SLAI Seminar 26th Session will be discussing the topic on "Personal PhD Journey and Sharing of Core Insights",  from 3pm to 4pm, February 6th (Friday) at B311 Lecture Hall, online participation is welcome (Tencent Meeting ID: 786-875-155)

About the Speaker:

Sida Peng is an assistant professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University. His research focuses on 3D computer vision and computer graphics. He has published 9 papers in TPAMI/TOG, and 12 Oral/Highlight papers in CCF-A conferences. His work has received over 7,500 citations on Google Scholar, with one first-author paper receiving a Best Paper Nomination at CVPR. His research outcomes have garnered tens of thousands of stars on GitHub and the CCF Excellent Graphics Open-Source Software Award in 2024. He has been recognized as a 2025 Distinguished Young Scholar by China3DV, listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in 2024, and selected as a 2024 CCF Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Awardee (one of ten recipients in China's computer science field). He was named a 2022 Apple Scholar (the only recipient in the Asia-Pacific region) and a 2024 Huawei "Qizhen" Outstanding Young Scholar.

Abstract: This talk reviews the speaker's personal journey from a novice in postgraduate recommendation to becoming a recipient of the CCF Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award. The growth path is analyzed by addressing four key questions: how to overcome initial difficulties by finding enjoyment in the learning process itself; how to transform experimental failures into valuable insights, inspired by On Practice, leading to the completion of a first paper; how to establish a "research base" and employ goal-driven approaches to achieve focus and sustained output in a research direction; and how to engage deeply with real-world scenarios to find genuine significance for scientific research.