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General Information
Full Name | Zijun Cui |
Languages | English, Chinese |
Education
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2022
Ph.D. Computer Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Thesis Knowledge-augmented Deep Learning and its Applications
- Advisor Dr. Qiang Ji
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2022
M.S. Applied Mathematics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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2017
M.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering
Brown University
- Master thesis Multi-Frame Enrichment of Motion Segmentation
- Advisor Dr. Benjamin Kimia
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2015
B.S. Modern Physics
University of Science and Technology of China
- Bachelor thesis Analyze of Electron Diffraction and its Application
- Advisor Dr. Linfan Zhu
Experience
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2023 - present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Southern California
- Developing sophisticated algorithms for physics-informed deep learning using causal models and physical information.
- Exploring their applications in time-series forecasting, urban transportation, and health applications.
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2017 - 2022
Research Assistant
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Developed advanced knowledge-augmented deep learning algorithms with diverse types of domain knowledge such as biomechanics and mathematical theorems, and explored their applications in computer vision tasks.
- Developed efficient and accurate learning and inference algorithms on probabilistic graphical models and explored their applications in computer vision tasks.
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2019
Visiting Research Scholar
IBM Thomas J.Watson Research Center
- Developed an effective knowledge-augmented deep learning algorithm for the knowledge graph completion task
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2017 - 2019
Project Member
Data-Driven Discovery of Models, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Developed robust structure learning algorithms through Bayesian approaches under insufficient data.
- Contributed and maintained primitives in the D3M AutoML Ecosystem.
Honors and Awards
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2023
- Allen B. Dumont Prize from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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2022
- UAI Scholarship
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2018
- Rensselaer-IBM Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration Scholarship
Service
Reviewer | CVPR'(22,23), UAI'(22,23), ECCV'22, ICLR'23, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics |
Conference volunteer | KDD'(23), Women in Machine Learning (WiML) 2023@NeurIPS |