Dong Xu (Ðì ¶«)  Assistant Professor

School of Computer Engineering

Nanyang Technological University
50 Nanyang Avenue, Blk N4

Singapore, 639798

Office:  N4-02a-29        Email:  dongxu AT ntu dot edu dot sg
Phone:  (65) 67904166    Fax:  (65) 67926559

I am currently looking for Graduate Students, Project Officers, Research Assistants and Postdoctoral Research Fellows to work on topics of statistical learning, computer vision, pattern recognition and multimedia content analysis. Anyone interested can directly send the resume to me.

Short Biography and CV

Dong Xu  is currently an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University at Singapore. He received the B.Eng. and PhD degrees from the Electronic Engineering and Information Science Department, University of Science and Technology of China, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. During his PhD study, he worked at Microsoft Research Asia and The Chinese University of Hong Kong for more than two years. He also worked at Columbia University for one year as a postdoctoral research scientist. His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, statistical learning and multimedia content analysis.

He has published more than 20 papers in top venues including T-PAMI, T-IP, T-CSVT, T-SMC-B and CVPR. He is an associate editor of Neurocomputing (Elsevier). He is the guest editors of three special issues on video and event analysis in IEEE Transactions on Circuits Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT), Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) and Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), and a coauthor of a forthcoming book entitled "Semantic Mining Technologies for Multimedia Databases". He was awarded a Microsoft Fellowship in 2004.

Dong Xu's full CV is here in PDF. (updated 2007/07)

Working Experience

    [1]Present, Assistant Professor with School of Computer Engineering in Nanyang Technological University.

    [2]Postdoctoral Research Scientist with Electrical Engineering Department in Columbia University. 

    [3]Long-term Intern with Microsoft Research Asia.

    [4]Research Assistant with  Information Engineering Department in The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

    [5]Research Assistant with EEIS Department in University of  Science and Technology of China.

    [6]Teaching Assistant with EEIS Department in University of  Science and Technology of China.

Research Grants

Principal Investigator: Next Generation Annotation Techniques for Consumer Photos and Videos (2008-2011), S$1,650,000

    Funded by Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Interactive Digital Media R&D Program (IDM)

Principal Investigator: Visual Event Recognition in News Video (2008-2011), S$545,890

    Funded by A*STAR Public Sector Funding R&D (PSF)

Principal Investigator: Near-duplicate Identification in Web Search (2008-2009), US$15,000

    Funded by Microsoft Research Asia 2008 Internet Services Theme Invitation for Proposals (IFP)

Principal Investigator: Human Gait Recognition with Statistical Learning (2008-2011), S$178,600

    Funded by MOE Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 1

Selected Professional Activities

Book Editor:

       Title: Semantic Mining Technologies for Multimedia Databases

       Editors: D. Tao, D. Xu, and X. Li  (Publisher: Idea Group Inc., www.idea-group.com)

Journal Editor Board:

     Associate Editor, Neurocomputing (Elsevier) ISSN: 0925-2312

Guest Editor:

      IEEE Transactions on Circuits Systems for Video Technology special issue on video and event analysis

       Pattern Recognition Letters (Elsevier) special issue on Video-based Object and Event Analysis

       Computer Vision and  Image Understanding (Elsevier) special issue on Video Analysis

PC Member: ICCV 2007, CVPR 2008

Major Journal Review: T-PAMI, T-IP, T-KDE, T-CSVT, T-MM, T-NN, T-SMC-B

Selected Publications

Teaching