At the biannual International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), perhaps the most prestigious conference in computer vision, ShanghaiTech’s SIST had a strong presence. SIST presented six papers on exciting state-of-the-art contributions on light field imagery, fundamental geometry, and artificial intelligence problems such as object and anomaly detection, or visual question answering.SIST Prof...

ShanghaiTech University’s School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) hosted the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics 2017 (SSRR2017) from October 11th to 13th, the first time the conference has been held in China. SIST Assistant Professor Sren Schwertfeger served as the General Chair of the three-day conference and President Jiang Mianheng ...

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021 recently selected Chinese scholars as the host team of CVPR 2021 conference. Professor Jingyi Yu, from the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST), was appointed as Program Chair of the conference.CVPR is the top conference in the field of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR provides an academic communication sta...

In our universe, everything is made up of elementary particles. Some – like photons - are already well-known; others remain to be unveiled. Recently, a group of engineers and scientists has found the “smoking gun” signature of the long sought-after Majorana particle. This research, led by Professor Kang L. Wang at UCLA (also an adjunct professor at SIST), was published in Science on July 21...

The 4th academic ShanghaiTech Symposium on Information Science and Technology 2017 (SSIST 2017) was held from July 2nd to 4th. The theme of this year’s symposium was Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Computer Security. The symposium introduced advanced scientific research results and highlighted developments. The symposium attracted more than 700 domestic and f...

ShanghaiTech’s School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) once again welcomed the SWEDCS 2017 forum to gather world-class experts in emerging devices, circuits and systems. This year, the workshop focused on “Intelligent Hardware.” Nowadays, data-driven and artificial intelligence enabled computing is dramatically changing our way of living and creating both opportunities and challenge...

The Fog Computing workshop, organized by OpenFog and ShanghaiTech University (ShanghaiTech) on April 24th, was held at the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST), ShanghaiTech University. Along with the workshop, the OpenFog Consortium Greater China Regional Committee and the Shanghai Institute of Fog Computing Technology (SHIFT) were officially launched. Officials and researchers fro...

On January 16, following the election results of the Board of Directors of the OpenFog Consortium, ShanghaiTech Distinguished Professor-in-Residence Yang Yang was appointed Director of the OpenFog Consortium Greater China Region (GCR) Committee. During his term, Professor Yang, representing ShanghaiTech will lead and promote the research, development, testing, and standardizing efforts in the GCR,...