Project Managers
Jessie Guinn: Program Manager
Jessie Guinn is the Director of the Learning Resource Network (LERNet) and Office of STEM Outreach & Diversity in Arts & Sciences at Boston University. LERNet is a collection of STEM programs at Boston University offered to local community and Greater Boston Area teachers and students. LERNet's mission is to encourage interest in STEM; promote awareness both of careers and research; and help to create diversity in these fields. Dr. Guinn has an academic background in neuroscience and he has worked as an administrator in both higher education and the corporate tech space. He has a passion for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in operations, programming, and curricula.
Kate Saenko: Program Co-Director
Kate Saenko is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Boston University, and the director of the Computer Vision and Learning Group and member of the IVC Group. She received her PhD from MIT. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at UMass Lowell, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Computer Science Institute, a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley EECS and a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. Her research interests are in the broad area of Artificial Intelligence with a focus on Adaptive Machine Learning, Learning for Vision and Language Understanding, and Deep Learning.
Bryan Plummer: Program Co-Director
Bryan Plummer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Boston University, where he also previously worked as a Postdoctoral Associate and Research Assistant Professor, and is a member of the IVC Group. He obtained his PhD in the computer vision group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bryan’s research interests fall within the umbrella of artificial intelligence with a focus visual recognition, scene understanding, interpretable machine learning, and understanding the relationship between vision and language.
Piotr Teterwak: Program Researcher
Piotr Teterwak is a PhD student in the Image and Video Computing Group at Boston University advised by Professor Kate Saenko and Professor Bryan Plummer. His research is focused on generalization for computer vision, including generalization of classification models to new domains and generalization of Large Vision-Language Models to traditional tasks like classification.