Bio

I'm Bo Wu, an AI Researcher at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab in Cambridge, MA.
My research interests are computer vision, natural language processing, and deep learning, which focus on visual, language, or behavior understanding, forecasting, and reasoning.
I was a Research Scientist at Columbia University, worked with Prof. Shih-Fu Chang.
I received my Ph.D. at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT, CAS), advised by Prof. Jintao Li, and worked in the group of Prof. Yongdong Zhang.
I fortunately worked with Dr. Tao Mei at MSRA, Prof. Wen-Huang Cheng at Academia Sinica, etc. I have several wonderful visiting research and start-up experiences at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Academia Sinica, JD AI Research, etc.
I am serving (or served) as an Area Chair of ACM Multimedia, a Senior Program Committee (SPC) member of AAAI/IJCAI, and a Program Committee Board (PCB) member of IJCAI.

bo.wu{at}ibm.com bowu{at}mit.edu
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  • 10/2023 Honored to be issued the Master Inventor Award.
  • 07/2023 Our paper is accepted by ACL 2023.
  • 06/2023 We are hosting the MVCS workshop at CVPR 2023 now.
  • 04/2023 We are hosting the STAR Challenge 2023 for Situated Reasoning now.
  • 03/2023 We are hosting SMP Challenge 2023 now.
  • 02/2023 Our paper is accepted by CVPR 2023.
  • 11/2022 Our paper is accepted by AAAI 2023.
  • 09/2022 We are hosting STAR Challenge 2022 now.
  • 05/2022 Our paper is accepted by ICSE 2022.
  • 10/2021 Our paper on the STAR for Situated Reasoning is accepted by NeurIPS 2021.
  • 09/2021 Serve as a Senior Program Committee (SPC) Member of AAAI 2022.
  • 07/2021 Serve as a Program Committee Board Member of IJCAI 2022.
  • 06/2021 Two papers are accepted by ACM MM 2021.
  • 10/2020 Serve as a Senior Program Committee (SPC) Member of IJCAI 2021.
  • 09/2020 We won the Champion of the ICIP 2020 Prediction Challenge.
  • 07/2020 We won the Best Demo Paper Award in ACL 2020.
  • 07/2020 One paper is accepted by ACM MM 2020.
  • 04/2020 One paper is accepted by IJCAI 2020.
  • 03/2020 Serve as an Area Chair of ACM MM 2020.
  • 02/2020 One paper is accepted by CVPR 2020.
  • 12/2019 Two papers are accepted by AAAI 2020.

STAR: A Benchmark for Situated Reasoning in Real-World Videos

Bo Wu, Shoubin Yu, Zhenfang Chen, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan
Thirty-fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021.

Learning to Predict Situation Hyper-Graphs for Video Question Answering

Aisha Urooj, Hilde Kuehne, Bo Wu, Kim Chheu, Walid Bousselham, Chuang Gan, Niels Lobo, Mubarak Shah
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.

Scene Graph Refinement Network for Visual Question Answering

Tianwen Qian, Jingjing Chen, Shaoxiang Chen, Bo Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2022.

Counterfactual Debiasing Inference for Compositional Action Recognition

Pengzhan Sun*, Bo Wu*, Xunsong Li, Wen Li, Lixin Duan, Chuang Gan
The 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2021.

STST: Spatial-Temporal Specialized Transformer for Skeleton-based Action Recognition

Yuhan Zhang*, Bo Wu*, Wen Li, Lixin Duan, Chuang Gan
The 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2021.

Personalized Dialogue Generation with Persona-Adaptive Attention

Qiushi Huang, Yu Zhang, Tom Ko, Xubo Liu, Bo Wu, Wenwu Wang, Lilian Tang
Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023.

DeepFD: Automated Fault Diagnosis and Localization for Deep Learning Programs

Jialun Cao, Meiziniu Li, Xiao Chen, Ming Wen, Yongqiang Tian, Bo Wu, Shing-Chi Cheung
The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2022.

MemNAS: Memory-Efficient Neural Architecture Search With Grow-Trim Learning

Peiye Liu, Bo Wu, Huadong Ma, Mingoo Seok.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020.

General Partial Label Learning via Dual Bipartite Graph Autoencoder

Brian Chen, Bo Wu, Alireza Zareian, Hanwang Zhang, Shih-Fu Chang.
Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020.

Learning the Compositional Visual Coherence for Complementary Recommendations

Zhi Li, Bo Wu, Qi Liu, Hongke Zhao, Likang Wu, Tao Mei.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2020.

Tensor FISTA-Net for Real-Time Snapshot Compressive Imaging

Xiaochen Han, Bo Wu, Zheng Shou, Xiao-Yang Liu, Yimeng Zhang, Linghe Kong.
Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020.

Token-Level Supervised Contrastive Learning for Punctuation Restoration

Qiushi Huang, Tom Ko, H Lilian Tang, Xubo Liu, Bo Wu
International Conference on Computer, Software Engineering and Applications (Interspeech), 2021.

SMP Challenge: An Overview of Social Media Prediction Challenge 2019

Bo Wu, Wen-Huang Cheng, Peiye Liu, Bei Liu, Zhaoyang Zeng, Jiebo Luo.
The 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2019.

Unlocking the Author Power: On the Exploitation of Auxiliary Author-Retweeter Relations for Predicting Key Retweeters

Bo Wu, Wen-Huang Cheng, Yongdong Zhang, Juan Cao, Jintao Li, Tao Mei.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE, IF 3.857), 2018.

Sequential Prediction of Social Media Popularity with Deep Temporal Context Networks

Bo Wu, Wen-Huang Cheng, Yongdong Zhang, Qiushi Huang, Jintao Li, Tao Mei.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2017, Melbourne, Australia. (Oral)

Unfolding Temporal Dynamics: Predicting Social Media Popularity Using Multi-scale Temporal Decomposition

Bo Wu, Tao Mei, Wen-Huang Cheng, Yongdong Zhang.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence(AAAI), 2016, Phoenix, USA. (Spotlight)

Time Matters: Multi-scale Temporalization of Social Media Popularity

Bo Wu, Wen-Huang Cheng, Yongdong Zhang, Tao Mei.
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Outfit Compatibility Prediction and Diagnosis with Multi-Layered Comparison Network

Xin Wang*, Bo Wu*, Yueqi Zhong.
The 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2019.

Dressing for Attention: Outfit Based Fashion Popularity Prediction

Ling Lo, Chia-Lin Liu, Rong-An Lin, Bo Wu, Hong-Han Shuai, Wen-Huang Cheng.
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2019.

Fashion World Map: Understanding Cities Through Streetwear Fashion

Yu-Ting Chang, Wen-Huang Cheng, Bo Wu, Kai-Lung Hua.
The 25th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2017.

Professional Services
  • Area Chair/Senior Program Committee (SPC) Member: ACM Multimedia, AAAI, IJCAI
  • Conference Program Committee (PC) Member: NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, ICML, KDD, WWW, RSS, etc.
  • Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions (TCSVT, TMM, TKDE, TIST, etc.)
Awards & Certifications
  • 2023 IBM Master Inventor
  • 2021 IBM Research Level-A Accomplishment Award
  • 2020 The Best Demo Paper Award of ACL 2020
  • 2019 NIST TAC SM-KBP 2019 (Top 1)
  • 2018 Alibaba Global Vision AI Challenge (Top 3, 0.1%)
    Schlumberger Ph.D Award
  • 2017 ACM Turing 50th Student Scholarship
    Start-up Innovation Challenge (Top 1)
    5 times of Excellent Student Awards
  • 2016 AAAI Student Scholarship Award
    ACM MM Student Travel Grant
    Academia Sinica Ph.D Scholarship
    3 times of Outstanding Student Leader Awards
  • 2015 Alibaba Global Recommendation Challenge (Top 1%)
    ACM CIKM Global Challenge Cup (Top 1%)
Hosted Challenges