Personal Information

Education

University of Maryland, College Park. I received a PhD degree at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

University of Virginia. I received a MS degree at Electrical Engineering Department

Tsinghua University I received a Bachelor degree at Electronics Engineering Department.

Award and Association

Technical Achievement Award, Sarnoff Corporation, 2005
Best Industry Related Paper Award, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2004
Technical Innovation Award, Sarnoff Corporation, 2003
Senior Member of IEEE, Signal Processing and Computer Societies
Member of Eta Kappa Nu, National Electrical Engineering Honor Society
Member of Phi Kappa Phi, National Interdisciplinary Honor Society
Who’sWho in Science and Engineering (8th Edition)
Who’sWho in America (59th Edition)

Academic Service

Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition Letters

PhD Thesis Committees

Conferences and Workshops

Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2006, New York, NY
Program committee member, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2006, Hong Kong
Invited talk, "Face Recognition: Pose and Illumination Problems," NSF-sponsored Advanced Study Workshop, Morgantown, WV, November, 2005.
General Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG 2005), October, 2005, Beijing
Program committee member, Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, 2005, Tarrytown, NY.
Tutorial on Advances in Face Processing: Detection and Recognition(with Ming-Hsuan Yang), International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 2004, Cambridge, UK.
Tutorial on Face Recognition and Modeling (with Thomas Vetter, Sami Romdhani), European Conference on Computer Vision, May 2004, Prague, Czech Republic.
Invited Talk on Machine Recognition of Human Faces, 3rd Annual Emerging Information Technology Conference, October 2003, Princeton, NJ.
Technical Co-Chair for IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG 2003), October, 2003, Nice, France.
Tutorial on Face Detection and Recognition (with Ming-Hsuan Yang), International Conference on Image Processing, 2003, Barcelona, Spain.
Invited Talk on Face Recognition: Promise and Challenge, 12th Annual Wireles & Optical Commnuication Conference, 2003, Newark, NJ.
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2001, Tokyo.

Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Image Processing, Multimedia, Robotics & Automation, Signal Processing Letter.
International Journals of Computer Vision, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition Letters. IS&T/SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging.
International Conferences: ACM SIGGRAPH. IEEE Conferences on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Multimedia and Expo. International Conferences on Computer Vision, Image Processing. International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition. International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. Various workshops including Workshop on Application of Computer Vision, etc.