Tianfan Xue is a Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He took a bachelor's degree in computer science and technology at Tsinghua University in 2009 and a Master of Philosophy degree in the Department of Information Engineering at CUHK in 2011, then completed a PhD at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory under Professor William T. Freeman. From 2017 to 2022 he was a staff software engineer at Google Research, and before that he was a research intern at Microsoft Research Cambridge in 2014, Microsoft Research Redmond in 2015 and Facebook Research in 2016. He received an outstanding reviewer award at CVPR 2018 and has served as web chair of CVPR 2020 and as an area chair for WACV 2022 and CVPR 2023.
Xue's path runs from a master's degree at CUHK through a MIT doctorate and Google Research to a CUHK professorship — a full arc of local training, international experience and return; he also takes part in the computer-vision community through reviewing and conference roles.
Achievements
- 2011 · Completed a Master of Philosophy degree in information engineering at CUHK.
- 2017 · Joined Google Research as a software engineer, remaining until 2022.
- 2023 · Served as an area chair for CVPR.