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Joe (Zhou) Ren 

Joe (Zhou) Ren - 任洲
Applied Science Manager (CV, Google Scholar, Linkedin)
Amazon AWS, Seattle, WA

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Email: renzhou200622 [at-gmail] [dotcom]
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About me

  • I am an Applied Science Manager at Amazon AWS, working on Just Walk Out Technology. Previously, I was a Principal Research Manager and founding member of Wormpex AI Research, the AI branch of BianLiFeng (便利蜂), a top-10 convenience store chain in China. I was responsible for building state-of-the-art human-centric AI technologies to facilitate new retail business from new site selection, storefront management, to storefront operation. Before that, I have spent 3 wonderful years at Snap Research as a senior research scientist, working on multimodal understanding to support Snapchat’s content monetization, content security, and creative content creation.

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Research Highlights

  • My research interests lie in the fields of Computer Vision, Multimedia, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. I have worked on Human Centric Understanding (including hand gesture recognition, hand pose estimation, human pose estimation and tracking, human ReID, action detection, etc.), Multi-modal Joint Understanding (including image captioning, video captioning, visual-semantic embedding, etc.), shape understanding, adversarial machine learning, etc.

  • My current focuses are: 1. human centric understanding (pose, hand, gesture, human Re-ID, and tracking); 2. object detection, action detection and video representation learning, 3. multi-modal joint understanding, vision and language.