Vision:

"I want to understand how the brain works, not just from a philosophy perspective, not just in a general way, but in a detailed nuts and bolts mathematical and engineering ways. My desire is not only to understand what intelligence is and how the brain works, but how to build machines that work in the same way. I want to build truly intelligent machines." inspired by J. Hawkins.

Interests:

  • Representation Learning: If there exsits the unified theory in machine learning, computer vision, and pattern recognition, I believe in that it MUST be representation learning. Under the framework of representation learning,
    • trying to explore and understand the mechanism and way of encoding sensory data employing by our brain;
    • developing unsupervised and weakly supervised deep learning methods with high interpretability in result and structure;
    • designing new methods for subspace learning, clustering, dimension reduction, and manifold learning.
    • revisiting transfer learning, metric learning, etc;
  • Differentiable Programming: The basic idea is to treat neural network as a language to describe the physical variables and their relationships.

Awards and Honors:

  • 2023: Cheung Kong Professor appointed by the Ministry of Education of China;
  • 2022: China Society of Image and Graphics, the first prize;
  • 2022: Natural Science of Sichuan Providence, the second prize;
  • 2021: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2021), Best Paper Award;
  • 2020: Fok Ying-Tong Young Teachers Prize (2nd Class);
  • 2019: IJCAI-BOOM Best Paper Awards;
  • 2019: 1000 Youth Talents Program, China;
  • 2018: Double Hundred Distinguished Scholars of Sichuan University;
  • 2018: 1000 Talents of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Province, China;
  • 2017: Outstanding Young Scholars, College of Computer Science, Sichuan University;
  • 2015: Highlight in A*STAR Research;
  • 2010: IEEE CHENGDU Section Excellent Student Paper;

Professional Activity:

  • Chair of:
    • VALSE Executive Area Chair Committee (EACC);
  • Deputy Secretary-General of:
    • Youth Committee, China Society of Image and Graphics;
  • Member of:
    • CCF YOCSEF Academic Committee member, Chengdu;
    • VALSE Leading Area Chair Committee (LACC);
    • VALSE Online Director Board (VODB);
    • VALSE Online Organization Committee (VOOC).
  • Program Chair for:
    • VALSE 2020, Hangzhou, China, March 2020.
    • Young Scientist Forum of China Society of Image and Graphics, Urumchi, China, July 24-26, 2019.
  • Organizer Chair for:
    • Half-day workshop on ``Application of Vision and Language’’, VALSE 2019, April 12, 2019;
    • Half-day regular tutorial on ``Deep learning meets model optimization and statistical inference’’, ECCV 2016, Oct. 8, 2016;
    • VCIP’17 Special Session on Regularization Techniques for High-Dimensional Visual Data Processing and Analysis;
  • Associate Editor/Guest Editor:
    • Remote Sensing (IF: 4.509), 2020/09-Present; 
    • the Visual Computer journal (IF: 1.415), 2019/08-Present;
    • IEEE Trans on SMC: Systems (IF: 9.308), 2019/07-Present;
    • IEEE Access (IF: 3.745), 2018/05-Present;
    • IET Image Processing (IF: 2.004), Special Issue on Adversarial Learning in Image Processing;
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IF: 8.793), Special Issue on Discriminative Learning for Model Optimization and Statistical Inference;
    • Image and Vision Computing (IF: 1.995), Special Issue on Regularization Techniques for High-Dimensional Data Analysis.
    • Springer Nature Computer Science, Special Issue on Recent Developments in Unsupervised Deep Learning; 
  • Area Chair/Senior Program Committee Member:
  • Plenary talk:
  • Session Chair:
    • 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'18), Stockholm, Sweden, July 13-19, 2018;
    • 31th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'17), San Francisco, California, Feb. 4--9, 2017.
    • VCIP'17 Special Session on Regularization Techniques for High-Dimensional Visual Data Processing and Analysis;
  • Registration Chair:
    • 9th Vision and Learning Seminar, Hefei, Anhui, Apr. 12--14, 2019 (VALSE'19);
    • 8th Vision and Learning Seminar, Dalian, China, Apr. 20--22, 2018 (VALSE'18);
  • Volunteer Chair:
    • ACM Turing Celebration Conference - China (ACM TURC), Chengdu, China, May 17--19, 2019;
  • Selected Technical Program Committee Member:
    • 6th-8th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2018-2020;
    • 31th-33th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2017-2019;
    • 35th-36th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2018-2019;
    • IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020), Seattle, WA, from June 16 to June 20, 2020;
    • 30th-34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2016-2020;
    • 25th-28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2016-2019;
    • 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM'19), Nice, France on Oct. 21-25, 2019;
    • 34th Uncertainty in AI Conference (UAC 2019), Tel Aviv, Israel on July 22-25, 2019;
    • 19th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'19), Shanghai, China on July 8-12, 2019;
    • 28th-29th International IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI 2016-2017;
    • 50th-52th International Symposium of Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2017-2019;
    • 27th - 32th International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2014-2019;
    • 19th - 20th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 201 7 - 2018.
  • Selected Journal Reviewer:
    • IEEE Trans. Cybernetics (TCYB);
    • IEEE Trans. Image Processing (TIP);
    • IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS);
    • IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE);
    • IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security (TIFS);
    • IEEE Trans. Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS);
    • IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS);
    • IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI);
    • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (TSYT);
    • Knowledge-Based Systems;
    • Artificial Intelligence;
    • Information Science;
    • Pattern Recognition;

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