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Welcome to Yang Ran's Home!
My name is Yang Ran, or, in Chinese, the Rising Sun.
Since 2010 I have been working at SAIC as a Senior Research Scientist. I lead and manage research effort and product launching for applications in video understanding, biometrics, human activity analysis etc. Please check my most recent resume.
From 2006 to 2009, I have been working at SET Corporation as a Research Scientist and then a Senior Research Scientist.
I have obtained the Ph.D. degree in Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park in June 2006. In UMD, I worked as a Research Assistant in Center for Automation Research with Dr. Qinfen Zheng and Prof. Rama Chellappa.
I got my B.S. and M.S. from Dept. of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University, P. R. China in 1999 and 2001, respectively. My advisor was Prof. Qingmin Liao.
My Research includes computer vision and pattern recognition.
-- What is New? 
- January 2010: Joining SAIC (A Fortune 500) as a Senior Research Scientist.
- Feb 2009: I am back! I will keep updating my homepage, add new cool vision stuff here.
- Feb 2007: The Gait DNA page is updated with media reports.
- Apr 2006: The realtime Gait DNA video demo in CTAC2006 for event detection is updated.
- Feb 2006: Here is my resume(pdf version). I am looking for an intern or full time job in computer vision.
- Sep 2005: OpenCV tutorial and source code site open
- 2005: Winning the "VIVID AWARD: Best Technical Performance Spiral II" with our team in UMD ( Larry Davis, Rama Chellappa, Wael A., Qinfen Z., Antonio T. etc) and SRI.
Contact information:
Preferred Email: ran_yang at hotmail.com
Permanent Email: rany at cfar.umd.edu