 Alex Kot Fellow of the IEEE and IES Director, ROSE Lab Director, NTU-PKU Joint Research Institute Prof. Kot has been with the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore since 1991. He headed the Division of Information Engineering at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) for eight years. He was the Vice Dean Research and Associate Chair (Research) for the School of EEE for three years, overseeing the research activities for the School with over 200 faculty members. He was the Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) for the College of Engineering (COE) for eight years. He is currently the Director of ROSE Lab [Rapid(Rich) Object SEearch Lab) and the Director of NTU-PKU Joint Research Institue . He has published extensively with over 300 technical papers in the areas of signal processing for communication, biometrics recognition, authentication, image forensics, machine learning and AI. He has two USA and one Singapore patents granted. Dr. Kot served as Associate Editor for a number of IEEE transactions, including IEEE TSP, IMM, TCSVT, TCAS-I, TCAS-II, TIP, SPM, SPL, JSTSP, JASP, TIFS, etc. He was a TC member for several IEEE Technical Committee in SPS and CASS. He has served the IEEE in various capacities such as the General Co-Chair for the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) and area/track chairs for several IEEE flagship conferences. He also served as the IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer Program Coordinator and the Chapters Chair for IEEE Signal Processing Chapters worldwide. He received the Best Teacher of The Year Award at NTU, the Microsoft MSRA Award and as a co-author for several award papers. He was elected as the IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecturer in 2005. He was a Vice President in the Signal Processing Society and IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer. He is now a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore, a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IES. |
 David Zhang Chair Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University BSc Peking, MS PhD HIT, PhD Waterloo, FIEEE, FIAPR csdzhang@comp.polyu.edu.hk David Zhang graduated in Computer Science from Peking University. He received his MSc in 1982 and his PhD in 1985 in both Computer Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), respectively. From 1986 to 1988 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University and then an Associate Professor at the Academia Sinica, Beijing. In 1994 he received his second PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Currently, he is a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he is the Founding Director of Biometrics Research Centre (UGC/CRC) supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 1998. He also serves as Visiting Chair Professor in Tsinghua University and HIT, and Adjunct Professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Peking University, National University of Defense Technology and the University of Waterloo. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG); Book Editor, Springer International Series on Biometrics (KISB); Organizer, the first International Conference on Biometrics Authentication (ICBA); Associate Editor of more than ten international journals including IEEE Transactions and so on. So far, he has published over 20 monographs, 400 international journal papers and 40 patents from USA/Japan/HK/China. He has been continuously listed as a Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics (formerly known as Thomson Reuters) in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, respectively. Professor Zhang is a Croucher Senior Research Fellow, Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Fellow of both IEEE and IAPR. |
 Hanchuan Peng, Ph.D. Fellow: IEEE, AIMBE Chair Professor, Fudan University Dean, Institute for Brain and Intelligence Director, SEU - Allen Institute Joint Center (2018-2024) Personal website: http://penglab.com Software: http://vaa3d.org Hanchuan Peng (Fellow, IEEE, AIMBE; Chair Professor, Fudan University; Senior Investigator, Shanghai Academy of Natural Sciences; Investigator, New Cornerstone Science Foundation; Dean, Institute for Brain and Intelligence) is a globally renowned leader in brain informatics and bioimage informatics. He was also the Founding Director – SEU-ALLEN INSTITUTE Joint Center, the Director – Advanced Computing at Allen Institute for Brain Science, and a Lab Head at Janelia Research Campus of HHMI. Peng’s pioneering contributions to digital atlasing and modeling of mammalian and human brains, advanced intelligent algorithms and imaging systems, neuron morphometry, and the development of large-scale neuronal databases have had a profound and far-reaching impact. In the last 20 years, Dr. Peng develops a number of groundbreaking technologies to generate, manage, visualize, analyze, and understand massive-scale structure and function data related to brains and other biomedical applications. His work on brain atlases and connectomes at the single-neuron level has set new standards in the field. Before he shifted focus to these emerging new fields, Peng studied artificial neural networks and Bayesian graph networks during 1993-2004, proposing the first mathematical definition of multivariate mutual information, a minimum redundancy variable/feature selection algorithm (mRMR) widely used and cited in machine learning and data mining, the first Bayesian brain morphometry algorithm, and a sparse trace neural network model. |
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