Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Professor Sekeh is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Maine (UMaine). She joined UMaine in 2019 from Michigan, where she was a postdoctoral researcher working with Alfred O. Hero. She held CAPES-PNPD Post-Doctoral Fellow appointment with the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, in 2014 and 2015. She was a Visiting Scholar with the Polytechnic University of Turin, Turin, Italy, from 2011 to 2013. She was a recipient of CAREER award and CISCO research gift both in 2022. 

Prof. Sekeh is the Director of the Sekeh Laboratory and her research interests include machine learning, large scale data science, and computer vision. Her primary focus is in design, improvement, and analysis of deep learning techniques with emphasis on efficiency and robustness. Further, she works on analysis of continual learning methods, adversarial learning, domain adaptation, graph summarization and practical applications of machine learning in real-world problems including hyperspectral imaging and forestry-ocean science.