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Roger Chen Zhao

过去、现在和未来

我，赵晨，或者叫livepine，目前在英国爱丁堡大学计算机学院神经信息学博士培训中心（这个名字有点怪怪的）攻读四年的博士课程。

“神经信息学”（或者叫计算神经科学）是一门交叉学科，用计算的方法来研究大脑。这门学科的最终任务是定量地理解神经系统的根本机制，就像我们能用数学模型来描述物理运动一样。我个人一致特别着迷于这种复杂原理的工程应用，比如说真正的智能机器。这个博士课程我的方向是哺乳动物高端视觉系统，比如说，脸部识别。这个网站works里面有更多的细节。

2004到2005年我在英国布里斯托大学攻读机器学习和数据挖掘硕士课程并获得了学位。之前的一年（2003-2004）我在英国约克大学读信息处理硕士课程（这是一个计算机的转专业课程）。

这张表是我迄今为止的学业背景：

2005年9月 - 目前	神经信息学博士在读， 爱丁堡大学，英国
2004年9月 - 2005年9月	机器学习和数据挖掘硕士学位， 布里斯托大学，英国
2004年10月 - 2004年9月	信息处理硕士学位（优秀）， 约克大学，英国
1999年9月 - 2003年6月	经济学学士， 上海外国语大学，上海，中国
1996年9月 - 1999年6月	上海市西中学，上海，中国
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我没有正式的工作经历，但我在过去的几年中参与或领导了许多网站开发和设计相关的项目。在我的简历中（英文完整版, 英文简洁版和中文版）和这个网站works中有更多的细节。

未来不可测，但很幸运的是我发现了一条路，并且将走下去。我想这将是我长期追求的东西——一个现实的视觉机器，它能够同人一样，或者说能够拥有类似人的智能去识别、分类、决策视觉信息。这也将是通向真正的智能的重要一步。从小学起（九十年代初期）我便对电脑着了迷，一直到如今仍然乐此不疲。但是现在我对终极形式的电脑——人类大脑——产生了更浓厚的热情。我想对于我来说，探索这个已知宇宙中最精密的机器是一件有着无以伦比的快乐和挑战的事情。

Me: past, present and future

I am Chen (Roger) Zhao (a.k.a. livepine in the cybernet :)), a Chinese student studying in the United Kingdom. Currently I am doing a 4-year PhD programme in the Neuroinformatics Doctoral Training Centre in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK.

“Neuroinformatics” (also called computational neuroscience) is a newly coined word indicating the interdisciplinary research area which incorporates computational methods to study the brain. The ultimate goal of this area is to quantitively understand the underlying mechanism governing the neural system, like the mathematical framework ruling the physical dynamics. Personally, in a long-term perspective I am fascinating about the engineering application of such understanding, e.g. (really) intelligent machine. For this PhD programme I will be looking at high level mammalian visual system, e.g. face recognition. More details can be found at my works section.

In year 2004-2005 I studied at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and got (indeed, very tough) the degree of MSc in Advanced Computing in the route of Machine Learning and Data Mining. Before that (2003-2004) I studied at the University of York (in York City) in the United Kingdom and finished the course of MSc in Information Processing (sounds bizarre? it's a conversion course to computer science).

I am populating some stuff showing my background (or rather, history) briefly in a table.

09/2005 - present	PhD (candidate) in Neuroinformatics, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
09/2004 - 09/2005	MSc in Advanced Computing (Machine Learning and Data Mining), University of Bristol, United Kingdom
10/2003 - 09/2004	MSc in Information Processing with Distinction, University of York, United Kingdom
09/1999 - 06/2003	Bachelor in Economics, Shanghai International Studies University (Shang Wai), Shanghai, China
09/1996 - 06/1999	Shanghai Shixi High School, Shanghai, China
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I have no formal working experience, but I have led or participated many projects concerning web programming and design in the past few years. You can see much more details in my curriculum vitae (full version, compact version and Chinese version available as well) and at my works section.

Future is unpredictable but I am quite lucky that I have found a way to go. My long-last dream is to contribute to a realistic vision machine comparable to human performance - recognition, classification and decision. This is also a great step towards the real intelligence. I have been deeply fascinated by computer since early 1990s. Though the passion is still there, even greater passion has been devoted to a computer in its superior form - human brain. It's a lot of fun as well as challenges to play with this possibly the most sophisticated machine in the unknown universe.