Degrees
1996 Ph.D.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1994 M.S.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1991 B.S.
University of Science and Technology of China, at Hefei, China
Appointments
2020 Director
Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence
2020 Chair Professor
Peking University and Tsinghua University, Director of Institute for Artificial Intelligence
2006 Professor
University of California at Los Angeles, Depts. of Statistics, Computer Science
2002 Associate Professor
University of California at Los Angeles, Depts. of Statistics, Computer Science
1998 Assistant Professor
Ohio State University, Depts. of Computer Science, Cognitive Science
1997 Lecturer
Stanford University, Dept. of Computer Science
1996 Post-doc
Brown University, Division of Applied Math.
Academic Honors
2020 Best Paper Award
ICML Workshop on Bridge Perception and Reasoning, with Qing Li et al.
2019 Best Paper Award
ACM TURC , with Xu Xie et al.
2017 Computational Modeling Prize③
Cognitive Science Society, with Tianmin Shu et al.
2013 Helmholtz Test-of-Time Award
14th Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision at Sydney, Australia, for a region competition paper published in 1995.
2011 Fellow
IEEE Computer Society
2008 Aggarwal Prize②
the Int'l Association of Pattern Recognition.Citation
2007 Marr Prize honorary nomination
11th Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision at Rio, Brazil, for Object Modeling with Y. Wu et al.
2003 Marr Prize
9th Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision at Nice, France, for MCMC Inference for Image Parsingwith Z. Tu et al.
2001 Young Investigator Award
Office of Navy Research.
2001 Sloan Fellow
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
2001 Career Award
National Science Foundation.
1999 Marr Prize honorary nomination①
7th Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision at Corfu, Greece, for Texture Modelingwith Y. Wu.
1995 Jury Prize
Harvard University.
1992 Harvard Fellowship
Harvard Graduate School of Art and Sciences.
1986-1991
Numerous undergraduate student awards in China
①The Marr prize used to be the highest honor in computer vision as it was the only award given in the 1980s-1990s, and early 2000s in every two years. But in recent years, the community has created a few other categories. ECCV and CVPR also introduced their Best paper prizes.
②The Aggarwal prize started from 2006, and is given by the International Association of Pattern Recognition for one person under 40 years old in every two years.
③This new award started in ICCV 2009. It is for a paper published more than 10 year ago. This was actually my first ICCV paper.
Professional Activities
Int'l Association of Pattern Recognition
committee for the J.K.Aggarwal Prize (2008--2013) , Chair (2011-13).
IEEE Computer Society
Fellow committee, Vice Chair, 2013.
General Chair
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, RI, 2012.
Editing Board
International Journal of Computer Vision (2004 -- )
Editing Board
Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision(2004 -- )
Editing Board
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2005--2009)
General Chair
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, 2019 .
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator