Dr. Shaun Canavan received his PhD in Computer Science from Binghamton University. He is an Assistant 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, BTAS, IJCB, EMBC, FG, Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE JBHI, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. He was the demo chair for Face and Gesture 2019, and for Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2021. He has organized multiple workshops on topics related to applied affect recognition, medical applications of affective computing, and ubiquitous emotion recognition. He is currently program chair of Face and Gesture Recognition, 2023 and publications chair of Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction, 2023. He is also general chair for FG 2025. His work is and has been supported by the DIA, IARPA, Army, NSF, and Amazon. He is a senior member of the IEEE.