Education

PhD in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021-2026 (expected)
- Advisor: Alexander Schwing
MPhil in Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2019-2021
- Advisors: Chi-Keung Tang, Yu-Wing Tai
- Thesis: Efficient Video Object Segmentation with Space-Time Correspondence Networks
BEng in Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2015-2019
- Minor in Robotics

Work experience

December 2015 - June 2018: Embedded Systems Engineer
- HKUST Robotics Team
- Embedded programming for STM32
- PID control with path planning
- Low-level communication and libraries
- Robocon 2016/17

Publications

Rethinking Space-Time Networks with Improved Memory Coverage for Efficient Video Object Segmentation NeurIPS, 2021

Modular Interactive Video Object Segmentation: Interaction-to-Mask, Propagation and Difference-Aware Fusion CVPR, 2021

CascadePSP: Toward Class-Agnostic and Very High-Resolution Segmentation via Global and Local Refinement CVPR, 2020

Teaching experience

TA for COMP4901L (Foundations of Computer Vision) Fall 2020
TA for COMP5421 (Computer Vision) Spring 2020
TA for MSBD6000G (Deep Learning Meets Computer Vision: Practice and Applications) Fall 2019, Spring 2021

Awards

Competitions

YouTubeVOS 2021 challenge, 1st place in novel classes, 2nd place overall
Robocon 2016 regional first and second runner-up; regional champion in 2017

Scholarships

Chiang Chen Overseas Fellowship
HKUST Postgraduate Studentship (PGS)
YUNEEC Outstanding Engineering Student Award
HK-GOV Reaching Out Award (ROA) and Talent Development Scholarship (TDS)
HKUST Admission Scholarship