Dahua Lin (林达华)

Creator and Director of OpenMMLab, arguably the most prolific open-source computer vision ecosystem in the world: 54 repos, 30+ vision libraries, 300+ algorithms, 2,000+ pretrained models. MMDetection alone has 32.6K GitHub stars. Co-founded SenseTime in October 2014 with Xiaoou Tang and Xiaogang Wang (SenseTime listed on HKEX December 2021). Also directs the Interdisciplinary Institute of AI at CUHK.

PhD from MIT (2012), MPhil from CUHK (Best Master Thesis Award), BEng from USTC. ~85,000–90,000 citations. Best Student Paper at NeurIPS 2010. Supervised CUHK teams winning ImageNet 2016, ActivityNet 2016-2017, COCO 2018-2019. 120+ papers at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS.