Prof. Yan is currently Visiting Chief Scientist at Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (non-profit organization), and former Group Chief Scientist of Sea Group.
Prof. Yan Shuicheng is a Fellow of Singapore's Academy of Engineering, AAAI, ACM, IEEE, and IAPR. His research areas include computer vision, machine learning, and multimedia analysis. Till now, Prof Yan has published over 600 papers at top international journals and conferences, with an H-index of 130+. He has also been named among the annual World's Highly Cited Researchers eight times.
Prof. Yan's team received ten-time winners or honorable-mention prizes at two core competitions, Pascal VOC and ImageNet (ILSVRC), deemed the “World Cup” in the computer vision community. Besides, his team won more than ten best papers and best student paper awards, particularly a grand slam at the ACM Multimedia, the top-tiered conference in multimedia, including the Best Paper Awards thrice, Best Student Paper Awards twice, and Best Demo Award once.