The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Period: Aug. 2013 - Sept. 2017
Department: Department of Electronic Engineering
Supervisor: Prof. Xiaogang Wang and Prof. Hongsheng Li
Degree: PhD
INFO
Staff Machine Learning Engineer and Manager
Apple Inc. · Video Computer Vision
Email: myfavouritekk AT gmail DOT com
Website: kangk.ai
Resume: Resume
Google Scholar: Google Scholar
Publications: Publications
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Computer Vision
- Deep Learning
- Multimodal LLM
- 3D Scene Understanding
- Video Analysis
EDUCATION
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Period: Sep. 2009 - July 2013
School: School of the Gifted Young
Department: Department of Optics and Optical Engineering
Degree: B.S. in Optics
EXPERIENCES
Mar. 2021 - present
Staff Machine Learning Engineer & Engineering Manager. Video Engineering.
Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2021
Machine Learning Manager. Video Engineering.
Oct. 2018 - Apr. 2020
Senior Machine Learning Engineer. Video Engineering.
Technical lead for computer vision and machine learning algorithm development for camera related applications.
Oct. 2017 - Sept. 2018
Computer Vision/Machine Learning Engineer. Video Engineering.
Directly responsible for Face ID antispoofing algorithms since iOS 11.3 for iPhone X, iPhone XS, XS Max, XR and 2018 iPad Pros.
AWARDS
- 2021: Young Alumni Award. 50th Anniversary of the Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- 2020: Outstanding Young Author Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS). "T-CNN: Tubelets With Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection From Videos", T-CSVT 2018.
- 2016: Winner (CUVideo), ImageNet: Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2016 (ILSVRC2016), Task 3c: Object detection/tracking from video with provided training data.
- 2015: Winner (CUVideo), ImageNet: Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2015 (ILSVRC2015), Task 3a: Object detection from video with provided training data.
- 2012: Best Software Tools Project (USTC-Software), International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition World Championship, MIT, Massachusetts, USA
- 2012: Gold Medal (USTC-Software), International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition Asia Jamboree, HKUST, Hong Kong
RESEARCH PROJECTS
CUHK
Period: Aug. 2013 - Sept. 2017
PhD candidate in Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Supervisor: Prof. Xiaogang Wang and Prof. Hongsheng Li
Lab: Multimedia Laboratory, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Areas: Object detection in videos, crowd behavior analysis, computer vision and deep learning
Details see publications.
USTC
Period: Feb. 2012 - Nov. 2012
Team leader of USTC-Software team participating in iGEM competition
Project Topic: Reverse Engineering for Biological Regulatory Networks (REBORN)
Medal: Gold Medal
Prize: Best Software Tools Project
TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
- June, 2016: Object Detection from Video Tubelets with Convolutional Neural Networks, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Spotlight, Las Vegas, NV, USA. video
- Dec, 2015: Object Detection in Videos with Tubelets and Multi-Context Cues, ImageNet and MS COCO Visual Recognition Challenges Joint Workshop, ICCV 2015, Santiago, Chile. slides poster video
- Nov, 2012: Reverse Engineering for Biological Regulatory Networks, iGEM World Jamboree, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Oct, 2012: REBORN: Synthetic Biology Tools for Hackers, iGEM Asia Jamboree, HKUST, Hong Kong
COMPUTER SKILLS
- Programming: Mathematica, Matlab, C, C++, Python
- More projects on GitHub