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**1/01/23: Jim is now Founder Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is the new director of the Health Care Engineering Systems Center at UIUC.**

4/05/22: Congrats to my Ph.D. students Fiona Ryan and Max Xu for both winning NSF Graduate Fellowships!

8/29/20: Keynote talk at 8th Intl. Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR) @ ECCV 2020

8/05/20: Two papers accepted at BMVC 2020

Two papers accepted for publication at the 31st British Machine Vision Conference ( BMVC 2020): (oral) M. Liu, X. Chen, Y. Zhang, Y. Li, & J. M. Rehg. Attention Distillation for Learning Video Representations ( Project Page) (poster) M.

7/20/20: NIH Funded $5.9M mDOT Center to Advance Mobile Health Research

The NIH announced that it is funding a new biomedical technology research center (BTRC), called the mHealth Center for Discovery, Optimization & Translation of Temporally-Precise Interventions ( mDOT). The $5.9M center is among the first two BTRCs to be funded in mobile health.

7/02/20: One paper accepted at ECCV 2020 for oral presentation

2/26/20: Two papers accepted to CVPR 2020

Two papers accepted for publication at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ( CVPR 20): (poster) E. Chong, Y. Wang, N. Ruiz, and J. M. Rehg. Detecting Attended Visual Targets in Video ( Project Page) (poster) R.

2/23/20: Jim attended the Workshop on the Use of Wearable and Implantable Devices in Health Research @ BIRS (Banff, Canada)

Exciting talks on future of mHealth and wearables research. Great to see my fellow MD2K members Dr. Susan Murphy and Dr. Zhenke Wu in attendance.

9/04/19: One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2019

One paper accepted for publication at the 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems ( NeurIPS 19): W. Liu, Z. Liu, J. M. Rehg, and L. Song. Neural Similarity Learning.

8/29/19: One paper accepted at 3DV 2019

One paper accepted for publication at the International Conference on 3D Vision ( 3DV 2019): B. M. Smith, V. Chari, A. Agrawal, J. M. Rehg, and R. Sever. Towards Accurate 3D Human Body Reconstruction from Silhouettes.

8/05/19: NSF Funded $1M award for AI technology to improve employment in autism

Georgia Tech is partnering with Vanderbilt University and Cornell in developing training and assessment tools to support neurodiverse individuals in obtaining employment. Projects include VR-based interview training, assessment of job skills, and assessment of nonverbal communication skills in interview settings.

2/26/19: Four papers accepted at CVPR 2019

Four papers accepted for publication at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ( CVPR 2019): (oral, best paper finalist) S. Stojanov, S. Mishra, N. A. Thai, N.

07/15/18: NSF funded $1.75M award to develop open source mHealth platform to accelerate research progress