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Shiliang Sun, Professor

Director of the Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Research Group

Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University

500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, P. R. China

Email: shiliangsun {at} gmail.com, S.Sun {at} cs.ucl.ac.uk

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Biography

Shiliang Sun received the B. E. degree in Automatic Control from the Department of Automatic Control, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), and the M. E. and Ph.D. degrees in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University. In 2004, he was awarded Microsoft Fellowship. In 2007, he joined the Department of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University (ECNU), and founded the Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PRML) Research Group. From 2009 to 2010, he was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) and the Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL). From March to April 2012, he was a visiting researcher at the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University. He is a member of the IEEE, the AAAI, and the PASCAL (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning) network of excellence. He serves on several editorial boards of international academic journals, including associate editorship for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and Neural Processing Letters.

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Current Research Interests (not uniformly distributed)

Statistical Learning Theory, Bayesian Nonparametric Learning (e.g., Gaussian Processes, Dirichlet Processes), Variational Inference, Support Vector Machines and Kernel Methods,

Optimization Techniques, Multitask and Transfer Learning, Semi-supervised and Active Learning, Distance Metric Learning, Ensemble Learning.

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Teaching

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning: Fall, 2011, Graduate Students.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: Spring, 2011, Undergraduate Students.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning: Fall, 2010, Graduate Students.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: Spring, 2009, Undergraduate Students.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning: Fall, 2008, Graduate Students.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: Spring, 2008, Undergraduate Students.

Advanced Machine Learning: Spring, 2008, Graduate Students.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning: Fall, 2007, Graduate Students.

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Selected Recent Publications

Ÿ           John Shawe-Taylor, Shiliang Sun. Kernel methods and support vector machines. Book Chapter for E-Reference Signal Processing, Elsevier, 2013.

Ÿ           Wenting Tu, Shiliang Sun. A subject transfer framework for EEG classification. Neurocomputing, 2012.

Ÿ           Shiliang Sun, Feng Jin. Robust co-training. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2011, 25 (7): 1113-1126.

Ÿ           You Ji, Shiliang Sun. Multitask multiclass support vector machines. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 2011. 512-518.

Ÿ           Shiliang Sun. Multi-view Laplacian support vector machines. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, 7121: 209-222.

Ÿ           Wenting Tu, Shiliang Sun. Transferable discriminative dimensionality reduction. Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 2011. 865-868.

Ÿ           Zhijie Xu, Shiliang Sun. Multi-view transfer learning with adaboost. Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 2011. 399-402.

Ÿ           Shiliang Sun, Xin Xu. Variational inference for infinite mixtures of Gaussian processes with applications to traffic flow prediction. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2011, 12 (2): 466-475.

Ÿ           John Shawe-Taylor, Shiliang Sun. A review of optimization methodologies in support vector machines. Neurocomputing, 2011, 74 (17): 3609-3618.

Ÿ           Rongqing Huang, Shiliang Sun, Yan Liu. Sparse kernel regression for traffic flow forecasting. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, 6676: 76-84.

Ÿ           Shiliang Sun, John Shawe-Taylor. Sparse semi-supervised learning using conjugate functions. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2010, 11: 2423-2455.

Ÿ           Shiliang Sun. Local within-class accuracies for weighting individual outputs in multiple classifier systems. Pattern Recognition Letters, 2010, 31 (2): 119-124.

Ÿ           Qingjiu Zhang, Shiliang Sun. Multiple-view multiple-learner active learning. Pattern Recognition, 2010, 43 (9): 3113-3119.

Ÿ           John Shawe-Taylor, Shiliang Sun. Discussion of ‘stability selection’, by Nicolai Meinshausen and Peter Bühlmann. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 2010, 72(4): 451-453.

Ÿ           Jinbo Li, Shiliang Sun. Nonlinear combination of multiple kernels for support vector machines. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010. 2889-2892.

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