The IFP Group was founded by Professor Thomas S. Huang (1936 - 2020) in the 80s, started as Image Formation and Processing Group at Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Over the years, the IFP Group has pursued research and innovation beyond images, inlcuding Image and Video Coding, Multimodal Human Computer Interaction, Multimedia Annotation and Search, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Big Data, Deep Learning and High Performance Computing. The current IFP research direction is to solve problems in multimodal information processing by synergistically combining Big Data, Deep Learning, and High Performance Computing. IFP has been famous for having an environment conducive to innovative/independent research. Of course, most of the research projects need eventually align with the main research theme.
In a more general sense, the IFP Group includes friends, students, students of students, students of students of students, or even students of students of students of students since Professor Huang's starting as a faculty member at MIT in the 1960s. The IFPers have proudly accomplished numerous cutting edge research projects in collaboration with academia, industry and goverment agencies, awarded multiple best papers at top conferences in AI, and won many international competitions including the first NIST TrecVID, the first ImageNet Challenge, and the first AI City Challenge. Our IFP Alumni strive to make a difference in both academia and industry, and some even lead expeditions from engineering to laws, humanities, and arts. Above all, we stay together as a proud IFP Family.
Alan Bovik - UT Austin
Aleksandar Miodrag Ivanovic
Alfred She - Code Fellows
Amit Sethi - Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Anthony Edmund Filip - MIT Lincoln Lab
Antonio J. Colmenarez - Philips Research Lab
Ashutosh Garg - Bloomreach Inc.
Atulya Velivelli
Brendan Frey - University of Toronto
Brian T. O'Connor
Chang Wen Chen - Unversity of Buffalo
Charlie Dagli - MIT Lincoln Labs
Chong-Wah Ngo - Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
D. A. Baker
Dennis Lin - Google
Dmitry B. Goldgof - University of South Florida
George Yang
Grant B. Anderson - University of British Columbia
Gregory Manson Robbins - Bell Lab
Gregory Y. Tang - National Taiwan University (retired)
Guo-Jun Qi - University of Central Florida
Hai Tao - Founder of Beijing Vion Technology, Inc.
Haichao Zhang - Baidu
Hanning Zhou - Hulu
Hao Pan - Apple
Henry Hao Tang - Apple
Homer Chen - National Taiwan University
Huazhong Ning - Facebook
Ira Cohen - Anodot
James William Burnett - TRW Inc
Jason Xun Xu - Blippar
Jialin Zhong - Attorney at Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Jianchao Yang - Snapchat
Jilin Tu - General Electric
Jim Kuch - Sony Electronics
John Lin - Google
John William Woods - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jong-Keung Cheng - Atmel Corporation
Juyang Weng - Michigan State University
Kai-Hsiang Sean Lin - Industrial Technology Research Institute
Kannappan Palaniappan - University of Missouri-Columbia
Lawrence Chen - Sharp Labs of America
Li-An Tang - Intel Corporation
Liangliang Cao - HelloVera & Columbia
Liyu Gong - Six Rooms Inc
Mandar Rahurkar
Mert Dikmen - Google
Michael Lew - Leiden University
Michel Dubois - University of Southern California
Milind Naphade - Nvidia
Min-Hsuan Tsai - Google
Ming Liu - eBay
Mingyu (Stephen) Chu - IBM
Minqiang Xu - Alibaba
Mithun Das Gupta - IBM Research Labs India
Mohammad Gharavi-Alkhansari - Sony Electronics
Mun Keung Leung
Munehiro Nakazato - Apple
Nebojsa Jojic - Microsoft
Nelson J. Bridwell - ATS Automation Tooling Systems
Nemanja Petrovic - Google
Pengyu Hong - Brandeis University
Qi Tian - University of Texas at San Antonio
Qiang Cheng - Southern Illinois University
Qiong Liu - FXPAL
Ricardo Lopez - Itron
Richard Qian - Microsoft
Robert Louis Yen - Eclipse Photographer and Blogger
Roger Y. Tsai - Fordham University
Roy Wang - Marvell Semiconductor
Shen Fu Edmond Tsai - Google
Shuicheng Simon Yan - NUS/Qihoo 360
Shyam Rajaram - Facebook
Steven Blostein - Queens University
Steven Todd Cvetko - Novarad Corporation
Terrence Chen - Siemens
Thang Nguyen
Tony Xu Han - Jingchi
Usman Tariq - American University of Sharjah
Vladimir Pavlovic - Rutgers University
Vuong Le - Deakin University
Wai-Hon Lee - Hoetron Inc
Xi Zhou - CloudWalk Technology
Xiang Sean Zhou - United Imaging Intelligence
Xingdou Fu - Omron Corporation
Xinqi Chu - Institute for Infocomm Research
Xu Zhao - Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yang Li
Yi Kang - Spreadtrum
Ying Wu - Northwestern
Yong Rui - Lenovo
Yu Huang - Intel
Yue Zhou - Houzz
Yun Raymond Fu - Northeastern
Yuncai Liu - Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yunqiang Chen - Siemens
Yuxiao Hu - Huawei
Zhaowen Wang - Adobe
Zhen Li - Google
Zhen Wen - Alibaba
Zhengqiu Zhang - Sun Trading LLC
Zhihong John Zeng - Park Assist LLC
Ziyou Xiong - United Technologies Research Center