Distinguished Lecture Series 2015/16 - Prof. Tieniu Tan
22 Mar 2016
Prof. Tieniu Tan of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences visited the Department and delivered a Distinguished Lecture on “Artificial Intelligence: Key to Chinese Manufacturing 2025” on 22 March 2016. Prof. Tan discussed the reasons of artificial intelligence being the key to the success of the Chinese Manufacturing 2025 strategy. Some promising AI progress, innovations and directions relevant to the strategy were described. The lecture was full of practical discussion and was well received.
Tieniu Tan received his B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, in 1984, and his MSc and PhD degrees in electronic engineering from Imperial College London, U.K., in 1986 and 1989, respectively.
In October 1989, he joined the Department of Computer Science, The University of Reading, U.K., where he worked as a Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow and Lcturer. In January 1998, he returned to China to join the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as a full professor. He was the Director General of the CAS Institute of Automation from 2000-2007, and the Director of the NLPR from 1998-2013. He is currently Director of the Center for Research on Intelligent Perception and Computing at the Institute of Automation and also serves as Deputy Secretary-General of the CAS and the Director General of the CAS Bureau of International Cooperation. He has published more than 450 research papers in refereed international journals and conferences in the areas of image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, and has authored or edited 11 books. He holds more than 70 patents. His current research interests include biometrics, image and video understanding, and information forensics and security.
Dr. Tan is a Member (Academician) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of sciences in developing countries (TWAS), an International Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the IEEE and the IAPR (the International Association of Pattern Recognition). He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Automation and Computing. He has given invited talks and keynotes at many universities and international conferences, and has received numerous national and international awards and recognitions.
