Yujia Li

I'm a Ph.D. student at University of Toronto. I work in the machine learning group and my advisor is Prof. Richard Zemel. My research now focuses on structured output learning, especially image labeling problems. Before coming to Toronto, I obtained my bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. I have worked as an intern Research and Development engineer at Baidu, Inc. (the largest search engine company in China) in the summer of 2011.

News

Code for our CVPR 2013 paper is available now.
I'm TA'ing CSC 263 "Data Structures" this Fall.
One paper accepted to appear in CVPR 2013 as oral presentation.

Education

2013.2-Present		Ph.D. Student
		Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

2011.9-2013.1		Master of Science
		Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

2007.8-2011.7		Bachelor of Engineering
		School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Publications

Exploring Compositional High Order Pattern Potentials for Structured Output Learning
Yujia Li, Daniel Tarlow and Richard Zemel
The 26th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013)
Oral Presentation
[paper] [supplementary material] [slides] [poster] [data] [code] [talk]

Celebrity Recommendation with Collaborative Social Topic Regression
Xuetao Ding, Xiaoming Jin, Yujia Li and Lianghao Li
Proceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013)
[paper]

Exploring Compositional High Order Pattern Potentials for Structured Output Learning
M.Sc. Thesis
[paper]

Teaching

At University of Toronto

Fall 2013, CSC 263 - Data Structures
Winter 2013, CSC 108 - Introduction to Computer Programming
Fall 2012, CSC 411 - Machine Learning and Data Mining
Winter 2012, CSC 190 - Computer Algorithms, Data Structures and Languages
Fall 2011, CSC 165 - Mathematical Expression and Reasoning for Computer Science

At Tsinghua University

Spring 2011, Advanced Data Structures
Spring 2011, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery

Honors and Awards

2013, CVPR travel grant.
2013, University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies conference grant.
2008-2010, University-wide comprehensive merit scholarship, three times - Including Kai-Feng Scholarship, which is the highest amount among all scholarships and awarded to only 30 undergraduate students in Tsinghua University every year.
2008, 2nd Prize - Chinese National College Physics Contest
2006, 1st Prize - Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO) in Provinces
2005, 2nd Prize - Chinese National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP)

Other Stuff

My name in Chinese:

A list of my old projects can be found here.

I swim and run regularly every week. I like playing badminton. I'm a fan of NBA. Following are some activities that I have participated in.

2010, Finished Half Marathon - 30th Beijing International Marathon
2010, Volunteer - Data Statistics group, China Open (Tennis)
2009, Visiting Student - Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
2009, Vice President - Student Association of Science and Technology, School of Software, Tsinghua University
- Co-organized the first regional software design contest, which attracts around 70 teams from 7 main universities in Beijing to participate.
2008-2009, Section Chief - Student Union, School of Software, Tsinghua University
2008, Staff, Out Standing Staff Laureate - Media Village, Beijing Olympic Games
2008, Finished 10km - 28th Beijing International Marathon

Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto