Merging Sensors, AI, and VR for Athlete Training

Dr. Min-Chun Hu received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, National Taiwan University in 2011. After graduation, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation in Academia Sinica, and later served as an assistant/associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Cheng Kung University. She is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University.

Dr. Hu has been recognized with numerous awards, including Exploration Research Award of Pan Wen Yuan Foundation (2015), Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Computer Society of the Republic of China (2017), IEEE Tainan Section Best Young Professional Member Award (2018), Google Research exploreCSR Award (2021-2024), CES Innovation Awards (2023), and NSTC Ta-You Wu Memorial Award (2023). Her research interests encompass digital signal processing, multimedia content analysis, computer vision, computer graphics, virtual reality, and augmented reality. As a passionate basketball enthusiast, she has long been dedicated to developing sports technology that assists athletes in training and performance analysis. Dr. Hu previously served as Deputy Executive Director of the Taiwan Institute of Sports Science and is also the co-founder of NeuinX, a startup specializing in AI technology for sports analysis.