Song-Chun ZhuSong-Chun Zhu

Degrees

  • 1996 Ph.D.

    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

  • 1994 M.S.

    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

  • 1991 B.S.

    University of Science and Technology of China, at Hefei, China

Appointments

  • 2020 Director

    Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence

  • 2020 Chair Professor

    Peking University and Tsinghua University, Director of Institute for Artificial Intelligence

  • 2006 Professor

    University of California at Los Angeles, Depts. of Statistics, Computer Science

  • 2002 Associate Professor

    University of California at Los Angeles, Depts. of Statistics, Computer Science

  • 1998 Assistant Professor

    Ohio State University, Depts. of Computer Science, Cognitive Science

  • 1997 Lecturer

    Stanford University, Dept. of Computer Science

  • 1996 Post-doc

    Brown University, Division of Applied Math.

Academic Honors

  • 2020 Best Paper Award

    ICML Workshop on Bridge Perception and Reasoning, with Qing Li et al.

  • 2019 Best Paper Award

    ACM TURC , with Xu Xie et al.

  • 2017 Computational Modeling Prize

    Cognitive Science Society, with Tianmin Shu et al.

  • 2013 Helmholtz Test-of-Time Award

    14th Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision at Sydney, Australia, for a region competition paper published in 1995.

  • 2011 Fellow

    IEEE Computer Society

  • 2008 Aggarwal Prize

    the Int'l Association of Pattern Recognition.Citation

  • 2007 Marr Prize honorary nomination

    11th Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision at Rio, Brazil, for Object Modeling  with Y. Wu et al.

  • 2003 Marr Prize

    9th Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision at Nice, France, for MCMC Inference for Image Parsingwith Z. Tu et al.

  • 2001 Young Investigator Award

    Office of Navy Research.

  • 2001 Sloan Fellow

    Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

  • 2001 Career Award

    National Science Foundation.

  • 1999 Marr Prize honorary nomination

    7th Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision at Corfu, Greece, for Texture Modelingwith Y. Wu.

  • 1995 Jury Prize

    Harvard University.

  • 1992 Harvard Fellowship

    Harvard Graduate School of Art and Sciences.

  • 1986-1991

    Numerous undergraduate student awards in China

①The Marr prize used to be the highest honor in computer vision as it was the only award given in the 1980s-1990s, and early 2000s in every two years. But in recent years, the community has created a few other categories. ECCV and CVPR also introduced their Best paper prizes.

②The Aggarwal prize started from 2006, and is given by the International Association of Pattern Recognition for one person under 40 years old in every two years.

③This new award started in ICCV 2009. It is for a paper published more than 10 year ago. This was actually my first ICCV paper.

Professional Activities

  • Int'l Association of Pattern Recognition

    committee for the J.K.Aggarwal Prize (2008--2013) , Chair (2011-13).

  • IEEE Computer Society

    Fellow committee, Vice Chair, 2013.

  • General Chair

    IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, RI, 2012.

  • Editing Board

    International Journal of Computer Vision (2004 -- )

  • Editing Board

    Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision(2004 -- )

  • Editing Board

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2005--2009)

  • General Chair

    IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, 2019 .

  • Principal Investigator

    MURI program on Scene Understanding 2010-2015

  • Principal Investigator

    MURI program on Visual Commonsense Reasoning, 2016-2021