In 2019, Huawei Ren Zhengfei announced:
This year we will recruit 20-30 talented teenagers from all over the world, and next year we want to recruit 200-300 from all over the world. These gifted teenagers are like 'loaches', drilling into our organization and activating our ranks. Huawei will drag the world forward in the future, and it will create standards, as long as it can be the most advanced in the world, then we are the standards, and others will move closer to us
The salaries of the "genius teenagers" recruited by Huawei are paid according to the annual salary system, which is divided into three grades, of which the highest grade is the annual salary of 2.01 million.
To get such a high salary, the difficulty is not low, generally need to go through about seven rounds of process: resume screening, written test, initial interview, supervisor interview, several minister interviews, president interviews, HR interviews. In each link, it will go through strict assessment and screening, so it will also encounter many challenges and obstacles, and any problem or poor performance in any link may fail, which is very difficult.
This year, Liao Minghui of Huazhong University of Science and Technology was selected into Huawei's "Genius Teenager" program and received the highest salary of 2.01 million yuan.
In 2012, Liao Minghui was admitted to the School of Communication Engineering of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. In 2016, he entered the team of Professor Bai Xiang, who is an outstanding scholar in the field of computer vision and a well-known bull in the field of scene text. Professor Bai Xiang's team is engaged in text detection and recognition, that is, accurately positioning and recognizing the text in the image. The applications are very extensive, such as image retrieval, content moderation, autonomous driving, etc.
Liao Minghui is mainly engaged in the direction of information and communication engineering. His research interests include computer vision, natural scene text detection, natural scene text recognition, etc. In 2018, his paper "Rotation-Sensitive Regression for Oriented Scene Text Detection" was included in CVPR, the world's top computer vision conference (one of the three top conferences, the other two are ICCV and ECCV).
Also in 2018, another of his articles, Feature Fusion for Scene Text Detection, was included in IAPR, one of the most authoritative international academic organizations in the field of pattern recognition.
So far, Liao Minghui has published 10 first-class papers, including 2 top journals (all of which are highly cited papers of ESI), 7 top conferences and 1 district 2 journal. Google Scholar citations exceeded 1900, the total number of open source paper code stars on GitHub exceeded 3000, and 5 invention patents were filed. Its published text detection algorithm has been adopted by companies such as Tencent WeChat and Baidu, and is included in the main branch of OpenCV. In addition, Liao Minghui has served as a reviewer for more than ten top international journals and conferences, and participated in the organization of two international competitions.
In Liao's most highly cited (517) paper, "Textboxes: A fast text detector with a single deep neural network," he proposes an end-to-end trainable, fast scene text detector named TextBoxes.
Model of TextBoxes in the paper
TextBoxes provides the ability to detect scene text with high accuracy and efficiency in a single network forward transmission without any post-processing other than standard non-maximum suppression.
TextBoxes delivers superior performance in terms of text detection accuracy and is ultra-fast, taking only 0.09 seconds to recognize each image.
In addition, he has also won the CCF-CV Academic Newcomer Award, two national scholarships, AI Chinese Rising Star Top 100, Internet + College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition National Competition Gold Award, CSC-IBM China Outstanding Student Scholarship and other honors or awards.
The reason why Huawei spends such a high salary to recruit talented teenagers is because Huawei attaches great importance to scientific research and innovation.
According to public data, Huawei has more than 700 mathematicians, more than 800 physicists, more than 120 chemists, 15,000 people engaged in basic research, and more than 60,000 product research and development personnel. At the same time, Huawei has also cooperated with more than 300 universities and more than 900 research institutions and companies around the world, implemented 7,840 projects, invested 1.8 billion US dollars, and signed more than 1,000 R&D cooperation contracts with foreign payment.
Up to now, Huawei has recruited 17 "genius teenagers", of which 5 have received the highest annual salary of 2.01 million yuan. At present, the "Talented Teenagers" program is still recruiting from around the world.
In the recruitment poster, Huawei proposed that "there is no limit to academic qualifications, no limit to schools", hoping to recruit talents who have made special achievements in digital, computer, physics, materials, chips, intelligent manufacturing, chemistry and other fields and aspire to become leaders.
Huawei's official website also mentioned that Zuo Pengfei and Li Yi, who were selected as Huawei's "genius teenagers" in 2019, are currently engaged in cloud storage research and formal verification of operating systems at Huawei.
It can be seen that these talented teenagers have not only achieved remarkable achievements in theory, but also entered the enterprise and can transform their theory into enterprise results. I also hope that China can have more such talented teenagers, so that China can continue to develop and progress.