Lu Jiang

Brief Biosketch

Lu Jiang is a research scientist at Google AI, advised by 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, weakly supervised learning, deep learning, AutoML, etc. He serves on the programme committee of premier conferences such as ACM Multimedia, AAAI, CVPR, 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

Google (2017/05 -- Now)
Research Scientist, Google AI
Carnegie Mellon University (2011/09 -- 2017/04)
Ph.D., Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science
Yahoo Research (2016/05 -- 2016/08)
Intern Scientist in Flickr Machine Learning Group
Google Research (2016/01 -- 2016/05)
Intern in Machine Perception Group
Microsoft Research Aisa (2010/05 -- 2010/08)
Research Intern in Software Analytics Group
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:

Reviewer for CVPR 2019, ICCV 2019
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