Biography

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.—-LITTLE GIDDING (No. 4 of ‘Four Quartets’) by T.S. Eliot

 

Education
 
  • Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
    B.S. in Electronic Science and Technology, Jul. 2003
  • University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    Joint Ph.D. student with the Department of Statistics, May. 2006 ~ Jul. 2007, advised by Prof. Song-Chun Zhu
  • Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
    Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology, Feb. 2008, advised by Prof. Yongtian Wang
Experiences
 
  •  Postdoctorial Fellow, Dec. 2007~Dec. 2009, working with Prof. Song-Chun Zhu
    Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning, and Autonomy, UCLA, USA
  •  Associate Professor, Dec. 2009~Dec. 2013
    School of Software, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
  • Visiting Scholar, Nov. 2013~Sept. 2015
    Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
  • Visiting Scholar, Dec. 2015~Dec. 2016
    Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Full Professor, Jan. 2014~Present
    School of Data and Computer ScienceComputing, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Awards and Honours
 
  • Awardee, Excellent Young Scientists of NSFC, 2016.
  • Awardee, Distinguishsed Young Scientists of NSFC, 2023.
  • Fellow of IEEE
  • Fellow of IAPR
  • Fellow of IET
  • Several times best paper awards (nomination) for ICME, ICCV, Pattern Recognition, etc.
  • Several times provincial and ministerial level science and technology awards
Academic Activity
 
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Multimedia, Since 2020
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Human-Machine Systems, 2016-2020
  • Area Chair for CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACM KDD, ACM Multimedia, etc.
  • Area Chair for ACCV 2016
  • Guest Editor for Pattern Recognition (Elsevier), 2015
  • Guest Editor for Journal of Sensor (Hindawi, SCI Indexed), 2015
  • Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2016