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By Yijing Yang | December 24, 2018 | News

May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter and goodwill. And may the year ahead be full of contentment and joy. Wish all our fellows a Merry Christmas!

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Thesis Title: Advanced Techniques for Object Classification: Methodologies and Performance Evaluation, June 2022. Employment: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Beijing, China The 164th PhD from MCL

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