Lisa Fan

I'm a first year PhD student at Northeastern University working with Professor Lu Wang on Natural Language Processing. Last year, I graduated from Tufts University with a BS/MS in Computer Science.

Currently, I'm working on summarization generation.

Publications

Do We Need Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Agents? First Results of Human Perceptions of Emotional Intelligence in Humans Compared to Robots
Lisa Fan, Matthias Scheutz, Monika Lohani, Marissa McCoy, and Charlene Stokes.
Proceedings of the seventeenth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2017.
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Best Paper Award Nomination

Projects

Sketch GAN

Final project for Deep Learning for Computer Vision (spring 2017). We built a generative adversarial network that produces photorealistic images from hand drawn sketches. [pdf] [slides]

About Me

I grew up in New Jersey, but I have also lived in Japan for a few years. In my spare time I enjoy watching films and playing the theremin. I also like to scuba dive and travel (32 countries and counting).

Here's my CV.