Served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2014-2016) and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2006-2009). Currently, he is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science. He and his students have received nine Best Paper Awards or Best Student Paper Awards. He has also received several research and professional achievement awards, including the Sigma Xi Excellence in Graduate Research Mentoring Award in 2003, Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2009, the University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar - Sustained Achievement Award in 2012, the State University of New York System Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2016, and the Distinguished ECE Alumni Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019.
Research Experience
Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York from 2008 to 2021; Dean of the School of Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen from 2017 to 2020; Allen Henry Endow Chair Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2007; faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1996 to 2003; faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester from 1992 to 1996.
Education
Received his BS degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1983; MSEE degree from the University of Southern California in 1986; and Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992.
Background
Research interests include visual computing, multimedia video communications, and signal processing. Currently, he is a Chair Professor of Visual Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief for several international academic journals.