Bio-sketches of Song-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  
  • July 2006,  Professor                 University of California at Los Angeles,Depts of Statistics, Computer Science
  • July 2002,  Associate Professor University of California at Los Angeles,Depts of Statistics, Computer Science
  • Sept.1998, Assistant Professor    Ohio State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Cognitive Science
  • Sept 1997, Lecturer                    Stanford University, Dept. of Computer Science
  • Sept 1996, Post-doc                   Brown University, Division of Applied Math.
  • Visiting appointments:

  • Visiting Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia, at Beijing, (Summer of 2000, 2001, 2004).
  • Research Professor, Mathematical Science Research Institute, Berkeley,CA (Spring 2005).
  • Adjunct Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2004-
  • Adjunct Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, 2005--07
  • Adjunct Professor, Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Computing, 2005--
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    Honors
  • 2007 Marr Prize honorary nomination, 11th ICCV at Rio, Brazil, for Object Modeling with Y. Wu etc.
  • 2007 Changjiang Scholar, Ministry of Education, China.
  • 2003 Marr Prize, 9th ICCV at Nice, France, for MCMC Inference for image parsing with Z. Tu etc.
  • 2001 Young Investigator Award , Office of Navy Research
  • 2001 Sloan Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 2001 Career Award, the National Science Foundation
  • 2000 Invited 10 lectures at The Abdus Salum Int'l Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy.
  • 2000 College Research Achievement Award, OSU.
  • 1999 Marr Prize honorary nomination, 7th ICCV at Corfu, Greece, for texture modeling with Y. Wu
  • 1999 Invited lecture at the Institute of Henri Poincare, Paris, France.
  • 1995 Jury Prize, Harvard University.
  • 1992 Harvard Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Art and Sciences
  • 1986-1991 Numerous undergraduate student awards in China (e.g. Elite Research Prize and Zhang Zhongzhi Prize)
  • Editorial Service
  • Editing Board, International Journal of Computer Vision 2004 --
  • Editing Board, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2005 --
  • Editing Board, Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision 2004 --

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