Draft:Dong Zhang

Dr. Tim Zhang, also known as Dong Zhang, is a prominent figure in the field of machine learning. Zhang has made significant contributions to various technology companies and research institutions.

Education

 * Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 2007 (Received the Best Ph.D. Award)
 * Master, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2001
 * Bachelor, Beijing Institute of Technology, 1998

Experience

 * Founder & CEO, Beijing Machine Learning Limited (2015 – present)
 * Chief Architect, Shenma Tech (Alibaba) (2013 – 2015)
 * Founder, Beijing OneboxTech (2011 - 2013)
 * Chief Architect, Baidu (2009 - 2011)
 * Researcher, Google (2007 - 2009)

Patents
Zhang holds several patents in the field of technology.

Journals

 * The Team-player Influence Model - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
 * Modeling Individual and Group Actions in Meetings with Layered HMMs - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, June 2006
 * Automatic Analysis of Multimodal Group Actions in Meetings - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), March 2005

Conferences

 * Exploring Contextual Information in a Layered Framework for Group Action Recognition - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2007
 * Detection and Application of Inuence Rankings in Small Group Meetings - Eighth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) 2006
 * Modeling Interactions from Email Communication - In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2006
 * Learning Inuence among Interacting Markov Chains - In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 18. MIT Press, 2005
 * Semi-supervised Adapted HMM for Unusual Event Detection - IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2005
 * Semi-supervised Meeting Event Recognition with Adapted HMMs - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2005
 * Detecting Group Interest- level in Meetings - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2005
 * Extracting Information from Multimedia Meeting Collections - ACM SIGMM Information Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2005
 * Multimodal Integration for Meeting Group Action Segmentation and Recognition - Machine Learning for Multimodel Interaction (MLMI) 2005
 * Multimodal Meeting Action Modeling Using Multi-Layer HMM Framework - NIPS 2004 Workshop on Multimodal Signal Processing
 * Multimodal Group Actions Clustering in Meetings - ACM 2nd International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks, in conjunction with 12th ACM Multimedia 2004
 * Modeling Individual and Group Actions in Meetings: a Two-Layer HMM Framework - Second IEEE Workshop on Event Mining: Detection and Recognition of Events in Video, In Association with CVPR 2004
 * Real-Time Face Detection Using Boosting Learning in Hierarchical Feature Spaces - International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2004
 * Face Recognition Using AdaBoosted Gabor Features - International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2004
 * Learning to Boost GMM Based Speaker Verification - Eurospeech, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003
 * Performance Evaluation Protocol for Video Scene Detection Algorithms - Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, in conjunction with 10th ACM Multimedia 2002
 * MyVideos: a System For Home Video Management - ACM Multimedia, 2002
 * A New Shot Boundary Detection Algorithm - EEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), 2001
 * Video Segmentation by Two Measures and Two Thresholds - IEEE IDEAL, 2000