Prof. Jia Jiaya received his PhD degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2004. Currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CUHK, he received the University’s Young Researcher Award and Research Excellence Award respectively in 2008 and 2009. Now he leads a research group focusing specifically on computational photography, 3D reconstruction, practical optimization for computers, and motion estimation.

Professor Jia was a visiting scholar at Microsoft Research Asia from March 2004 to August 2005 and conducted collaborative research at Adobe System Incorporated in 2007. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.