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Yu Kong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Yu Kong is an Assistant Professor of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology since 2018. He is now directing the ACTION Lab. He is an IEEE Senior Member. Prior to joining RIT, he was a Postdoc at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Dr. Kong's research interests are Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Social Media Analytics, and Smart Environment. More specifically, he works on video understanding algorithms for action recognition, visual forecasting, image super-resolution, object detection and tracking, and machine learning algorithms for robust decision making including meta-learning, active learning, multi-modal learning, and transfer learning.
Ph.D student
Junwen Chen
Research area: Human activity understanding, event early prediction
Wentao Bao
Research area: Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Xinmiao Lin
Research area: Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Xiwen Dengxiong
Research area: Computer Vision, Anomaly Detection, Open Set Recognition
Bangyu Lan
Research area: Facial Recognition, Deepfake Generation and Detection, Clickbait Detection
Alumni
- Chuanqi Zang, Beijing Institute of Technology
- Hanbin Hong, now at Illinois Institute of Technology
- Haiting Hao, KidsTopia Playground software engineer
- Pranita Menavlikar, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Omkar Sarde, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Liyi Zhang, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Anna Starynska, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Zizhi Zhang, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Congcong Jin, UC Irvine
- Yongshun Xu, now at University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Tie Liu, Beihang University