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YING XIONG
Homepage: http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~yxiong/
Email: yxiong@seas.harvard.edu
Cellphone: 617-999-5816
Address: 33 Oxford Street Office 215, Cambridge, MA, 02138, U.S.A.
Ph.D. candidate, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Last update: April 17, 2015.
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy Candidate, Engineering Sciences
September 2010 - present
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Advisor: Todd Zickler.
Master of Science, Engineering Sciences
September 2010 - November 2012
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Engineering
September 2007 - July 2010
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Undergraduate Student, Math and Physics
August 2006 - August 2007
Department of Fundamental Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
SKILLS
Specialities:
Programming Languages:
Software Engineering Tools:
Computation Software:
Parallel Computing:
Computer Vision and Machine Learning.
C/C++, Python, Java, Scala.
Git, Svn, Maven, Eclipse, Visual Studio.
Matlab, Mathematica, AMPL Cplex.
MapReduce, CUDA, MPI, Spark.
EMPLOYMENT
Software Engineering Intern,
May 2014 - August 2014
iTunes Store (App Store) Server, Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA.
“Ying is exceptionally talented and a pleasure to work with. He’s creative, thoughtful, flexible, and delivers
great results. His presentation skills are a particular strength.” — Eric Friedman
“Ying is a consummate problem solver, who strikes the right balance between exploration and execution.
He is a joy to work with and will be a strong asset for any team that he is part of.” — Ritwik Kumar
Software Engineering Intern,
May 2012 - August 2012
Google Map / Earth Group, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA.
“Ying accomplished a lot during his internship at Google, I was impressed with his tireless effort, high
work ethic and really enjoyed having him on my team.” — Tilman Reinhardt
“Ying was a terrific intern, and showed qualities that suggest he will become a very good researcher and
software engineer. The primary question of an internship is whether I’d like to work with the intern
permanently, and the answer in Ying’s case is a clear ’yes’.” — Aleksey Golovinskiy
Research Assistant,
September 2011 - December 2011
Media Analytics Department, NEC Laboratories America, Cupertino, CA, USA.
“Ying demonstrates a deep math (geometry) background and strong programming skills. Overall, I definitely think Ying is a very solid and top-performaning technology prerson.” — Kai Yu
Research Intern,
July 2009 - August 2009
Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Harvard
Harvard
Harvard
Harvard
CS 283, Computer Vision.
ES 255, Statistical Inference with Engineering Applications.
CS 207, System Development for Computational Science.
CS 124 / CSCI E-124, Data Structures and Algorithms.
Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall
Fall
Spring
Spring
2014
2013
2013
2012
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PUBLICATIONS
Ayan Chakrabarti, Ying Xiong, Steven J. Gortler and Todd Zickler. “Low-level Vision by Consensus in a
Spatial Hierarchy of Regions.” IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
Boston, MA, USA, Jun. 2015. (to appear)
Ying Xiong, Ayan Chakrabarti, Ronen Basri, Steven J. Gortler, David W. Jacobs and Todd Zickler.
“From Shading to Local Shape.” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 67-79, Jan. 2015.
Ayan Chakrabarti, Ying Xiong, Baochen Sun, Trevor Darrell, Daniel Scharstein, Todd Zickler and Kate
Saenko. “Modeling Radiometric Uncertainty for Vision with Tone-mapped Color Images.” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Volume: 36, Issue: 11, Pages: 2185-2198, Nov.
2014.
Anat Levin, Daniel Glasner, Ying Xiong, Fredo Durand, William Freeman, Wojciech Matusik and Todd
Zickler. “Fabricating BRDFs at High Spatial Resolution Using Wave Optics.” SIGGRAPH, ACM
Transactions on Graphics. Volume: 32, Issue: 4, Jul. 2013.
Jing Wang, Guangda Su, Ying Xiong, Jiansheng Chen, Yan Shang, Jiongxin Liu and Xiaolong Ren.
“Sparse Representation for Face Recognition Based on Constraint Sampling and Face Alignment.” Tsinghua Science and Technology. Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 62-67, Feb. 2013.
Ying Xiong, Kate Saenko, Trevor Darrell and Todd Zickler. “From Pixels to Physics: Probabilistic Color
De-rendering.” IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Providence,
RI, USA, Jun. 2012. Oral Presentation, Google Student Travel Awards.
Ying Xiong and Yue M. Lu. “Blind Estimation and Low-rate Sampling of Sparse MIMO Systems
with Common Support.” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
(ICASSP). Kyoto, Japan, Mar. 2012.
Trevor Owens, Kate Saenko, Ayan Chakrabarti, Ying Xiong, Todd Zickler and Trevor Darrell. “Learning
Object Color Models from Multi-view Constraints.” IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR). Springs, CO, USA, Jun. 2011.
Ying Xiong. “Face Recognition Algorithm based on Lasso.” Undergraduate Thesis, Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China, Jul. 2010. Outstanding Thesis.
Ying Xiong and Hui-min Ma. “Extraction and application of 3D Object SIFT Feature.” China Journal
of Image and Graphics. Volume: 15, Issue: 5, Pages: 814-819, May. 2010.
Ying Xiong and Hui-min Ma. “Application of SIFT Feature in 3D Object Recognition.” Conference on
Image and Graphics Technology and Applications (IGTA). Pages: 290-294, Beijing, China, Apr. 2009.
Outstanding Paper.
SIDE PROJECTS
Decaf Compiler: Stanford CS143, Compilers.
August 2012 - January 2013
Implemented a compiler for Decaf programming language that
• is strongly typed and object-oriented with support of encapsulation, inheritance and interface;
• produces intermediate-level TAC code and low-level MIPS code runnable in simulators like Spim.
Weenix OS: Brown CS167/9, Operating Systems.
September 2011 - December 2011
Implemented an operating system that
• fully functions on a bochs virtual machine from bootstrap to running userland programs;
• supports key features of modern operating systems including virtual file systems, virtual memory
management, dynamically loading external libraries, etc.
RISC CPU: Tsinghua 20230054, Principles of Microcomputers.
September 2008 - Janurary 2009
Built a 32-bit RISC micro-process unit from MOSFET that
• supports complete MIPS instruction set and handles all potential hazards with a five-stage pipeline;
• runs 2nd fastest in a department contest with 106 contestants at a working frequency 165.29MHz.
Ying Xiong
AWARDS AND HONORS
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Fall 2012, Spring 2013 and Fall 2014.
CVPR Google Student Travel Awards, 2012.
Outstanding Undergraduate Student of Beijing City and Tsinghua University, 2010.
Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis in Tsinghua University, 2010.
National Scholarship for Comprehensive Excellence twice, 2008 and 2009, First Class.
Silver Medal in 2006 China Mathematical Olympiad.
First Prize in 2005 China High School Mathematical Olympiad and Physics Olympiad.
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