Jie Hu
1337 Millersport HWY, APT 7
Williamsville, NY, 14221
United States of America
Tel: 1-716-361-1540
Email: jhu6@buffalo.edu
Education
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08/2010-Present, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
- Advisor: Professor Chang Wen Chen
- Cumulative GPA: 4.0/4.0
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08/2006---07/2010, Bachelor of Science, Department of Automation, Information
School, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Cumulative GPA: 86.9/100
Research Area
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Computer vision and pattern recognition, Multimedia
Relative Courses
Algorithm analysis and design, Data mining, Database system, Modern networks
concepts, Computer vision and image processing, introduction to machine learning,
Introduction to computation theory, Pattern Recognition, Bayesian vision, Parallel
algorithm
Internship Experience
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06/2009~08/2009, Research Intern, Beijing Vion Technology, Inc.
- Maintenance of plate sample database and implementation of the software to
pick up and recognize plate characters
Teaching Experience
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08/2010-06/2011, Teaching assistant for “Great idea in Computer science”
08/2011-12/2011, Teaching assistant for “Introduction to Computer Science
for Majors I”
01/2012-06/2012, Teaching assistant for “Introduction to the theory of
computation”
08/2012-12/2012, Teaching assistant for “Computer vision and image
processing”
Publications
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Jie Hu, Yu Kong and Yun Fu, “Activity Recognition by Learning Structural and
Pairwise Mid-level Features Using Random Forest”, accepted by the 10th
IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition,
2013
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Kang Li, Jie Hu and Yun Fu, “Modeling Complex Temporal Composition of
Actionlets for Activity Prediction”, European Conference on Computer Vision,
2012
 Anna Ye Du, Sanjukta Das, Chunming Qiao, Ram Ramesh, Jie Hu, Zhouhan
Yang, “Reliability in Cloud Computing: Downtime Predictions for Virtual
Servers”, 21st Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, 2011
Research Experience
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10/2012- present Student Research, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Implement augmented reality application on smartphone to show around
landmarks, guided by Professor Chang Wen Chen
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06/2012-09/2012 Student Research, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Use random forest to model structural information of sparsely or densely
sampled features in space-time volumes to do behavior recognition,
guided by Professor Yun Fu
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09/2011-04/2012 Student Research, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Build dataset and implement models for action recognition and
prediction, guided by Professor Yun Fu
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06/2011-08/2011 Student Research, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Implement analytical formulation, computational estimation, and
statistical estimation using sample path to predict downtime for virtual
servers, guided by Professor Chunming Qiao
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01/2012-05/2012 Course project, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Use graphical model to do group activity recognition, guided by Professor
Sargur N. Srihari
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09/2010-12/2010 Course project, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Implement a genetic K-means algorithm in frequency domain for gene
clustering and use information gain and Markov blanket filtering for gene
classification, guided by Professor Aidong Zhang
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02/2010---06/2010, Thesis, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China
- Thesis Title: Study on noise eliminating of 3D points cloud based on
tensor voting
- Apply the method of tensor voting in noise eliminating for 3D points
cloud to improve the result of 3D reconstruction, supervised by Professor
Qionghai Dai
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08/2008---03/2009, Student Research Training (SRT) program, EE Practical
Teaching Center, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing
- Design software, which connects laboratory instruments to computers for
reading signals and performing statistical analyses, under the supervision
of Professor Yanpin Ren
Skills
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Programming languages: C, C++, C#, Java, Perl, UNIX shell, SQL Server, VHDL
Tools: Matlab
Activities
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Volunteer of the Technical Group for the 16th FINA diving world cup, 2008
Volunteer of the Olympic Games Synchronized Swimming Qualification
Tournament, 2008
Volunteer of the 29th Olympic Games, National Aquatics Center (NAC),
Beijing, 2008