Welcome! I’m happy you found your way here
I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, advised by Dr. Kevin Bowyer at the Computer Vision Research Lab (CVRL). My doctoral research explores multiple dimensions of face recognition technology, including mitigating bias, optimizing neural networks for efficiency on edge devices, ensuring biometric system security, and improving reliability of face identification search. I am also working on improving face foundation models for strong text-vision alignment for granular facial attributes. My work has been published in venues including CVPR, WACV, FG, IJCB, T-BIOM, and TTS.
I was fortunate to intern at Comcast with the Media Analytics Framework Team under Dr. Mahmudul Hasan in Summer 2024, where I built multimodal models for contextual emotion prediction in video content, leveraging multi-branch transformer architectures, cross-attention mechanisms, and multimodal text encodings.
I am actively seeking opportunities as a Research Scientist/Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision Engineer, Applied Scientist, or Data Scientist starting July 2025 or later. My long-term goal is to develop expertise in multimodal AI systems, balancing fundamental research to advance state-of-the-art techniques with the practical skills required to deploy scalable, efficient, and production-grade models that solve real-world problems. Please reach out to me if you see a fit!
News
- 2025/06: 🎉 Passed AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate Exam. See my badge!
- 2025/02: 📚 3 papers accepted at IEEE FG’25.
- 2025/01: 📚 1 paper accepted at IEEE TBIOM’25.
- 2024/12: 🎓 Defended my Oral Candidacy. Officially a PhD Candidate Now!
- 2024/06: 📚 1 paper accepted at IEEE IJCB’24.
- 2024/06: 📚 1 paper accepted at IEEE TTS’24.
- 2024/06: 🎉 Started my Internship at Comcast.
- 2024/03: 📚 1 Paper accepted at CVPRW’24.
- 2024/01: 📚 2 Papers accepted at WACV’24.
- 2023/03: 📚 1 Papers accepted at CVPR’23.
- 2023/01: 📚 1 paper accepted to DVPBA@WACV’23.
- 2021/08: 🎓 Started my PhD in CSE Dept. at University of Notre Dame
- 2021/05: 🎓 Graduate from University of Mississippi with B.S (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering
- 2020/01: 🎉 Continuing my Co-op (part-time) for Spring’20 Semester at ThyssenKrupp AG
- 2019/01: 🎉 Started my full-time Engineering Co-op at ThyssenKrupp AG for a year
Selected Publications

Aman Bhatta, Michael C. King, Kevin W. Bowyer
IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2025. (Oral 🏆)
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Aman Bhatta, Domingo Mery, Haiyu Wu, Joyce Annan, Michael C. King, Kevin W. Bowyer
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM), 2025.
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Aman Bhatta, Haiyu Wu, Kagan Ozturk, Kevin W. Bowyer
IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2024.
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Aman Bhatta, Domingo Mery, Haiyu Wu, Joyce Annan, Michael C. King, Kevin W. Bowyer
IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (TCV@CVPR), 2024.
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Haiyu Wu, Grace Bezold, Aman Bhatta, Kevin W. Bowyer
IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023.
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Services
Year | Reviewed Conferences & Journals |
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2025 | WACV 2025 · CVPR 2025 · ICCV 2025 · FG 2025 |
2024 | WACV 2024 · CVPR 2024 · ECCV 2024 |
2023 | WACV 2023 · IEEE T-IP 2023 · IJCB 2023 |
2022 | WACV 2022 · ICPR 2022 |