Xinbo Gao was born in Laiwu, Shandong Province in 1972. He received his
B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in signal and information
engineering from Xidian University in 1994, 1997 and
1999, respectively. From 1997 to 1998, he studied the game tree
search strategies in the field of artificial
intelligence as a jointly supervised Ph.D. student under the
guidance of Prof. Hiroyuki Iida, a professional grandmaster of
Shogi-player, in the Department
of Computer Science, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan. In
this field, he proposed the opponent-model based speculative
search strategy and \alpha-\beta^2 pruning algorithm, which was
published in Theoretical Computer Science. From 2000 to
2001, he worked in Multimedia Lab of Department of Information Engineering, the
Chinese University of Hong Kong, as a Postdoctoral Fellow of
Prof. Xiaoou Sean Tang's group. In
this field, he proposed graph-model based structured semantic
analysis for news video and developed a caption-based video
self-annotation approach, and then develop a news video
retrial system, which were published in IEEE TCSVT and TNN.
Since
2001, he has joined the School of Electronic Engineering of Xidian University. He was promoted as an Associate Professor in
2001, Professor in 2003, and Ph.D. student supervisor in
December of 2003. At present, he is a Cheung Kong Professor of
Ministry of Education, winner of the funding of NSFC for
distinguished young scientists, Professor of
Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System, Visiting Professor
of Bournemouth University, United Kingdom, Adjunct
Professor of Xi'an University of Technology and Liaoning Normal
University,
Founder and Director of
the Video/Image Processing System Laboratory (VIPSL). He had
been the Vice Dean of School of Electronic Engineering, Director
of International Affairs Office and the Founder Dean of School
of International Education, Director of the State Key Laboratory
of Integrated Service Networks (ISN, 2013-2018), the Assistant to
the President of Xidian University. From 2018 to 2020, he was one of the Vice Presidents of Xidian University and Dean of Graduate School.
From May of 2020, he was appointed as the President of Chongqing University of Posts and
Telecommunications.
His research interests include machine learning,
computer vision, visual information processing, analysis and
understanding. In recent years, he combined the physical space,
cyberspace and cognitive space to proposed heterogeneous facial
image synthesis and recognition and (human visual system) HVS-like
image quality assessment and its applications. He has published over
600 papers in the referred journals and conferences with over 17000+ citations
according to Google Scholar citation and granted 60+ patents. He
obtained 2 "Most Cited Articles" Awards from Signal Processing
Journal, 1 "Microsoft Cup" IEEE Excellent paper award and 1
excellent scientific paper of Shaanxi Province.
He is editorial board member of EURASIP Signal Processing
(Elsevier), Neurocomputing (Elsevier) and other 10 Journals.
As a member of Steering Committee, he initiated the
international conference, IScIDE, and the Seminar for young
research in the community of vision and learning, VALSE. He
acted as General Co-Chair or local chairs for over 20
conferences, and
grant reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of
China, Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas
Chinese Scholar, and China Scholarship Council. He is a Senior
Member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, member of the Executive
Committee of IEEE Xi'an Section, Membership Development
Committee Chair, Vice Chairman of Computational Intelligence
Society, IEEE Xi'an Section, a Fellow of IET/IEE, Vice
President of IET Xi'an Network, Vice President of ACM Xi'an, Executive Member of Council of
China Society of Image and Graphics, Fellow of Chinese
Institute of Electronics and Member of Council of China Computer Federation, Director
of CCF Multi-valued Logic and Fuzzy Logic Society, Member of
Machine Learning Society of China Association of Artificial
Intelligence, Vice President of Institute of Graphics and Image,
Shaanxi Province, and Director of Circuit and System Society of
Shaanxi Institute of Electronics. He was invited to give keynote
speeches or invited speeches in several Conferences, like
CIT2014, BWCCA2014, CS2016, IEEE SIDAS2016 etc.
As principal investigator, he is doing or has completed some
projects including Key project of NSFC, joint project with Intel
China Research Center and etc. He obtained 1 second prize
award of National Science Award, 4 first
prize research
awards from Shaanxi Province Science and Technological Award and 1 second prize award of natural
science of Ministry of Education, China. In 2012, as the chief
researcher, his team was selected as the Shaanxi Innovative
Research Team for Key Science and Technology. From 2013, as
the chief scientist, his team
was selected as a the Innovation Research Team
in University of Ministry of Education (MOE). From 2014, as the
chief scientist, his team was selected as a the Innovation Team
in Important Fields by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
In the field of teaching and talent cultivation, he published
3 monographs and
4
textbooks for undergraduate and graduate students, hosted an excellent course, and
achieved some teaching awards from Shaanxi Province. The lecture
on "Digital Signal Processing" given by Prof. Gao was awarded
the model bi-lingual lecture by Ministry of Education. In 2008,
he was selected as a principal member of Innovation Teaching
Team in University of MOE, and awarded as one of Famous
Professors in Xidian University. 7 Ph.D. student supervised by
Prof. Xinbo Gao obtained the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from
Shaanxi Province and Academic organization like CIE and CSIG.
He was awarded as one of Outstanding Young Teachers, Shaanxi
Province (2003), supported by the
the
program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China
by MOE (2004), authorized the title Pacemaker of Ten Excellent
Young Teacher of Shaanxi Province
(2005), awarded the Young Teacher Award of High School by the
Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation (2006), selected
as a member of support
program of high-level talent, Xidian University (2009) and a
candidate of the one hundred plus one thousand plus ten thousand
talents project of the new century
(2009), youth
science start in the field of information science by Science
News and Elsevier (2010),
distinguished young scientist by NSFC(2011), Cheung Kong
Professor of Ministry of Education (2012), and excellent
innovation talent of Shaanxi (2012). In 2016, he was supported
by the "Ten Thousand Talent Program". In 2020, he
obtained the State Scientific Innovation and Pioneer Award. From 2006, he was
selected as an Expert enjoying the Government Special Subsidy.
The Homepage of Prof. Xinbo Gao is at
http://see.xidian.edu.cn/faculty/xbgao/
Updated on
2020-08-25
