Thu, 27 Oct, 05:00 - 06:05 UTC
Chair: Haizhou Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
David Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
Biography
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. He has been 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 since 1998. Currently he is X.Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor in Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). Over past 40 years, he has been working on pattern recognition, image processing and biometrics, where many research results have been awarded and some created directions, including medical biometrics and palmprint recognition, are famous in the world. So far, he has published over 20 monographs, 500+ international journal papers and 40+ patents from USA/Japan/China. He has been continuously 8 years listed as a Global Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics during 2014-2021. He is also ranked about 80 with H-Index 126 at Top 1,000 Scientists for international Computer Science and Electronics. Professor Zhang is a Fellow of both RSC (Royal Society of Canada) and CAE (Canadian Academy of Engineering). He also is a Croucher Senior Research Fellow, and a Life IEEE Fellow and an IAPR/AAIA Fellow.