Published multiple journal articles such as 'Discriminant saliency, the detection of suspicious coincidences, and applications to visual recognition' in IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2009. Also presented several conference papers including 'The discriminant center-surround hypothesis for bottom-up saliency' at Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2007.
Research Experience
Currently working at Qualcomm; previously a research scientist at General Electric Global Research.
Education
Received Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2008; M.S. and B.S. degrees from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2002 and 1999 respectively.
Background
Research interests include computer vision, statistical learning, and computational models of visual attention. Current research focuses on statistical modeling of video signals for aerial and ground surveillance applications.