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Y. Raymond Fu LinkedIn SmileLab Associate
Department Chair for Research, ECE Department of ECE, College
of Engineering Khoury College of Computer Science (Affiliated) GoogleCitation CSRankings
AIRankings NEUNews 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 110 and citation over 60,000 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,
acquired by the Viant Technology Inc.
(NASDAQ: DSP) in 2026. It is 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. |
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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 Tvision Insights
[Acquired by Viant Technology
Inc. (NASDAQ: DSP) in 2026]. 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 - 04/2026, Tvision
Insights was acquired by Viant Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:
DSP). This is
my 2nd exit as co-founder. - 04/2026, 8 papers
accepted by ACL26, including 4 Main Conferences and 4 Findings. - 04/2026, $270k funding from Snap, Adobe
and Epic - 03/2026, 1 paper accepted by T-PAMI. - 02/2026, 7 papers accepted by CVPR26, including 3 Main Conferences and 4 Findings. - 01/2026, $40k funding from Snap - 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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