" Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky " — Ursula K. Le Guin (A Wizard of Earthsea)
Qinfeng (Javen) Shi
DECRA Fellow
School of Computer Science
The University of Adelaide
Email: qinfeng.shi at ieee.org
Tel: +61-8-8313-0324
News
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(Sept. 2014) Will be a Senior Lecturer at The University of Adelaide from 1st Jan. 2015 - (July 2014) 1 ARC Linkage Project Grant 2014-2017 approved (2nd CI)
- (May 2014) Co-organizing the ECCV2014 Workshop: Graphical Models in Computer Vision
- (Mar. 2014) 1 CVPR paper accepted
- (Feb. 2014) 1 TPAMI paper accepted
- (Dec. 2013) 1 Post-doc position now available; Salary: University Level B (AU$86,756- 89,887); Duration: 2 years (renewable)
- (Nov. 2013) 1 ARC Discovery Project Grant 2014-2016 approved (1st CI)
- (Oct. 2013) Attended Prime Minister's Science Prizes dinner 2013
- (July 2013) Co-organizing the ICCV13 Workshop: Inference for Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs)
Research
Machine Learning, Compressive Sensing, and Computer Vision.Particularly Structured Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models, PAC-Bayes Bounds Analysis, and Probability Ineqaulities.
Structured estimation often involves exponential many possible labels or configurations. How to efficiently infer and learn such models remain a challenging and fun task. Assessing the performance in theory is a joy.
Biography
I am a researcher at The Australian Centre for Visual Technologies, and the School of Computer, The University of Adelaide. I received a PhD in computer science in 2011 at The Australian National University (ANU) in Machine Learning. At ANU, I was under supervison of Alex J. Smola (primary advisor, Now in CMU and Google), S. V. N. Vishwanathan (Now in Purdue), Li Cheng (Now in A-Star), Tiberio Caetano (principle advisor, ANU and NICTA), Richard Hartley (Panel, ANU and NICTA). Before that, I completed Bachelor and Master study in computer science and Technology in 2003 and 2006 at The Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU).