Resume

Education

2017 - present

University of California San Diego

PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Specialization: Signal & image processing

Joined Statistical Visual Computing Lab (SVCL) in 2017, conducting research in computer vision

Thesis: Holistic Bias Mitigation of Datasets and Models in Computer Vision

Advisor: Prof. Nuno Vasconcelos, GPA: 3.97/4

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2013 - 2017

Chinese University of Hong Kong 

BEng in Electronic Engineering (First Class Honors)

Specialization: Digital signal processing (DSP) and multimedia

Entered ELITE Stream of the Faculty of Engineering in 2015

Thesis: Binary Image Denoising with BinURE-LET

Advisor: Prof. Thierry Blu & Prof. Tan Lee, Major GPA: 4.00/4

Work experience

06/2022 - 11/2022

Intel AI Lab

Research intern

Collaborators: Subarna Tripathi, Kyle Min

Learning long-term spatiotemporal representations from video-language pretraining

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06/2021 - 11/2021

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab 

Research intern

Collaborators: Rameswar Panda, Yoon Kim, Chun-Fu Chen, Rogerio Feris, David Cox

Improving text-only machine translation by visual hallucination learned on image-text corpora

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2018 - present

University of California San Diego

Graduate student researcher

Advisor: Nuno Vasconcelos

Quantitative measurement and systematic mitigation of data bias

Principled approach for collecting large-scale, bias-controlled datasets

Model debiasing for improved performance, transferability and robustness in video understanding and multimodal learning

Academic service

Peer reviewer, TPAMI, CVPR (outstanding reviewer ’23), ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR

Student volunteer, CVPR Area Chair Meeting

Honors & Awards

ECE Graduate Fellowship, UC San Diego

HKSAR Government Scholarship, The Government of Hong Kong

Winbridge Scholarship, CW Chu College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

EE Alumni Association Scholarship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong