Postdoctoral Research Experience:

  • University of Central Florida, FL
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Research area: Deep learning for biometric applications
  • Funding agencies: RBC, DARPA, NSF
  • Duration: 1 year, 10 months
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Research area: Deep learning for medical image processing
  • Funding agency: NIH
  • Duration: 1 year, 2 months

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Electronics and Communication Engineering
  • Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences
  • Research area: Machine learning for biometric applications
  • Duration: 4 years, 8 months

Selected 3 Publications:

  1. Jha, S., Raj, S., Fernandes, S., Jha, S.K., Jha, S., Jalaian, B., Verma, G. and Swami, A., 2019. Attribution-based confidence metric for deep neural networks. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (pp. 11826-11837).
  2. Fernandes, S., Raj, S., Ewetz, R., Singh Pannu, J., Kumar Jha, S., Ortiz, E., Vintila, I. and Salter, M., 2020. Detecting Deepfake Videos Using Attribution-Based Confidence Metric. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (pp. 308-309).
  3. Pannu, J.S., Raj, S., Fernandes, S.L., Chakraborty, D., Rafiq, S., Cady, N. and Jha, S.K., 2020. Design and Fabrication of Flow-Based Edge Detection Memristor Crossbar Circuits. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs67(5), pp.961-965.

Email: steven.fernandes@ieee.org