Brief Biosketch

Lu Jiang is a senior research scientist at Google Research (a breif bio) working with Dr. Ce Liu and Prof. Irfan Essa. Previously, he was advised by Dr. Jia Li (2017-2018) and Dr. Fei-Fei Li (2017-2018) at Google Cloud AI. 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. He is the recipient of Yahoo Fellowship and Erasmus Mundus Scholarship. He received Best paper nomination at ACL and ACM ICMR; Best poster at IEEE SLT; Best system in NIST TRECVID.

Research Experience



Honors and Awards

  • Best paper nomination at ACL, 2019
  • Yahoo! Fellowship
  • NIPS, AAAI, SIGMM, SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGWEB, NSF travel grants
  • 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

Area Chair:

Program Committee/Reviewer:

  • Program Committee member for ACM Multimedia (2013-2021), Author Advocator for ACM Multimedia 2017
  • Reviewer for ICML (2020-2021), CVPR (2018-2021), AAAI (2017-2018, 2021), NeurIPS 2020, ECCV (2018-2020), ICCV (2019-2021), EMNLP 2020, IJCAI 2017

Journal Reviewer:

Google AI:



Acknowledgment

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Google Research Yahoo! Research Microsoft Research IBM

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