Dr. Dacheng TAO

Nanyang Assistant Professor, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dacheng Tao received the B.Eng. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the MPhil degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and the PhD degree from the University of London (Lon). Currently, he is an academic staff with the School of Computer Engineering in the Nanyang Technological University, is a visiting professor in the Xi’Dian University and a guest professor in the Wuhan University, and holds a visiting position in Lon. He was with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research is mainly on applying statistics and mathematics for data analysis problems in computer vision, data mining, machine learning, multimedia, and video surveillance. He has published more than 90 scientific articles extensively at IEEE TPAMI, TIP, TKDE, TMM, TCSVT, CVPR, ECCV, ICDM; ACM TKDD, Multimedia, KDD etc. with best paper awards and finalists. Previously he gained several Meritorious Awards from the International Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling, which is the highest level mathematical modeling contest in the world, organized by COMAP. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Neurocomputing (Elsevier) and the Official Journal of the International Association for Statistical Computing -- Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (Elsevier). He authored/edited five books and seven special issues, including CVIU, PR, PRL, SP, and Neurocomputing. He (co-)chaired special sessions, invited sessions, workshops and conferences. He served for around 60 major international conferences including ICIP, ICASSP, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICDM, KDD, and Multimedia, and around 20 top international journals including TPAMI, TIP, TOIS, TKDE, TCSVT, TMM, TIFS, TSMC-B, CVIU, and Information Science.