Donghwa Kang

I am currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I am affiliated with the Perception and Robotics Group (PRG). My research interests lie in multimodal learning and event-based sensing. I am particularly interested in how information from different modalities and sensors can be effectively combined to understand real-world environments.

Before joining UMD, I received my M.S. and B.S. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Hongik University, where I worked in the Image Understanding Lab under the supervision of Prof. Dongwoo Kang.

During my master’s studies, my research focused on multimodal visual sensing, particularly RGB and event-camera data. I worked on cross-modal fusion for facial keypoint alignment and event-based approaches to remote eye tracking. My earlier research also included robust pupil detection under large head rotations and human pose estimation for Korean Sign Language translation.

For a comprehensive overview of my work, please see my list of publications.

My current research interests include:

• Multimodal Learning
• Cross-modal Learning
• Event-based Sensing

Feel free to reach me at dhkang@umd.edu