ICT is pleased to announce that Dr. Meida Chen has been promoted to Research Scientist, in recognition of his contributions as Co-Lead on the 3D Geospatial Terrain Research, focusing on 3D computer vision and synthetic training data generation.
Dr. Chen received his PhD. from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California in 2020, following his MS, Computer Science and MCM, Construction Management (Civil Engineering), also from USC. He joined USC Institute for Creative Technologies as a Research Assistant in 2017, and received two promotions: Research Associate (2020), then Senior Research Associate (2022).
He received the best paper award at I/ITSEC 2019 and has published numerous papers in top conferences/journals in both the computer vision and civil engineering fields.
Alongside his new role as a Research Scientist at ICT, Dr. Meida Chen is also a lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, on the Introduction to Civil Engineering Graphics course.
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Established in 1999, the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a Department of Defense (DoD) University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), sponsored by the US Army. Harnessing Hollywood-derived creativity with academic innovation and military-domain expertise, ICT conducts award-winning R&D in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Graphics, Geospatial Sciences, Human Performance, Learning Sciences, Modeling, Simulation & Gaming, Mixed Reality (MxR), Medical VR, Narrative, and Virtual Humans. ICT accomplishments include: 2,000 Peer-Reviewed Publications with 100,000+ Citations; 140+ Honors and Awards Highlighting Faculty and Staff; 50+ Hollywood Movies/Series use ICT Technologies; 278 Intellectual Property Disclosures; 29 Patents; 3 AAAI Fellows and 2 Academy Awards (Science & Technology).
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