Diego Fabiano Santalices, computer science graduate student studying under the advisement
of Assistant Professor Shaun Canavan, received an honorable mention in the Computing
Research Association Undergraduate Research Award for 2019. Those nominated for this
award were admirable students who contributed in many ways to their research projects.
Fabiano Santalices’ research focuses on affective computing using multimodal data
that includes gaze, 2D and 3D face, audio, and physiological data. He is interested
in developing methods that can be used to improve people’s lives and help them in
any way possible. He has developed novel methods for analyzing these data types for
a variety of tasks. His research has broader impacts for real-world applications in
fields as diverse as medical, defense, and entertainment, such as early diagnosis
of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), pain and stress analysis, and video games.
Fabiano Santalices is part of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Group. More
information about the group and their research can be found here.