Shaoqing Ren 任少卿

Biography

From 2020.08, I join NIO, as vice president, working on autonomous driving development. We are hiring in Beijing and Shanghai!

In 2016.09-2020.07, I co-founded an autonomous driving software startup Momenta.ai, which grew into unicorn in three years, aiming to help people live a better life with improved safety and efficiency of driving through artificial intelligence.

Before that I got my PhD degree in a joint Ph.D program between University of Science and Technology of China and Microsoft Research Asia. My supervisor is Dr. Jian Sun. Prior that, I received my B. Eng degree from the same department in 2011.

Awards and Honor

the most-cited paper of the twenty-first century，2025

Future Science Prize in mathematics and computer science, 2023

Forbes Asia 30 Under 30, 2018

CVPR Best Paper Award, 2016

ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ImageNet) Competition Winner Award, 2015

COCO Detection Challenge Winner Award, 2015

Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship, 2014

National Scholarship of China, 2010

Publications (Google Scholar)

Instance-sensitive Fully Convolutional Networks,
Jifeng Dai, Kaiming He, Yi Li, Shaoqing Ren, Jian Sun .
The 14th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2016

Bibtex

@inproceedings{dai16instance,
  Author    = {Jifeng Dai and
			   Kaiming He and
               Yi Li and
               Shaoqing Ren and
               Jian Sun},
  Title     = {Instance-sensitive Fully Convolutional Networks},
  Booktitle = {Proceedings of the European
               Conference on Computer Vision ({ECCV})},
  Year      = {2016}}

Identity Mappings in Deep Residual Networks,
Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, Jian Sun .
The 14th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2016

Code / Bibtex

@inproceedings{he16identity,
  Author    = {Kaiming He and
               Xiangyu Zhang and
               Shaoqing Ren and
               Jian Sun},
  Title     = {Identity Mappings in Deep Residual Networks},
  Booktitle = {Proceedings of the European
               Conference on Computer Vision ({ECCV})},
  Year      = {2016}}

Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks,
Shaoqing Ren, Kaiming He, Ross Girshick, Jian Sun .
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2016 (accepted)

Matlab Code / Python Code / Bibtex

@article{ren16faster,
  Author    = {Shaoqing Ren and
               Kaiming He and
               Ross Girshick and
               Jian Sun},
  Title     = {Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks},
  Booktitle = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)},
  Year      = {2016}}

Face Alignment via Regressing Local Binary Features ,
Shaoqing Ren, Xudong Cao, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun.
IEEE transactions on image processing (TIP), 2016

Paper / Video / Bibtex

@article{ren2016face,
  title={Face Alignment via Regressing Local Binary Features.},
  author={Ren, S and Cao, X and Wei, Y and Sun, J},
  journal={IEEE transactions on image processing: a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society},
  year={2016}
}}

Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition,
Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, Jian Sun .
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016 (Oral), CVPR Best Paper

Paper / Bibtex
```
@inproceedings{he15deepresidual,
  Author    = {Kaiming He and
               Xiangyu Zhang and
               Shaoqing Ren and
               Jian Sun},
  Title     = {Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition},
  Booktitle = {arXiv prepring arXiv:1506.01497},
  Year      = {2015}}
    
```
ILSVRC 2015 & COCO 2015 - we won the 1st places in ImageNet classification, ImageNet detection, ImageNet localization, COCO detection, and COCO segmentation with ResNet and Faster R-CNN!

Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks,
Shaoqing Ren, Kaiming He, Ross Girshick, Jian Sun .
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2015

Paper / Matlab Code / Python Code / Bibtex

@inproceedings{ren15faster,
  Author    = {Shaoqing Ren and
               Kaiming He and
               Ross Girshick and
               Jian Sun},
  Title     = {Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks},
  Booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)},
  Year      = {2015}}

Object Detection Networks on Convolutional Feature Maps,
Shaoqing Ren, Kaiming He, Ross Girshick, Xiangyu Zhang, Jian Sun .
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2016 (accepted)

Paper / Bibtex

@article{ren16noc,
  Author    = {Shaoqing Ren and
			   Kaiming He and
			   Ross Girshick and
			   Xiangyu Zhang and
			   Jian Sun},
  Title     = {Object Detection Networks on Convolutional Feature Maps},
  Booktitle = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)},
  Year      = {2016}}

Global Refinement of Random Forest,
Shaoqing Ren, Xudong Cao, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015

Paper / Bibtex

@inproceedings{shaoqing15grrf,
  Author    = {Shaoqing Ren and
               Xudong Cao and
               Yichen Wei and
               Jian Sun},
  Title     = {Global Refinement of Random Forest},
  Booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on
               Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  Year      = {2015}}

Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification,
Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, Jian Sun .
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015

Paper / Bibtex

@inproceedings{kaiming15delv,
  Author    = {Kaiming He and
               Xiangyu Zhang and
               Shaoqing Ren and
               Jian Sun},
  Title     = {Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification},
  Booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  Year      = {2015}}

4.94% top-5 error on ImageNet, the first to surpass human-level performance (5.1%).

Spatial Pyramid Pooling in Deep Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition,
Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, Jian Sun .
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2015 (accepted)

Bibtex

@article{kaiming15spp,
  Author    = {Kaiming He and
               Xiangyu Zhang and
               Shaoqing Ren and
               Jian Sun},
  Title     = {Spatial Pyramid Pooling in Deep Convolutional 
               Networks for Visual Recognition},
  Booktitle = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)},
  Year      = {2015}}

Spatial Pyramid Pooling in Deep Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition,
Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, Jian Sun .
The 13th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2014

Paper / arXiv / Slides / Poster / Project / Code / Bibtex

@inproceedings{kaiming14spp,
  Author    = {Kaiming He and
               Xiangyu Zhang and
               Shaoqing Ren and
               Jian Sun},
  Title     = {Spatial Pyramid Pooling in Deep Convolutional 
               Networks for Visual Recognition},
  Booktitle = {Proceedings of the European
               Conference on Computer Vision ({ECCV})},
  Year      = {2014}}

ILSVRC 2014 - We rank 2nd in detection, 3rd in classification, and 5th in localization among 38 teams.

Joint Cascade Face Detection and Alignment,
Dong Chen, Shaoqing Ren, Yichen Wei, Xudong Cao, Jian Sun.
The 13th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2014

Paper / Bibtex

@inproceedings{dong14JointCascade,
  Author    = {Dong Chen and
               Shaoqing Ren and
               Yichen Wei and
               Xudong Cao and
               Jian Sun},
  Title     = {Joint Cascade Face Detection and Alignment},
  Booktitle = {Proceedings of the European
               Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  Year      = {2014}}

Face Alignment at 3000 FPS via Regressing Local Binary Features ,
Shaoqing Ren, Xudong Cao, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014 (Oral)

Paper / Slides / Poster / Video / Bibtex

@inproceedings{shaoqing14lbf,
  Author    = {Shaoqing Ren and
               Xudong Cao and
               Yichen Wei and
               Jian Sun},
  Title     = {Face Alignment at 3000 FPS via Regressing Local Binary Features},
  Booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on
               Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  Year      = {2014}}

Last update: May.2025