Address:
8125 Math Sciences Building,
Box 951554,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Email: sczhu(at)stat.ucla.edu or cs.ucla.edu
Tel: 310-206-8693
Office: Boelter Hall 9404
Biography
Song-Chun Zhu received his BS degree from Univ. of Sci.& Tech. of China in 1991 and a PhD degree from Harvard University in 1996. He is a professor of Statistics and Computer Science at UCLA, and director of the Center for Vision, Learning, Cognition and Arts (VCLA@UCLA). His research interests include computer vision, statistical modeling and learning, cognition, and visual arts. He has received a number of honors, including the J.K. Aggarwal prize from the Intl Association of Pattern Recognition in 2008 for “contributions to a unified foundation for visual pattern conceptualization, modeling, learning, and inference”, the David Marr Prize in 2003 with Z. Tu et al. for image parsing, the Marr Prize honorary nominations i n 1999 for texture modeling and 2007 for object modeling with Y. Wu et al., a Sloan Fellowship in Computer Science in 2001, an NSF Career Award in 2001, and an ONR Young Investigator Award in 2001. He is a Fellow of IEEE.