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Tian Lan is a Senior Research Scientist at Amazon, focusing on computer vision and machine learning. He previously held a post-doctoral position at Stanford University and completed his academic training at Simon Fraser University (Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (B.Eng.).
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Simon Fraser University (2013)
- M.Sc. in Computer Science, Simon Fraser University (2010)
- B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2008)
His research spans object detection, activity recognition, image retrieval, and structured visual models, with a focus on hierarchical representations for semantic scene understanding. Current work at Amazon involves applying these techniques to real-world problems like Amazon Go’s “just walk out” technology.
Recent publications highlight trends in action localization, weakly supervised learning, and spatio-temporal modeling, often integrating latent variable frameworks and max-margin learning. He plays a key role in workshops like Understanding Human Activities: Context and Interactions (ICCV 2013).
- CIPPRS Doctoral Dissertation Award (2013)
Lan’s collaborations with leading researchers like Greg Mori and Silvio Savarese underscore his impact in the field. His work bridges academic research and industrial applications, particularly in human activity recognition and computer vision systems.
