Laboratory Director
Prof. Yu-Chiang Frank Wang
王鈺強 教授
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing
Contact: ycwang AT ntu.edu.tw
Yu-Chiang Frank Wang received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2001. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 and 2009, respectively. In 2009, Dr. Wang joined the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI) of Academia Sinica, leading the Multimedia and Machine Learning Lab. Dr. Wang joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University as an Associate Professor in 2017, and was promoted to Professor in 2019. Since 2022, Dr. Wang joins NVIDIA, where he serves as the Research Director in Deep Learning & Computer Vision and leads NVIDIA Research Taiwan. With continuing research focuses on computer vision and machine learning, Dr. Wang's recent research topics include deep learning for vision & language, transfer learning, and 3D vision. Dr. Wang serves as organizing committee members and area chairs of multiple international conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and ACCV. Several of his papers are nominated for the best paper awards, including IEEE ICIP, ICME, AVSS and MVA. Dr. Wang is twice selected as the Outstanding Young Researcher by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (2013-2015 and 2017-2019), as well as the Technological Research Innovation Award from the College of EECS at NTU. In 2022, Dr. Wang receives the Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Paper Award in Artificial Intelligence from the Far Eastern Y. Z. Hsu Science & Technology Memorial Foundation. In 2023, Dr. Wang is recognized as the Outstanding Young Scholar by the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship.
Work Experiences
Research Director, Deep Learning & Computer Vision AI研究總監 2022 - present
NVIDIA, Taiwan
Professor 教授 2019 - present
Dept. Electrical Engineering & Graduate Inst. Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University 國立台灣大學電機工程學系暨電信工程學研究所
Principal AI Consultant 首席AI顧問 2021- 2022
Inventec Corporation 英業達 AI研發中心
AI Advisory Consultant AI諮詢顧問 2019 - 2022
ASUS Intelligent Cloud Services, ASUSTek Computer Inc. 華碩AI研發中心
Director 中心主任 2019 - 2022
Computing Center, Dept. Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University 國立台灣大學電機工程學系計算中心
Section Director for Technology Promotion & Public Relation 技術推廣暨對外關係組組長 2018 - present
MOST Joint Research Center for AI Technology & All Vista Healthcare 科技部台灣大學人工智慧研究中心
AI Program Review Committee AI計畫審查委員 2019 - 2022
Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs 經濟部工業局
Project Consultant 專案顧問 2019 - 2021
Institute for Information Industry 財團法人資訊工業策進會
Associate Professor 副教授 2017 - 2019
Dept. Electrical Engineering & Graduate Inst. Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University 國立台灣大學電機工程學系暨電信工程學研究所
Research Consultant 研究顧問 2017
Viscovery 創意引晴
Deputy Director 中心副主任 2015 - 2017
Research Center for IT Innovation, Academia Sinica 中央研究院資訊科技創新研究中心
Assistant/Associate Research Fellow 助/副研究員 2009 - 2017
Research Center for IT Innovation, Academia Sinica 中央研究院資訊科技創新研究中心
Industrial Partners (alphabetical order)
AICS, Bitmark, Chunghwa Telecom, Deep01, Digital Drift, E.SUN Commercial Bank,
Google, ITRI, Inventec, KaiKuTek, Moxa, Novatek, Qualcomm, Taiwan AI Labs,
Theia, Tron Future Tech, TSMC, Umbo Computer Vision, Viscovery
Work Experiences
Research Director, Deep Learning & Computer Vision AI研究總監 2022 - present
NVIDIA, Taiwan
Professor 教授 2019 - present
Dept. Electrical Engineering & Graduate Inst. Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University 國立台灣大學電機工程學系暨電信工程學研究所
Principal AI Consultant 首席AI顧問 2021- 2022
Inventec Corporation 英業達 AI研發中心
AI Advisory Consultant AI諮詢顧問 2019 - 2022
ASUS Intelligent Cloud Services, ASUSTek Computer Inc. 華碩AI研發中心
Director 中心主任 2019 - 2022
Computing Center, Dept. Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University 國立台灣大學電機工程學系計算中心
Section Director for Technology Promotion & Public Relation 技術推廣暨對外關係組組長 2018 - present
MOST Joint Research Center for AI Technology & All Vista Healthcare 科技部台灣大學人工智慧研究中心
AI Program Review Committee AI計畫審查委員 2019 - 2022
Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs 經濟部工業局
Project Consultant 專案顧問 2019 - 2021
Institute for Information Industry 財團法人資訊工業策進會
Associate Professor 副教授 2017 - 2019
Dept. Electrical Engineering & Graduate Inst. Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University 國立台灣大學電機工程學系暨電信工程學研究所
Research Consultant 研究顧問 2017
Viscovery 創意引晴
Deputy Director 中心副主任 2015 - 2017
Research Center for IT Innovation, Academia Sinica 中央研究院資訊科技創新研究中心
Assistant/Associate Research Fellow 助/副研究員 2009 - 2017
Research Center for IT Innovation, Academia Sinica 中央研究院資訊科技創新研究中心
Industrial Partners (alphabetical order)
AICS, Bitmark, Chunghwa Telecom, Deep01, Digital Drift, E.SUN Commercial Bank,
Google, ITRI, Inventec, KaiKuTek, Moxa, Novatek, Qualcomm, Taiwan AI Labs,
Theia, Tron Future Tech, TSMC, Umbo Computer Vision, Viscovery
Master Students
Research Assistants
Alumni
- Dr. Wei-Chen Chiu (Assistant Professor, Dept. CS, National Chiao Tung University)
- Dr. Li-Wei Kang (Associate Professor, Dept. CSIE, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology)
- Dr. Yi-Ren Yeh (Assistant Professor, Dept. Math, National Kaohsiung Normal University)
- Dr. Chia-Po Wei (Vivotek, Inc.)
- Dr. Min-Chun Yang (Emotibot, Inc.)
- Dr. Fu-En Yang (Research Scientist, NVIDIA Research Taiwan)
- Yu-Ying Yeh (M.S. student in CS, University of California San Diego)
- Yen-Cheng Liu (Ph.D. student in ML, Georgia Tech)
- Wei-Yu Chen (Ph.D. student in ECE, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Tzu-Ming Hsu (Ph.D. student in EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Chia-Wen Kuo (Ph.D. student in Robotics, Georgia Tech)
- Chih-Kuan Yeh (Ph.D. student in ML, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Wei-Jen Ko (Ph.D. student in CS, University of Texas in Austin)
- Tim Lee (Ph.D. student in EECS, University of California Berkeley)
- Yao-Hung Tsai (Ph.D. student in ML, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Shao-Hua Sun (Ph.D. student in CS, University of Southern California)
- Jen-Hao Chang (Ph.D. student in ECE, Carnegie Mellon University)
- De-An Huang (Ph.D. student in CS, Stanford University)
- Haw-Shiuan Chang (M.S./Ph.D. student in CS, UMass Amherst)
- Meng-Huan Wu (PhD student, Univ. Rochester)
- Chih-Fan Chen (Ph.D. student in CS, University of Southern California)
- Chun-Hao Huang (Ph.D. student in CS, University of Technology, Munich, Germany)
- Chia-Yin Tsai (Ph.D. student in ECE, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Wen-Sheng Tseng (Ph.D. student in Information Science, Cornell University)
- Kuo-Chin Lien (Ph.D. student in ECE, UCSB, Santa Barbara)
- Yu-Wei Chao (Ph.D. student in EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
- Ching-Hui Chen (Ph.D. student in ECE, University of Maryland)
- Kuan-Chieh Chen (Ph.D. student in BME/ECE, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Yung-Yu Chung (Ph.D. student in ECE, Iowa State University)
- Ting-Yao Hu (Ph.D. student in CS, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Chang-Heng Wang (Ph.D. student in EE, UC San Diego)
- Wan-Cyuan Fan (Ph.D. student, University of British Columbia)
- Hsuan-I Ho (M.S. student in CS, ETH Zurich)
- Te-Li Wang (M.S. student in Computer Vision, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Shih-Yeh Tao (M.S. student in Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Tzu-Chien Fu (M.S. student in EECS, Northwestern University)
- Wei-Chieh Wu (M.S. student in CS, University of California, San Diego)
- Hao-Wei Li (M.S. student in CS, University of Toronto)
- Yuan-Ting Hsieh (M.S. student in CS, University of Minnesota)
- Evan Su (M.S. student in CS, Cornell University)
- Cheng-An Hou (M.S. student in Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Liang-Gang Huang (M.S. student in Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Hsin-Yuan Wen (M.S. student in EE, Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Hao-Wei Lee (M.S. student in CS, University of Toronto)
- Tzu-Yun Lin (Program of Data Science for Social Good, Univ. Chicago)
- Shun-Jen Lee (M.S. Student in EE, UC San Diego)
- Min-Chia Tsai (M.S. Student in INI, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Shung-Poo Fan (M.S. student in EECS, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor)
- Kevin Liang (M.S. student in ECE, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Yen-Chen Wu (M.S. student in EE, National Taiwan University)
- Ming-Hang Fu (M.S. student in EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
- Lun-Kai Hsu (M.S. student in CS, Stanford University, USA)
- Yen-Cheng Chou (M.S. student in EE, Columbia University, USA)
- Wei-Te Li (M.S. student in ME, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
- Chia-Ling Chang (M.S. student in ECE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
- Ting-Chu Lin (Facebook, Inc.)
- Shao-Chuan Wang (Facebook, Inc.)
- Ming-Hen Tsai (Google, Inc.)
- Chiao-Meng Huang (Google, Inc.)
- Hermes Shing Lyu (Mozilla)
- Wei-Yi Chang (Emotibot, Ltd.)
- Hui-Tang Chang (Emotibot, Ltd.)
- Kai-Han Lo (Utechzone Co., Ltd.)
- Wang-Chou Lu (Garmin Corp.)
- Chao-Chung Chu (MStar Semiconductor Inc.)
Class of B02
- Yu-An Chen (M.S. student in ECE, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Yuan-Fang Lin (M.S. student in CS, Columbia University)
- Pin-Jung Chen (M.S. student in ECE, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Chung-Wei Lee
- Wei Fang (Ph.D. student in EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Wei-Che Chen (University of California Irvine)
- Yi-Chen Chen (M.S. student in National Taiwan University)
- Hong-Min Chu
Class of B03
- Alexander H. Liu (M.S. student in CSIE, National Taiwan University)
- Cheng-Yen Yang (M.S. student in ECE, University of Washington)
- Chi-Hsin Lo (M.S. student in ECE, University of California, San Diego)
- Chia-Ming Wang (M.Eng. student in EE, University of Michigan)
- Hwai-Jin Peng (M.S. student in ECE, University of Washington)
- Keng-Sen Tseng (M.S. student in CSE, University of California, San Diego)
- Po-Yi Chen (M.S. student in CS, University of Texas, Austin)
- Tzu-Sheng Kuo (M.S. student in EE, Stanford University)
- Wen-Hsuan Chu (M.S. student in Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Yao-Cheng Yang (M.S. student in CSE, University of California, San Diego)
- Yi-Lun Liao (Ph.D. student in EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Class of B04