Ashish Kapoor

	Researcher Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group Microsoft Research, Redmond
	Research Interests: Learning and Vision, Signal Processing, User Modeling and Affective Computing
	I am a researcher with the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. My research interests revolve around Machine Learning and Computer Vision with applications in User Modelling, Affective Computing and Computer-Human interaction scenarios. I did my graduate work with Professor Rosalind Picard at the MIT Media Lab and my Doctoral thesis looked at building Discriminative Models for Pattern Recognition with incomplete information (semi-supervised learning, imputation, noisy data etc.). Most of the earlier work focused on building new machine learning models for affect recognition. A significant part of that work involved automatic analysis of non-verbal behavior and physiological responses. My Master's thesis focused on building real-time systems that could analyze the head gestures and facial movements automatically without any manual intervention. The earliest part of my research career tackled the problem of photorealistic facial animations to produce audio-visual speech. I hold a Bachelors in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Masters and Doctorate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.