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Xiaolong Wang Awarded 2024 J.K. Aggarwal Prize

Xiaolong Wang

September 17, 2024

Congratulations to Xiaolong Wang, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, on being awarded the 2024 J.K. Aggarwal Prize by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)! Wang was recognized "for groundbreaking contributions to advancing visual representation learning, utilizing self-supervised and attention-based models to establish fundamental frameworks for creating versatile, general-purpose pattern recognition systems." He will be presented with the prize at the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2024), which will take place in Kolkata, India from December 1-5, 2024.

Learn more about the award and past winners here: https://iapr.org/awards/icpr-awards/j-k-aggarwal-prize/

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