Hexiang Hu, a DDP student in the dual degree program, is looking forward to graduating this spring. As if earning two degrees hasn't kept him busy enough (the award winning DDP program is a partnership between SFU’s School of Computing Science and Zhejiang University (ZJU); students spend time studying at both universities, earning a degree from each), Hexiang has also been working as a research assistant for Dr. Greg Mori, Professor and Director of the School of Computing Science.

Collaborating with Dr. Mori and Dr. Zicheng Liao, a visiting faculty member from ZJU, they have just had a research paper accepted to CVPR 2016, the top annual computer vision conference. Their paper, “Learning Structured Inference Neural Networks with Label Relations”, will be presented at the conference in June 2016, in Las Vegas.

Hexiang completed his first co-op term at Microsoft as a security researcher, working on projects that applied machine learning techniques to malicious software classification. He developed a real interest for machine learning, and landed a research assistant position with Dr. Mori when he returned to his studies at SFU. Hexiang says that he’s thankful for the support and guidance of both faculty members “for their great contributions in the different stages of collaboration, from brainstorming ideas to discussing methodologies and design experiments”