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Akila de Silva

Assistant Professor
Email: desilva@sfsu.edu
Location: Thornton Hall 968

Biography

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer vision, Visualization, Applied AI

Khan, F. H., Lovell, E.,de Silva, A. Dusek, G., Davis, J., Pang, A. "WIP: Citizen Science Tools with Machine Learning as a Pathway to Engage High School Students in Research". Accepted at Frontiers in Education. 

Dusek, D.,Hernandez, D., Long, J., Porter, D., Pang, A., Cothran, J.,Schandera, L., Showalter, L., Rhoades, J, Sager, C., Palmsten, M, de Silva, A., Khan, F. and Jass, T., “Expanding partnerships, products and use-cases for an operational coastal web camera observation network” In: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024. AGU.

de Silva, A., Zhao, M.◦, Stewart D.◦, Khan, F. H., Dusek, G., Davis, J., Pang, A. “RipViz: Finding Rip Currents by Learning Pathline Behavior.” In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2023. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2023.3243834

Luo, J., Khan, F. H.,Mori, I., de Silva, A., Ruezga, E. S., Pang, A., Davis, J. “How Much Does Input Data Type Impact Final FaceModel Accuracy?.” In: IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.01841

Mori, I., de Silva, A., Dusek, G., Davis, J., Pang, A. “Flow-based Rip Current Detection and Visualization.” In: IEEE Access 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3140340

Khan, F. H., de Silva, A., Dusek, G., Davis, J., Pang, A. “A Citizen Science Platform for Creating ML-poweredMobile Apps to Collect Visual Data.” In: Conference on Computer Supported CooperativeWork and Social Computing (CSCW) 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481743

De Silva, A.,Mori, I., Dusek, G., Davis, J., Pang, A. “Automated rip current detection with region based convolutional neural networks.” In: Coastal Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2021.103859

Luo, J., Khan, F. H.,Mori, I., de Silva, A., Ruezga, E.S., Davis, J. “FaceModels: How Good DoesMy Data Need To Be?.” In: IEEE ICIP 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP42928.2021.9506668

Khan, F. H.∗, de Silva, A.∗, Yetukuri, J.∗, Norouzi, N.∗ “Sequential Image Synthesis for Human Activity Video Generation.” In: International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (pp. 129-133). ∗ equal contribution. https://doi.org/10.1007/978−3−030−27272−2_11

Dusek, G., Churma, M., Im, J. S., Pang, A., de Silva, A.,Mori, I. “From Lifeguards to AI:Advancing Rip Current Forecasting Through New DetectionMethods.” In: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020. AGU. 

de Silva, A., Tee, N. Ganekar, O., Khan, F. H., Dusek, G., Davis, J., Pang, A.  VortexViz: Finding Vortices by Learning from particle trajectories. 
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.01352
 

Michael Richman Award, with Professor Leigh Jin and Professor Weimin Zhang, for 2024-25.