Yu-Wei Chao selected for Google PhD Fellowship

CSE graduate student Yu-Wei Chao has been selected to receive a 2016 Google PhD Fellowship to support his work in the area of computer vision and machine learning. This year, Google awarded 39 fellowships to top PhD students in the US and Canada who are doing exceptional work in computer science, related disciplines, or promising research areas. Yu-Wei is a third year PhD student working with Prof. Jia Deng. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning. He was awarded the Google PhD Fellowship based on his recent work on large-scale visual recognition of human actions.