Biography

Zhenzhong Chen received the B.Eng. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and the Ph.D. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, both in electrical engineering. He is currently a Professor at Wuhan University (WHU). He has also held visiting positions at INRIA/IRISA, University of Waterloo, etc. His current research interests include image and video processing, computer vision, multimedia data mining, photogrammetry and remote sensing, etc. He has published more than 200 international journal or conference papers. He has been active in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29, ITU-T SG12/SG16, IEEE and AVS where he has co-authored ITU-T P.919, over 200 standardization contributions for H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, H.266/VVC, MPEG VCM/FCM, JPEG-AI, AVS1/2/3, etc. He has more than 10 filed/granted PCT patents and received Shenzhen Patent Award. He has been a VQEG board member and Immersive Media Working Group Co-Chair, a Selection Committee Member of ITU Young Innovators Challenges, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, and Editor of IEEE IoT Newsletters. He was a recipient of the CUHK Young Scholars Dissertation Award, the CUHK Faculty of Engineering Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, Microsoft Fellowship, etc.

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 INRIA/IRISA (France), Tencent, Huawei, DFMC, etc. He has supervised more than 50 postgraduate students (PGS) and 100 final-year-project (FYP) undergraduate students, who have received more than 20 PGS National Scholarships, more than 10 Championships/Gold Medals/First-Class Prizes in International Challenges or National Contests, including CVPR, ICME, as well as ‘‘Challenge Cup’’ and ‘‘Internet +’’.