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3 unusual facts about Irfan Essa


Computational journalism

The field emerged at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006 where a course in the subject was taught by professor Irfan Essa.

Irfan Essa

Irfan Essa is a professor and the Director of Off-Campus Initiatives in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).

Most recently, Essa has worked as a Researcher / Consultant with Google to develop a video stabilization algorithm alongside two of his doctoral students, Matthias Grundmann and Vivek Kwatra, which now runs on YouTube, and allows users to stabilize their uploaded videos in real-time.



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