Kate Saenko
About
Kate Saenko is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Boston University, and the director of the Computer Vision and Learning Group and member of the IVC Group. She received her PhD from MIT. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at UMass Lowell, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Computer Science Institute, a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley EECS and a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. Her research interests are in the broad area of Artificial Intelligence with a focus on Adaptive Machine Learning, Learning for Vision and Language Understanding, and Deep Learning.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
A segment-based audio-visual speech recognizer: Data collection, development, and initial experiments
Year: 2004
Citations: 170
Venue: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Multimodal interfaces
Latest Recorded Paper
Breaking the Assistant Mold: Modeling Behavioral Variation in LLM Based Procedural Character Generation
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03396
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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