CV
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General Information
| Full Name | Esam Ghaleb |
| Contact | e.ghaleb@uva.nl |
| Languages | Arabic (native), English (fluent), Turkish (fluent); Dutch (A2/B1) |
Research Areas
- Broadly, my research is focused on Human-centered AI, specifically on affective computing, eXplainable AI (XAI), and understanding human behaviors & communication. I utilize various behavioral & communication cues such as facial expressions, voice prosody, bodily movements, speech, and gestures to develop transparent and explainable methodologies that improve people's lives through insights into human behaviors from domain knowledge.
Education
- 2016 - 2021
Maastricht University – Ph.D., Affective Computing and Machine Learning
- Doctoral Thesis: Bimodal Emotion Recognition Through Audio-Visual Cues
- 2013 - 2015
Isanbul Technical University – M.Sc., Computer Engineering
- Master Thesis: Face Track Retrieval and Recognition Across Age
- 2009 - 2013
Istanbul Technical University - B.Sc., Computer Engineering
Current Work Experience: Academic Positions
- 09/22–present
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Amsterdam
- Advisors: Dr. Raquel Fernández Rovira
- Research Area: Face-to-face dialogue modelling
Previous Work Experience: Academic Positions
- 09/21–08/22
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Robots, Agents and Interaction (RAI) Group at Maastricht University
- Advisors: Dr. Stylianos Asteriadis, and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weiss
- Research Area: Machine Learning, Explainable AI (XAI), and Human Behavioral Analysis.
- The research is conducted within the EU H2020 project: PeRsOnalized Integrated CARE Solution for Elderly facing several short or long term conditions & enabling a better quality of LIFE (ProCare4Life)
- 03/16–01/20
Doctoral Researcher at Maastricht University
- Advisors: Dr. Mirela Popa, Dr. Enrique Hortal, Dr. Stylianos Asteriadis, and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weiss
- Research Area: Affective Computing, Explainable AI, and Human Behavior Recognition
- The research is carried out within the EU H2020 project: Managing Affective-learning THrough Intelligent atoms and Smart InteractionS (MaTHiSiS)
- 06/14–08/14
Research Intern in Computer Vision for Human-Computer Interaction (CVHCI) Lab at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Advisor: Prof. Dr. Makarand Tapaswi
- Research Area: Computer Vision
- I visited the CVHCI again in the summer 2015, as a visiting researcher, and worked on the EU H2020 project: Collaborative Annotation of multi-MOdal, multI-Lingual and multi-mEdia documents (CAMOMILE)
- 07/13–02/16
Research Assistant in the Smart Interaction and Machine Intelligence Technologies (SiMiT) Lab at Istanbul Technical University (ITU)
- Advisor: Prof. Dr. Hazim Kemal Ekenel
- Research Area: Computer Vision, Human-computer Interaction, Mobile Gaming.
- Research within the European CHIST-ERA project : Collaborative Annotation of multi-MOdal, multI-Lingual and multi-mEdia documents (CAMOMILE)
Honors & Achievements
- 2021
Second runner up paper award
- Our paper titled: Contrastive self-supervised learning for sensor- based human activity recognition was awarded the second runner up paper award at the 2021 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2021). The paper was co-authored by Bulat Khaertdinov, Esam Ghaleb, and Stylianos Asteriadis.
- 2013 - 2016
ITU Scholarship as project assistant within the scope of the (CAMOMILE) project
- 2007 - 2013
Awarded scholarships from the Ministries of Higher Education in Yemen and Turkey, in the scope of supporting talented Yemeni students
- 2006
Among the top 1000 students in the 2006 General Secondary School Exams in Yemen Republic