Short Bio
Wei Shen received his B.S. and Ph.D. degree both in Electronics and Information Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 2007 and in 2012. From April 2011 to November 2011, he worked in Microsoft Research Asia as an intern. In 2012, he joined the School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University and served as an assistant and associate professor until Oct 2018. In 2016, he started his visit at the Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, hosted by Prof. Alan Yuille. He is currently an Assistant Research Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University. He has over 40 peer-reviewed publications in machine learning and computer vision related areas, including IEEE Trans. PAMI, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, NIPS, ICML, ICCV, CVPR and ECCV.
Wei Shen received his B.S. and Ph.D. degree both in Electronics and Information Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 2007 and in 2012. From April 2011 to November 2011, he worked in Microsoft Research Asia as an intern. In 2012, he joined the School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University and served as an assistant and associate professor until Oct 2018. In 2016, he started his visit at the Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, hosted by Prof. Alan Yuille. He is currently an Assistant Research Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University. He has over 40 peer-reviewed publications in machine learning and computer vision related areas, including IEEE Trans. PAMI, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, NIPS, ICML, ICCV, CVPR and ECCV.
Experience
2011.4 - 2011.12 Student Intern, Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia. (Mentor: Prof. Zhuowen Tu)
2012.9 - 2017.2 Assistant Professor, School of Communications and Information Engineering, Shanghai University.
2017.3 - 2018.10 Associate Professor, School of Communications and Information Engineering, Shanghai University.
2016.5 - 2018.10 Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University.
(Host: Prof. Alan Yuille)
2018.11 - Present Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University.
2011.4 - 2011.12 Student Intern, Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia. (Mentor: Prof. Zhuowen Tu)
2012.9 - 2017.2 Assistant Professor, School of Communications and Information Engineering, Shanghai University.
2017.3 - 2018.10 Associate Professor, School of Communications and Information Engineering, Shanghai University.
2016.5 - 2018.10 Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University.
(Host: Prof. Alan Yuille)
2018.11 - Present Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University.
Education
2003.9 - 2007.6 Bachelor, Dept.of Electronic and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
2007.9 - 2012.6 Ph.D., Dept. of Electronic and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
(Co-supervised by Prof. Xiang Bai)
2003.9 - 2007.6 Bachelor, Dept.of Electronic and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
2007.9 - 2012.6 Ph.D., Dept. of Electronic and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
(Co-supervised by Prof. Xiang Bai)
Grants
2014.1 - 2016.12 Research on skeleton extraction and object recognition in natural images by supervised learning
National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 61303095
2014.1 - 2015.12 Symmetry based object representation and recognition in natural images
Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission No. 14YZ018
2014.1 - 2016.12 Symmetry based object localization in natural images
Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China No. 20133108120017
2016.1 - 2018.12 Contour detection by deep convolutional neural networks
"Chen Guang" project supported by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation No. 15CG43
2017.1 - 2020.12 Object proposal detection by deep shape feature extraction in natural images,
National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 61672336
2014.1 - 2016.12 Research on skeleton extraction and object recognition in natural images by supervised learning
National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 61303095
2014.1 - 2015.12 Symmetry based object representation and recognition in natural images
Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission No. 14YZ018
2014.1 - 2016.12 Symmetry based object localization in natural images
Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China No. 20133108120017
2016.1 - 2018.12 Contour detection by deep convolutional neural networks
"Chen Guang" project supported by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation No. 15CG43
2017.1 - 2020.12 Object proposal detection by deep shape feature extraction in natural images,
National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 61672336
