winston hsu

Biography

Prof. Winston Hsu (徐宏民) 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 a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University and was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Vice President for MobileDrive (富智捷),  (from Nov. 2021 to Nov. 2024).

He received Ph.D. (2007) from Columbia University, New York. 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).

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).

Academic/Industry Positions

  • present2015

    Professor

    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei

  • present2017

    Co-founder 共同創辦人

    慧景科技 thingnario Inc.

  • 11/202411/2021

    CTO and Vice President 技術長暨副總經理

    MobileDrive 富智捷 (Joint Venture between Foxconn and Stellantis)

  • 20202016

    Director, NVIDIA AI Lab (NTU)

    National Taiwan University, Taipei

  • 20212017

    科學工業園區審議委員會委員

    Technical Committee for Science Park, Taiwan

  • 20172016

    Visiting Scientist – Cognitive Computing

    IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, USA

  • summer2014

    Visiting Researcher

    Microsoft Research Redmond, USA

  • 20152007

    Assistant/Associate Professor

    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei

  • 20011997

    Founding Engineer and RD Manager

    CyberLink Corp. (訊連科技), Taipei

Education

  • Ph.D. 2007

    Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York

  • MS 1995

    MS in Computer Science

    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Honors and Awards

  • Sept. 2018
    IBM Research Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award
    Recognizing the technical impacts for the contributed AI trainer project as the Visiting Scientist to IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York
  • June. 2018
    FIRST PLACE in IARPA Disguised Faces in the Wild Competition 2018
    Disguised face recognition competition organized in premier vision conference, CVPR 2018
  • Oct. 2017
    Best Brave New Idea Paper Award in ACM Multimedia 2017
    Recognizing the scientific and industrial values for the first AI for movie trailer creation as having my sabbatical leave in IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York.
  • Jan. 2017
    2016 IBM Research Image Award
    Recognizing the technology, industry, and media impacts for the first AI trailer, Morgan, as the Visiting Scientist to IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York
  • Oct.2016
    Award for NVIDIA AI LAB
    The 1st in Asia; awards with multi-year gift grants and supercomputer DGX-1 for deep learning, presented by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
  • Nov. 2016
    Microsoft Research Asia Collaborative Research Award
    Deep learning methods for fashion photo chatbot
  • Nov. 2014
    ACM Multimedia 2014 Grand Challenge Multimodal Award
    A premier recognition for solving industry challenges in the top conference
  • Jul. 2012
    2014-2017 Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) Excellent Young Researcher Award
    selective research grants for prominent young researchers
  • Dec. 2013
    2013 National Outstanding IT Elite Award (傑出資訊人才獎)
    National awards for contributions in advanced research and industry collaborations
  • Oct. 2013
    FIRST PLACE in MSR-Bing Image Retrieval Challenge 2013
    award presented by Microsoft CTO Dr. Harry Shum; event hosted by Microsoft Research Redmond and Bing
  • Oct. 2013
    ACM Multimedia 2013 Grand Challenge Multimodal Award
    A premier recognition for solving industry challenges in the top conference
  • Jul. 2012
    2012-2014 National Science Council (NSC) Excellent Young Researcher Award
    selective research grants for prominent young researchers
  • Jul. 2012
    2012 NTU EECS Research Contribution Award
    top 3% among 180 faculties in EECS school
  • Apr. 2012
    Microsoft Research Asia Collaborative Research Award
    2012 Microsoft Research Asia Windows Phone Theme Program
  • Dec. 2011
    FIRST Prize for ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge 2011
    A premier recognition for solving industry challenges in the top conference
  • Aug. 2011
    2011 National Science Council Ta-You Wu Memorial Award (科技部吳大猷先生紀念獎)
    a national and prestigious recognition for young researchers
  • Jan. 2009
    Microsoft Research Asia Collaborative Research Award