Lin Ma is now a Principal Researcher with Tencent AI Lab, Shenzhen, China. His current research interests lie in the areas of deep learning and multimodal learning, specifically for image and language. His Ph.D. research topics are image/video processing and quality tuning. He was a finalist to HKIS young scientist award in engineering science in 2012. He was awarded the Microsoft Research Asia fellowship in 2011. He got the best paper award in Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) 200