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Jiebo Luo (; born 1967) is a Chinese-American
computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
, the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of Roc ...
. He is interested in
artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...
,
data science Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge from data across a br ...
and
computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...
.Jiebo Luo's homepage on Rochester
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Biography

Luo was born in 1967 in
Yunnan, China Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the C ...
. He obtained his undergraduate degree (1989) and master's degree (1992) from
University of Science and Technology of China A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...
, and PhD degree (1996) from
University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of Roc ...
, all in
Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
. Luo joined the
Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...
Department at University of Rochester in Fall 2011 after over fifteen prolific years at
Kodak The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak ) is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in analogue photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorpor ...
Research Laboratories, where he last held the position of Senior Principal Scientist. Luo has been actively involved in numerous technical conferences, including serving as General Chair of 2007 SPIE VCIP, 2008 ACM CIVR and 2018 ACM Multimedia, Program Chair of 2010 ACM Multimedia, 2012 IEEE CVPR, 2016 ACM ICMR and 2017 IEEE ICIP, as well as Area Chair or Senior PC of CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, KDD, AAAI, IJCAI, ACM Multimedia, MICCAI, ICDM, ICWSM, ICPR, ICIP, ICME and ICASSP. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering multimedia technology and applications. It was established in 1999 and is published by the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Circuit ...
, and on the editorial boards of the
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence ''IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''IEEE PAMI'' or simply ''PAMI'') is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Computer Society. Background The journal covers r ...
(TPAMI),
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering multimedia technology and applications. It was established in 1999 and is published by the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Circuit ...
(TMM), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST),
Pattern Recognition Pattern recognition is the automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data. It has applications in statistical data analysis, signal processing, image analysis, information retrieval, bioinformatics, data compression, computer graphi ...
(PR), Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS),
Machine Vision and Applications ''Machine Vision and Applications'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering image processing. It was established in 1988 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The editor-in-chief is Mubarak Shah (University of Centra ...
(MVA), and
Journal of Electronic Imaging The ''Journal of Electronic Imaging'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published quarterly by SPIE and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. It covers all technology topics pertaining to the field of electronic imaging. The editor-i ...
(JEI). He was a guest editor for many special issues, including "Image Understanding for Digital Photos" (PR 2005), "Real-World Image Annotation and Retrieval" (TPAMI 2008), "Event Analysis in Video" (TCSVT 2008), "Integration of Content and Context for Multimedia Management" (TMM 2009), "Probabilistic Graphic Models in Computer Vision" (TPAMI 2009), "Knowledge Discovery over Community-Contributed Multimedia Data" (IEEE MultiMedia 2010), "Social Media" (ACM TOMM 2011), "Social Media as Sensors" (TMM 2013), "Deep Learning in Multimedia Computing" (TMM 2015), "Video Analytics with Deep Learning" (PR 2020), "Learning with Fewer Labels in Computer Vision" (TPAMI, 2021), and so on.


Selected works

Luo's broad research spans
image processing An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...
,
computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...
,
natural language processing Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to pro ...
,
machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...
, data mining,
social media Social media are interactive media technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks. While challenges to the definition of ''social medi ...
,
biomedical informatics Health informatics is the field of science and engineering that aims at developing methods and technologies for the acquisition, processing, and study of patient data, which can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic hea ...
, and
ubiquitous computing Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing can occur using a ...
. He is a pioneer of contextual inference in semantic understanding of visual data and social multimedia data mining. He has published extensively in these fields with nearly 600 peer-reviewed technical papers and over 90 US patents.Patents of Jiebo Luo
/ref> His h-Index is 112. Some of his notable works are listed below and details can be seen on his website at
University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of Roc ...
.


Books

* 2022. Deep Network Design for Medical Image Computing: Principles and Applications (Elsevier), * 2011. Social Media Modeling and Computing (Springer), * 2011. Interactive Co-segmentation of Objects in Image Collections (Springer Briefs in Computer Science), * 2011. Computer Vision (USTC Press)'','' * 2010. Multimedia Interaction and Intelligent User Interfaces (Springer Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition),


Articles

* 2021. Best Long Paper,
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) provides a regional focus for members of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in North America North America is a continent in the Nort ...
(NAACL) *2018. Best Industrial Related Paper, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)ICPR Best Industrial Related Paper
/ref> * 2014. IEEE MultiMedia Prize Paper,
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia ''IEEE Transactions on Multimedia'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering multimedia technology and applications. It was established in 1999 and is published by the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Circuit ...
(TMM)IEEE Multimedia Prize Paper Prize Paper
/ref> * 2010. Best Student Paper,
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is an annual conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, which is regarded as one of the most important conferences in its field. According to Google Scholar Metrics (2022 ...
(CVPR)CVPR Best Student Paper
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Patents

* https://patents.justia.com/inventor/jiebo-luo


Awards and honors

* 2004.
George Eastman George Eastman (July 12, 1854March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Kodak, Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. He was a major philanthropist, establishing the ...
Innovation Award (
Kodak The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak ) is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in analogue photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorpor ...
's most prestigious technology prize) : ''"For contributions to the market-leading Kodak digital radiography systems.'' *2008.
SPIE SPIE (formerly the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, later the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) is an international not-for-profit professional society for optics and photonics technology, founded in 1955. It ...
FellowSPIE Fellow
/ref> :''"For achievements in visual communication and electronic imaging."'' * 2009.
IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...
FellowIEEE Fellow
/ref> : ''"For contributions to semantic image understanding and intelligent image processing."'' * 2010. IAPR FellowIAPR Fellow
/ref> : ''"For contributions to contextual inference in semantic understanding of images and video."'' *2018.
IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...
Region 1 Technological Innovation in Academic Award2018 IEEE Region 1 Award
/ref> :''"For contributions in computer vision and data mining."'' * 2018.
AAAI The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is an international scientific society devoted to promote research in, and responsible use of, artificial intelligence. AAAI also aims to increase public understanding of artif ...
Fellow AAAI Fellow
/ref> :''"For significant contributions to the fields of computer vision and data mining, and particularly pioneering work on multimodal understanding for sentiment analysis,
computational social science Computational social science is the academic sub-discipline concerned with computational approaches to the social sciences. This means that computers are used to model, simulate, and analyze social phenomena. Fields include computational economics ...
, and digital health."'' *2018. ACM FellowACM Fellow
/ref> : ''"For contributions to multimedia content analysis and social multimedia informatics."'' *2021. ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications : ''"For outstanding, pioneering and continued research contributions in the areas of multimedia content analysis and social media analytics and for outstanding and continued service to the multimedia community."'' * 2022. Member of
Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...
: '' * 2022. NAI Fellow : ''"For having demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society."'' :


References


External links


Jiebo Luo's homepage on Rochester
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Luo, Jiebo 1967 births Living people Computer scientists University of Science and Technology of China alumni University of Rochester alumni