Prof. Winston Hsu (徐宏民, and CV) is an active researcher dedicated to visual recognition, machine intelligence, large-scale image/video retrieval/mining, and robot learning. He is keen to realizing advanced researches towards business deliverables via academia-industry collaborations. He is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Vice President for MobileDrive (富智捷), a new joint venture between FIH/Foxconn and Stellantis (#4 automaker in the world) and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University. He founded MiRA (Multimedia indexing, Retrieval, and Analysis) research group and co-leads Communication and Multimedia Lab (CMLab). He co-founded, thingnario, an AI/IoT startup for optimizing green energy and virtual power plant.
He and his team have been recognized with technical awards in multimedia and computer vision research communities. Working closely with the industry, he was a Visiting Scientist at Microsoft Research Redmond (2014) and had his 1-year sabbatical leave (2016-2017) at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, to enhance Watson’s visual cognition, where he contributed the first AI produced movie trailer. He is the Founding Director for NVIDIA AI Lab (NTU), the 1st in Asia. Having investigated deep neural networks for numerous image/video challenges, recently, he is also helping companies set up the AI/deep learning teams for advanced products.
He received Ph.D. (2007) from Columbia University, New York, under the supervision of Prof. Shih-Fu Chang. Before that, he was a founding engineer and research manager in CyberLink Corp, now a public image/video software company. He serves as the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, two premier journals, and was in the Editorial Board for IEEE Multimedia Magazine (2010 – 2017). He is also a columnist for DIGITIMES for the machine learning aspect. He also served as Director/Board Members for Columbia Alumni Association of Taiwan.
The public publication list can be found in DBLP and Google Citations (with citations). He is in the list of “World’s Top 2% Scientists (2023).”
Currently focusing on Embodied AI research, integrating technologies such as “Perception,” “Action,” and “Learning” for brand-new applications in automotive and robotics. This effort is carried out in collaboration with global tech companies (see recent publications and reports).
He is proud to be a Christian, a marathoner, a triathlete, and a father of three.
In his internationally competitive research group, he is always looking forward to working closely, as a partner, with enthusiastic and motivated team members for the exciting projects. Feel free to contact for further opportunities as postdocs, research assistants, and (PhD, master, undergraduate) students. See more details in the (international) news reports.
[Traditional Chinese] 徐宏民（Winston Hsu）現任MobileDrive (富智捷) (FIH/Foxconn 及全球第四大車廠Stellantis 合資公司)技術長暨副總經理以及台大資訊工程系教授，NVIDIA AI Lab計畫主持人，及共同領導「通訊與多媒體實驗室」（CMLab)。哥倫比亞大學電機博士（指導教授 Prof. Shih-Fu Chang），專精於機器學習、電腦視覺、大規模影像視訊搜尋與辨識、自駕車、機器人等領域。為工業智能新創thingnario（慧景科技）共同創辦人，訊連科技研發團隊創始成員，曾任美國微軟研究院客座研究員、IBM華生研究中心客座研究員，期間貢獻第一個AI自動生成預告片。習慣從學術及產業界的角度檢驗技術發展的機會；十餘年產學合作及新創經驗，近年與國內外企業合作，將深度學習技術落實到產品上，並且協助成立深度學習（人工智慧）團隊。研究成果名列2023年「全球前2%頂尖科學家（World’s Top 2% Scientists）」名單，曾獲2018 IBM Research Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award 、CVPR 2018偽裝人臉辨識冠軍、2018 IEEE訊號處理學會影像競賽全球第三 、微軟Bing大規模影像搜尋競賽全球冠軍（2013）、傑出資訊人才獎、吳大猷先生紀念獎等多項國內外大獎。目前亦擔任電子時(DIGITIMES)人工智慧專欄主筆，以及IEEE 頂尖期刊 Trans. on Multimedia (TMM) 及 Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) 副主編。研究內容亦可參考國際媒體報導團隊研究工作。目前亦擔任Columbia Alumni Association of Taiwan哥倫比亞大學校友會理事。
目前致力於Embodied AI（具身智能研究），將感知（Perception）、動作（Action）和機器學習（Learning）等技術實際落地在自駕車、機器人等應用場域中，並與國際科技企業合作（參考近來研究以及報導）。