Biography

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Zhenzhong Chen is a Professor at Wuhan University. His research interests include image and video processing, computer vision, MLLM, etc. He has published more than 300 international journal or conference papers. He has been SAE/AE of IEEE TIP, SAE/LGE/AE of IEEE TCSVT, AE of JASIST and JVCIR, and Editor of IEEE IoT Newsletters. He has been active in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29, ITU-T SG12/SG16/SG21, IEEE SA and AVS, where he has been an editor of ITU-T SG12, VQEG board member and IMG Group Co-Chair, Selection Committee Member of ITU Young Innovators Challenges, and Co-chair of China AVS Quality Assessment working group. He has developed ITU-T P.919/P.940/P.UXV, and contributed over 300 technical proposals to HEVC/H.265, VVC/H.266, MPEG VCM/FCM, JPEG-AI, AVS1/2/3, IEEE 1857, etc. He was a recipient of the CUHK Young Scholars Dissertation Award, the CUHK Faculty of Engineering Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, Microsoft Fellowship, Shenzhen Patent Award, etc.

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Zhenzhong Chen received B.Eng. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Ph.D. from Chinese University of Hong Kong, both in electrical engineering. He is a Professor at Wuhan University. Prior to that, he was with MediaTek USA Inc. His current research interests include image and video processing, computer vision, MLLM, etc. He has published more than 300 international journal or conference papers. He has been SAE/AE of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, SAE/LGE/AE of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, AE of Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, and Editor of IEEE IoT Newsletters. He has been active in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29, ITU-T SG12/SG16/SG21, IEEE SA and AVS, where He has been an editor of ITU-T SG12, VQEG board member and Immersive Media Working Group Co-Chair, Selection Committee Member of ITU Young Innovators Challenges, Co-chair of China AVS Quality Assessment working group. He has developed ITU-T P.919/P.940/P.UXV, and contributed over 300 technical proposals for HEVC/H.265, VVC/H.266, MPEG VCM/FCM, JPEG-AI, AVS1/2/3, IEEE 1857, etc. He has more than 10 filed/granted PCT patents.

He has received the fundings supports from National Oversea Talents Plan, NSFC Key Program and General Program, National Key R&D Program of China, NSF of Hubei Province Key Program, Wuhan Youth Science & Technology Plan, K. C. Wong Education Foundation, as well as industrial partners. He was a recipient of the CUHK Young Scholars Dissertation Award, the CUHK Faculty of Engineering Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, Microsoft Fellowship, Shenzhen Patent Award, etc. His team has won more than 10 Championships/Gold Medals/First-Class Prizes in International Challenges or National Contests, including CVPR 2026 NTIRE, ISCAS 2026 NNVC, CLIC 2018/2025, ICME Saliency 360, Challenge Cup, and Internet+.