General Chair – Shaun Canavan
Shaun Canavan received his PhD in Computer Science from Binghamton University. He is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of South Florida. His research focuses broadly on Affective Computing and Human-Computer Interaction. He has over 60 publications in top conferences and journals such as CVPR, ICPR, ICMI, ACII, FG, Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. He was the program chair for Face and Gesture 2024, and the publications chair for Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2023. He is the current general chair for FG 2025, and tutorial chair for ACII 2024. He is an associate editor for Pattern Recognition and Pattern Recognition Letters. His work is and has been supported by the DOD, NSF, and Amazon. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the AAAC.