Professor Yi-Zhe Song

Computer Vision and Machine Learning

a Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey, where he leads the SketchX Lab (http://sketchx.ai/). SketchX Lab has been honoured with a Best Paper Award Candidate at CVPR'23 and a Best Paper Award at BMVC'15. The lab's vision is to understand how seeing can be explained by drawing, that is, how a better understanding of human sketch data can lead to insights about how human visual systems operate. He is an Associate Editor for two of the most significant journals in computer vision and machine learning — IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), and International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). He is a Co-Director of the UKRI CDT on Digital Media Inclusion, and serves as a Co-Director of Surrey's People-Centred AI Institute, UK's leading AI research centre with 50+ core academics and 130+ AI Fellows. He is also the Turing Academic Lead for Surrey at the Alan Turing Institute. He founded and currently leads the MSc in AI programme at Surrey, having previously established an MSc in AI programme at Queen Mary University of London