Professional Experience
- Senior Director, MEGVII Research, Seattle, 4/2017 ~ current.
- Principal Scientist, Adobe Research, Seattle, 11/2013 ~ 3/2017.
- Senior Researcher, Adobe Research, Seattle, 2/2010 ~ 10/2013.
- Researcher, Adobe Research, Seattle, 11/2007 ~ 1/2010.
- Research Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle, 10/2003 ~ 10/2007
- – Research Assistant for Dr. Michael Cohen (Microsoft Research), Eve Riskin (UW-EE) and Richard Ladner (UW-CSE).
- Research Intern at Microsoft Research, Redmond, Summer 2004, 2005, 2006
- – in the Communication, Collaboration, and Signal Processing group and the Interactive Visual Media group.
- Research Intern at Microsoft Research Asia, 07/2002 ~ 09/2003
- Worked with Dr. Harry Shum and Dr. Yingqing Xu at the Visual Computing group.
- Research Assistant at State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technique and Systems, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 09/2000 ~ 12/2002
Education
- Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 2007.
– Thesis: Foreground Segmentation in Images and Video: Methods, Systems and Applications. - M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. January 2003. (with honor)
- B.E. in Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. July 2000. (with honor)
Research Interests
Computational photography, Image and video processing, advanced computer vision and graphics techniques for better visual experience and user interface.