Bio:
Dr. Xian-Sheng Hua is now a Distinguished Engineer/VP of Alibaba DAMO Academy, leading the visual computing team. Dr. Hua is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist, and MIT TR35 Young Innovator Award Recipient. The team he is leading is focused on visual intelligence on the cloud, which includes but is not limited to: large scale image and video analysis, recognition, search, and reconstruction, and related cloud-based applications such as health care, transportation, communication, education, sports, entertainment, etc. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 research papers and has filed more than 90 patents. He served as a Program Co-Chair for IEEE ICME 2013, ACM Multimedia 2012, and IEEE ICME 2012, and will be serving as general co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2020.