Jiaya JIA

Biography

Jiaya Jia is a Chair Professor of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He joined CUHK in 2004 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 2015. He moved to HKUST in 2024. He obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science jointly from HKUST and Microsoft Research in 2004. From March 2003 to August 2004, he was a visiting scholar at Microsoft. He conducted collaborative research at Adobe Research in 2007.

Jiaya Jia is an IEEE Fellow. His research focuses on advanced development of computer vision and deep learning technologies, including image/video understanding, large models, multi-modal AI, computational imaging, and generative AI. His papers were cited 70,000+ times on Google Scholar with H-index 100+ His papers received SIGGRAPH Asia Test-of-Time Award 2023, CVPR Best Paper Finalist 2022, and NPAR Best Paper Award 2012. He has been among the world's top 2% most-cited scientists by Stanford University for several years. 40+ PhDs and scholars from this group are now active in academia and industry, and have become AI tech leaders as professors, directors in research labs, and founders of several successful startups.