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Yaoliang Yu

Appointment

Canada CIFAR AI Chair

Pan-Canadian AI Strategy

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University of Waterloo

Google Scholar

About

Appointed Canada CIFAR AI Chair – 2019

Yaoliang Yu is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute and an assistant professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.

Yu’s main research interests include robust regression and classification, representation learning, kernel methods, generative models, convex and nonconvex optimization, distributed systems, and applications in computer vision, genetics, and finance.

Awards

  • PhD Dissertation Award from the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association, 2015
  • Top reviewers for ICML/NeurIPS, 2018

Relevant Publications

  • Chang, X., Yu, Y. L., Yang, Y., & Xing, E. P. (2016). Semantic pooling for complex event analysis in untrimmed videos. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 39(8), 1617-1632.

  • Chang, X., Yang, Y., Hauptmann, A., Xing, E. P., & Yu, Y. L. (2015). Semantic concept discovery for large-scale zero-shot event detection. In Twenty-fourth international joint conference on artificial intelligence.

  • Xing, E. P., Ho, Q., Dai, W., Kim, J. K., Wei, J., Lee, S., … & Yu, Y. (2015). Petuum: A new platform for distributed machine learning on big data. IEEE transactions on Big Data, 1(2), 49-67.

  • White, M., Yu, Y., Zhang, X., & Schuurmans, D. (2012). Convex Multi-view Subspace Learning. In Nips (pp. 1682-1690).

  • Zhang, X., Yu, Y., & Schuurmans, D. (2012). Accelerated Training for Matrix-norm Regularization: A Boosting Approach. In NIPS (Vol. 12, pp. 2915-2923).

Institution

University of Waterloo

Vector Institute

Department

Cheriton School of Computer Science

Education

  • PhD (Computing Science), University of Alberta

Country

Canada

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