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Yun Raymond Fu
Dr. Yun Raymond Fu is widely renowned Artificial Intelligence (AI) scholar, professor, researcher and a successful serial entrepreneur. He is a full Professor in Northeastern University and the founder and director of SmileLab. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is Professor affiliated with both College of Engineering and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, Boston. He has authored more than 400 scientific publications as well as 12 patented inventions. He received seven Prestigious Young Investigator Awards from NAE, ONR, ARO, IEEE, INNS, UIUC, Grainger Foundation; eleven Best Paper Awards from IEEE, ACM, IAPR, SPIE, SIAM; many major Industrial Awards from Google, Amazon, Samsung, JPMorgan Chase, MERL, Konica Minolta, Zebra, Adobe, and Mathworks, etc. He is fellow of IEEE, IAPR , OSA and SPIE , a Lifetime Distinguished Member of ACM, Lifetime Member of AAAI and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, member of ACM Future of Computing Academy, Global Young Academy , AAAS, and INNS. He was the founder and CEO of Giaran acquired by Shiseido (Stock 4911: Tokyo) in 2017 ; co-founder and former CTO of TVision Insights since 2015.

Academic Career
Fu received B.Eng. degree with Summa cum laude in Information Engineering through a Special Class for Gifted Students at Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2001. He then received M.Eng. degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems with Summa cum laude from the same university in 2004 under supervisor of Dr. Nanning Zheng. He further received a M.S. degree in Statistics in 2007 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2008 under supervisor of Dr. Thomas S. Huang from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received the highest graduate research awards M. E. Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award and Beckman Graduate Fellowship. He jointed BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA in 2008 as a Scientist founding the Computer Vision research. In 2009, he worked at Tufts University, Medford, MA as Lecturer of Department of Computer Science. He later joined State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in 2010 as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Since 2012, he has been a Tenured Professor affiliated with both College of Engineering and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, Boston.

Research
Fu's research focuses on artificial intelligence, especially machine learning, computer vision and data mining, tended to mitigate real-world visual uncertainties that are more challenging for humans and allow for applications to operate at their optimal performance levels.

In early 2000’s, he developed a graph-based manifold learning framework for discriminative subspace learning, which was one of the first graph embedding technique applied to real-world large size, multiclass, and multi-variance data.

His work has notably advanced machine-based visual analysis through original methodologies, e.g. facial recognition and discrimination, and efficient implementations that allow for practical deployment of these methodologies.

Entrepreneurship
Successful in entrepreneurship, he was the Founder and CEO of AI startup Giaran acquired by the prestigious global cosmetic firm Shiseido (Stock 4911: Tokyo) in 2017 , which applies his AI-based augmented reality technology to benefit Shiseido’s global thousands-of-million e-commerce market. It was the first M&A of such AI-based digital cosmetics in the global cosmetics and beauty market. Giaran is powered by AI technology, such as computer vision, big data, and augmented reality, and creates novel algorithms of deep learning, data mining, and predictive modeling. Giaran technologies include Makeup Virtual Try On, Tutorials, Color Matching, Personalized Recommendations, Makeup Removal, Face Tracking, and Skin Tone Detection which were used across mobile, tablet and desktop as well as through a smart mirror powered by full HD augmented reality.

He was the co-founder, board member, CTO, and later Chief Scientist of TVision Insights since 2015, a big data company inventing novel computer vision technology to measure second-by-second, eyes-on-screen Attention to TV and CTV content and ads. TVision was the winner of the Advertising Research Foundation's Innovation A-List, Microsoft Innovative Award, Mass Challenge 2015 Gold Award, MIT Innovation Initiative, $100K MIT Entrepreneurship Competition, MIT Enterprise Forum, and First prize of NECINA NEW Accelerator 2015. TVision has raised a total of $40.7M in funding over 7 rounds as of Nov 2, 2020 according to Crunchbase and has a post-money valuation in the range of $100M to $500M as of Aug 20, 2020, according to PrivCo.

Awards and Honors
Fu received numerous honors and awards in his career, including :

Memberships


 * Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019
 * Fellow, International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2016
 * Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA), 2019
 * Fellow, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2018
 * Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
 * Member, ACM Future of Computing Academy (FCA), 2017
 * Member, Global Young Academy (GYA), 2016

Young Investigator Awards
 * 2016 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award.
 * 2016 IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award.
 * 2016 UIUC ECE Young Alumni Achievement Award.
 * 2015 National Academy of Engineering US Frontiers of Engineering.
 * 2014 The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator.
 * 2014 Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator.
 * 2014 International Neural Network Society’s Young Investigator Award.

Best Paper Awards
 * 2019 ACM TOMM Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award.
 * 2019 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshop RLQ Best Paper Award.
 * 2017 IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
 * 2017 ACM Multimedia candidate.
 * 2016 SPIE Lockheed Martin Best Paper Award, SPIE Defense & Security Symposium.
 * 2014 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM).
 * 2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) candidate.
 * 2013 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG).
 * 2011 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) LSVA Workshop.
 * 2010 IAPR International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR).
 * 2007 DoCoMo USA Labs Innovative Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).

Industry Faculty Awards
 * 2020 JPMorgan Chase Faculty Research Awards
 * 2020 Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Award
 * 2019 Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Awards
 * 2019 Konica Minolta Award
 * 2018 Zebra Technologies Award
 * 2017 Samsung GRO Award
 * 2016 Mathworks Faculty Research Award
 * 2015 Adobe Faculty Research Award
 * 2010 Google Faculty Research Award

Patents
 * “System for beauty, cosmetic, and fashion analysis”.
 * “Segmentation guided image generation with adversarial networks”.

Press
 * 2020 Computer Vision News, Recognizing Families In the Wild (RFIW).
 * 2019 ACM News, Recognizing Kin.
 * 2018 News@Northeastern, How video technology could change the 2018 World Cup.
 * 2018 University of Illinois, University of Illinois | 150 Years.
 * 2017 Bloomberg, Shiseido Americas Acquires Giaran, Inc.
 * 2017 Associated Press, Shiseido Americas Acquires Giaran, Inc.
 * 2017 ReutersCNBC, “Shiseido Americas Acquires Giaran, Inc.
 * 2017 Yahoo! Finance, “Shiseido Americas Acquires Giaran, Inc.
 * 2017 CNN Money, “Shiseido Americas Acquires Giaran, Inc.
 * 2017 NASDAQ, “Shiseido Americas Acquires Giaran, Inc.
 * 2017 Morningstar, “Shiseido Americas Acquires Giaran, Inc.
 * 2017 Business Wire, “Shiseido Americas Acquires Giaran, Inc.
 * 2017 WWD.com, “Shiseido Buys AI Business Giaran.
 * 2017 Cosmetics Design, “Shiseido Americas acquires AI tech company Giaran.
 * 2017 Market Talk, “Shiseido Trying to Digitalize Make-Up Experience.
 * 2017 News@Northeastern, “Professor’s AI Technology Startup Acquired By Global Cosmetics Company Shiseido.
 * 2017 BW Confidential, Shiseido Americas acquires AI specialist Giaran.
 * 2017 Global Cosmetics Industry, Shiseido Embraces AI and Beauty Customization with Giaran Acquisition.
 * 2017 Cosmetics Business, Shiseido Americas acquires AI technology company Giaran.
 * 2017 Fashion Network, Shiseido Americas acquires data company Giaran for future AI beauty experiences.
 * 2017 Drug Store News, Shiseido Americas dives into AI-powered technology by acquiring Giaran Inc.
 * 2017 Beauty Packaging, Another Acquisition for Shiseido Americas
 * 2017 JiJi Press, Shiseido Acquires U.S. AI Startup Giaran
 * 2017 Happi, Shiseido Americas Buys Giaran.
 * 2017 The Moodie Davitt Report, Next level customer experience: Shiseido Americas acquires Artificial Intelligence specialist Giaran.
 * 2015 Benefunder.org, Can Computers Keep Airports Safe?
 * 2014 The Huntington News, Artificial Intelligence Program Passes for Human.
 * 2014 News@Northeastern, Face value.
 * 2013 MMTC R-letter, How Computers Can Recognize Parent-Child Relationships in Photos.
 * 2012 News@Northeastern, 3Qs: Facial Recognition is the New Fingerprint.
 * 2012 News@Northeastern, Data Mining in the Social-Media.
 * 2011 China CCTV 9, Documentary of Mona Lisa.
 * 2010 Scholarpedia.org, Facial Age Estimation.
 * 2008 National Geographic Channel, How It Was: Secrets of Mona Lisa.
 * 2008 Engineering at Illinois, Graduate Student Honored by Chinese Government.
 * 2008 AS International, How Old Are You?
 * 2008 PhysOrg.com, Intelligent Computers See Your Human Traits.
 * 2008 Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends, Computers Can Now Guess Our Age.
 * 2008 UIUC News, Step Right Up, Let The Computer Look at Your Face and Tell You Your Age.
 * 2008 ABC Science, Age Recognition Software has a Human Eye.
 * 2008 UPI.com, Age Estimation Software is Created.
 * 2008 Hindustantimes.com, Computer that Says How Old You Are.

External links section

 * Yun Raymond Fu's homepage on Northeastern University