Shalini De Mello is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research since March 2013. Her research interests are in computer vision and machine learning for human-computer interaction and smart interfaces. Her work includes NVIDIA’s shipping products for hand gesture recognition, face detection, video stabilization and GPU-optimized libraries for the development for computer vision applications on mobile platforms. She received doctoral and master’s degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and 2004, respectively.