Mona Jalal is a third-year computer science Ph.D. fellow in computer vision advised by Professor Margrit Betke and a member of the Image and Video Computing group at Boston University and a recipient of Hariri Institute for Computing Graduate Student Fellowship. She did a machine learning engineering internship at Twitter in summer 2019 on detecting “hateful conduct” in tweets using both tweet text as well as user’s sparse graph feature and user’s interactions. She was a research intern at NVIDIA in summer 2018 where she created a large-scale synthetic 6DoF object pose estimation dataset using Unreal Engine 4. Prior to joining BU, Mona was a full-time R&D Engineer 1 at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was contributing to an open-source augmented reality kit for detecting hand gestures (OpenARK). She completed her master’s in computer science in 2016 and electrical engineering in 2014 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her first two years of CS Ph.D. at BU, Mona has contributed to various computer vision, and vision and language, and crowdsourcing research projects.