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EDUCATION

• University of California, San Diego, Jan. 2020 - Present
  • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Advisor: Prof. Truong Nguyen
  • Research: Face Synthesis, Facial Attribute Editing, Gaze Estimation, Feature Matching, Sequence Alignment
• University of California, San Diego, Sept. 2018 - Dec. 2019
  • M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Advisor: Prof. Truong Nguyen
  • Research: Falling Risk Assessment, Human Pose Estimation
• Zhejiang University, Sept. 2014 - June. 2018
  • B.S. in Optical Science and Engineering
  • Advisor: Prof. Haifeng Li
  • Research: 3D Display Human-Computer Gesture Interaction

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Graduate Student Researcher, March. 2019 - Present
  • University of California, San Diego, CA
• Machine Learning Internship, June. 2022 - Sept. 2022
  • Qualcomm Technologies, San Diego, CA
  • Precise aimed facial attributes editing without compromising overall identity or other facial attributes
• Applied Machine Learning Engineer (Internship), Feb. 2021 - Dec. 2021
  • Sony Electronics, San Diego, CA
  • Human lip motion and audio alignment on enhancing the quality of datasets used for lip-reading tasks
  • Human lip motion synthesis conditioned on the audio

Publications

[1] S. Jin, Z. Wang, L. Wang, N. Bi and T. Nguyen, “ReDirTrans: Latent-to-Latent Translation for Gaze and Head Redirection,” 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2023, pp. 5547-5556, doi: 10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.00537.

[2] S. Jin, J. Dai and T. Nguyen, “Kappa Angle Regression with Ocular Counter-Rolling Awareness for Gaze Estimation,” 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2023, pp. 2659-2668, doi: 10.1109/CVPRW59228.2023.00266. (Best Poster Award)

[3] S. Jin, M. Vo, C. Du, H. Garudadri, A. Py, D. J. Moore, K. M. Erlandson, R. C. Moore, and T. Nguyen, “Unsupervised Sequence Alignment between Video and Human Center of Pressure,” 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Mexico, 2021, pp. 1980-1984, doi: 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630896.

[4] J. Dai, S. Jin, J. Zhang and T. Q. Nguyen, “Boosting Feature Matching Accuracy With Pairwise Affine Estimation,” in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 29, pp. 8278-8291, 2020, doi: 10.1109/TIP.2020.3013384.

[5] C. Du, S. Graham, S. Jin, C. Depp and T. Nguyen, “Multi-Task Center-Of-Pressure Metrics Estimation from Skeleton Using Graph Convolutional Network,” ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 2020, pp. 2313-2317, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9053764.