Hu Shimin: Tsinghua Computer Scientist

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Question: Who is Professor Hu Shimin (胡事民) from Tsinghua?

Answer:

Hu Shimin (born 1968, Changxing, Zhejiang) is a computer scientist and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, where he directs the Visual Media Research Center.

Background:

BS in Mathematics, Jilin University (1990)
MS and PhD in Computational Geometry & Graphics, Zhejiang University (1993, 1996)
Postdoc at Tsinghua CS dept under academician Sun Jiaguang, working on CAD (1996–1998)
Joined Tsinghua faculty in 1998, full professor since 2002

Research focus: computer graphics, geometric computing, computer vision, and AI/intelligent visual media processing.

Recognition:

National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars recipient, IEEE Fellow, and Tsinghua professor
Chief scientist of the national “973” program project on intelligent visual media processing (from 2006)
Elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and IEEE Fellow, both in November 2023
Elected as IEEE Fellow for contributions to computer vision media and geometric processing

Notable lab output relevant to you as an AI builder: the Jittor (“计图”) deep learning framework came out of his lab — Jittor is Tsinghua’s homegrown DL framework (JIT-compiled, meta-operator based), somewhat analogous in spirit to PyTorch but with a different compilation model. Worth a look if you’re comparing training frameworks beyond the usual PyTorch/JAX/Megatron stack.

He’s also currently Vice President of the China Computer Federation (CCF) and editor-in-chief of Computational Visual Media.

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