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Academic

Dr.

Badour A. Al-Bahar

Assistant Professor

Office Location:
S02E1183

Education

Degree Discipline Institution Year
Ph.D. Computer Engineering Virginia Tech 2023
M.Sc. Computer Engineering Virginia Tech 2018
B.Sc. Computer Engineering Kuwait University 2014

 

Selected Publications

  • Single-Image 3D Human Digitization with Shape-Guided Diffusion. Badour AlBahar, Shunsuke Saito, Hung-Yu Tseng, Changil Kim, Johannes Kopf, Jia-Bin Huang. SIGGRAPH Asia, 2023. 
  • Pose with Style: Detail-Preserving Pose-Guided Image Synthesis with Conditional StyleGAN. Badour AlBahar, Jingwan Lu, Jimei Yang, Zhixin
  • Shu, Eli Shechtman, Jia-Bin Huang. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2021.
  • Temporally Consistent Semantic Video Editing. Yiran Xu, Badour AlBahar, Jia-Bin Huang. Proceedings of the IEEE European Conference on Computer Vision, 2022.
  • Guided Image-to-Image Translation with Bi-Directional Feature Transformation. Badour AlBahar, Jia-Bin Huang. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2019.

 

Work Experience

Academic Experience
Institution  Designation  Year/Period  FT/PT 
Kuwait University Assistant Professor 2023 - present FT
Industry Experience

 

Institution  Designation  Year/Period  FT/PT 
Meta Research Intern  2022 FT
Adobe Research  Research Intern  2021 FT
Kuwait National Petroleum Company  Computer Engineer 2015-2016 FT
Kuwait University, Computer Engineering Department  Research Assistant  2014-2015 PT

 

Community Service

Service Activities

  • Reviewer, IEEE European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2024.
  • Reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2021, 2023.
  • Reviewer, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2023.
  • Reviewer, ACM SIGGRAPH. 2022, 2023.
  • Reviewer, ACM SIGGRAPHAsia. 2023. 
     
Other

Honors and Awards

  • Full scholarship to pursue M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Kuwait University Scholarship Program. August 2016. 
  • Valedictorian of the Graduates of Excellence Class of 2013/2014. Graduates of Excellence Ceremony Class of 2013/2014 under the patronage and presence of the Amir of Kuwait. March 2015. 
  • Top 10 students graduating from College of Engineering and Petroleum for the academic year of 2013/2014. March 2015. 
  • Dean’s Honor list and Outstanding Students list. 2012-2014. 
  • Top Outstanding Student Award. 2012.
  • Award of Excellence and Creativity from the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. June 2013.