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Qifeng Chen, a core contributor to Everlyn, is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2017. His research interests include image processing and synthesis, 3D vision and autonomous driving, and he has published over 200 papers in the field of artificial intelligence. He has been selected as one of MIT Technology Review's “China's 35 Innovators Under 35” and received the Google Faculty Research Award in 2018. Prof. Chan has excelled in international competitions, having been awarded the global second place in the ACM-ICPC World Finals and the gold medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). He has also launched Blockcerts, Hong Kong's first blockchain e-certification platform, to promote the application of blockchain technology in education and certification.
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Tim Baldwin
Tim Baldwin is a contributor to Everlyn and serves as Provost and Professor of Natural Language Processing at the Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Melbourne Laureate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, and Chief Scientist of LibrAI, a startup focusing on AI safety. Prof. Baldwin has published about 500 peer-reviewed papers in the field of natural language processing and artificial intelligence with over 25,000 citations. He is also the co-developer of widely used Large Language Models (LLMs) for Arabic, English, and Indonesian, which have been downloaded over 1 million times on Huggingface.
LI YUAN
LI YUAN is a contributor to Everlyn and is currently an assistant professor and PhD supervisor at the School of Information Engineering, Peking University. His research interests include computer vision, multimodal machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications. Prof. Yuan's academic papers have been cited more than 3000 times, especially his 2021 paper on new visual analytics techniques, which received nearly 1000 citations. In addition, Prof. Yuan has been selected as one of Forbes' “30 Under 30” and is a founding member of the Open-Sora program.
Sernam Lim
Dr. Sernam Lim is currently the director of the Everlyn Project and an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Florida. He has a strong research background in the field of Artificial Intelligence and has published over 100 academic papers. Dr. Lim was previously the AI Engineering Manager at Facebook, where he founded Facebook Sora, Make-a-Video, and LLaMA. In addition, he served as Director of Research at General Electric (GE) and Head of GE's Computer Vision Lab.
Philip Torr
Philip Torr is the leader of the Everlyn project and currently Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford, where his work has had a profound impact on the academic community, with over 100,000 citations. Professor Torr is the recipient of several major awards including the 1998 Marr Prize, the highest honor in computer vision, and the Royal Society's Wolfson Award for Research Merit. He has been actively involved as a founder or advisor in the creation and development of a number of technology companies, including FiveAI, Onfido, Oxsight, Eigent, DreamTech, Visionary Machines, and CamelAI, and has worked closely with leading technology companies around the world, including Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Sony. For his outstanding contributions to the field of computer vision, Prof. Torr was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2019 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2021, and was honored as a Turing World Leading Fellow in Artificial Intelligence in the same year.
Serge Belongie
Serge Belongie is the leader of the Everlyn project and is currently Professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, where he heads the Pioneer Center for Artificial Intelligence (P1). Prior to that, he was Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, Associate Dean of Cornell Tech, and participated in the Google Visiting Professor Program. He is known for his contributions to the fields of computer vision and machine learning (especially object recognition and image segmentation), and his scientific work has been cited over 150,000 times according to Google Scholar. Prof. Belongie's research interests include computer vision, machine learning, augmented reality, and human-computer interaction computing. He is a co-founder of several companies, including Digital Persona and Anchovi Labs, and is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review “35 Innovators Under 35” Award, the Helmholtz Award, the Everingham Award, and the Ko Ko Award. The Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review “35 Innovators Under 35” Award, the Helmholtz Award, the Everingham Award, and the Koenderink Award for his pioneering contributions to computer vision. In addition, Prof. Belongie is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and serves on the board of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).
