Kaiming He () is a Chinese computer scientist who primarily researches

computer vision Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...

and

deep learning Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that focuses on utilizing multilayered neural networks to perform tasks such as classification, regression, and representation learning. The field takes inspiration from biological neuroscience a ...

. He is an associate professor at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

and is known as one of the creators of

residual neural network A residual neural network (also referred to as a residual network or ResNet) is a deep learning architecture in which the layers learn residual functions with reference to the layer inputs. It was developed in 2015 for image recognition, and won ...

(ResNet).

Early life and education

He attended the public Guangzhou Zhixin High School in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. He scored first place for the total scores in the 2003 Guangdong provincial undergraduate admissions exam. He went to

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

for undergraduate education and received a

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...

degree in 2007. In 2007 to 2011, he pursued doctoral studies in information engineering at the

Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public university, public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. Established in 1963 as a federation of three university college, collegesChung Chi College, New Asia Coll ...

at its Multimedia Laboratory, receiving a

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

degree in 2011. His doctoral dissertation was titled ''Single image haze removal using dark channel prior'' (2011), and his doctoral adviser was

Tang Xiao'ou Tang Xiao’ou (; 24 January 1968 – 15 December 2023) was a Chinese businessman and computer scientist. He was the founder and chairman of SenseTime, an AI company. He also served as professor of information engineering, associate dean of eng ...

Career

He worked at Microsoft Research Asia from 2011 to 2016 and at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research from 2016 to 2024. In 2024, he became an associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the

. His 2016 paper ''Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition'' is the most cited research paper in 5 years according to

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's reports in 2020 and 2021.

Awards and recognitions

He won ICCV's best paper award (Marr Prize) in 2017 and CVPR's best paper award in 2009 and 2016. He was awarded the 2023 Future Science Prize along with 3 collaborators for "fundamental contribution to artificial intelligence by introducing deep residual learning".

References

External links

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