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, 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 Prize, 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 Prize**, 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 Parsing with 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 nomination*, 7th Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision at Corfu, Greece, for Texture Modeling with 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
*The 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.
** The 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.
***This 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, MURI program on Scene Understanding 2010-2015.
Principal Investigator, MURI program on Visual Commonsense Reasoning, 2016-2021
