Wei Zhang

Current

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Past

• Research Assistant and PhD candidate at Oregon State University
• Intern at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

Education

• Oregon State University
• Xi'an Jiaotong University
• Xi'an Jiaotong University

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• Discovery Channel News report

Wei Zhang’s Summary

Computer Skills:

· C/C++ programming in Dos / Windows / LINUX, seven years of experience.

· Matlab, seven years of experience, very familiar with the Statistics, Image Processing, Signal Processing, and Optimization Toolboxes.

· Familiar with popular Machine Learning software packages like Weka, Netlab, PRtool, and etc.

Theoretical Skills:

· Proficient in Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision theories and recent progresses.

· Solid mathematical background, accomplished in Higher Mathematics, Probability and Statistics Theories, Linear Algebra, Geometry, Optimization Algorithms and etc.

· Familiar with Information Theories, Digital Signal Processing and Communication Technologies.

Electrical Engineering Skills:

· Embedded System Design, five years of experience, confident in System-on-Chip (SoC) and Graphic User Interface (GUI) design.

Personality:

· Feeling totally comfortable in team-working, communication, oral presentation and technical report.

· Self motivated, hardworking and enterprising.

Wei Zhang’s Specialties:

Solid Background: Acquainted in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics and English. Years of research experience.
Quick Learner: Quickly get proficient and productive in new areas.
Great Prototyper: Always self-motivated to going deep and broad in problem.
Personality: Extremely focused, competent and confident in independent working, also feeling fully comfortable in team working and communication.

Wei Zhang’s Experience

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

  (Public Company; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

  April 2009 — Present (4 months)

  Working on computer vision and machine learning research and applications as a postdoctoral researcher.

• Research Assistant and PhD candidate

  Oregon State University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 2004 — March 2009 (4 years 7 months)

  Researching in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Working for two NSF-funded school projects on computer vision applications.
  Graduated on March, 2009.

• Intern

  Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

  (Public Company; XRX; Computer Software industry)

  June 2007 — December 2007 (7 months)

  Internship
  Working on novel application of computer vision and machine learning techniques on the enhancement of clothes shopping experience.
  Published three papers.
  Submitted three patent applications.

Wei Zhang’s Education

• Oregon State University

  PhD , Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , 2004 — 2009

• Xi'an Jiaotong University

  Master , Information Engineering , 2001 — 2004

• Xi'an Jiaotong University

  Bachelor , Information Engineering , 1997 — 2001

Additional Information

Wei Zhang’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• Discovery Channel News report

Wei Zhang’s Interests:

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Object Recognition, Data Mining, UI Design.

Wei Zhang’s Groups:

•    Machine Learning Connection
•    Content-Based Image Retrieval Group

Wei Zhang’s Honors:

Selected Publications (out of 20):
[1] Wei Zhang. Image features and learning algorithms for biological, generic and social object recognition. Ph.D. Dissertation, 2009.
[2] Wei Zhang et al. Learning non-redundant codebooks for classifying complex objects. ICML, 2009.
[3] Gonzalo Martínez, Wei Zhang et al. Dictionary-free categorization of very similar objects via stacked evidence trees. CVPR, 2009.
[4] Wei Zhang et al. An Intelligent Fitting Room Using Multi-Camera Perception. IUI, 2008.
[5] Wei Zhang, Thomas G. Dietterich. Learning Visual Dictionaries and Decision Lists for Object Recognition. ICPR, 2008.
[6] Wei Zhang, Hongli Deng. Understanding Visual Dictionaries via Maximum Mutual Information Curves. ICPR, 2008.
[7] Hongli Deng, Wei Zhang et al. Principal Curvature-based Region Detector for Object Recognition. CVPR, 2007. (Oral paper).
[8] Wei Zhang et al. A Hierarchical Object Recognition System Based on Multi-scale Principal Curvature Regions. ICPR, 2006.

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