Qianru Sun

Qianru Sun is a Joint Research Fellow jointly appointed at National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF) since April 2018. Previously she was a Post-doc Researcher at MPI-INF (2016–2018) supported by the prestigious Lise Meitner Award Fellowship.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Peking University (PKU), 2010–2016 (top 10%)
• B.S. in Electronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), 2006–2010 (rank 1/77)
• Exchange student, The University of Tokyo, Oct 2014 – Jan 2015

Research Interests:
Dr Sun’s research lies at the intersection of computer vision and machine learning, with a strong focus on few-shot learning, meta-learning, transfer learning, image generation and image classification. She designs algorithms that enable machines to learn new visual concepts with minimal supervision, explores adversarial robustness, and develops transferable representations for cross-domain tasks.

Scientific Awards & Honors:

• Lise Meitner Award Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (2016)

Professional Service & Community Contributions:
Dr Sun actively contributes to the research community through program-committee memberships and editorial roles:

• Program Committee: ICCV 2019, CVPR 2018, ICCV 2017
• Workshop PC: CV-COPS (CVPR 2018), CEFRL (ECCV 2018), WiCV (CVPR 2019, ECCV 2018)
• Editorial Board: CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology
• Reviewer: IEEE TPAMI, TMM, TCSVT, IJCV
• Invited speaker: Columbia University (DVMM), CVPR ODAR Workshop, Joint Lecture Series (MPI & Saarland University)
• Tutorial presenter: ICMR 2018 (Japan)