Short Bio

Short Bio:
Zhuowen Tu is a full professor of Cognitive Science and also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego. Before joining UCSD in 2013 as an assistant professor, he was a faculty member at UCLA. Between 2011 and 2013, he took a leave to work at Microsoft Research Asia. He received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and his M.E. from Tsinghua University. He is a recipient of the David Marr Prize award 2003 and a recipient of the David Marr Prize Honorable Mention award 2015. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Experiences:

07/2019-Present (UC San Diego), Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego.
07/2019-Present (UC San Diego), Professor (affiliate), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego.
01/2021-12/2022(Amazon AWS, Full-time), Amazon Scholar.
07/2015-06/2019 (UC San Diego), Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego.
07/2015-06/2019 (UC San Diego), Associate Professor (affiliate), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego.
07/2013-06/2015 (UC San Diego), Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego.
10/2013-06/2015(UC San Diego), Assistant Professor (affiliate), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego.
03/2011-06/2013 (MSRA), Lead Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
07/2008-06/2013 (UCLA) (taking leave after 03/2011), Assistant Professor (in-residence), Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles.
07/2007-06/2013 (UCLA) (taking leave after 03/2011), Assistant Professor (in-residence), Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles.
11/2005-05/2007 (UCLA), Researcher, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, UCLA. (Leading the special interest group in statistical approaches at Center for Computational Biolog
06/2004-10/2005 (Siemens), Member of Technical Staff, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ
12/2002-05/2004 (UCLA), Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Statistics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (mentor: Alan Yuille)

Selected Awards:

2025, Test-of-Time Award at AISTATS'25 (to Chen-Yu Lee, Saining Xie, Patrick Gallagher, Zhengyou Zhang, Zhuowen Tu for "Deeply Supervised Nets")
2015, David Marr Prize Honorable Mention (with S. Xie by IEEE at ICCV 2015)
2009, NSF CAREER award
2007, First Prize, the grand challenge award: best automatic segmentation of the caudate (MICCAI workshop on 3D segmentation in the clinic, a grand challenge)
2003, David Marr Prize (with X. Chen, A. Yuille, and S.C. Zhu, by IEEE at ICCV 2003)
2003, Talbert Abrams Award Honorable Mention (with Ron Li, by American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)

Education:

12/2002, Ph.D. Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (advisor: Song-Chun Zhu)
07/1996, M.E. Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
07/1993, B.E. Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing Information Technology Institute, Beijing, China

Grants/Funds:

10/2024-09/2027, PI (Co-PI: Hao Su), $600,000 (83%), NSF IIS-2433768, "RI: Small: Bayesian Diffusion Models with Analysis-by-Synthesis"
10/2024-12/2024, PI, $10,000, Dobly Lab, Gift Fund
08/2021-08/2024, PI (Co-PI: Tzu-Mao Li) , $500,000 (80%), NSF IIS-2127544, "RI: Small: Panoptic 3D Parsing in the Wild"
2019-2021, PI, Intel Research Fund
2019-2022, PI, Qualcomm Faculty Award
12/2017-11/2018, PI (Co-PI: Rajesh Gupta), $100,000, Samsung Research America
08/2017-07/2020, PI, $450,000, NSF IIS-1717431, "RI:Small: Unsupervised Discriminatively-Generative Learning"
07/2016-06/2019, PI, $449,000, NSF IIS-1618477, "RI: Small: Unraveling and Building Top-Down Generators in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks "
07/2016-06/2017, PI, $70,000, Northrop Grumman Contextual Robotics Grant
07/2015-06/2016, PI, $70,000, Northrop Grumman Contextual Robotics Grant
07/2012-06/2015, PI, $449,000, NSF IIS-1216528
07/2009-06/2015, PI, $499,000, NSF IIS CAREER 0844566
10/2008-09/2011, PI, $450,000, ONR N000140910099

Major Professional Services:

Associate Editor, Jan. 2018- Feb. 2022, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Program Chair, CVPR 2019
Action Editor, June 2013-Nov. 2018, Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
Area Chair, ECCV 2022, CVPR 2022, ECCV 2020, CVPR 2020, ECCV 2018, ICCV 2017, ECCV 2016, ICCV 2015, CVPR 2014, CVPR 2012, CVPR 2008
Program Chair, Workshop of Medical Computer Vision, 2013, 2012, 2010