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General Information

Full Name Zijun Cui
Languages English, Chinese

Education

  • 2022
    Ph.D. Computer Systems Engineering
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    • Thesis Knowledge-augmented Deep Learning and its Applications
    • Advisor Dr. Qiang Ji
  • 2022
    M.S. Applied Mathematics
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • 2017
    M.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering
    Brown University
    • Master thesis Multi-Frame Enrichment of Motion Segmentation
    • Advisor Dr. Benjamin Kimia
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2019
    Visiting Research Scholar
    IBM Thomas J.Watson Research Center
    • Developed an effective knowledge-augmented deep learning algorithm for the knowledge graph completion task
  • 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

  • 2023
    • Allen B. Dumont Prize from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • 2022
    • UAI Scholarship
  • 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