Scholar
Zhengdong Zhang
Google Scholar ID: xF7oivwAAAAJ
Research Scientist, Google Brain
Citations & Impact
Citations
16,111
H-index
18
i10-index
27
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published several journal papers such as 'FSMI: Fast computation of Shannon Mutual Information for information theoretic mapping' submitted to International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2019; 'Navion: A 2-mW Fully Integrated Real-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry Accelerator for Autonomous Navigation of Nano Drones' in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2019. Also published multiple conference papers including 'High-Through Computation of Shannon Mutual Information on Chip' at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2019.
Research Experience
- Research Scientist at Google Brain, Mountain View, California (Feb 2018 - present); Visiting Researcher at Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai, China (June 2016 - July 2016); Visiting Researcher at National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan (Dec 2015 - Jan 2016); Research Intern at National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan (May 2014 - Aug 2014); Software Engineer Intern at Google, Mountain View, California (May 2013 - Aug 2013); Assistant Researcher at Visual Computing group, Microsoft Research Asia (July 2011 - June 2012); Research Intern at Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia (Oct 2009 - June 2011).
Education
- PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2014-2019), advisor Prof. Vivienne Sze; Master of Science in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012-2014), advisor Prof. Edward H. Adelson; Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Tsinghua Xuetang Special Pilot CS Class (Yao Class), Tsinghua University (2007-2011), advisor Prof. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao.
Background
- Currently a research scientist at Google Brain. Research interests span sparsity, low-rank matrix recovery, symmetry/regularity of textures, 3D computer vision, computational photography, object detection, video compression, localization, and mapping.
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