He has been awarded and funded by the Academy of Finland, Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion (TES), Nokia Foundation, KAUTE Foundation, Otto A. Malm Foundation, Tauno Tonning Foundation, and Riitta Ja Jorma J. Takanen Foundation for his research excellence on computer vision and artificial intelligence. He was the winner of the Endeavour Research Fellowship by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training. He has published several papers, such as 'Dynamic Collaboration of Multi-Language Models based on Minimal Complete Semantic Units'.
Research Experience
He was an Endeavour Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia, working with Professor Dacheng Tao. He also worked with Professor Stefanos Zafeiriou at Imperial College London, United Kingdom. He was an Academy of Finland postdoc fellow, working with Professor Guoying Zhao and Professor Matti Pietikainen at the CMVS group at the University of Oulu, Finland.
Education
He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Oulu, Finland in 2019, and Information and Communication Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 2016.
Background
His major research interests include machine learning and computer vision for social signal processing for emotion AI applications, human behavior analysis (body gestures, actions, facial expression), foreground detection, and image restoration (denoising, deblurring, super-resolution). He is an Associate Professor in the Computational Engineering Department at Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, Finland.
Miscellany
He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of ACM, SPIE, ELLIS, and APA.