Recipient of the 2011 Asia Pacific Neural Network Society Young Researcher Award
Received best paper or book awards seven times
Published 10 books and over 280 international research papers, including 150+ journal papers (e.g., IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-IP, IEEE T-NNLS, IEEE T-CYB, JMLR) and 140+ conference papers (e.g., AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV)
Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier CSSI (since 2024)
Serves as associate editor or advisory board member for numerous international journals and book series
Invited keynote speaker at more than 50 international conferences or workshops
Principal Investigator of 5 NSFC major or general program projects
Won the 2024 IEEE ICDM 10-year Highest Impact Paper Award
Recent publications accepted at top venues including NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, IJCV, TNNLS, TPAMI, EMNLP, ACM MM, ICRA, TMLR, and TOIS
Research Experience
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke Kunshan University (2022–present)
Director, Digital Innovation Research Center, Duke Kunshan University (2023–present)
Founding Director, Suzhou Municipal Key Lab of Multimodel Intelligent Systems (2023–present)
Visiting Professor, Department of Intelligent Science, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (2022–present)
Professor, Department of Intelligent Science, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (2017–2021)
Associate Dean of Research, School of Advanced Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (2020–2021)
Head, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (2016–2019)
Worked at Fujitsu Research Centre, CUHK, University of Bristol, and National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2004–2012)