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<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/dklpp">https://github.com/dklpp</a></p>


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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 01:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chang is a Master's student in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, co-supervised by Prof. Sirisha Rambhatla and Prof. Alex Wong. Chang's research focus is on unsupervised domain adaptation in Computer Vision, with application to manufacturing and medical imaging.]]></description>
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<p>Chang is a Master&#8217;s student in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, co-supervised by Prof. <a href="https://sirisharambhatla.com/">Sirisha Rambhatla</a> and Prof. <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/systems-design-engineering/profile/a28wong">Alex Wong</a>. Chang&#8217;s research focus is on unsupervised domain adaptation in Computer Vision, with application to manufacturing and medical imaging.</p>



<p>Email: chang [dot] liu [at] uwaterloo [dot] ca</p>



<p>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hellochang/">www.linkedin.com/in/hellochang</a></p>



<p>Website: <a href="https://www.hellochang.com/">www.hellochang.com</a></p>



<p>X/Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/hellochangg">twitter.com/hellochangg</a></p>


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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Kimathi is pursuing his MASc as part of the Vision and Image Processing Lab, under the Systems Design Engineering department. His research focuses on how to adapt vision-based machine learning models to generalized new data distributions in scarce data settings.</p>



<p>Email: kkaai@uwaterloo.ca</p>



<p>Personal Website: <a href="https://kimathikaai.com/">kimathikaai.com</a></p>


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		<title>Bavesh Balaji</title>
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<p>Bavesh Balaji is a MASc student in the Systems Design Engineering department, working under the supervision of Prof. David Clausi and Prof. Sirisha Rambhatla.  He is a member of the Sports analytics Research Group in the VIP lab. His research focuses on developing robust pose estimation networks and leveraging them to recognise key actions/events in Ice Hockey. Furthermore, he also works on unique player identification and player evaluation. He ultimately aims at developing an automated solution for reliable assessment of player and team strategies.</p>



<p><strong>Email</strong>: <a href="mailto:bbalaji@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">bbalaji@uwaterloo.ca</a></p>



<p><strong>Personal Website</strong>: <a href="https://bavesh-b.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bavesh-b.github.io/</a> </p>


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