About me

I am currently an MSc student in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London, London, UK. My supervisor is Dr. Laura Toni. Prior to that, I received my B.E. degree in School of Software Engineering at Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, and was under supervision of Dr. Shunli Zhang.

My research interests include computer vision and deep recognition.

Education

• University College London Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
  Integrated Machine Learning System
  Master of Science
  Sep. 2020 - Sep. 2021

• Beijing Jiaotong University School of Software Engineering
  Software Engineering
  Bachelor of Engineering
  Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020

Professional Experience

• King’s College London Research Assistant
  Feb. 2021 - Dec. 2021
  Project: Remote sensing and machine learning to detect global dams and associated reservoirs
  Working with Dr. Miaojing Shi, Dr. Arnout van Soesbergen and Dr. Mark Mulligan.

• Baidu Paddlepaddle Developer Expert
  Awarded in Aug. 2020
  Published two technical articles(1)(2) on PaddlePaddle WeChat official account.
  Contribute code to PaddlePaddle open-source community.

• Tsinghua University Research Assistant
  Oct. 2019 - May. 2020
  Research on Temporal Action Detection algorithms and Gait Recognition algorithms.

• BEIJING e-Hualu INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD R&D Engineer
  Jan. 2019 - Mar. 2019
  Back-end development of urban data lake online storage platform.

Professional Services

• [Dec. 2021] Serve as the emergency reviewer of CVPR 2022.
• [Aug. 2020] Serve as the reviewer of the 15th National University Students intelligent Car Race.

Publications

• Zedong C, Van Soesbergen A, Shi M, Mulligan M. Dam reservoir extraction from remote sensing imagery using tailored metric learning strategies. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING. 2022 Apr 25.
• Chen J, Chu Z, Zhao R, et al. Output prediction of alpha-type Stirling engines using gradient boosted regression trees and corresponding heat recovery system optimization based on improved NSGA-II[J]. Energy Reports, 2022, 8: 835-846. [paper]
• Lin, Beibei, Shunli Zhang, Xin Yu, Zedong Chu, and Haikun Zhang. “Learning Effective Representations from Global and Local Features for Cross-View Gait Recognition.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.01461 (2020). [paper]

Honor and Awards

• [May. 2019] The Second-class Prize of the 10th China College Students Service Outsourcing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
• [Apr. 2019] The National Innovation Training Programme of College Students.
• [Apr. 2019] the 18th place in the IBM Watson Assistant Competition.
• [Nov. 2018] The Bronze Medal of the 43rd ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia Regional Contest.
• [May. 2018] The Third-class Prize of the 9th China College Students Service Outsourcing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
• [Dec. 2016] The First-class Prize of Programming Competition BJTU.

News

• [May. 2022] I start working as an algorithm engineer at Alibaba.
• [Apr. 2022] One paper is accepted for publication by IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (TGRS).
• [Mar. 2022] One paper is accepted for publication by Energy Reports.
• [Dec. 2021] I receive Msc degree from University College London.
• [Sep. 2021] One paper is accepted for oral presentation and publication by ICPE 2021-The 2nd International Conference on Power Engineering.
• [Mar. 2021] I receive several job offers from Alibaba, Baidu, Bytedance, Huawei, Momenta, etc.
• [Feb. 2021] I start working as a Research Assistant in the Department of Informatics, King’s College London.
• [Dec. 2020] My graduation thesis of bachelor degree is awarded as ‘Excellent Graduation Thesis in Beijing’.
• [Aug. 2020] I am awarded as PPDE (PaddlePaddle Developer Expert) by Baidu.
• [Jun. 2020] I receive B.E. degree from Beijing Jiaotong University.