PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Guo-Jun Qi

Also known as G. J. QI, G. J. Qi, G.-J. Qi, G.J. Qi

Guo-Jun Qi is a computer-vision and multimedia researcher whose work includes video annotation and generative adversarial networks. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering at USTC in 2005, a Master of Engineering there in 2009, and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at UIUC in 2013. His 2007 ACM Multimedia paper won the Best Full Technical Paper award, and his 2008 temporal-kernel work modeled relationships among video concepts. At UCF, he researched computer vision, pattern recognition and multimedia and held technical leadership roles at Huawei; ACM named him a Distinguished Member in 2021, and IAPR elected him a Fellow in 2022. As of October 2026, he is a faculty member at Westlake University’s School of Engineering.

Timeline

  1. 2005–2013

    Degrees at USTC and UIUC

    He earns a Bachelor of Engineering at USTC in 2005 and a Master of Engineering there in 2009. At UIUC, he completes a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 2013 after working with Professor Thomas Huang’s Image Formation and Processing Group at the Beckman Institute.

  2. 2007

    ACM Multimedia best paper

    His coauthored paper “Correlative Multi-Label Video Annotation” wins ACM Multimedia’s Best Full Technical Paper award in 2007.

  3. 2008

    Temporal-kernel video annotation

    In 2008, he and his coauthors publish a temporal-kernel paper for video annotation that models correlations among concepts in one step.

  4. By 2016

    Assistant professor at UCF

    By 2016, he is an assistant professor in UCF’s Department of Computer Science, with research interests in computer vision, pattern recognition, multimedia computing and data mining. Before joining UCF, he is a Research Staff Member at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center.

  5. 2017

    Loss-Sensitive GAN

    In 2017, he presents Lipschitz regularization theory and algorithms for a Loss-Sensitive Generative Adversarial Network (LS-GAN).

  6. 2021

    ACM Distinguished Member

    In 2021, ACM names him a Distinguished Member for contributions to computing, and he works at OPPO US Research Center.

  7. 2022

    An IAPR Fellowship

    In 2022, IAPR names him a Fellow for contributions to pattern recognition for computer vision and multimedia computing.

  8. As of October 2026

    Westlake engineering faculty

    As of October 2026, he is a faculty member in Westlake University’s School of Engineering. His earlier leadership roles include Technical VP and Cloud AI Distinguished Scientist II at Huawei Research America, and Chief Scientist of Smart Cities at Huawei Cloud’s EI Product Department.

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  1. MAPLE server.cs.ucf.edu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. ACM SIGMM eNewsletter vefur.simula.no. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. A Unifying Multi-Label Temporal Kernel Machine with Its Application to Video Annotation - Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Talk by Guo-Jun Qi at 1509 in NII cvim.ipsj.or.jp. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Loss-Sensitive Generative Adversarial Networks on Lipschitz Densities arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. ACM recognizes 2021 Distinguished Members for pivotal educational, engineering, and scientific contributions eurekalert.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  7. Chronological List of IAPR Fellows iapr.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  8. Engineering en.westlake.edu.cn. Checked 19 October 2026.