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Sep 2023: Promoted to professor with retrospective effect from July 1st, 2023. Thanks to my colleagues in the Maths department and ECE department. Thanks to my students (undergraduate, graduate), research assistants, postdocs, collaborators and, most importantly, my wife Huili Guo and my family for the support over the past few years.
Jun 2023: Posted a working draft on DragDiffusion in which we harness diffusion models for interactive point-based image editing. We leverage large-scale pretrained diffusion models to vastly improve the applicability of interactive point-based editing in real world scenarios. This is done by optimizing the diffusion latent to achieve precise spatial control. Work done by Yujun Shi and co-authors. The project page can be found here.
Jun 2023: Congratulations to FYP students Xiaochen Zhu and He Yuan for winning prestigious Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prizes.
Jun 2023: Congratulations to former Ph.D. student Zixin Zhong for winning the Louis Chen Hsiao Yun Best Dissertation Prize. This prize is awarded annually to the student with the best Ph.D. thesis in mathematics and its applications.
Jun 2023: Congratulations to Ph.D. student Pan Jiachun for successfully completing her thesis defense.
May 2023: Received 4.2/5.0 for my teaching of some of the lectures of EE2211 Introduction to Machine Learning. See review quotes here.
May 2023: Congratulations to Ph.D. students Jingyi Zhao and Jiawei Du for successfully completing their thesis defenses.
Research Interests and Open Positions
Information Theory Machine Learning Statistical Signal Processing
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