I am a PhD candidate at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, working under the supervision of Dr. James Elder. My PhD research focuses on video understanding for sports. I am a professional software developer with over 15 years of experience. I received my MSc and BSc in Computer Science from York University in 2003 and 2001.

News

• Apr 2024 - Passed qualifying exam
• Apr 2024 - Paper M. Koshkina, J.H. Elder “A General Framework for Jersey Number Recognition in Sports Video” accepted to CVPR Computer Vision in Sports Workshop.
• Dec 2021 - Completed Applied AI internship at Vector Institute. Presented my work: MLOps for Healthcare
• Sep 2021 - Joined Vector Institute as an Applied AI Intern.
• Jun 2021 - “Contrastive Learning for Sports Video: Unsupervised Player Classification” is a runner-up for Sportlogiq Best Paper Award.
• May 2021 - Presented invited talk “Towards Sports Video Understanding: Player Detection, Classification and Tracking” at Ontario Tech University.
• Apr 2021 - Paper M. Koshkina, H. Pidaparthy, J.H. Elder “Contrastive Learning for Sports Video: Unsupervised Player Classification” accepted to CVPR Computer Vision in Sports Workshop.
• Jan 2021 - Started as Machine Learning Team Lead (part-time) at RPS Canada Inc. (Formerly Geminare).