Biography
- $\color{green}{\mathcal{N}ew!}$ We’re actively recruiting Postdocs, PhDs, and RAs. Please drop me an email via pluo.lhi@gmail.com.
- 2024-03: Two papers will be presented in SIGGRAPH'24, eight papers in ICLR'24 (two spotlights), eight papers in CVPR'24.
- 2024-01: Received the prestigious HKU Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2023. Enjoy the video!
- 2023-10: DiffusionDet was nominated for the Best Paper Final List (17/8260, 0.2%) at ICCV 2023. PVT v2 received the Best Paper Runner-up of the Year 2023 at the Computaional Visual Media Journal (CVMJ). SegFormer and PVT v1 received the Outstanding Young Paper Awards at the World AI Conference (WAIC) 2023.
- 2023-06: Ten papers will be presented in CVPR'23, eleven in ICCV'23, three in ICLR'23, three in ICML'23, six in NeurIPS'23.
- 2022-05: Our paper “Compression of Generative Pre-trained Language Models via Quantization” received ACL 2022 Outstanding Paper Award. 5 papers were presented in ICLR 2022 (CycleMLP is an oral presentation, accepted rate 1.6%), 7 papers in CVPR 2022 (2 oral presentation), 3 papers will be presented in ICML 2022.
My researches aim at (1) developing Differentiable/ Meta/ Reinforcement Learning algorithms that endow machines and devices to solve complex tasks with larger autonomy, (2) understanding foundations of deep learning algorithms, and (3) enabling applications in Machine Vision and Artificial Intelligence such as text to image/video generation, 3D vision, scene and video understanding, and medical image analysis.
Biography
Ping Luo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong, an Associate Director of the HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science (HKU IDS), and a Deputy Director of the Joint Research Lab of HKU and Shanghai AI Lab. He obtained his Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014, under the supervision of Prof. Xiaoou Tang (founder of SenseTime) and Prof. Xiaogang Wang. Before joining HKU in 2019, he was a Research Director in SenseTime. He has published 100+ papers in international conferences and journals such as TPAMI, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, and CVPR, with over 50,000 citations on Google Scholar. He was awarded the 2015 AAAI Easily Accessible Paper, nominated for the 2022 Computational Visual Media Journal's Best Paper of the Year, won the 2022 ACL Outstanding Paper, the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) Outstanding Papers, and was a candidate for the Best Paper at ICCV’23. He was recognized as one of the innovators under 35 in the Asia-Pacific region by the MIT Technology Review (MIT TR35) in 2020. He has mentored 30 Ph.D. students, many of whom have received significant awards such as the Nvidia Fellowship, Baidu Fellowship, WAIC Yunfan Award, etc.
