Yun Raymond Fu

(he/him)

Professor, Interdisciplinary with College of Engineering

Yun Raymond Fu

Research interests

  • Machine learning
  • Computational intelligence
  • Big data mining
  • Computer vision
  • Pattern recognition
  • Cyber-physical systems

Education

  • PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • MS in Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • BEng in Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University — China

Biography

Yun Raymond Fu is a professor in the College of Engineering and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.

Fu's research interests include machine learning, computational intelligence, big data mining, computer vision, pattern recognition, and cyber-physical systems. He has published extensively in leading journals, books and book chapters, and international conferences and workshops, and serves as associate editor, chair, program committee member, and reviewer for many of these same venues and publications.

Fu is also a successful serial entrepreneur for technology commercialization. He was founder and president of Giaran, a spinoff from Northeastern University that focused on developing neural network-based augmented reality and facial image processing technologies. It was acquired by the global cosmetic firm Shiseido in 2017.

Fu has received seven young investigator awards from NAE, ONR, ARO, IEEE, INNS, UIUC, and the Grainger Foundation. He also holds nine best paper awards from IEEE, IAPR, SPIE, and SIAM. In addition, he has received many major industrial research awards from Google, Samsung, Zebra, Adobe, and Mathworks. Fu is currently an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He is a fellow of AAAS, IEEE, IAPR, OSA, SPIE, and AAIA; a Lifetime Distinguished Member of ACM, and a Lifetime Senior Member of AAAI and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is also a member of the ACM Future of Computing Academy, Global Young Academy, AAAS, and INNS.

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