Location San Mateo, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male Also Known As 杨铭
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Ming Yang is one of the founding members of the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) and a former senior researcher at NEC Labs America. Dr. Yang is a well-recognized researcher in computer vision and machine learning. His research interests include object tracking, face recognition, massive image retrieval and multimedia content
analysis. Dr. Yang owns 14 US patents, and has over 20 publications in top conferences like CVPR and ICCV and 8 publications in the top international journal T-PAMI with more than 5300 citations. During his tenure at Facebook, Dr. Yang led the deep learning research project “Deep Face”, which had a significant impact in the deep learning research community and got widely reported by various media including Science Magazine, MIT Tech Review and Forbes. Dr. Yang has served as a member of the program committee for multiple top international conferences including CVPR, ICCV, NIPS and ACMMM. He has also been a reviewer for several top international journals including T-PAMI, IJCV and T-IP. As the leader of the NEC-UIUC team, Dr. Yang and his team achieved the best result in the TRECVid 2008 and 2009 Event Detection Evaluation. He was also a member of the NEC team to win the 1st place in the ImageNet 2010 Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. Moreover, Dr. Yang is the owner of 14 US patents. Dr. Ming Yang received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. Degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University.
