Computer Science

Additional Information

  • Education
    • PhD, Computer Science, Columbia University
    • BA, Physics, Columbia University

Research Areas

  • Natural Language Processing and Speech
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
  • Generative AI & Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Natural Language and Conversational AIs

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Founding Director, Data Science Institute, Columbia University, 2012–2017
    • Department Chair, Computer Science, 1998-2003
    • Vice Dean for Research
    • Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Association of Computational Linguistics, served as President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer
    • Computing Research Association, served as Board Member and Secretary of the Board
  • Honors & Awards
    • Elected to the American Philosophical Society, 2023
    • IEEE Innovations in Societal Infrastructure Award, 2023
    • Keynote Speaker, Association for Computational Linguistics, Seattle, WA, 2020
    • Best Paper Award, Kedzie and McKeown, A Good Sample Is Hard to Find: Noise Injection Sampling and Self-Training for Neural Language Generation Models, in Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2019), Tokyo, Japan, October 2019
    • Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019
      Selected as one of the Founding Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012
    • Anita Borg Women of Vision Award in Innovation for work on text summarization, 2010
    • Columbia Great Teacher Award, 2010
    • Elected as an ACM Fellow, 2003
    • Selected as AAAI Fellow, 1994
    • National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women, 1991
    • National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1985

Research Areas

  • Networking and Communications
  • Computer Networks
  • Wireless Networks
  • Multimedia Networks
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Network Security
  • Distributed Protocol Design and Analysis

Additional Information

  • Professional Affiliations
    • IEEE
    • ACM
  • Honors & Awards
    • IEEE Outstanding Paper on New Communication Topics, 2011.
    • ACM CoNext Best Paper Award, 2008.
    • IBM Faculty Achievement Award, 2004.
    • IEEE ICNP Best Paper Award, 2003.
    • NSF CAREER Award, 2002.
    • ACM SIGMETRICS Best Student Paper Award, 2000.
  • Professional Experience
    • Research Scientist, Google, 2023-
    • Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2020-
    • Associate Professor of Computer Science, 2008-2019
    • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, 2005-2007
    • Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, 2000-2004

Research Areas

  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Multimedia Retrieval
  • Image Video Recognition
  • Multimedia Knowledge Extraction

Additional Information

  • Research Experience
    • Amazon Scholar, 2020-2022
    • Visiting faculty, Microsoft Research, Beijing, 2006
    • Visiting faculty, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 2004-2006
  • Professional Experience
    • Dean, Columbia Engineering, 2022-
    • Interim Dean, Columbia Engineering, 2021-2022
    • Senior Executive Vice Dean, Columbia Engineering, 2015–2021
    • Senior vice dean of engineering, Columbia University, 2012–2015
    • Chief Technical Advisor, VidRovr Inc., 2016-
    • Chief Technical Advisor, Axon Image Inc., 2015-
    • Richard Dicker Chair Professor, Columbia University, 2011–
    • Professor of computer science, Columbia University, 2011–
    • Chair of electrical engineering, Columbia University 2007–2010
    • Professor of electrical engineering, Columbia University, 2002–2011
    • Associate professor of electrical engineering, Columbia University, 1997–2002
    • Assistant professor of electrical engineering, Columbia University, 1993–1997
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
    • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    • Fellow of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Honors & Awards
    • National Academy of Engineering, 2023
    • National Academy of Inventors, 2022
    • Academia Sinica, 2018
    • Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, 2017
    • Honorary Doctorate, University of Amsterdam, 2016
    • Most Influential Scholar in the Field of Multimedia, AMiner, 2016
    • Great Teacher Award, The Society of Columbia Graduates, 2013
    • Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2012
    • Technical Achievement Award, ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia, 2011
    • American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010
    • Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, IEE, 2009
    • Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research, 1998–2001
    • Career Award, National Science Foundation, 1995–1998
  • Selected Publications

    Liu, Wei, Jun Wang, Rongrong Ji, Yu‐Gang Jiang, and Shih‐Fu Chang. "Supervised hashing with kernels." In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE Conference on, pp. 2074‐2081, 2012.

    Wu, Xiao‐Ming, Zhenguo Li, Anthony M. So, John Wright, and Shih‐Fu Chang. "Learning with partially absorbing random walks." In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), pp. 3077‐3085. 2012.

    Wang, Jun, Tony Jebara, and Shih‐Fu Chang. "Semi-supervised learning using greedy max‐cut." Journal of Machine Learning Research 14, no. Mar (2013): 771‐800.

    Ye, Guangnan, Yitong Li, Hongliang Xu, Dong Liu, and Shih‐Fu Chang. "Eventnet: A large scale structured concept library for complex event detection in video." In Proceedings of ACM international conference on Multimedia, pp. 471‐480. ACM, 2015.

    Borth, Damian, Rongrong Ji, Tao Chen, Thomas Breuel, and Shih‐Fu Chang. "Large‐scale visual sentiment ontology and detectors using adjective noun pairs." In Proceedings of ACM international conference on Multimedia, pp. 223‐232. ACM, 2013.

    Smith, John R., and Shih‐Fu Chang. "VisualSEEk: a fully automated content‐based image query system." In ACM international conference on Multimedia, pp. 87‐98. ACM, 1997.