Dr. Mike Z. Shou joined Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at NUS as a tenure-track Assistant Professor with an award of the National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellowship (Class of 2021) in May 2021. Mike obtained his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York City and prior to joining NUS, he was a Research Scientist at Facebook AI, Menlo Park, California.
Mike’s research focuses on Computer Vision and Deep Learning, with an emphasis on developing intelligent system for video understanding and creation. Mike was awarded Wei Family Private Foundation Fellowship from 2014 to 2017. Mike received the best student paper nomination at the 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’17). His team won the first place in the International Challenge on Activity Recognition (ActivityNet) 2017.
Having won the Singapore NRF Fellowship award for his proposal tilted “ Towards Next-generation Video Intelligence: Training Machines to Understand Actions and Complex Events “ which carries a research grant that provides early career researchers to carry out independent research locally. Mike is looking forward to developing new deep learning methods to allow machines to understand actions and complex events in videos – this can power many applications such as perception system for self-driving car, caring-robot for the elderly, smart CCTV cameras, social media recommendation system, intelligent video creation tool for journalists and filmmakers, to name a few.