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Dr. Lei Zhang received his Ph.D degree in Circuits and Systems from the College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in June 2013. From June to September 2013, he is a research visitor in Tsinghua University (Shenzhen) and Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). He was selected as a Hong Kong Scholar in China in 2013, and worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, from 2013 to 2015. He is a senior visiting professor in University of Macau from 2017 to 2018. He is currently a Full Professor at the School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, China. He is the director of the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Bio-perception and Multi-modal Intelligent Information Processing, and the leader of Learning Intelligence and Visual Essential Group (LiVE Group). He is an IEEE Senior Member and ACM member. He is included in the World Top 2% Scientists List released by Stanford University and Elsevier, 2023.
His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, pattern recognition and intelligent systems. He has authored more than 150 scientific papers in many top journals such as IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, International Journal of Computer Vision, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, IEEE Trans. Neural Network and Learning Systems, IEEE Trans. Multimedia, IEEE Trans. Cybernetics, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Sensors Journal, Pattern Recognition, Information Sciences, Information Fusion, Cognitive Computation, Neurocomputing, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Analytica Chimica Acta, and top conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, ACM MM, AAAI, IJCAI, etc. 10 papers are selected as Highly Cited papers and Hot papers by Thomson Reuters. He has authored 1 English Monograph published in Springer and 14 Chinese invention patents. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Neural Networks and CAAI Trans. Intelligence Technology, etc. He has been a reviewer for more than 50 journals, such as Nature Electronics, IEEE T-PAMI, IJCV, IEEE T-IP, IEEE T-NNLS, IEEE T-MM, IEEE T-CSVT, IEEE T-IM, IEEE T-SMCA, IEEE T-IE, IEEE T-CYB, IEEE T-CAS, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE GRSL, Pattern Recognition, Information Fusion, Information Sciences, Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, Expert Systems with Applications, Knowledge Based Systems etc. He has also been the keynote speaker, conference co-chair, regional chair, session chair and best paper award evaluation committee chair for many internetional conferences, such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACM MM, ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, ICLR, ICME, IEEE ICCT2017-2018, IEEE TENCON, IEEE SSCI, ELM, ITA, WCSN, etc.
Dr. Zhang is recipient of ACM SIGAI Rising Star Award, a recipient of Best Paper Award by Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition in 2017, Outstanding Reviewer Awarded by many Journals, Chongqing Natural Science Excellent Academic Paper Award in 2016, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Chongqing, China, in 2015, Hong Kong Scholar Award in 2014, Academy Award for Youth Innovation of Chongqing University in 2013 and the New Academic Researcher Award for Doctoral Candidates from the Ministry of Education, China, in 2012.