Rickey K. Liang
Kunchangtai Liang
Doctoral student at ML Group, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarland University
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Research Interest
- Causal Inference
- Probabilistic Reasoning
- Machine Learning
- Explainability
- Neuro-symbolic AI
Education
Doktoringenieur (in progress) [11/2024 - Present]
Machine Learning Group, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarland University
Supervisor: Prof Dr Isabel Valera
Master of Science with Distinction [09/2021 - 11/2022]
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Dissertation: Re-implementation and Optimization of a Scalable Spike Detection Algorithm for Large-Scale Extracellular Recordings
Supervisor: Prof Matthias H Hennig
Bachelor of Science [09/2016 - 07/2020]
School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University
Thesis: Research on Local Feature Extraction and Video Coding for Machines Based on Neural Networks
Supervisor: Dr Jiaying Liu
Work Experience
Research Assistant [04/2023 - 05/2024]
April Lab, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Focus: Tractable probabilistic reasoning
Supervisor: Dr Antonio Vergari
Core Researcher (Intern) [08/2020 - 08/2021]
R&D Group, iFLYTEK Corporation
Focus: Scene Text Detection and OCR
Supervisor: Zhiguo Wang
Undergraduate Intern [09/2017 - 06/2020]
STRUCT Group, Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University
Focus: Video understanding
Supervisor: Dr Jiaying Liu
Research Intern [07/2019 - 08/2019]
Robotics Research Center, Peng Cheng Laboratory
Focus: ROV control
Supervisor: Prof Tao Mei
Teaching Assistant [09/2017 - 01/2018]
Introduction to Computation (A), School of EECS, Peking University
Duties: Q/A, marking, exam supervision
Supervisor: Prof Yafei Dai
Publications
Sifeng Xia†, Kunchangtai Liang†, Wenhan Yang, Ling-Yu Duan and Jiaying Liu, “An Emerging Coding Paradigm VCM: A Scalable Coding Approach Beyond Feature And Signal,” 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2020. (†Equal contribution) (Available on arXiv)