Columbia
University
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Sep 2007 ~ ,
Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering
Institute
of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
National Laboratory
of Pattern Recognition
Sep 2001 ~ Jul 2004, Beijing, China
M.S. Pattern Recognition and Intelligence System
Zhejiang
University
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Sep 1997 ~ Jun 2001,
B.S. Computer Science and Engineering
Major GPA: 3.84, Overall GPA: 3.67
Research
Interests
Machine learning, data mining, information
retrieval, computer vision, and pattern recognition with
special interests in distance metric learning, sparse learning, semi-supervised
learning, active learning,
large-scale
learning, data dimension reduction, graph mining, time series modelling, learning to rank,
hashing, image/video retrieval, web image search, image/video super-resolution,
image/video annotation,
and face recognition.
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Research Assistant of Digital Video and Multimedia Lab, Sep. 2007 – Present.
Projects:
large-scale machine learning for image classification and search.
IBM T. J.
Watson Research Center, Hauthorne, NY, USA
Research Intern of Multimedia Research Group, May 2011 – Sep. 2011.
Projects: image tag denoising and scalable supervised
learning.
Kodak Research Laboratories, Rochester, NY, USA
Research Intern of Intelligent Systems Department, May 2010 – Aug. 2010.
Projects: web image
tagging and re-ranking.
Facebook Fellowship ($37,500+tuition, one of five winners worldwide) 2011–2012
Travel Grant Award from UCLA IPAM workshop on Large Scale Multimedia
Search 2012
NSF Financial Travel Assistance Award ($1,200) from the 1st Sino-USA
Summer School in Vision, Learning, and Pattern Recognition 2009
Columbia University Scholarship 2007–2011
Meritorious Winner (14%) in the 17th Annual Mathematical Contest in
Modeling (MCM) 2001
Meritorious Winner (15%) in the 16th Annual Mathematical Contest in
Modeling (MCM) 2000
First Prize (3.69%) in the 9th China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest
in Modeling 2000
IDG’s China Computerworld Scholarship (one of 65 awardees in Mainland
China) 2000
Program Committee Member: ACML 2012, CVPR 2008/2007, ICCV 2011/2007, ECCV 2008, and ACCV 2007.
Conference Reviewer: NIPS
2012, CVPR 2012/2011/2010/2009/2004, ECCV 2012/2010, and ACM Multimedia
2011/2010/2009.
Journal Reviewer: Journal
of Machine Learning Research, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence,
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge
and Data Engineering,
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia,
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Machine Vision and
Applications,
Pattern Recognition, Information Retrieval, Journal of Visual
Communication and Image Representation,
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Neurocomputing,
Signal Processing, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Sensors.
Languages: C/C++/C#, Java, SQL,
Pascal.
Applications: Visual Studio .Net, Matlab, Mathematica, LaTeX, and
presentation software.
Operation Systems: Windows 2000/XP/