Dahua Lin is an associate professor in the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He took a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and information science at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004, a Master of Philosophy degree in information engineering at CUHK in 2007 and a PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in 2012. During his studies he was a research intern at Microsoft Research Asia in 2004, Microsoft Research Redmond in 2009 and Microsoft Research Silicon Valley in 2010; he received the Best Student Paper Award at NIPS 2010 and Outstanding Reviewer Awards at ICCV in 2009 and 2011. His training runs from electrical engineering into information engineering and computer science, with research centred on computer vision and machine learning.
Lin's path from USTC through CUHK and MIT back to a CUHK professorship is one of local training, international experience and return; his research centres on vision and machine learning, with reviewing and conference work in the international community.
Achievements
- 2010 · Received the Best Student Paper Award at NIPS.
- 2012 · Completed a PhD at MIT.