Before joining George Mason University, she was a researcher in University of California, Irvine, where she received her M.Sc. and PhD in Computer Science (2008 ~ 2012). Her research is mainly focused on construction of flexible ontological event-models for image understanding. Her research interests are multimedia data mining, image search and retrieval, event recognition and classification, data correlation, and methods for ontology engineering. More information about her work can be found at: http://mason.gmu.edu/~srafatir Log in /Administration