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Research as a Career

发布时间:2014-09-11

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时 间:2014年9月15日10:00-11:30

地 点:理科1号楼1114室

报告人:马毅(School of Information Sciences and Technology; ShanghaiTech University, China)

题 目: Research as a Career

摘 要:In this talk, I will speak from my knowledge and experience about why and how to develop a career in research. Many young people are curious about the benefits and risks in choosing research as a career and also probably wonder what to expect from such a career. Or for people who have already chosen research as a career, how they could make the best out of it. Also what are the things that they need to pay most attention as they are developing their professional career in research.

报告人简介:

Yi Ma is a Professor of the School of Information and Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, China. From 2009 to early 2014, he was a Principal Researcher and the Research Manager of the Visual Computing group at Microsoft Research in Beijing. From 2000 to 2011, he was an Associate Professor at the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His main research interest is in computer vision, high-dimensional data analysis, and systems theory. He is the first author of the popular vision textbook “An Invitation to 3-D Vision," published by Springer in 2003. Yi Ma received his Bachelors’ degree in Automation and Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) in 1995, a Master of Science degree in EECS in 1997, a Master of Arts degree in Mathematics in 2000, and a PhD degree in EECS in 2000, all from the University of California at Berkeley. Yi Ma received the David Marr Best Paper Prize at the International Conference on Computer Vision 1999, the Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Prize at the European Conference on Computer Vision 2004, and the Sang Uk Lee Best Student Paper Award with his students at the Asian Conference on Computer Vision in 2009. He also received the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2004 and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research in 2005. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) from 2007 to 2011. He is currently an associate editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, the IMA Journal on Information and Inference, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. He has served as the chief guest editor for special issues for the Proceedings of IEEE and the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He has served as Area Chairs for ICCV, CVPR, and NIPS, Program Chair for ICCV 2013, and is the General Chair for ICCV 2015. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and member of ACM and SIAM.