RaymondFu

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COE Distinguished Professor

Associate Department Chair for Research, ECE

 

Department of ECE, College of Engineering

Khoury College of Computer Science (Affiliated)

Northeastern University

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Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)

Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Fellow of US National Academy of Inventors (NAI)

Fellow of AAAS, ACM, AAAI, IEEE

Fellow of AIMBE, OSA, SPIE, IAPR, AAIA

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      Dr. Raymond Fu is widely-renowned high-impact AI researcher, distinguished professor, CEO/CTO/CSO, and a successful serial entrepreneur. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is Distinguished Professor affiliated with both College of Engineering and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University; as well as Associate Department Chair for Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering overseeing all the research related affairs of the 120+ faculties.

      He has made many seminal research contributions to the advancement of computer vision and machine learning, while producing an outstanding record of achievement. He is best known for his Residual Dense Network (RDN) and Residual Channel Attention Networks (RCAN) published in CVPR2018/ECCV2018, two very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for image restoration. They have been cited over 13,000 times which is among the Top 10 Most Influential CVPR/ECCV papers.

      He has authored more than 500 scientific publications as well as over 50 patented inventions, with an h-index over 107 and citation over 58,000 on Google Scholar. He received 7 Prestigious Young Investigator Awards from NAE, ONR, ARO, IEEE, INNS, UIUC, Grainger Foundation; 12 Best Paper Awards from IEEE, ACM, IAPR, SPIE, SIAM; many major Industrial Awards from Google, Nvidia, Amazon, Samsung, Adobe, JPMorgan Chase, NEC, Snap, Cisco, Toyota, MERL, PicsArt, Konica Minolta, Zebra, and Mathworks, etc. He is Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Fellow of AAAS, ACM, AAAI, IEEE, AIMBE, IAPR, OSA, SPIE, and AAIA; Lifetime Senior Member of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of ACM Future of Computing Academy, and Global Young Academy.

      Successful in entrepreneurship (4x), he was the Founder and CEO of AI startup Giaran acquired by the prestigious global cosmetic firm Shiseido (Stock 4911: Tokyo) in 2017, which applies his AI based augmented reality technology to benefit Shiseido¡¯s global thousands-of-million e-commerce market (2018 Revenue ¥1,094billion). It was the first M&A of such AI based digital cosmetics in the global cosmetics and beauty market. He was also the co-founder, board member, CTO and later Chief Scientist of TVision Insights since 2015, a big data company inventing novel computer vision technology to measure second-by-second, eyes-on-screen Attention to TV and CTV content and ads. Tvision raised in total $70million fund after series B; created 120+ job positions; impacted television advertisement market totaled $205billion, with the U.S. market alone $72billion; and was the winner of the Advertising Research Foundation's Innovation A-List, Microsoft Innovative Award, Mass Challenge 2015 Gold Award, MIT Innovation Initiative, $100K MIT Entrepreneurship Competition, MIT Enterprise Forum, and First prize of NECINA NEW Accelerator 2015.


Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence -- Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Data Mining

Academy and Fellow: ACM Fellow (since 2025), Fellow of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (since 2025), Fellow of American Institute For Medical and Biological Engineering (since 2024), Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) (since 2023), Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) (since 2023), Member of Academia Europaea (MAE) (since 2022), AAAS Fellow (since 2022) IEEE Fellow (since 2019), OSA Fellow (since 2019), SPIE Fellow (since 2018), IAPR Fellow (since 2016), AAIA Fellow (since 2021), ACM Future of Computing Academy (since 2017), Global Young Academy (GYA member), Beckman Institute (Beckman Graduate Fellow, 2007-2008).

Entrepreneurship: Co-Founder of Bithuman; Founder of AInnovationLabs; Founder and CEO of Giaran [Acquired by Shiseido(Stock 4911:Tokyo) in 2017]; Co-Founder and CTO of TvisionInsights [70Million funding since 2015].

Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)(2020-), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPMAI) (2023-).

Former PhD and Postdoc: Prof. Ming Shao (Umass), Prof. Sheng Li (U of Virginia), Prof. Hongfu Liu (Brandeis U), Prof. Allan Ding (Tulane U), Prof. Zhiqiang Tao (RIT), Prof. Yu Kong (MSU), Dr. Joe Robinson (Amazon), Dr. Handong Zhao (Adobe), Dr. Yue Wu (Microsoft), Dr. Kunpeng Li (Meta), Dr. Kai Li (Meta), Dr. Lichen Wang (Zillow), Dr. Songao Jiang (Amazon), Prof. Yu Yin (CWRU).


News

-  01/2026, 4 papers accepted by ICLR26.

-  01/2026, elected to ACM Fellow.

-  01/2026, 1 paper accepted by AAAI26. 1 paper accepted by T-PAMI.

-  12/2025, named a Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS in both 2024 and 2025.

-  09/2025, 2 papers accepted by NeurIPS25. 1 paper accepted by ACS Nano.

-  08/2025, 2 papers accepted by EMNLP25; 2 papers accepted by ICDM25.

-  07/2025, appointed as the Associate Department Chair for Research, ECE

-  06/2025, $180k funding from Snap, Adobe and Nvidia.

-  06/2025, 2 papers accepted by ICCV25. 1 paper accepted by ACL25.

-  02/2025, Selected in 2024 Stanford University List of Top 2% Scientists Worldwide

-  01/2025, 3 papers accepted by ICLR25.

-  01/2025, elected to AAAI Fellow.

 

 

 

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