Brief Biosketch
Lu Jiang is a research scientist at Google AI, advised by Dr. Andrew Moore, Dr. Jia Li (2017-2018) and Dr. Fei-Fei Li (2017-2018). He received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (Language Technology) from the Carnegie Mellon University in 2017, advised by Dr. Alexander Hauptmann and Dr. Teruko Mitamura. Dr. Tat-Seng Chua and Dr. Louis-Philippe Morency are his thesis advisors. He was an intern scientist in Yahoo Research during the 2016 summer, working with Dr. Liangliang Cao, Dr. Yannis Kalantidis and Sachin Farfade on the personal photo and video search on Flickr. Prior to that, he was an intern in Google Research working with Dr. Paul Natsev and Dr. Balakrishnan Varadarajan on large-scale deep learning on the noisy YouTube-8M dataset. He interned at Microsoft Research Asia in 2010, working with Dr. Qiang Wang and Dr. Dongmei Zhang on data mining. Before that, he was a research assistant at Xi'an Jiaotong University, supervised by Dr. Jun Liu on text mining, information retrieval.Lu's primary interests lie in the interdisciplinary field of Multimedia, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval, which, specifically, include video understanding and search, weakly supervised learning, deep learning, cloud machine learning, etc. He regularly serves on the programme committee of premier conferences such as ACM Multimedia, AAAI, and IJCAI. Lu is the recipient of the Yahoo Fellowship, Erasmus Mundus Scholar. He received the best poster award at IEEE Spoken Language Technology and the best Paper nomination at ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.
Research Experience
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Google (2017/05 -- Now)
Research Scientist, Google AI
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Carnegie Mellon University (2011/09 -- 2017/04)
Ph.D., Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science
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Yahoo Research (2016/05 -- 2016/08)
Intern Scientist in Flickr Machine Learning Group
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Google Research (2016/01 -- 2016/05)
Intern in Machine Perception Group
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Microsoft Research Aisa (2010/05 -- 2010/08)
Research Intern in Software Analytics Group
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Xi'an Jiaotong University (2008/09 -- 2011/06)
Research Assistant in NSKEY Lab
Honors and Awards
- Yahoo! Fellowship 2016
- NIPS, AAAI, SIGMM, SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGWEB, NSF travel grants, 2014-2016
- Best Demo at International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2015
- Best Poster at IEEE Spoken Language Technology, 2014
- Best Paper candidate at International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2014, 2015
- Best performer on multimedia event detection at NIST TRECVID 2013, 2014
- Erasmus Mundus Tandem scholarship
- Fuji Xerox Fellowship
- Samsung Fellowship
- IBM excellent student in China
Selected Professional Activities
Program Committee:
- Program Committee member for AAAI 2018, CVPR 2018
- Author Advocator for ACM Multimedia 2017 and Program Committee member for IJCAI 2017, AAAI 2017
- Program Committee member for ACM Multimedia 2016, IA-Summit 2016
- Program Committee member for ACM Multimedia 2015, CMU LTI-SRS 2015 (Chair)
- Program Committee member for ACM Multimedia 2014, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia in 2014
- Program Committee member for ACM Multimedia 2013, European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation 2010
Journal Reviewer:
- Journal of Supercomputing
- Journal on Signal Processing
- Journal on Information Fusion
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
- Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
- International Journal of Automation and Computing
- Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA)
- International Journal of Automation and Computing
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and System for Video Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM)
Acknowledgment
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| Google Research | Yahoo! Research | Microsoft Research | IBM |
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| Erasmus Mundus | IARPA | Samsung Research | Fuji Xerox |