Min Sun

Dr. Min Sun is the Chief AI Scientist since July 2018 with expertise in computer vision, natural language processing, deep learning, and reinforcement learning, while his research interests include 3D object recognition, human pose estimation, scene understanding, video understanding, and text summarization. He served as an Associate Professor at National Tsing Hua University’s (NTHU) Department of Electrical Engineering. Dr. Sun has worked under some of the most influential AI leaders, including Andrew Ng, Fei-Fei Li, and Silvio Savarese. He contributed crowdsourcing ideas to the revolutionary ImageNet project led by Fei-Fei Li in 2009 and is also an early contributor to the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Microsoft Kinect’s human pose estimation system. Dr. Sun also holds 2 U.S. patents and has published 50+ top AI conference papers. He won the Digital Drift Best Paper on Deep Learning for Visual Analysis in 2016, CVGIP Best Paper Awards 2015-to 2017, the Outstanding Research Award from MOST Taiwan in 2018, and Ta-You Wu Memorial Award From MOST Taiwan in 2018. Dr. Sun received his Ph.D. in Electrical Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan and his M.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.