Yangqing Jia  [Curriculum Vitae][blog in Chinese]

Master Candidate, expected to graduate in 2009.7
Department of Automation, Tsinghua University
Advisor: Professor Changshui Zhang
GPA: 91.0/100, Rank: 4/160

B. Eng. with title "Outstanding Graduates", Tsinghua University, 2006.
GPA: Overall: 92.45/100, Major: 93.2/100, Rank: 1/181

Address:
FIT 3-120, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
86-10-62776183 (dorm), 86-10-62796872(office)
jiayq84 [at] gmail [dot] com

Visiting Research Engineer advised by Dr Shuicheng Yan, Learning & Vision Group,
Dept of ECE, National University of Singapore, Sep 2008 - Dec 2008

Research Interest

Machine learning and related topics such as text and image processing, data mining, computer vision, control theories, etc.

View a list of my current and past research projects

Publications

Conference papers

  • Yangqing Jia, Shuicheng Yan, Changshui Zhang. Semi-supervised Learning on Evolutionary Data. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Pasadena, CA, USA, 2009 (ORAL) [draft pdf, 380KB]
  • Yangqing Jia, Zheng Wang, Changshui Zhang. Distortion-Free Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction. The European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), Antwerp, Belgium, 2008. (ORAL) [pdf, 2.3MB]
  • Yangqing Jia, Jingdong Wang, Changshui Zhang, Xian-Sheng Hua. Finding Image Exemplars Using Fast Sparse Affinity Propagation. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Vancouver, BC, Canada. 2008. [ps, 2.7MB] [pdf, 2.5MB]
  • Yangqing Jia, Changshui Zhang. Instance-level Semi-supervised Multiple Instance Learning. The 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Chicago, IL, USA, 2008. (ORAL) [pdf, 181KB] [slides(pdf), 1.4MB]
  • Feiping Nie, Shiming Xiang, Yangqing Jia, Changshui Zhang, Shuicheng Yan. Trace Ratio Criterion for Feature Selection. The 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Chicago, IL, USA, 2008. (ORAL) [draft pdf, 141KB] [slides(ppt), 4.5MB]
  • Jingdong Wang, Yangqing Jia, Xian-Sheng Hua, Changshui Zhang, Long Quan. Normalized Tree Partitioning for Image Segmentation. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, AK, USA, 2008. [pdf, 635KB] [poster, 2.3MB]
  • Yangqing Jia, Changshui Zhang. Learning Distance Metric for Semi-supervised Image Segmentation. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Diego, CA, USA, 2008. [pdf, 564KB]
  • Yangqing Jia, Jingdong Wang, Changshui Zhang, Xian-Sheng Hua. Augmented Tree Partitioning for Interactive Image Segmentation. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Diego, CA, USA, 2008. (ORAL) [pdf, 907KB] [slides(pdf), 1.1MB]
  • Yangqing Jia, Changshui Zhang. Local Regularized Least-Square Dimensionality Reduction. IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tampa, FL, USA. 2008. [pdf, 800KB]

Journal articles

  • Yangqing Jia, Feiping Nie, Changshui Zhang. Trace Ratio Problem Revisited. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (TNN). Under Third-round Minor Revision.
  • Yangqing Jia, Changshui Zhang. Front-view Vehicle Detection by Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method. Pattern Recognition. In Press. DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.07.015 [pdf, 467KB]

In Preparation

  • Yangqing Jia, in collaboration with Jingdong Wang, et al. Tree-based Segmentation Algorithms. In preparation to be submitted to IEEE TPAMI.
  • Feiping Nie, Shiming Xiang, Yangqing Jia, Changshui Zhang. Semi-Supervised Orthogonal Discriminant Analysis via Label Propagation. Pattern Recognition. Under Revision.
  • ... and some other papers under review

Honors and Awards

  • "Zhen Jiang" Scholarship, 20 over 2500+ students, Tsinghua University, 2008. 
  • AAAI-08 Student Scholarship, 2008.
  • Scholarship for academic excellence, Tsinghua University, 2004, 2007
  • Title of Outstanding Graduates, 50 over 3000 students, Tsinghua University, 2006.
  • First-class Fellowships, top 2%, Tsinghua University, from 2003 to 2006.
  • HP Scholarship, China National Scholarship Council, 2004.
  • First Prize, University Students' Physics Competition of Beijing, 2003.

Presentations

  • AAAI-08: 
    • Instance-level Semi-supervised Multiple Instance Learning [slides]
    • Trace Ratio Criterion for Feature Selection [slides]
    • On Discrimimative Semi-supervised Learning* [slides]
    • Semi-supervised Classification Using Local and Global Constraints* [slides]
    • Multi-View Local Learning* [slides]
*: I gave the talk on behalf of the papers' authors. Thus, please contact the corresponding authors if you want to obtain permissions to re-use them.

Language Skills

Native speaker of Mandarin. 

TOEFL (iBT): Reading 29, Listening 29, Speaking 24, Writing 30, Total 112

GRE: Verbal 510, Quantitative 800, Analytical Writing 4.5

References (sorted alphabetically)

Changshui Zhang, Professor, Vice Dean, Dept. of Automation, Tsinghua University

Jingdong Wang, Researcher, Internet Media Group, Microsoft Research Asia

Shuicheng Yan, Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE, National University of Singapore

Xian-Sheng Hua, Lead Researcher, Internet Media Group, Microsoft Research Asia

Misc

For Tsinghua colleagues stuck in creating conference slides and posters in LaTeX format: Download the Tsinghua University's Logo in pdf here. A more convenient format than the official ones.