Zhangyang (Atlas) Wang​

Researcher. Entrepreneur. Lover of Life.

NEWS & UPDATES

• [Publicity & Service] 08/2016, I was invited to serve on the Technical Program Committees (TPC) of IJCNN'17, and PAKDD'16.
  

• [Publicity & Service] 08/2016, our regular Tutorial, "Deep Learning Meets Model Optimization and Statistical Inference", was accepted byECCV 2016, October 8th, 2016, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  
• [Travel & Talk] 07/2016, I was a short-term visiting researcher, at Dept. Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, hosted by Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis.
  
• ​[Publicity & Service] 07/2016, my award-winning research was featured by UIUC ECE Headline again.
• [Travel & Talk] 07/2016,  I attended IJCAI'16, in New York, NY, and presented one paper. I also co-chaired the IJCAI'16 BOOM workshop. 
  
• [Travel & Talk] 06/2016, I attended CVPR'16, in Las Vegas, NV, and presented two papers (1, 2). I was also selected to attend the CVPR 2016 Doctoral Consortium; my mentor was Prof. Rene Vidal.
  
• [Publicity & Service] 06/2016, an invited survey article (in Chinese) on the intrinsic relationship between sparse coding and deep learning was published here. 
• [Publication] 06/2016, One paper accepted to ACM MM'16.
  
• [Publicity & Service] 06/2016, DeepFont was covered by prestigious media such as BBC News and International Business Times (IBT).​ Check stories: Photoshop gets 'Shazam for fonts' artificial intelligence tool, and Adobe Photoshop unveils artificial intelligence tool to identify fonts from 20,000 typefaces.
• [Travel & Talk] 06/2016, I was an invited speaker at the PKU Workshop on Data Science and Applications, held by Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research (BICMR), PKU, Beijing, China.
• [Travel & Talk] 06/2016, I was an invited speaker at the 2016 Workshop on Sparsity Revisited (SPARE), USTC, Hefei, China.
• [Travel & Talk] 05/2016, I gave an invited talk, in Chinese R Conference 2016 (Machine Learning Session), organized by Capital of Statistics (COS), Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
  
• ​[Honor & Support] 05/2016, I felt honored to accept the Dissertation Completion Fellowship, as the only recipient from the ECE department. This year, 29 Ph.D. students from 27 departments were selected for the prestigious fellowship, by UIUC graduate college.
• [Travel & Talk]  05/2016, I attended SDM'16, in Miami, FL, and presented one paper. I also helped organize the SDM'16 MLRec workshop.
• [Publicity & Service] 05/2016, an invited survey article (in Chinese) on task-specific & interpretable deep learning  was published here.
• [Travel & Talk] 05/2016, I visited Dept. EECS, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, and gave a seminar, hosted by Prof. Ying Wu.
  
• [Announcement] 04/2016, I accepted the offer to join the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department, at the Texas A&M University (TAMU), as an Assistant Professor. Our group has multiple Ph.D. Positions available, starting from Fall 2017.
  
• [Travel & Talk] 04/2016, I was invited to give a seminar on task-specific & interpretable deep learning, hosted by Prof. Shuai Huang, at Dept. Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
• ​[Honor & Support] 04/2016, I was honored and humbled to accept the 2016 Thomas and Margaret Huang Award for Graduate Research from UIUC, for my excellent research record.
• [Publication] 04/2016, One paper accepted to IJCAI'16.
• [Publicity & Service] 04/2016, DeepFont was proudly featured on Fortune. See How Adobe Sparks Innovation by Paying People to Fail. It was also recently featured by Adobe Corporate Communications, and UIUC Resonance Magazine (Spring 2016).
• [Publicity & Service] 04/2016, I was invited to serve on Technical Program Committee (TPC) of ACM MM'16.
• [Publication] 03/2016, Two papers accepted to CVPR'16.
• [Honor & Support] 02/2016, I received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Graduates Abroad,  for both academic and research excellences.
• [Publicity & Service] 02/2016, I was elected as an online organization committee member of VALSE, the elite community for Chinese young researchers in computer vision and machine learning. 
• [Travel & Talk] 02/2016, I attended AAAI'16, in Phoenix, AZ, and presented two papers.
• [Honor & Support] 01/2016, I acknowledged Microsoft for their donation of three Microsoft Bands II, to support my research on deep learning-based healthcare data analytics.
• [Publication] 01/2016, my co-authored book became available on Amazon.com: "Sparse Coding and Its Applications in Computer Vision".
• [Honor & Support] 12/2015, I received the AAAI scholarship, and was selected as a "finalist" for the AAAI best student paper presentation competition.
  
• [Honor & Support] 12/2015, I acknowledged NVidia for their donation of One Titan X GPU card, to support my research on deep learning-based food dietary assessment.
• [Publication]  12/2015,  One paper accepted to SDM'16. 
• [Travel & Talk] 12/2015, I gave an invited talk to CS@UTSA, through webinar, hosted by Prof. Qi Tian.
• [Honor & Support] 11/2015, I was awarded with the highly competitive and prestigious Baidu Research Fellowship, among a total of 10 global recipients.
• [Publication]  11/2015, Two papers accepted to AAAI'16.
• [Travel & Talk] 11/2015, I gave invited talks in MSRA, Baidu Research, and EEIS@USTC.
• [Publicity & Service]11/2015,DeepFont was extensively covered by media, including UIUC ECE Headline News, among many others.
• [Travel & Talk] 10/2015, I attended ACM MM'15, in Brisbane, Australia, to present one full (oral) paper and one technical demo, both about DeepFont.
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• Research Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), with Prof. Thomas Huang.  [ECE Page]
  
• Highly motivated researcher, in machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, image processing, and optimization.
  
• Co-authored 5+ journal papers, 25+ conference & workshop papers, and 1 book.  [Google Scholar] [DBLP] 
  
• Co-held 4 patents (2 pending).
  
• Internship with Microsoft Research Redmond (2015), Adobe Research (2014), and US Army Research Lab (2013). [Linkedin]
  
• Received 15+ scholarships and awards.
  
• Research covered by BBC, Fortune, IBT, UIUC news, etc.
  
• Insanely love traveling, cooking, photography, and many more.
• Born at Anhui Province, P. R. China.