Qianru Sun

I am an assistant professor of computer science in the School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS), Singapore Management University (SMU). Here is my faculty profile. From 2018 to 2019, I was a research fellow working with Prof. Tat-Seng Chua at the National University of Singapore and Prof.Dr. Bernt Schiele at the MPI for Informatics. From 2016 to 2018, I held the Lise Meitner Award Fellowship and worked with Prof.Dr. Bernt Schiele and Prof. Dr. Mario Fritz at the MPI for Informatics. I got my Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 2016 and my thesis was advised by Prof. Hong Liu. In 2014, I visited in the research group of Prof. Tatsuya Harada at the University of Tokyo. My research interests are computer vision and machine learning.

Education

• Doctor of Science Peking University (2010 — 2016)
• Exchange study The University of Tokyo (2014 — 2015)
• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (2006 — 2010)

Awards and Funding

• Aug 2022, DSO Research Grant (DSO National Laboratories)
• Oct 2021, Outstanding Reviewer (NeurIPS 2021)
• Aug 2021, Alibaba Innovative Research Grant (Alibaba Group)
• Jul 2021, Lee Kong Chian Fellowship (SMU)
• Mar 2021, Outstanding Reviewer (ICLR 2021)
• Nov 2020, Young Independent Research Grant (A*STAR)
• Feb 2020, Alibaba Innovative Research Grant (Alibaba Group)
• Mar 2016, Lise-Meitner Award for Excellent Women in Computer Science (MPI for Informatics)

Publications

• Causal interventional training for image recognition, by QIN, Wei; ZHANG, Hanwang; HONG, Richang; LIM, Ee-Peng; SUN, Qianru. (2021). IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 1-12. (Advance Online)
• Learning to teach and learn for semi-supervised few-shot image classification, by LI, Xinzhe; HUANG, Jianqiang; LIU, Yaoyao; ZHOU, Qin; ZHENG, Shibao; SCHIELE, Bernt; SUN, Qianru. (2021). Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 212 1-10. (Published)
• Mixed dish recognition with contextual relation and domain alignment, by DENG, Lixi; CHEN, Jingjing; NGO, Chong-Wah; SUN, Qianru; TANG, Sheng; ZHANG, Yongdong; CHUA, Tat-Seng. (2021). IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 1-13.
• Meta-transfer learning through hard tasks, by SUN, Qianru; LIU, Yaoyao; CHEN Zhaozheng; CHUA Tat-Seng; SCHIELE Bernt. (2020). IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1-14. (Advance Online)
• Generating face images with attributes for free, by LIU, Yaoyao; SUN, Qianru; HE Xiangnan; LIU An-An; SU Yuting; CHUA Tat-Seng. (2020). IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 32 (6), 1-11.
• A compact representation of human actions by sliding coordinate coding, by DING, Runwei; SUN, Qianru; LIU, Mengyuan; LIU, Hong. (2017). International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 14 (6), 1-12.