Peng Yang
peyang at cs dot rutgers dot edu
Computer Science Department
Rutgers University

I am a PhD candidate in the Computer Science at Rutgers University.
My thesis adviser is Dr. Dimitris Metaxas.


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Education
  • 09.2004-present, phd student, computer science, Rutgers university, New Brunswick, New Jersty.

  • 09.2001-07.2004, M.Sc., Computer Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

  • 09.1997-07.2001, B.Eng., computer science, Tsinghua university, Beijing, China.

Research Interests
  • Facial Expression Recognition and Intensity Estimation.
  • Face Recogntion,Age Estimation and Human Action Recognition.
  • Feature Selection and Compositional Feature Analysis.
  • Information Retrivel and Ranking Methods.
  • Additive Learning.
Teaching Experience
  • 09.2005 - 05.2006, Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate course: Introduction to Computer Science.
  • 01.2005 - 05.2005, Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate course: Advanced Network Programming.
  • 05.2007 - 08.2007, Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate course: Operating System.
Work Experience
  • 09.2005 - present, Graduate Research Assistant at Rutgers University (Advisor: Dr. Dimitris N. Metaxas).
  • 05.2008 - 08.2008, Research Intern at NEC Laboratories America, Inc. (Mentor: Dr. Jinjun Wang).
  • 05.2007 - 08.2007, Research Intern at General Electric Research Center. (Mentor: Dr. Xiaoming Liu).
  • 07.2005 - 08.2005, Summer Intern at GLOBAL ePROCURE.
  • 05.2003 - 08.2003, Research Assistant at Microsoft Research Asia (Mentor: Dr. Stan.z. Li).
  • 05.2003 - 08.2003, Research Assistant at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Advisor: Dr. Wen Gao).
Activities
  • Program committee member of conferences: ICCV09, CVPR08, ICCV07, ICME09, SMC09, 3DTV-CON 2009, 3DTV-CON 2010, ECCV2010.
  • Reviewer of of journals: Pattern Recognition Letter, Medical Image Analysis.
  • 04.2006-04.2007 Vice Presendent of Rutgers Chinese Student&Scholar Association.
Awards and Grants
  • ICCV 2009 student travel grant.
  • Gold prize of Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA/Greater New York Chapter (CIE-USA/GNYC) 2009 Student Poster Contest.