News

In summer 2016, MCL welcomes a new intern student, De Lan. We gave him a warm welcome and had a short interview with him.

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself? (Previous research experience, project experience, research interest and expertise)

Hi, I’m De Lan from Sichuan provence in China, now studying at Department of Electronic Engineering of BUAA (Beihang University), Beijing, China. I’ll be a senior student soon next semester. I took part in a research project in my university, focusing on human eye saliency prediction in video. I am interested in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. I find them really  intriguing and promising. And that’s why I came here this summer.

2. What’s your first impression of USC and MCL?

There were some intimidating rumors about USC before I came here. However, through what I’ve experienced, I find this place really nice. A big campus with fantastic museums and exhibition hall, many large comfortable libraries and beautiful campus landscaping. And everyone here is friendly. Especially in MCL, members are always prepared to help each other, although we just met the first time for most of us.

3. What’s your future expectation for MCL?

MCL is like a united big family guided by Prof.Kuo ,everyone is great and working hard. I hope to make more friends and learn more about computer vision here in the rest time of this summer.  And I believe MCL members are going to make good news in academic world!

In summer 2016, MCL welcomes a new intern student, Weiqi Fang. We gave him a warm welcome and had a short interview with him.

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself? (Previous research experience, project experience, research interest and expertise)

I come from Shenzhen, China and major in Electronic Engineering in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. I am now in my Junior year, and gonna be a Senior Student next semester. I have interned in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore the last summer, doing works on speech signal analysis. My research interest is image processing, including image detection, image classification and so on. I am very interested in image detection, especially face detection.
I have a variety of hobbies, including tennis, basketball, watching movies, hobby collection and so on.
2. What’s your first impression of USC and MCL?

I think that MCL is a very warm and positive group. Students here are all very kind and helpful. Everybody works hard. I feel honored and am very glad to be here as a part of MCL.

3. What’s your future expectation for MCL?

I wish to learn more about CNN and wish to be able to work out some project by the time I am leaving here. I am looking forward to make friends with you all and make progress in image processing field.

We are so happy to welcome a new junior undergraduate student –Xinyao Chen to our lab in 2016 summer. Let us hear what she said about the intern in our group.

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself? (Previous research experience, project experience, research interest and expertise)
I’m a 3rd year undergraduate student from Tsinghua University. I major in Electronic Engineering. During my last three years, most of the research I took part in focused on encoding and image/video processing. But I’m also very enthusiastic about trying something new! I’ve basically learned something about machine learning and neural network on the course Media and Recognition and I found them fascinating. Maybe that’s why I came here.

2.What’s your first impression of USC and MCL?

USC is a very beautiful place, and it’s much bigger than I thought! I always got lost on the first few days. There are lots of fountains here and the buildings all look so different from those in Tsinghua. MCL is warm, all the internship students and members I’ve met are really very warm-hearted. The mini courses are teaching me lots of skills and tools that I’ve never learned before. Looking forward to the next 2 months here.

3. What’s your future expectation for MCL?

As my previous research experience was mainly about video coding and image processing, the field of CNN will be a great challenge for me. I hope the research experience at MCL will help me build systematic knowledge about CNN and deep learning. I would also treasure the research experience itself.

We are so happy to welcome a new senior high school student – Ryan Wong to our lab in 2016 summer. Let us hear what he said about the intern in our group.

1. Could you briefly introduce yourself? (Previous research experience, project experience, research interest and expertise)

I’m a high school rising senior in Concordia International School Shanghai. I came to USC this summer as an intern for MCL. This is my first official research experience working under Professor Kuo as a student/intern. I’ve previously researched game design and entrepreneurship in Colombia University.

2.What’s your first impression of USC and MCL?

For the past week I’ve been learning how to use Matlab, an engineering software used by engineers and scientists. Matlab uses several computer language such as C++, which I’m not familiar with; however, after a week of personal tutoring by Yi Fang and Chen, MCL members of USC undergrads, I’ve gotten familiar with Matlab and this new computer language called C++. I’m glad to have met them as my mentors for the past week, and I’m looking forward for the upcoming 5 weeks of research and entrepreneurship with them.

3. What’s your future expectation for MCL?

I hope MCL will deepen my language in Computer Science and better prepare me in my AP Computer Science course next semester in high school.

Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo received the 2016 Taylor L. Booth Education Award from the IEEE Computer Society in Atlanta, June 8, 2016. The Taylor L. Booth Education Award commemorates outstanding records in computer science and engineering education. Accompanied by a bronze medal and $5,000 honorarium, the award recognizes achievement as a teacher of renown in a relevant and applicable course; writing an influential text; leading, inspiring, or providing significant educational content during the creation of a curriculum in the field; or inspiring others to a career in computer science and engineering education. Professor Kuo was cited “for excellence as an inspiring educator and for distinguished contributions to multimedia education with impact on academic and industry realms.”
In the award banquet, Professor Kuo gave a short speech — “In my 30-year academic career, nothing has been more rewarding than serving as an advisor for a large number of talented and hard-working PhD students. Besides guiding them in conducting high quality research, I teach them respectable academic practices such as being cooperative team players and good citizens in technical communities. As time goes by, scientific knowledge and technological innovation will be archived. It is the well-trained next-generation who will lead our society forward.” Professor Kuo also expressed his appreciation to the IEEE Computer Society for the recognition and the love and support from his family and students.