I am a fifth-year PhD Candidate at Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida under the supervision of Prof. Anand Rangarajan and Prof. Sanjay Ranka at the Modern Artificial intelligence and Learning Technologies Lab (UF MALT Lab).

I received B.E. degree from Department of Software Engineering, Sichuan University in June, 2015. From 2014-2016, I worked as a Research Assistant at the Multimedia Lab, Department of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong (MMLab, CUHK) and Multimedia Research Center, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (MMLab, SIAT) under the supervision of Dr. Weilin Huang and Prof. Chen Change Loy, supported by Prof. Yu Qiao and Prof. Xiaoou Tang. I was a Research Intern at Megvii (Face++) Research USA, working with Dr. Jue Wang. I worked closely with Dr. Xiaolin Li.

I am expected to graduate in Fall 2022. I am interested in applying for academic or industrial research jobs.


Research Interests

Fields: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, High Performance Computing, Transportation
Topics: 2D & 3D Scene Understanding, Dynamics Modeling, Efficient Parallel Training
Links: Resume | Google Scholar | GitHub | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | ResearchGate | Semantic Scholar


Professional Service

Guest Editor:Rising Stars in Image Processing 2022, Frontiers in Signal Processing
Journal Reviewer:TIP'20, TNNLS'18,'20, KIS'18, IJDAR'20, TITS'20
Conference Reviewer:CVPR'18-'22, ICCV'19,'21, ECCV'20,'22, ICLR'22, NeurIPS'20-'21, ICML'21,'22, AAAI'20-'22
BMVC'19-'21, WACV'20-'22, ACCV'18,'20, ICPR'18, TRR'20, ICAIF'20, ICMLDS'17-'19
Program Committee:CVPR'18, IJCAI'21-'24, AAAI'20-'21, ICAIF'20, ICMLDS'17-19
Organizer:UF ML Club


Experience

Research Intern:Megvii Research US. May. 2017 - Aug. 2017
Research Assistant:MaltLab, University of Florida. Aug. 2017 - Present
NSF Center for Big Learning, University of Florida. Aug. 2016 - Jul. 2017
MMLab, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Oct. 2015 - Jul. 2016
Multimedia Lab, SIAT, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Sept. 2014 - Jul. 2016
Summer Intern:National University of Singapore, Jul. 2014 - Sept. 2014
Project Developer:Facebook Open Academy, Sept. 2013 - May. 2014


Teaching & Mentoring

Teaching Assistant: EEL 6935, Big Data Ecosystems, UFL 2017
Instructor:Student Science Training Program (SSTP), UFL 2018
Mentoring:Christopher Moffitt (NASA) 2017
Caleb Bryant (Facebook) 2018
Aotian Wu (Ph.D. student at UFL) 2019
Ke Chen (Ph.D. student at UFL) 2022
Xiao Li (Ph.D. student at UFL) 2022

Selected Awards

Doctoral Consortium @ CVPR, 2022
Doctoral Consortium @ ICCV, 2021. Mentor: Prof. James Hays
UFL Award:UF International Center Outstanding Achievement Awards, 2021
Gartner Group Graduate Fellowship, 2022
Gartner Group Graduate Fellowship, 2021
Gartner Group Graduate Fellowship, 2020
SIAT-CAS Award:Dean’s Award for Innovation and Creativity, 2016
SCU Award:Outstanding Graduate Award, 2015
Best Bachelor Thesis Award, 2015 (only 2 recipients in SE department)


Patents

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING TEXT IN AN IMAGE [pdf]

International Patent WO2016/197381Al with Xiaoou Tang, Yu Qiao, Chen Change Loy and Weilin Huang

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SCENE TEXT [pdf]

US Patent US10679085 with Xiaolin Li

TEXT DETECTION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SCENE IMAGE [pdf]

Chinese Patent: 201610878795.5. with Yu Qiao, Tong He, Weilin Huang and Zhi Tian