Hossein Souri

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. I'm pleased to be advised by Dr. Rama Chellappa. I'm a Graduate Reseach Assistant at Artificial Intelligence for Engineering and Medicine Lab (AIEM).

Before joining JHU, I obtained my M.S. and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park and University of Tehran respectively. During my Masters studies I was a reseach assistant at University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies(UMIACS).

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I'm a machine learning and computer vision researcher working on various topics including adversarial attacks and defenses, GANs, face recognition, image restoration, segmentation, and activity detection.

GANs often suffer from the mode collapse issue where the generator fails to capture all existing modes of the input distribution. To tackle this issue, we take an information-theoretic approach and maximize a variational lower bound on the entropy of the generated samples to increase their diversity. We call this approach GANs with Variational Entropy Regularizers (GAN+VER).

A novel approach called `Adversarial Gender De-biasing (AGD)' to reduce the strength of gender information in face recognition features.

In this work we propose a generative single frame restoration algorithm which disentangles the blur and deformation due to turbulence and reconstructs a restored image.

• Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University, Aug 2020 - Present

• Research Assistant, University of Maryland, 2018 - 2020

• Research Assistant, University of Tehran, 2016 - 2018

• Internship, Computer Networks Lab, University of Tehran, Summer 2016

• Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019

• Teaching Assistant, University of Tehran, 2015 - 2018

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