My name is Mona Jalal and I am proudly a first-generation college student (both my parents were deprived of their rights to go to a university, sadly).
Currently, I am a Computer Vision Research Engineer III at Toyota Material Handling HQ in Columbus, Indiana. I lead
the efforts on 3D computer vision tasks such as 6D object pose estimation and synthetic data generation. I am interested in domain randomization,
generative AI, Sim2Real, large vision and language models, zero-shot and few-shot learning (and overall learning with limited data).
During my Computer Science graduate studies in Computer Vision at Boston
University I was advised by Professor Margrit Betke and Professor Vijaya Kolachalama and I focused on efficient deep-learning based computer vision methods for cancer detection from H&E stained digital pathology whole-slide images, image and Text Analysis of Public Communications, 2D/3D human and animal object pose estimation and tracking,
and 3D human/object interaction reconstruction from single 2D images.
Prior to joining BU, I was an R&D Engineer 1 at University of California, Berkeley, FHL VIVE Center for Enhanced Reality, formerly known as Center for Augmented Cognition, working on an open-source framework for gesture recognition named OpenARK where I provided support for Intel RealSense SR300 camera for OpenARK augmented reality framework as well as creating a benchmark for OpenARK using CVAR hand pose dataset.
I graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with double major Master's in computer sciences (May 2016)
and electrical engineering (August 2014). I have done projects in computer vision, data analysis, database management systems, big data systems and frameworks, Internet of Things,
computer architecture, and dependable and fault-tolerant embedded systems.
My computer science master project topic at UW-MAdison was creating and controlling a smart home using Internet of Things and open-source technologies.
In my free time I like to learn about new software and hardware technologies and frameworks, ride my bike,
and take 20k+ step walks. I did my first 100 KM bike ride on July 18, 2020, and I am looking forward to my first 100 miles bike ride sometimes in 2024.
I am both a professional IEEE and ACM member.
You can find a shorter version of my CV by clicking on short RESUME and you can access a more detailed version at long RESUME.
Please check my Google Scholar for a list of my research publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tTXTO0oAAAAJ&hl=en, 203 citations, h-index of 7, and i10-index of 7 as of April 04, 2024.
I hold the titles of computer scientist, electrical engineer, computer architect, and computer/hardware engineer as per my extensive and stellar training.