About
Academic Journey
I'm currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia. This page offers a brief overview of my path through academia and some snapshots from along the way.
Short bio
I have spent wonderful years at the following places. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell Tech, working with Prof. Noah Snavely. I received my PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. My PhD advisor is Prof. David Jacobs. I was in a 3+2 program where I received a Master's degree in Computer and Information Science from Temple University and my Bachelor's degree in Automation from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). My advisor at Temple was Prof. Haibin Ling.
Professional bio
Dr. Jin Sun is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia. He is also a Lilly Teaching Fellow. His main research area is computer vision—understanding the world using visual data with the help of state-of-the-art deep learning models. In particular, he is passionate about understanding objects in diverse and complex environment using images and videos. He is actively collaborating with researchers to apply AI in interdisciplinary research to push the boundaries of scientific discovery and improve people’s quality of life. His work has been published in top computer vision and machine learning conferences such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR. His research work has been selected as Notable Books and Articles in ACM Computing Reviews in 2014 and Best Paper Nominee in CVPR 2020.