, UT, Sep 2009 (Paper selected for the Young Investigator Award final) 15. RK Gouripeddi, V. Balasubramanian, J Harris, A Bhaskaran, RM Siegel, S Panchanathan, "Ranking Predictors of Complications following a Drug Eluting Stent Procedure using Support Vector Machines." Computers in Cardiology 2009 (CinC 2009), Park City, UT, Sep 2009 14. R. Gouripeddi, V. Balasubramanian, J. Harris, A. Bhaskaran, R. Siegel, S. Panachanathan, "Predicting risk of complications following a Drug Eluting Stent Procedure: a SVM approach for imbalanced data." The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Albuquerque, NM, Aug 2009 13. V. Balasubramanian, S. Chakraborty, S. Panchanathan, "Confidence Estimation in Pattern Classification: An Analysis with Head Pose Estimation", Technical Report TR-09-12, School of Computing and Informatics, Arizona State University, Jul 2009. 12. S. Krishna, T. McDaniel, V. Balasubramanian, D. Colbry, S. Panchanathan, "Haptic Belt for Delivering Nonverbal Cues to People who are Blind/Visually Impaired", CSUN's 24th Annual International Conference - Technology and Persons with Disabilities (CSUN 2009) Los Angeles, CA, Mar 2009. 11. McDaniel, T.; Krishna, S.; Balasubramanian, V.; Colbry, D.; Panchanathan, S., "Using a haptic belt to convey non-verbal communication cues during social interactions to individuals who are blind," published at Haptic Audio visual Environments and Games, 2008. HAVE 2008. IEEE International Workshop on , pp.13-18, 18-19 Oct 2008 (Best Paper Award) 10. S Krishna, D Colbry, J Black, V N Balasubramanian, S Panchanathan, A Systematic Requirements Analysis and Development of an Assistive Device to Enhance the Social Interaction of People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired, ECCV Workshop on Computer Vision Applications for the Visually Impaired (CVAVI'08), Marseille, France, Oct 2008. 9. S Panchanathan, N C Krishnan, S Krishna, T McDaniel, V N Balasubramanian, Enriched Human-Centered Multimedia Computing through Inspirations from Disabilities and Deficit-Centered Computing Solutions. 3rd International Workshop on Human-Centered Computing, ACM Multimedia, Vancouver, Oct 2008. 8. V Balasubramanian, S Chakraborty, S Panchanathan, Multiple Cue Integration in Transductive Confidence Machines for Head Pose Classification, IEEE International Workshop on Online Learning for Classification (in conjunction with CVPR08), Alaska, Jun 2008. 7. S Krishna, S Panchanathan, T Hedgpeth, C Juillard, V Balasubramanian, N C Krishnan, A Wearable Wireless RFID System for Accessible Shopping Environments, 3rd Intl Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets08), Tempe, AZ, Mar 2008. 6. S Krishna, V Balasubramanian, N C Krishnan, T Hedgpeth, The iCARE Ambient Interactive Shopping Environment, California State University, Northridge, Center on Disabilities' 23rd Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN 2008), Los Angeles, CA, Mar 2008. 5. Panchanathan, S.; Krishna, S.; Black, J.A.; Balasubramanian, V., Human Centered Multimedia Computing: A New Paradigm for the Design of Assistive and Rehabilitative Environments, International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Networking, 2008. ICSCN '08, 4-6 Jan 2008. 4. V N Balasubramanian, J Ye, S Panchanathan, Biased Manifold Embedding: A framework for PersonIndependent Head Pose Estimation, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR07), Minneapolis, USA, Jun 2007. 3. V N Balasubramanian, S Panchanathan, Biased Manifold Embedding for Person-Independent Head Pose Estimation, 2nd Intl Conference on Comp Vision Theory and Applications, Barcelona, Mar 2007.

2. K Kahol, N C Krishnan, V N Balasubramanian, S Panchanathan, M Smith, J Ferrara, Measuring movement expertise in surgical tasks, 14th Annual ACM Conference on Multimedia, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Oct 2006. 1. Vineeth NB, Krishnamoorthy B, G.V.Prabhakar Rao, Mosaicing of MPEG compressed video: a unified approach, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science and Engineering, Denver, CO, Aug 2004. OTHER D Merrill, S Krishna, V Balasubramanian, S Panchanathan, The iCARE Social Interaction Assistant, Fulton Undergraduate Research Internship (FURI) Symposium, Arizona State University, 2007. V N Balasubramanian, Towards Task-based Gestemes: Surgical Gesture Recognition using Maximum Mutual Information Neural Networks, Research in Engineering & Applied Sciences (REAS) Symposium, Arizona State University, 2006. PRESENTATIONS/TALKS/SHORT COURSES/TUTORIALS Tutorial on Conformal Predictions for Reliable Machine Learning: Theory and Applications, AAAI 2011, San Francisco, Aug 2011 (Co-organizers: Shen-Shyang Ho, Sethuraman Panchanthan, Vladimir Vovk) Tutorial on Conformal Predictions for Reliable Machine Learning: Theory and Applications, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), San Jose, CA, USA, Jul 2011 (Coorganizers: Shen-Shyang Ho, Sethuraman Panchanthan, Vladimir Vovk) Kernel Learning for Efficiency Maximization in the Conformal Predictions Framework, CUbiC Seminar Series, ASU, May 2010 Generalized Query by Transduction for Online Active Learning, IEEE ICCV 2009 International Workshop on Online Learning for Computer Vision, Kyoto, Japan, Oct 2009 Support Vector Machine Based Conformal Predictors for Risk of Complications Following a Coronary Drug Eluting Stent Procedure, Computers in Cardiology 2009 (CinC 2009), Park City, UT, Sep 2009 (Young Investigator Award finalist) Conformal Predictions for Multimedia Pattern Recognition, CUbiC Seminar Series, ASU, Sep 2008 Active Learning for Images and Videos, Machine Learning seminar series, ASU, Fall 2008 A Wearable Wireless RFID System for Accessible Shopping Environments, 3rd Intl Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets08), Tempe, AZ, Mar 2008 Manifold Learning, Machine Learning seminar series, Arizona State University, Summer 2007 Biased Manifold Embedding for Person-Independent Head Pose Estimation, 2nd Intl Conference on Comp Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP07), Barcelona, Mar 2007. Towards Task-based Gestemes: Surgical Gesture Recognition using Maximum Mutual Information Neural Networks, Research in Engineering & Applied Sciences (REAS) Symposium, ASU, 2006. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM), 2012 Co-organizer, Special Session on Machine Learning for Human Behavior Understanding and Assisted Living, 10th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2011 Local Arrangements Co-chair, ACM Multimedia, 2011 Editorial Board, ICTACT Journal of Image and Video Processing, 2011 present. Program Committee, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), 2011 Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2011 Demos Co-chair, IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Video Environments and Games, 2010

 Reviewing Activities: IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Pattern Recognition, Entropy, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JCVIR), Springer book on Machine Learning for Vision-based Motion Analysis, IEEE WACV 2011 Assisted in reviewing for IEEE Multimedia, IET Journal, Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering, I2MTC 2010, ICIP 2007-present, ICME 2007-09, ICPR 2008, ICVGIP 2008, WACV 2008. Professional Membership: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), ACM SIGACCESS (Special Interest Group on Accessibility), IEEE Computer Society. MENTORING ACTIVITIES Current Shayok Chakraborty (PhD, Computer Science), Fall 2007 present Hiranmayi Ranganathan (PhD, Electrical Engineering) Fall 2009 - present Hemanth Kumar (PhD, Computer Science), Fall 2010 present Jeff Conner (MS, Computer Science), Spring 2011 present Arash Tadayon (BS Honors, Computer Science), Spring 2011 present Colin Ho (BS Honors, Computer Science), Spring 2011 present Meera Kumar (High School Senior), Summer 2011 present Akila Sivakumar (High School Sophomore), Summer 2011 - present Past Ramkiran Gouripeddi (MS, Biomedical Informatics), Fall 2007 Fall 2009. Thesis nominated for the Western Association of Graduate Schools and University Microfilms Internationals Distinguished Masters Thesis Award, 2010. Sunaad Nataraju (MS, Computer Science), Summer 2008 - Spring 2010. NASA MUST Scholars Mentor for David Hayden, undergraduate student, 2008-09 ASU Fulton Undergraduate Research Internship (FURI) program mentor for Daniel Merrill, senior undergraduate student, 2007-08. Undergraduate Capstone Project Research Advisor, Computer Science and Engineering, ASU (Led teams of 5-6 undergraduate students in 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10) GRANTS/FUNDING ACTIVITIES NSF Cyber-Physical Systems, Individualized Socio-Assistive Technologies through Implicit Interactive Cyber-Physical Systems, $1,005,003 (2011) o Role: Co-PI and lead author of proposal o PI: Sethuraman Panchanathan (ASU) o Status: Under review NIJ Sensor, Surveillance, and Biometric Technologies for Criminal Justice Applications, Testing the Effectiveness of Facial Recognition Technology in Threat Detection: A Field Experiment at Two Large Public Venues in Glendale, Arizona, $630k (2011) o Role: Technology Advisor/Co-PI o PI: Michael White (ASU) o Status: Under review NSF IIS Small, Assistive Social Situational Awareness Aids for Individuals with Disabilities, $499,286 (2010) o Role: Postdoc/Senior personnel and lead author of proposal o PI: Sethuraman Panchanathan (ASU) o Status: Funded NSF IGERT, Person-centered Technologies and Practices for Individuals with Disabilities, $2,990,159

(2010) o Role: Participating research faculty and co-author of proposal o PI: Sethuraman Panchanathan (ASU) and Forouzan Golshani (California State University Long Beach) o Status: Preliminary proposal selected for final phase, final proposal under review NSF Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation, e-REACH (enriching REsearch Advancements through Collaborative TecHnologies), $1,500,000 (2009) o Role: Graduate student and co-author of proposal o PI: Sethuraman Panchanathan (ASU) o Status: Preliminary proposal selected for final phase, final proposal rejected ASU Entrepreneurship Advantage Program, Head-based Communications Tool for Autistic Children, $2,000 (2008) o Role: PI and lead author of proposal o PI: Vineeth Balasubramanian o Status: Funded NSF IIS Human-Centered Computing Exploratory, iCARE Ambient Interactive Shopping Environment, $157,000 (2007) o Role: Graduate student and co-author of proposal o PI: Terri Hedgpeth (ASU) o Status: Funded