Jia Deng selected for Sloan Research Fellowship

Assistant Professor Jia Deng has been selected for a 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for his work in computer vision and machine learning. Prof. Deng directs the Michigan Vision & Learning Lab. His research seeks to enable computers to see and think like humans. In 2015, Prof. Deng was awarded a Google Faculty Research Award for his work on large-scale image understanding. He aimed to advance image understanding in terms of recognizing the relationships present between multiple entities in images. The development of such an image understanding system would enable image retrieval for complex or arbitrary queries, such as "is there a person standing on a red chair and fixing the light?"