
I am a first-year PhD student at Berkeley AI Research, advised by Alexei Efros. I'm interested in teaching machines to solve visual problems without labels and causing a creative understanding of the real world to emerge. I am also interested in language, machine learning, synthesis, and interaction as they relate to this.
Previously, I worked with Chen Sun, Jiajun Wu, and Cordelia Schmid at Google Research. Before that, I graduated from Columbia University with a BS in computer science, where I was lucky to be introduced to computer vision and advised by Carl Vondrick.
RESEARCH
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Learning Temporal Dynamics from Cycles in Narrated Video NEW!Dave Epstein, Jiajun Wu, Cordelia Schmid, Chen Sun
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Globetrotter: Unsupervised Multilingual Translation from Visual Alignment NEW!Dídac Surís, Dave Epstein, Carl Vondrick
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Oops! Predicting Unintentional Action in VideoDave Epstein, Boyuan Chen, Carl Vondrick
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CVPR 2020 -
Learning to Learn Words from Visual ScenesDídac Surís*, Dave Epstein*, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang, Carl Vondrick
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ECCV 2020
TEACHING
At Columbia
Advanced Computer
Vision
Teaching AssistantCOMS 6998 (Spring 2019)
Teaching AssistantCOMS 6998 (Spring 2019)
Data Structures and Algorithms
Head Teaching AssistantCOMS 3134 (Fall 2017- Summer 2019)
Head Teaching AssistantCOMS 3134 (Fall 2017- Summer 2019)