{"id":8661,"date":"2021-05-16T00:28:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T16:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=8661"},"modified":"2024-07-31T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T08:09:10","slug":"dr-mike-z-shou-new-ece-faculty-and-nrf-fellow-2021","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/news\/dr-mike-z-shou-new-ece-faculty-and-nrf-fellow-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Mike Z. Shou \u2013 New ECE faculty and NRF Fellow (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dr. Mike Z. Shou joined the 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8661 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"959\" height=\"959\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/zhengshou_stanford_photo.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Zhengshou Stanford Photo\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/zhengshou_stanford_photo.jpg 959w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/zhengshou_stanford_photo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/zhengshou_stanford_photo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/zhengshou_stanford_photo-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8657'>\n\t\t\t\tDr. Mike Z. Shou &#8211; Assistant Professor\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mike\u2019s research focuses on\u00a0Computer 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\u201917). His team won the first place in the International Challenge on Activity Recognition (ActivityNet) 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Having won the Singapore NRF Fellowship award \u00a0for his proposal tilted\u00a0\u201c Towards Next-generation Video Intelligence: Training Machines to Understand Actions and Complex Events \u201c\u00a0which carries a research grant that provides early career researchers to carry out independent research locally. Mike is looking forward to\u00a0developing new deep learning methods to allow machines to understand actions and complex events in videos &#8211; this can power many applications such as perception system for self-driving car, caring-robot for the elderly, smart CCTV cameras, social media\u00a0recommendation system, intelligent video creation tool for journalists and filmmakers, to name a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mike Z. Shou joined the 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.\u00a0 Mike obtained his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York City and prior to joining NUS,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":8662,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[37,47],"class_list":["post-8661","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-ece","news_category-awards-achievements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14983,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8661\/revisions\/14983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=8661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}