Xuan Song
Xuan Song is currently an Excellent Young Researcher of Japan MEXT, and an Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo. He received the Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from Peking University, China, in 2010. From 2010 to 2012, he worked in Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo as a post-doctoral researcher. From 2012 to 2015, he worked in Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo as a Project Assistant Professor. In 2015, he was promoted to Project Associate Professor with the Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo. In 2018, he joined in Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC) of AIST as a tenured Senior Researcher. In the past five years, he led and participated in many important projects as principal investigator or primary actor in Japan, such as DIAS/GRENE Grant of MEXT, Japan; Japan/US Big Data and Disaster Project of JST, Japan; Young Scientists Grant and Scientific Research Grant of MEXT, Japan; Research Grant of MLIT, Japan; CORE Project of Microsoft; Grant of JR EAST Company and Hitachi Company, Japan. He served as Associate Editor, Guest Editor, Program Chair, Area Chair, Program Committee Member or reviewer for many famous journals and top-tier conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, WWW Journal, Big Data Journal, ACM TIST, IEEE TKDE, UbiComp, ICCV, CVPR, ICRA and etc. His main research interest are AI and its related research areas, such as data mining, intelligent system, computer vision, and robotics, especially on intelligent surveillance and information system design, mobility and spatio-temporal data mining, sensor fusion, and machine learning algorithms development. By now, he has published more than 50 technical publications in journals, book chapter, and international conference proceedings, including more than 30 high-impact papers in top-tier publications for computer science and robotics, such as ACM TOIS, ACM TIST, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE Intelligent System, KDD, UbiComp, IJCAI, AAAI, ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, ICRA and etc. His research was featured in many Japanese and international media, including United Nations, the Discovery Channel, and Fast Company Magazine. He received Honorable Mention Award in UbiComp 2015.
Affiliations and expertise
Excellent Young Researcher, Japan MEXT; Associate Professor, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan