Yun Fu#
| Membership Number: | 6141 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www1.ece.neu.edu/~yunfu/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5098-2853 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Professor (Tenured), ECE and Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston
- 2017 - 2020 Senior Vice President (SVP) of Technology Innovation, Shiseido Americas (Stock 4911: Tokyo), Boston
- 2016 - 2017 Founder, President and CEO, Giaran (acquired by Shiseido Americas in 2017), Boston
- 2015 - 2019 Associate Professor (Tenured), ECE and Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston
- 2012 - 2015 Assistant Professor, ECE and Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston
- 2015 - 2017 Co-Founder, CTO and Chief Scientist, TVision Insights, Boston
- 2010 - 2012 Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering , State University of New York at Buffalo, NY
- 2009 - 2010 Lecturer, Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, MA
- 2008 - 2010 Scientist, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA
- 2007 - 2008 Beckman Graduate Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, IL
Fields of Scholarship
- Machine learning
- Data mining
- Artificial intelligence
- Computer vision
Honours and Awards
- 2021 AAIA Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
- 2020 JPMorgan Chase AI Research Faculty Research Awards
- 2020 Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Awards
- 2019 OSA Fellow, The Optical Society
- 2018 ACM Distinguished Life-time Member, Association for Computing Machinery(ACM)
- 2018 IEEE Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- 2018 SPIE Fellow, International Society for Optics and Photonics
- 2017 ACM Future of Computing Academy Member
- 2016 IAPR Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition
- 2016 Global Young Academy (GYA) Member
- 2016 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Outstanding Early Career Award
- 2016 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award
- 2016 Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award
- 2015 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) US Frontiers of Engineering
- 2015 Nominee of US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
- 2014 ONR Young Investigator Award, US Office of Naval Research
- 2014 ARO Young Investigator Award, US Army Research Office
- 2014 INNS Young Investigator Award, International Neural Networks Society
- 2019 ACM TOMM Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award
- 2016 SPIE Lockheed Martin Best Paper Award
- 2016, 2018 Samsung GRO Award, Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO)
- 2010 Google Faculty Research Award
