I'm a Professor for Multimodal Learning at the Tuebingen AI Center and affiliated professor at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. Before, I was a Professor of Computer Vision and Multimodal Learning at the University of Bonn. I did my PhD at the cv:hci lab at KIT (supervised by Rainer Stiefelhagen). I was a postdoc at the Fraunhofer FKIE and the Computer Vision Group of Prof. Juergen Gall.
My research focused on everything around video understanding, mainly learning without labels and multimodal video understanding. I created several highly cited datasets and works on analyzing large collections of untrimmed video data, including HMDB51, which was awarded the ICCV 2021 Helmholtz Prize and the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize.
I am currently serving as an Vice-chair for TCPAMI. I was a General Chair for ICCV 2025, Program Chair for WACV 2024, and continuously serve as an area chair for various conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and WACV. I'm committed to bringing more diversity to the field and an active supporter of the Women in Computer Vision Initiative.