Pooyan Fazli

Prof @ASU | Director of the People and Robots Lab

[Yogesh Kulkarni @__yogesh007]

EgoVITA is accepted at ECCV 2026! 🎉🇸🇪
MLLMs give plausible-but-ungrounded answers on egocentric video. We fix it by — planning in first person, verify from a third-person view.
#ECCV2026 @eccvconf

w/ @PooyanFazli @gameschoolasu @SCAI_ASU @ASUEngineering

[UBC Computer Science @UBC_CS]

UBC Computer Science Professors Emeriti Alan Mackworth and David Poole were awarded the AAAI/EAAI Patrick Henry Winston Outstanding Educator Award for developing free online resources to learn foundations of AI. Congratulations! Read more: https://t.co/cRh5gtsoQu

[Yogesh Kulkarni @__yogesh007]

Happy to share AVATAR is accepted at CVPR 2026! On-policy RL wastes video rollouts, stalls when rewards collapse, and spreads credit uniformly across tokens. We fix all three — replay what's hard, reward what's critical.
@CVPR #CVPR2026
w/ @PooyanFazli @gameschoolasu @SCAI_ASU

[The GAME School at ASU @gameschoolasu]

Asst. Prof. @PooyanFazli was featured this week on @kjzzphoenix's “The Show” where he discussed AR + AI tech that guides users through medical procedures in real time, sans internet. 👓🩺

https://t.co/s0F40KZWtK

[Pooyan Fazli @PooyanFazli]

Thank you @NEIDirector for the shoutout! “Describe Now” was led by our star @SCAI_ASU PhD student Maryam Cheema. Grateful for the support from @NatEyeInstitute on this project. @ASUEngineering @gameschoolasu @ASU @NIH #NIHfunded

[Michael F. Chiang, MD @NEIDirector]

“Describe Now” is an audio description system to support blind and low vision individuals. The #NIHfunded work highlights how user-centered approaches can expand accessibility in real-world settings.
@PooyanFazli @ASU @TheOfficialACM
@ACMDL paper: https://t.co/HI8rFRWuMj

[ASU School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence @SCAI_ASU]

How do you treat an injury on Mars or miles from a hospital? A @NASA-backed #SCAI team is building #AI for AR glasses that guide users through medical procedures, from space missions to rural Arizona.
https://t.co/snKSVrjCGd

[Pooyan Fazli @PooyanFazli]

VideoPASTA in #EMNLP2025! 🎉

[Yogesh Kulkarni @__yogesh007]

Happy to share VideoPASTA🍝 accepted at EMNLP 2025 Main Conference!
We fix 3 critical failure modes in Video-LLMs: spatial misalignment, temporal incoherence & cross-frame disconnection.
@emnlpmeeting #EMNLP2025

w/ @PooyanFazli @gameschoolasu @SCAI_ASU

[ASU School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence @SCAI_ASU]

When you're far from Earth, every second counts—especially in a medical emergency. 🧑‍🚀

Congrats to @hasti_seifi & @PooyanFazli on their new @NASA grant to develop an AR-based #AI system that helps astronauts perform medical tasks in space! 🛰️👏

[Yogesh Kulkarni @__yogesh007]

VideoSAVi just got accepted to #COLM2025 @COLM_conf in Montreal! 🇨🇦🍁🦙!
How do we scale video-language alignment without expensive proprietary APIs or human-annotated instruction datasets?
We introduce self-alignment as a proxy for large-scale instruction tuning ✨

[Pooyan Fazli @PooyanFazli]

Thanks to @Google for supporting this project.

[ASU School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence @SCAI_ASU]

A team of researchers at @ASU has received a 3-year grant from @Google to develop an inclusive #AI community. @PooyanFazli in @ASU_ArtsMedia and @hasti_seifi and Adil Ahmad in #SCAI will develop programs for underserved students.

https://t.co/Ka7riLCA4c

[NBC Sports @NBCSports]

#ForksUp, Leon Marchand.

FOUR gold medals for the man who swims at Arizona State.

#ParisOlympics | @TheSunDevils | @ASUSwimDive

[Rosalind Picard @RosalindPicard]

Innovation measured by patents last year
https://t.co/sodGFhoO3A

[William Nguyen @nguyennm1024]

A paper that my colleagues and I recently completed, OSCaR: Object State Captioning and State Change Representation, has been accepted at NAACL 2024 Findings. (1/7)

Paper: https://t.co/GJ4AujphYK
Code: The code and data will be released soon

[Hasti Seifi @hasti_seifi]

I am looking to recruit several PhD students in human-robot interaction, accessibility, haptics, and virtual reality for fall 2024. If you are interested, please complete this form: https://t.co/wQccCwlOSn @SCAI_ASU @ASUEngineering @ASU

[The GAME School at ASU @gameschoolasu]

From @ASUResearch and @asu_gsi:

Assistant Professor Pooyan Fazli of the School of Arts, Media and Engineering: 'We are stronger under CHART’s umbrella'

https://t.co/fFSttjXaJn

#Robotics #STEM #HumanComputerInteraction

[Pooyan Fazli @PooyanFazli]

Our school has an opening for a tenure-track assistant professor position in #AI (Computer vision, Natural language processing, Robotics, Human-centered AI, AI for social good).

Happy to chat if you have any questions.

@ASU_ArtsMedia @AsuEnergy

https://t.co/95D16nXMyv

[Pooyan Fazli @PooyanFazli]

Thanks @abc15 for featuring our work on leveraging AI for social good and ensuring video accessibility for the blind and low vision community. #a11y @ASUResearch

[The GAME School at ASU @gameschoolasu]

.@abc15 recently met with Assistant Professor @PooyanFazli to discuss the recent $3.2M NIH grant that his team of researchers secured. Learn more about the grant, the team and the project in this article.

https://t.co/wZqvd5E9yZ

#AIForSocialGood #ComputerVision #Accessibility

[Pooyan Fazli @PooyanFazli]

If you are passionate about research in computer vision, human-AI interaction, or accessibility, we have several openings for Ph.D. positions in our lab.

[Pooyan Fazli @PooyanFazli]

I am grateful to @NIH/@NatEyeInstitute for supporting this project and excited to collaborate with colleagues from five different institutions. @ASUResearch @ASU

[The GAME School at ASU @gameschoolasu]

Assistant Professors Pooyan Fazli (AME) and Hasti Seifi (@SCAI_ASU) have received $3.2M from NIH (@NatEyeInstitute) to make online videos accessible for blind and low vision individuals!

Learn more at: https://t.co/ZaBiNXOoQs

@asumixcenter

#AI #MachineLearning #ComputerVision

[Alan Mackworth @AlanMackworth]

Wow! An enthusiastic endorsement, by Dr. Causality @yudapearl, of our just released new book "Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents (3E)" https://t.co/LgBAaPVcHm by David Poole @davpoole and @AlanMackworth. Free open access. Check it out. #AI