Zeeshan Zia: Awards

Selected Awards

NTNU Onsager Fellowship in Robotic Vision (tenure-track faculty position + 2 PhD studentships at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway) [passed]

ETH Medal 2014 for outstanding doctoral dissertation (~top 5% of all PhD theses at ETH-Zurich)
Best PhD Student award (by IAPR, out of ~130 pre-screened candidates at ICVSS 2012)
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) 2012, worth 10,000 EUR on my research proposal
Best Paper Award, for my 3dRR 2011 paper by Microsoft Research

2nd position out of 140 students in Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) programme at NEDUET (99.7th percentile overall amongst ~1500 students in Engineering faculty)
Prizes at six national level software competitions/olympiads (1998-2001)
Member of Pakistan-I team at three international programming olympiads (SEARCC ISSC 2000-02 in Singapore/Philippines/New Zealand)

June, 2019: • Left Microsoft Research to work on my company full-time.
July, 2018: • Our submissions to ECCV 2018 and TPAMI are accepted.; • Reviewed 3 paper for 3dv.; • Advising two summer research interns on computer vision and deep learning problems at Microsoft.
April, 2018: • Attended International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2018 in Vancouver Canada.; • Reviewed 10 papers for BMVC, mostly on action understanding and GANs.; • Reviewed 8 papers for ECCV, mostly on domain adaptation and GANs.
February, 2018: • Quora Top Writer 2018. I was also QTW for 2016 and 2017.
November, 2017: • Reviewing 10 papers for CVPR, mostly on domain adaptation and 3D object estimation.
October, 2017: • I got a beautiful plaque for being part of the team that shipped Microsoft's VR solution.
September, 2017: • Outstanding reviewer award for BMVC 2017.