Jason Ren
Incoming Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, DavisUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering at Sun Yat-Sen University
Github Skills (105)
python10
radiance10
deep-learning10
gpu10
robotics10
convolutional-neural-networks10
detectron10
self-supervised-learning10
face-recognition10
computer-vision10
sparse10
semantic-segmentation10
reinforcement-learning10
information-theory10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jason718/game-feature-learning
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
Cross-Domain Self-supervised Multi-task Feature Learning using Synthetic Imagery, CVPR'18
Contributions:29 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 10 months
pytorchmulti-tasksuperviseddeep-learningcomputer-vision
jason718/dot-vimrc
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 10 pushes in 2 years 4 months
vimneovimconfigconfig-filesmaple
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