Changhu Wang is currently a lead researcher at Multimedia Search and Mining Group, Microsoft Research. He is a guest professor of Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications. He received the Ph.D. degree at the department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science, University of Science and Technology of China in 2009. He worked as a research engineer at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in National University of Singapore in 2008. His research interests include computer vision, multimedia retrieval, pattern recognition and machine learning. He is a recipient of Best Demo Award at ACM Multimedia 2010, and Microsoft Gold Star Award in 2011. He has authored more than 50 scientific publications with an H-index of 19, and has filed 10 U.S. patents.
James Hays is as an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He was recently the Manning Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. His research interests span computer graphics, computer vision, and computational photography. His recent research includes experiments with crowdsourced sketching that have revealed shared, iconic representations of objects that can be recognized by both humans and machines, as well as the development of a new application that enables users to change a suite of transient attributes of outdoor photos, making photo editing easy for people who might not be familiar with photo editing software. Before joining Brown, Hays worked with Antonio Torralba as a postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009 while working with Alexei Efros. Hays is funded by a Sloan fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award and gifts from Microsoft, Adobe, Pixar, and Google.