Yizhou YuChair Professor325 Chow Yei Ching Building Department of Computer Science The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong E-Mail: yizhouy at acm.org |
Yizhou Yu is a chair professor and the director of AI Lab in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong. He was first a tenure-track and then a tenured professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for twelve years. He has also collaborated with Google Brain and Microsoft Research in the past. He received his PhD degree in computer science from the computer vision group at University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a MS degree in applied mathematics and a BE degree in computer science and engineering from Zhejiang University. He is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.
Prof Yu has made important contributions to AI and visual computing, including deep learning, computer vision, image processing, medical image analysis, and computer graphics. He has been named 2022 World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar (honorable mention), and is a recipient of US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, ACCV Best Application Paper Award, and ACM SCA Best Paper Awards. Technologies co-invented by him have been frequently adopted by the film and healthcare industries. He has more than 100 publications in top international conferences and journals, including AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, SIGGRAPH, TIP, TMI, TOG, and TPAMI. His current research interests include AI foundation models, AI based multimedia content generation, AI for medicine, and computer vision.
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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | |
Image and Video Computing | |
Medical Image Computing | |
Physically Based Simulation | |
Image-Based Modeling and Rendering | |
Intelligent Video Surveillance |