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	Yun Fu Image Formation & Processing Group 2323, Beckman Institute University of Illinois At Urbana – Champaign 405 North Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 E-mail: yunfu2 AT ifp Dot uiuc Dot edu Office Tel: 1. 217. 244. 2960 I'm currently a Ph.D. candidate at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under the supervision of Prof. Thomas S. Huang. I'm also affiliated with the Image Formation and Processing Group (IFP), Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technologies at UIUC. Status: I have successfully finished my Ph.D defense on 04/24/2008. I am now pursuing a faculty or researcher job starting from fall 2008.
Short Bio Mr. Raymond Yun Fu received the B.E. degree in information and communication engineering from the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China, in 2001; the M.S. degree in pattern recognition and intelligence systems from the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Institute (AI&R), XJTU, in 2004; the M.S. degree in statistics from the Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA, in 2007; and the Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from ECE Department, UIUC, USA, in 2008. From 2001 to 2004, he was a research assistant at the AI&R at XJTU. From 2004 to now, he is a graduate fellow and research assistant at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, ECE department and Coordinated Science Laboratory at UIUC. He was a research intern with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, in summer 2005; with Multimedia Research Lab of Motorola Labs, Schaumburg, IL, in summer 2006. He did interdisciplinary work and his research interests include statistical machine learning, human computer interaction, image processing, multimedia and computer vision. He has over 60 publications in top journals, book chapters and international conferences/workshops. He acts as PC member and reviewer of more than 30 journals and international conferences/workshops. He is the recipient of the 2002 Rockwell Automation Master of Science Award, two Edison Cups of the 2002 GE Fund Edison Cup Technology Innovation Competition, the 2003 Hewlett-Packard (HP) Silver Medal and Science Scholarship, the 2007 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, the 2007 DoCoMo USA Labs Innovative Paper Award (IEEE ICIP'07 best paper award), the 2007-2008 Beckman Graduate Fellowship of Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, and the 2008 M. E. Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award. He was one of the finalists of the 2008 Lemelson-Illinois Student Prize and 2007-2008 Illinois International Graduate Achievement Award. He is a student member of IEEE, student member of Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and Beckman Graduate Fellow.
Education Background l Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering (expected), 08/2004~~05/2008 Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Uni. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Advisor: Professor Thomas S. Huang, William L. Everitt Professor of Electrical Engineering Referee 1: Professor Thomas S. Huang, UIUC, huang@ifp.uiuc.edu Referee 2: Professor Michael Insana, UIUC, mfi@uiuc.edu Referee 3: Professor Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, UIUC, jhasegaw@uiuc.edu Referee 4: Professor Narendra Ahuja, UIUC, narendra@vision2.ai.uiuc.edu Referee 5: Professor Zhi-pei Liang, UIUC, z-liang@uiuc.edu l M.S. of Science Degree in Statistics, 01/2006~~05/2007 Dept. of Statistics, Uni. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Advisor: Professor Ditlev Monrad, Director of Graduate Studies of Dept. of Statistics Referee: d-monrad@uiuc.edu l M.S. in Pattern Recognition & Intelligent Systems, 09/2001~~06/2004 Institute of Artificial Intelligence & Robotics(AI&R), Xi’an Jiaotong Uni., Xi’an, Shaanxi, China. Thesis: Photorealistic Face Rendering Based on a Fusion Model of Linear and Lambertian Object Class Advisor: Professor Nanning Zheng, Director of AI&R, President of Xi’an Jiaotong University Co-Advisor: Professor Weipu Xu, Associate Director of AI&R. Referee: Professor Nanning Zheng, nnzheng@mail.xjtu.edu.cn l B.E. in Information & Communication Engineering, 09/1997~~07/2001 Special Class for Gifted Student, Xi’an Jiaotong Uni., Xi’an, Shaanxi, China. Thesis: The LAN and the Network Dynamics Simulation based on NS-2 Advisor: Professor Jingqiang Li, Department of Communication, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
Working Experience l Beckman Graduate Fellow, Beckman Institute at UIUC, With Prof. Michael Insana, Rohit Bhargava, and Zhi-pei Liang, 08/2007~~08/2008 l Research Assistant, Beckman Institute & ECE Department at UIUC, With Prof. Thomas S. Huang, 08/2004~~now l Technical Consultant, Zienon LLC at Illinois, With Dr. Derek Li, 05/2006~~now l Summer Intern, Multimedia Research Group of Motorola Labs at Illinois, With Dr. Richard Li, 05/2006~~08/2006 l Summer Intern, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) at Massachusetts, With Dr. Baback Moghaddam, 05/2005~~08/2005 l Research Assistant, Institute of Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (AI&R) at XJTU, China, With Prof. Nanning Zheng, 03/2002~~07/2004 l Research Assistant, Institute of Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (AI&R) at XJTU, China, With Prof. Weipu Xu, 03/2002~~07/2004 l Research Assistant, Dept. of Communication at XJTU, China, With Prof. Jingqiang Li, 02/2001~~07/2001 l Research Assistant, Dept. of Applied Mathematics at XJTU, China, With Prof. Yicang Zhou, 01/2000~~04/2001 l Research Assistant, Dept. of Applied Mathematics at XJTU, China, With Prof. Xiaoliang He, 07/1999~~11/2000
Academic and Professional Activities l Student Member of IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2007 l Student Member of IEEE Communications Society, 2007 l Student Member of Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), 2007
Selected Academic Honors & Award ² Listed in "Who's Who in America", 2009. ² Lemelson-Illinois Student Prize, finalist, 2008. ² Second Runner-up, V. Dale Cozad Business Plan Competition, 2008. ² Illinois International Graduate Achievement Award, finalist, 2007 and 2008. ² Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, 2007-2008. ² M. E. Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, USA, 2008. ² DoCoMo USA Labs Innovative Paper Award, DoCoMo & IEEE ICIP’07, USA, 2007. (IEEE ICIP best paper award, 2 out of 1708 submissions) ² IdeaBounce Competition Winner Prize, Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership, UIUC, USA, 2007. (4 out of 45) ² Beckman Graduate Fellowship, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, Beckman Institute, UIUC, USA, 2007. ² UIUC Graduate College Conference Travel Grant, UIUC, USA, 2007. ² Motorola Patent Application Award, Motorola Labs, USA, 2006. ² Hewlett-Packard Silver Medal for Outstanding Chinese Students. Hewlett-Packard, USA, 2003. ² Hewlett-Packard Scholarship for Outstanding Chinese Students. Hewlett-Packard, USA, 2003. ² Rockwell Automation Master of Science Scholarship. Rockwell Automation, USA, 2002. ² GE Fund “Edison Cup” and Award (I). GE Fund “Edison Cup” Technology Innovation Competition, USA & China, 2002. ² GE Fund “Edison Cup” and Award (II). GE Fund “Edison Cup” Technology Innovation Competition, USA & China, 2002. ² Title of “Outstanding Graduate Student in Shaanxi Province”, Education Department of Shaanxi Province, China, 2004. ² Title of “Pioneer in Science and Technology”, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, 2004. ² Title of “Outstanding Student Apotheosis”, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, 2004. ² Title of “Most Favorite Star of Science and Technology”, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, 2003. (No.1 of 9,000 Master candidates). ² First Prize. XJTU Scholarship and Special Fellowship for the Top-most Excellent Graduate Students. 2003. ² Keynote Speaker, 2002 China National Conference on the System Simulation Technology & Application (SSTA’02), Hefei, Anhui Province, China. ² Second Prize, XJTU Scholarship for the Excellent Graduate Students, 2002. ² Title of “Outstanding Graduate Student”, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, 2002. ² XJTU Distinguished Graduate Award for the Excellent Graduate Student, 2001. ² Third Awards.  “WangYi Cup” China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (cuMCM), Shaanxi Province, China, 2000. ² Second Awards. “ChuangWei Cup” China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (cuMCM), Shaanxi Province, China, 1999. ² Third Awards. National Olympic Physics Contest, China, 1997. ² Third Awards. National Olympic Mathematics Contest, China, 1997.
Research Interests and Demos (More demos will come soon.) l Human Computer Interaction, Intelligent Systems, Computer Vision - A Realtime Face Tracker: Face Detection, Tracking, and Head Pose Estimation - “hMouse”: Face Detection, Tracking, and Mouse Control with the Application to Disability Operable OS - RTM-HAI: Real-Time Multimodal Human-Avatar Interaction - Face Recognition: … - A Realtime Shrug Detector: Face Detection and Shrug Detection l Statistical Learning and Pattern Recognition, Manifold Analysis, Human Perception - Linear Embedded Analysis (LEA): Manifold Learning and Dimensionality Reduction for Face Recognition and Head Pose Estimation - Linear Embedded Clustering: High-Dimensional … - Automatic Human Emotion Analysis: Expression Manifold and One-Class Classification for Spontaneous Facial Expression Analysis l Multimedia, Computer Graphics, Image-Based Rendering & Modeling, Animation - M-Face: An Appearance-Based Photorealistic Model for Multiple Facial Attributes Rendering - FaceTransfer: A Prototype System for Photorealistic Facial Attributes Rendering