CS PhD student Chenxi Liu is among 54 graduate students selected as 2019 Google AI Fellows. Google created its PhD Fellowship Program ten years ago to recognize and support outstanding graduate students who are doing exceptional research in computer science and related fields and who seek to influence the future of technology.
Advised by Alan Yuille, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computational Cognitive Science, Liu is interested in computer vision and deep learning. His research in artificial intelligence prompted him to apply for the fellowship, which will grant him the funds to cover two years of tuition and fees.
“With this support, I hope to continue my research on letting machines spontaneously and efficiently discover the architectures that best facilitate various kinds of visual intelligence tasks,” says Liu. “I believe there are two levels of learning—the learning that we perform within each individual’s lifetime, and the evolution that forms our brilliant yet intricate brain structure after millions of years. Current AI is emulating the former, while the latter is largely uncharted territory.”