Junsong Yuan

Junsong Yuan is a Professor and Director of the Visual Computing Lab at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo (SUNY). He previously served as an Associate Professor and Nanyang Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. His research focuses on computer vision, pattern recognition, video analytics, and large-scale visual search. He holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, M.Eng. from National University of Singapore, and B.Eng. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Education:

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, 2009
• M.Eng., Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2005
• B.Eng., Communication Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2002

Research Interests:

Dr. Yuan's work spans computer vision, video analytics, gesture/action analysis, and multimodal learning. He emphasizes scalable visual search, 3D reconstruction, and federated learning for medical imaging. His lab develops algorithms for autonomous systems, generative media processing, and human-AI interaction.

Awards:

• IEEE Fellow (2021)
• IAPR Fellow (2018)
• SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship (2022)

Advising & Grants:

He has advised numerous PhD students, including Sudhir Yarram, Nan Xi, and Tianyu Luan. His research is supported by grants focusing on video generation, medical image analysis, and federated learning. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of JVCI and on editorial boards of T-PAMI, T-IP, and T-CSVT.

Labs & Teams:

Director of the Visual Computing Lab, leading projects in generative models, 3D scene understanding, and healthcare AI. Collaborates with industry partners like Meta, Amazon, and Accenture on applied vision systems.