Kalin is an ARC DECRA Fellow at Monash University. Prior to his current role, he was a Research Associate and Postdoctoral Research Scholar at University of Southern California.

He received the MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence from University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and the PhD degree in Computer Science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). During his PhD studies he was a Visiting Research Scholar at University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies (Los Angeles, USA) and at National Institute of Informatics's Computer Vision and Discrete Geometry Group (Tokyo, Japan).

Kalin works on Affective Computing - a subfield of Artificial Intelligence focusing on the study and development of systems that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects. In particular, Kalin is interested in perception and production of human communicative behaviour in face-to-face interactions for the development of autonomous social systems capable to perceive and act in unstructured social environments considering the affective and motivational states of the people interacting with them.