Associate Professor,
Languages:
Teochew, Mandarin, Cantonese, English, C, Python
weijiangyu8 at gmail.com
yuwj39 at mail.sysu.edu.cn
Prof. Weijiang Yu is an Associate Professor, Yat-sen Scholar in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Guangzhou, China.
Before joining SYSU, he was a researcher scientist at Huawei with the honor of Huawei Topminds and was a research intern at MSRA, Petuum, SenseTime, and Tencent. Weijiang received his Ph.D. (2017-2022) from SYSU, advised by Prof. Nong Xiao, obtained his B.S. from SCNU. He is fortunate to be a visiting scholar at KAUST and CMU, where he collaborated with Prof. Bernard Ghanem and Prof. Eric P. Xing, respectively.
His research explores the bleeding edge of multimodal foundation models, reinforcement learning, computer vision, and AI for science. He has published many papers in top conferences and journals, such as TPAMI, Nature Communications, TMI, NeurIPS, CVPR, ACL, ACM Multimedia and so on. His mission is "Intelligentizing the World, Empowering Human Potential " by building generally capable agents across physical worlds and scientific worlds. Welcome to follow us!
I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D./master students, postdoctoral reseachers, research assistants/interns, and visiting scholars, working together on exciting and cutting-edge multimodal AI, large foundation models and AI for science projects. If you are interested in working with me, please drop me an email with your resume.