Jason Ren
Assistant Professor at Ai2
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJason Ren is a computer vision and machine learning researcher with a decade of experience spanning industry labs and academia, now appointed as an incoming Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill while holding research roles at Ai2 and the University of Washington. His background includes PhD-level research from UIUC and hands-on research scientist positions and internships at Apple, Adobe, Facebook AI, and NVIDIA, reflecting a strong track record of translating core research into applied systems. He focuses on brain and eye-related vision problems, blending neuroscience-inspired questions with state-of-the-art ML methods. Known for moving between corporate research environments and academic settings, he brings both product-aware rigor and deep theoretical expertise to students and collaborators.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of California, DavisBachelor’s Degree Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Software Engineering at Sun Yat-sen UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (96)
deep-learning10
representation-learning10
robotics10
convolutional-neural-networks10
detectron10
self-supervised-learning10
computer-vision10
synthetic-data10
semantic-segmentation10
reinforcement-learning10
information-theory10
natural-language-processing10
weakly-supervised-learning10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jason718/dot-vimrc
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 10 pushes in 2 years 4 months
vimneovimconfigconfig-filesmaple
jason718/game-feature-learning
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
Code for paper "Cross-Domain Self-supervised Multi-task Feature Learning using Synthetic Imagery", Ren et al., CVPR'18
Contributions:29 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 10 months
pytorchmulti-tasksuperviseddeep-learningcomputer-vision
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