Alexander Schwing

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Office: CSL 103
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Research & Bio

Alex's research is centered around machine learning and computer vision. He is particularly interested in algorithms for prediction with and learning of non-linear, multivariate and structured distributions, and their application in numerous tasks, e.g., for 3D scene understanding from a single image.

Alex Schwing is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and affiliated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Computer Science Department. Prior to that he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Machine Learning Group at University of Toronto collaborating with Raquel Urtasun, Rich Zemel and Ruslan Salakhutdinov. He completed his PhD in computer science in the Computer Vision and Geometry Group at ETH Zurich working with Marc Pollefeys, Tamir Hazan and Raquel Urtasun, and graduated from Technical University of Munich (TUM) with a diploma in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.

Publications
Algorithms

Acknowledgements

I'm extremely grateful and thankful for support by The Magicians (they make things work):

Harsh Agrawal, Jyoti Aneja, Xiaoyang Bai, Moitreya Chatterjee, Shuo Chen, Aditya Deshpande, Ishan Deshpande, Colin Graber, Tanmay Gupta, Yuan-Ting Hu, Kexin Hui, Unnat Jain, Youjie Li, Iou-Jen Liu, Safa Messaoud, Medhini Narasimhan, Zhongzheng Ren, Idan Schwartz, Liwei Wang, Raymond Yeh, Ziyu Zhang, Peiye Zhuang

I'm extremely grateful and thankful for support by
  • Samsung SAIT for supporting our research 2019
  • 3M for supporting our work with a Non-Tenured Faculty Award 2019
  • Cisco Systems for supporting our research 2019
  • Adobe for supporting our research 2019
  • The 2019 UIUC fellowship committee for recognizing Yuan-Ting Hu with the Yi-Min Wang and Pi-Yu Chung Endowed Research Award
  • The 2019 CSL student conference organization for recognizing Unnat Jain's talk with the best student presentation award
  • Samsung for supporting our research 2019
  • The 2018 Google PhD Fellowship Committee for awarding Raymond Yeh
  • The UIUC Scholarship Committee 2018 for choosing Medhini Narasimhan as a Siebel scholar
  • The NIPS foundation for awarding Medhini Narasimhan and Youjie Li with a NIPS 2018 travel grant
  • The SNAP 2018 fellowship committee for awarding Medhini Narasimhan and Harsh Agrawal
  • Samsung SAIT for supporting our research 2018
  • 3M for supporting our work with a Non-Tenured Faculty Award 2018
  • Samsung for supporting our research 2018
  • The UIUC College of Engineering for supporting our research
  • All fall 2017 ECE 544 students for putting the new class on the excellent teacher list
  • The NIPS foundation for awarding Yuan-Ting Hu with a NIPS 2017 travel grant
  • The UIUC Scholarship Committee 2017 for choosing Unnat Jain as a Siebel scholar
  • The National Science Foundation (NSF IIS RI) and the panel for supporting our research
  • The CVPR 2017 area chairs supporting our CVPR 2017 reviewer award
  • All spring 2017 ECE 547 students for putting the new class on the excellent teacher list
  • The 2017 CSL student conference organization for recognizing Yuan-Ting Hu's talk with the best student presentation award
  • NVIDIA Corp. donating a Titan X for our research
  • The NIPS foundation for providing a NIPS 2015 travel grant
  • The anonymous ICML area chairs supporting my ICML 2015 reviewer award
  • Re.Work providing the opportunity to talk at the Deep Learning Summit:



  • The CVPR 2015 organization committee for granting the CVPR 2015 Young Researcher Support
  • My thesis Committee, external referees and ETH Zurich for awarding my PhD thesis with an ETH medal
  • The NIPS foundation for providing a NIPS 2014 travel grant
  • The Fields Institute for awarding a Fields Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • NVIDIA Corp. donating a Tesla K40 GPU for our research

Teaching

University of Illinois
  • Spring 2019: Machine Learning (CS 446/ECE 449)
  • Fall 2018: Pattern Recognition (ECE 544)
  • Spring 2018: Machine Learning (CS 446/ECE 449)
  • Fall 2017: Pattern Recognition (ECE 544)
  • Spring 2017: Topics in Image Processing (ECE 547/CSE 543)
  • Fall 2016: Programming and Systems (ECE 220)

University of Toronto (PostDoc)
  • Winter 2016: Gaussian Processes (Guest Lecture in: Probabilistic Graphical Models)
  • Fall 2015: Structured Prediction (Guest Lecture in: Intro to Machine Learning)
  • Fall 2015: Neural Networks (Guest Lecture in: Intro to Image Understanding)
  • Winter 2015: Deep Learning and Structured Prediction (Guest Lecture in: Intro to Machine Learning)
  • Winter 2015: Continuous Latent Variable Models (Guest Lecture in: Intro to Machine Learning)
  • Fall 2014: All you wanted to know about Neural Networks (Guest Lecture in: Intro to Image Understanding)

ETH Zurich (PhD student)

TU Munich (Diploma studies)
  • Fall 2007: Digital Signal Processing (Lab)
  • Fall 2007: Theory of Electromagnetic Fields 1 (Tutorial)
  • Spring 2006: Circuit Theory 2 (Tutorial)
  • Fall 2005: Circuit Theory 1 (Tutorial)
  • Fall 2005: Principles of Electricity (Tutorial)
  • Spring 2005: Circuit Theory 2 (Tutorial)
  • Fall 2004: Circuit Theory 1 (Tutorial)

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