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Academic
Dr.
Badour A. AlBahar
Assistant Professor
Office Location:
S02E1183
Education
| Degree | Discipline | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Computer Engineering | Virginia Tech | 2023 |
| M.Sc. | Computer Engineering | Virginia Tech | 2018 |
| B.Sc. | Computer Engineering | Kuwait University | 2014 |
Selected Publications
- Single-Image 3D Human Digitization with Shape-Guided Diffusion. Badour AlBahar, Shunsuke Saito, Hung-Yu Tseng, Changil Kim, Johannes Kopf, Jia-Bin Huang. SIGGRAPH Asia, 2023.
- Pose with Style: Detail-Preserving Pose-Guided Image Synthesis with Conditional StyleGAN. Badour AlBahar, Jingwan Lu, Jimei Yang, Zhixin
- Shu, Eli Shechtman, Jia-Bin Huang. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2021.
- Temporally Consistent Semantic Video Editing. Yiran Xu, Badour AlBahar, Jia-Bin Huang. Proceedings of the IEEE European Conference on Computer Vision, 2022.
- Guided Image-to-Image Translation with Bi-Directional Feature Transformation. Badour AlBahar, Jia-Bin Huang. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2019.
Work Experience
Academic Experience
| Institution | Designation | Year/Period | FT/PT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kuwait University | Assistant Professor | 2023 - present | FT |
Industry Experience
| Institution | Designation | Year/Period | FT/PT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta | Research Intern | 2022 | FT |
| Adobe Research | Research Intern | 2021 | FT |
| Kuwait National Petroleum Company | Computer Engineer | 2015-2016 | FT |
| Kuwait University, Computer Engineering Department | Research Assistant | 2014-2015 | PT |
Community Service
Service Activities
- Reviewer, IEEE European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2024.
- Reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2021, 2023.
- Reviewer, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2023.
- Reviewer, ACM SIGGRAPH. 2022, 2023.
- Reviewer, ACM SIGGRAPHAsia. 2023.
Other
Honors and Awards
- Full scholarship to pursue M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Kuwait University Scholarship Program. August 2016.
- Valedictorian of the Graduates of Excellence Class of 2013/2014. Graduates of Excellence Ceremony Class of 2013/2014 under the patronage and presence of the Amir of Kuwait. March 2015.
- Top 10 students graduating from College of Engineering and Petroleum for the academic year of 2013/2014. March 2015.
- Dean’s Honor list and Outstanding Students list. 2012-2014.
- Top Outstanding Student Award. 2012.
- Award of Excellence and Creativity from the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. June 2013.
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