Jie Fu (姐夫)

Weakly-supervised machine learning researcher with his human-friendly big AI dream. He is enjoying his postdoc journey at Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) to prepare for the coming AI winter, as Eddard Stark said "He won't be a boy forever and winter is coming" -- Game of Thrones. He is privileged to work with Christopher Pal.

He earned his PhD degree from National University of Singapore (NUS), and was fortunately under the supervision of Tat-Seng Chua, also closely working with Jiashi Feng and Kian Hsiang Low. He received a Research Master's degree in Computer Science (First Class Honours) with scholarship from University of Otago, New Zealand, luckily advised by Brendan McCane and Lubica Benuskova.

He is interested in machine learning. More specifically, his research is focused on deep learning, probabilistic reasoning, reinforcement learning and neural abstract machines. He is especially excited about reducing the gap between theoretical and practical algorithms in a principled and efficient manner.

He strongly believes that the singularity is near. His medium-term goal is "enriching the set of manipulations applicable to training systems, and building reasoning capabilities from the ground up" - From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning.

In the meanwhile, he agrees that people should "keep an eye on unforeseen terrifying scenarios where the products began to threaten humanity". He somehow also thinks that we should learn how to embrace our humanity to maximize heartificial intelligence. Inspired by Ernest Hemingway's six-word novel challenge, his current research in 6 words: deep learning with logic: transparent intelligence.