Wei Shen

Wei Shen

Professor
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Education

  • 2007.09 - 2012.06 Ph.D in Electronic and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. (Co-supervised by Prof. Xiang Bai)
  • 2003.09 - 2007.06 B.S. in Electronic and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Work Experience

  • 2024.07 - present Professor, Artificial Intelligence Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 2020.10 - 2024.07 Associate Professor, Artificial Intelligence Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 2018.11 - 2020.08 Assistant Research Professor, Deptartment of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University.
  • 2016.05 - 2018.10 Visiting Scholar, Deptartment of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University. (Hosted by Prof. Alan Yuille)
  • 2017.03 - 2018.10 Associate Professor, School of Communications and Information Engineering, Shanghai University.
  • 2012.10 - 2017.02 Lecturer, School of Communications and Information Engineering, Shanghai University.
  • 2011.04 - 2011.12 Intern, Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia. (Supervised by Prof. Zhuowen Tu)

Grant

  • 2026.01 - 2029.12 The Space Analysis Theory of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Applications to Visual Dense Prediction Tasks, National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 62576207 (PI)
  • 2024.01 - 2026.12 Shape Guided Image Segmentation, National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 62322604 (PI)
  • 2022.01 - 2025.12 Deep Sequential Decision Trees with Applications to Visual Recognition, National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 62176159​ (PI)
  • 2021.07 - 2024.06 Deep Differentiable Random Forests with Applications to Visual Recognition, Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai No. 21ZR1432200 (PI)
  • 2017.01 - 2020.12 Object proposal detection by deep shape feature extraction in natural images, National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 61672336​ (PI)
  • 2016.01 - 2018.12 Contour detection by deep convolutional neural networks, “Chen Guang” project supported by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation No. 15CG43​ (PI)
  • 2014.01 - 2016.12 Symmetry based object localization in natural images, Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China No. 20133108120017 (PI)
  • 2014.01 - 2015.12 Symmetry based object representation and recognition in natural images, Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission No. 14YZ018 (PI)
  • 2014.01 - 2016.12 Research on skeleton extraction and object recognition in natural images by supervised learning, National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 61303095 (PI)

Award

  • 2025 CSIG Young Scientist Award
  • 2023 First Class Prize of Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award (6/13)
  • 2023 MICCAI Young Scientist Award

Academic Service

  • Associate Editor
    • SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 2025 - present
    • Pattern Recognition, 2024 - present
    • Neurocomputing, 2019 - 2024
    • Image and Vision Computing, 2023 - 2025
  • Conference Area Chair
    • ICML 2026, CVPR 2026, NeurIPS 2025, ICML 2025, ICCV 2025, NeurIPS 2024, WACV 2024, NeurIPS 2023, CVPR 2023, CVPR 2022, ACCV 2022
  • Journal Reviewer
    • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
    • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
    • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
    • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
    • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
    • International Journal of Computer Vision
    • Medical Image Analysis
    • Pattern Recognition
  • Conference Reviewer
    • CVPR 2017, CVPR 2018, CVPR 2019, CVPR 2020, CVPR 2021
    • ECCV 2016, ICCV 2017, ECCV 2018, ICCV 2019
    • AAAI 2017, AAAI 2018, AAAI 2021, NIPS 2019, NIPS 2020, ICML 2019
  • Workshop Organizer