Scholar
Lei Zhang
Google Scholar ID: fIlGZToAAAAJ
International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA)
Citations & Impact
Citations
46,057
H-index
68
i10-index
190
Publications
20
Co-authors
46
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published over 150 papers and holds more than 60 US patents. Served as editorial board members for IEEE T-MM, T-CSVT, and Multimedia System Journal, and as program co-chairs, area chairs, or committee members for many top conferences.
Research Experience
- Worked as a Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft for 20 years, across Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Bing Multimedia, Microsoft Research (MSR, Redmond), and Microsoft Cloud & AI.
Education
- Received all degrees (B.E., M.E., and Ph.D.) in Computer Science from Tsinghua University.
Background
- Chief Scientist of Computer Vision and Robotics at International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA) and an Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Research interests lie in computer vision and machine learning, with a particular focus on generic visual recognition at large scale.
Miscellany
- The team is hiring researchers and engineers, particularly looking for interns experienced in model architecture design, optimization, compression, and interested in deploying vision models to resource-constrained hardware devices. Recruits one PhD student each year at SCUT and plans to start recruiting 1-2 PhD students from 2024 at HKUST-GZ in the general area of computer vision.
