6 Questions on Social Media with Michael Wu

Today, we are honored to have Michael Wu, Principal Scientist at Lithium Technologies, participate in our social media Q&A. I was a pure academic track research scientist before I entered the industry. I did research in computational neuroscience and my thesis was on modeling visual processing in the human brain using mathematical approaches, such as statistics and machine learning. Because computer vision is nowhere near the performance of humans in terms of its ability to segment objects, recognize people and understand a scene, my goal was to understand the computations that occur in our brains so we can recreate them in a machine vision system. I joined the industry right after finishing my PhD.