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Minjie Xu
April 13, 2015
Contact
Information
Room 4-504, FIT Building,
Tsinghua University,
Beijing, P. R. China, 100084
Research
Interests
Latent Variable Models, Bayesian Nonparametrics
Education
Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China
chokkyvista06@gmail.com
+86-15901038918
+86-10-62795869
Department of Computer Science and Technology
• Ph.D.
09/2010 to 07/2015 (expected )
• Thesis Proposal: Mining Latent Structures in Classification Problems
• Supervisors: Prof. Bo Zhang and Prof. Jun Zhu
Department of Computer Science and Technology
• B.Eng.
09/2006 to 07/2010
• Thesis: Image Segmentation via Edgelet with Multi-Level Features
• Supervisor: Prof. Bo Zhang
Research
Experience
University of Oxford
Department of Statistics
• Recognised Student
10/2013 to 09/2014
(supported by the State Scholarship Fund under the China Scholarship Council)
• Bayesian MCMC Methods for Big Data and Latent Structure Learning
• Academic Adviser: Prof. Yee Whye Teh
Tsinghua National Laboratory of Information Science and Technology,
Tsinghua University
State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems
• Research Assistant
12/2011 to present
• Bayesian Nonparametrics and Latent Feature Models (Machine Learning)
• Supervisors: Prof. Bo Zhang and Prof. Jun Zhu
State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems
• Research Assistant
• Image Segmentation (Computer Vision)
• Supervisors: Prof. Bo Zhang and Jinhui Yuan, Ph.D.
03/2010 to 11/2011
Research Center for Neural and Cognitive Computation
• Research Assistant
• Color Perception (Cross-Discipline Research)
• Supervisors: Prof. Zhaoping Li and Jinhui Yuan, Ph.D.
Publications
09/2009 to 05/2010
Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
1. Minjie Xu, Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Yee Whye Teh, Jun Zhu, and Bo Zhang.
“Distributed Bayesian Posterior Sampling via Moment Sharing”. In Advances
in Neural Information Processing Systems 27, Montreal, Canada, 2014. (NIPS
2014)
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2. Minjie Xu, Jun Zhu and Bo Zhang. “Fast Max-Margin Matrix Factorization
with Data Augmentation”. In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference
on Machine Learning, Atlanta, USA, 2013. (ICML 2013)
3. Minjie Xu and Jun Zhu. “Discriminative Infinite Latent Feature Models”. In
Proceedings of the 1st IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal
and Information Processing, Beijing, China, 2013. (ChinaSIP 2013)
4. Minjie Xu, Jun Zhu and Bo Zhang. “Nonparametric Max-Margin Matrix Factorization
for Collaborative Prediction”. In Advances in Neural Information Processing
Systems 25, Lake Tahoe, USA, 2012. (NIPS 2012)
Workshop Abstracts
1. Jinhui Yuan, Minjie Xu, Bo Zhang and Zhaoping Li. “Understanding cone
spectral selectivities from information maximization and color constancy”. AsiaPacific Conference on Vision, Taipei, July 23-26, 2010.
2. Minjie Xu, Jinhui Yuan and Bo Zhang. “Why does von Kries law hold?” Vision
Science Society Annual Meeting, Florida, USA, May 7-12, 2010.
Working Papers
1. Hugh Perkins, Minjie Xu, Jun Zhu and Bo Zhang. “Fast Parallel SVMs using
Data Augmentation”.
Services
Program Committee Member
UAI 2015, ICML-DMPI workshop 2014
Reviewer
TPAMI 2014, NIPS 2014, ICML 2014
Honors and
Awards
CreditEase Scholarship
NIPS Travel Award
Baidu Scholarship
ICML Volunteer
NIPS Volunteer
Excellent Graduate Award, Beijing (top 5%)
Outstanding Graduate Award, Tsinghua University (top 8%)
Toshiba-Tsinghua Scholarship, Tsinghua University
National Scholarship, First-Class, Tsinghua University (top 6%)
Working
Experience
Google Inc., Beijing Office
• Software Engineer Intern
• Data-driven automatic enhancement of HDR compositions
• Mentor: Hui Fang
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2010
2010
2009
2007
06/2013 to 09/2013
Google Inc., Beijing Office
• Software Engineer Intern
06/2011 to 09/2011
• Image and video processing framework on the Android platform
• Mentor: Hui Fang
Presentations
Plenary
• International Conference on Machine Learning, Atlanta, GA, U.S.
06/2013
Poster
• Neural Information Processing Systems, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
12/2014
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• Neural Information Processing Systems, Lake Tahoe, NV, U.S.
• Vision Science Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL, U.S.
References
12/2012
05/2010
Bo Zhang
Professor
+86-10-62773875
Department of Computer Science and Technology dcszb@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Tsinghua University
Jun Zhu
Associate Professor
+86-10-62772322
Department of Computer Science and Technology dcszj@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Tsinghua University
Yee Whye Teh
Professor
Department of Statistics
University of Oxford
+44-1865-285-388
y.w.teh@stats.ox.ac.uk
Hui Fang
Senior Software Engineer
Google Research
Google Inc.
hfang@google.com
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