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Yun Raymond Fu
Dr. and Professor GoogleCitation CSRankings
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Benefunder Fellow of IEEE, OSA, SPIE, IAPR, AAIA. Successful Serial Entrepreneur Founding Director of SmileLab Department of ECE, College
of Engineering Khoury College of Computer Science
(Affiliated) Ph: (617) 373-7328 Fax: (617) 373-8970 E-mail: yunfu AT ece Dot neu Dot edu |
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Dr. Y. Raymond Fu is widely-renowned AI expert, Professor, 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 Professor affiliated with both College of Engineering and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern
University. He has authored more than 400 scientific publications as well as
12 patented inventions. He received seven Prestigious Young Investigator
Awards from NAE, ONR, ARO, IEEE, INNS, UIUC, Grainger Foundation; eleven Best
Paper Awards from IEEE, ACM, IAPR, SPIE, SIAM; many major Industrial Awards
from Google, Amazon, Samsung, JPMorgan Chase, MERL, Konica Minolta, Zebra,
Adobe, and Mathworks, etc. He is fellow of IEEE,
IAPR, OSA and SPIE, a Lifetime Distinguished Member of ACM, Lifetime Member
of AAAI and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of ACM Future of
Computing Academy, Global Young Academy, AAAS, and INNS.
Successful in entrepreneurship, 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. 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 $40million fund after
series B 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. |
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Research Interests: Artificial
Intelligence -- Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Big Data Education: Ph.D. (ECE, UIUC) M.S. (STAT, UIUC) M.Eng. (PRIS, XJTU) B.Eng. (IE, XJTU) Academy and Fellow: 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), ACM (life Distinguished member), AAAI
(life Senior member). Entrepreneurship: Founder and CEO of Giaran [Acquired by Shiseido(Stock
4911:Tokyo) in 2017],
Co-Founder and CTO of Tvision
Insights [40Million
funding since 2015]. Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Knowledge
Discovery from Data (TKDD)(2020-), IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) (2018-), Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)
(2017-). Former PhD and Postdoc: Prof. Ming Shao (Umass),
Prof. Sheng Li (U of Georgia), Prof. Hongfu Liu (Brandeis U), Prof. Allan Ding (Tulane U), Prof.
Zhiqiang Tao (Santa Clara U), Prof. Yu
Kong (RIT), Dr. Joe Robinson (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Dr. Handong Zhao
(Adobe), Dr.
Yue Wu (Microsoft). Young Investigator Awards (7): [2016 Grainger
Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award], [2016 IEEE CIS Outstanding
Early Career Award], [2016 UIUC ECE
Young Alumni Achievement Award], [2015
National Academy of Engineering US Frontiers of Engineering], [2014
ONR Young Investigator], [2014 ARO Young
Investigator], [2014
INNS Young Investigator]. Best Paper Awards (11): [ACM
TOMM Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award 2019][ICCV19
Workshop RLQ Best Paper Award][IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing][ACM
MM 2017 candidate][SPIE
DS 2016], [SIAM SDM 2014],
[IEEE ICME 2014 candidate], [IEEE
FG 2013], [IEEE ICDM
LSVA Workshop 2011], [IAPR ICFHR 2010],
[IEEE ICIP 2007]. Industry Faculty Awards: [2021 NEC Faculty Research Awards] [2021 Adobe Data Science
Research Awards][2020 Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Awards][2020
JPMorgan Chase Faculty Research Awards][2020, 2019 Konica Minolta
Award],[2018 Zebra Award], [2017, 2016 Samsung GRO Award], [2015 Adobe
Faculty Research Award], [2010
Google Faculty Research Award]
News - 09/2021, $10k, received Adobe Gift grant. - 08/2021, One paper accepted by ICDM21,
T-MM, and T-NNLS. - 07/2021, 3 papers accepted by ICCV21!
- 07/2021, 4 papers accepted by ACM
MM21! - 06/2021, elected to Fellow of
Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence
Association (AAIA). - 05/2021, One paper accepted by T-IP,
T-Cybernetics and T-KDD. - 05/2021, $40k, received Picsart
AI Research (PAIR) Faculty Research Award. - 04/2021, $60k, received NEC Faculty Research Awards. - 03/2021, $50k, received Adobe Data Science Research Awards. - 03/2021, $8k, received Adobe Gift grant. - 03/2021, First Prize, for both the RGB and RGB-D competition tracks of the CVPR21
International Sign Language Challenge - 02/2021, received the inaugural Spark Fund Award. - 02/2021, News@Northeastern--Humans
are trying to take bias out of facial recognition programs. It’s not
working–yet. - 02/2021, One paper accepted by CVPR21 and TPAMI. - 01/2021, One paper accepted by ICLR21, AAAI21, SDM21 and CHI21. - 10/2020, $100k, received Konica Minolta second Gift grant. - 09/2020, $5k, received Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) Gift grant. - 09/2020, 2 papers accepted by NeurIPS20! - 07/2020, 4
papers accepted by ECCV20! - 05/2020, $10k, received Adobe Gift grant. - 04/2020, my students Joseph Robinson received 2020 ECE Outstanding Teaching
Awards. Congrats! - 04/2020, $105k, 2020 Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research
Awards - 04/2020, 2020 AI2000 Most Influential Scholar Award
Honorable Mention - 03/2020, $150k, 2020 JPMorgan Chase Faculty
Research Awards - 03/2020, $450k, STR: Multimodality Face Recognition - 02/2020, 7 papers accepted by CVPR20! - 12/2019, One paper accepted by ICLR20, TNNLS and TPAMI,
respectively! - 12/2019, I accepted invitation to be Associate
Editor for the ACM Transactions
on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). - 11/2019, 3 papers accepted by AAAI20
respectively! - 10/2019, we received the ICCV19 Workshop RLQ Best Paper Award. Congratulations! - 10/2019, we received the ACM TOMM Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award
2019.
Congratulations! - 09/2019, $100k, received Konica Minolta Gift
grant. - 08/2019, One paper accepted by NeurIPS19, ICDM19, CIKM19, respectively! - 08/2019, $5k, received Adobe Gift
grant. - 07/2019, 6 papers accepted by ICCV19! - 06/2019, $529k, received NSF Award #1916839. - 06/2019, $17k, received Adobe Gift
grant. - 05/2019, $50k, received phase II Global Resilience Institute seed grant. - 05/2019, One paper accepted by KDD19, IJCAI19, CVPR19 respectively! - 05/2019, I was promoted to be Full Professor! - 04/2019, $50k, received Tier 1 funding. |
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