XU, Lei
Emeritus Professor of Computer
Science and Engineering
B.E.(Harbin Institute of Tech), M.E., PhD (Tsinghua Univ),
Fellow of IEEE, IAPR Fellow, European
Academy of Sciences. |
Lei Xu, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering, Chinese University of Hong
Kong (CUHK); Zhiyuan Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Department, Chief Scientist of AI
Research Institute, Chief Scientist of SJTU-Sensetime
Research Institute; Chief Scientist of Brain Sci & Tech Research
Centre, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU); Director of Neural Computation
Research Centre in Brain and Intelligence Science-Technology Institute, Zhang Jiang National Lab.
Elected to Fellow of IEEE in 2001; Fellow of
intl. Association for Pattern Recognition in 2002 and of European Academy of Sciences
(EURASC)
in 2003. Received
several national and international academic awards, including 1988 Chinese State Education Council FOK YING
TUNG Award, 1988 Top-10 BEIJING YOUNG
SCIENTISTS PRIZE, 1993
National Nature Science Award, 1995 Leadership
Award from International Neural Networks Society (INNS) and 2006 Asia
Pacific Neural Network Society
(APNNS)
Outstanding Achievement Award after
the 2004 winner Prof Amari and the 2005 winner Prof. Fukushima.
Completed Ph.D thesis at Tsinghua Univ by the
end of 1986, Get PhD certificate from
Tsinghua Univ in March 1987, joined
Peking Univ as postdoc in 1987 and promoted exceptionally to associate
professor in 1988. Worked as postdoc and visiting scientist in Finland, Canada and USA (including Prof. A. Yuille team
in Harvard and Prof. M. Jordan team in MIT) during 1989-93. Joined CUHK as
senior lecturer since 1993, professor since
1996, and chair professor during
2002-16. Joined SJTU as Zhiyuan chair professor since the summer of 2016.
Taken various roles in academic societies, e.g., international
neural network society (INNS) Governing Board (2001-03), the INNS award committee (2002-03), and the Fellow committee of IEEE Computational
Intelligence society (2006-07), and the EURASC
scientific committee (2014-17), as well as a
past president of Asian-Pacific Neural Networks Assembly (APNNA) (1995-1996) and Chair
of Computational Finance Technical Committee of IEEE Neural Networks Society
(2001-03).
Conducted researches in several areas of Artificial
Intelligence (AI)
for 37+ years, such as neural networks and machine learning, signal
processing (speech, radar, finance),
computer vision and pattern recognition, and bioinformatics. Published
about 400 papers (including 130+ Journal papers), highlighted
by his influential contributions on studies of Randomized Hough
Transform (RHT), RPCL, classifier combination, mixture model based learning, LMSER, RPCL, nonlinear PCA, independence learning, mixture
of experts, EM algorithm, RBF nets, Bayesian Ying-Yang (BYY) harmony and bidirectional learning, with Web of
Science citations (1355
by top-1, 4030+ by top-10 papers, and 5380+ by top-50 papers) and Google Scholar
citations (2820 by top-1, 8350+ by
top-10 papers, and 11750+ by top-50
papers). Given over dozens keynote /invited lectures at
various international conferences.
Served as the EIC and associate editors of
several academic journals, e.g., including Neural Networks (1995-2016), Neurocomputing (1995-2017), IEEE Tr. Neural Networks (1994-98). Taken
various roles in academic societies, e.g., INNS Governing Board (2001-03), the INNS award committee (2002-03), and the Fellow committee of IEEE Computational
Intelligence society (2006-07), and the EURASC scientific committee (2014-17). Also served as a general
chair of IEEE Intl Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Financial
Engineering 2003, Intl Confs IDEAL98, and IDEAL00, International advisory committee chair, IDEAL (2001-2014) , Joint-ICANN-ICONIP03 program committee
co-chair, a program committee chair of
ICONIP96 and a honorary chair of ICONIP06, NIPS Overseas Liaison (1995, 96, 97) and the
chairs of two NIPS Workshops (1992, 94), as well as program/organizing /Advisory committee
members on major world conferences on Neural Networks, including WCNN, ICNN, IJCNN, IEEE WCCI, ICONIP, NIPS, ICANN, IDEAL, and Intl. Conf. on Computational Finance, etc.
Prof. Xu has also been serving as a member of
engineering panel, Hong Kong RGC research
committee (2001-06), a member of
selection committee, Chinese NSFC/HK RGC
Joint research scheme (2002-05, 08), external expert for Chinese NSFC information
science panel (2004-06). Additionally, an nominator for the prestigious Kyoto prize
(2004, 2008, 2012, 2016，2020) and also an nominator for
the LUI Che Woo Prize (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020).
Address: Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong
Email: lxu[at] cse[dot]cuhk[dot]edu[dot]hk
Representative Publications (by years) (enter)
·
Overview Papers in Journals/Encyclopedia/Handbook
(enter)
· Bayesian Ying-Yang System and Harmony Learning Theory
(enter)
· Unsupervised Learning (enter)
· Independent component analysis and independent factor Analysis (enter)
· Supervised Learning (enter)
· Randomized Hough Transform and Object
Detection (enter)
· Financial Engineering and Signal Processing (enter)
· Combinatorial Optimization (enter)
Two closely related series of efforts in past three
years
For a
promotion of Sino-foreign interchange on interdisciplinary areas of
intelligence science, information science, and intelligent data engineering,
and also in memory of thirty year anniversary of the Zhongguancun Golden
Triangle ISIS Forum founded and propelled by two late senior academicians
Prof. T. Chang of Tsinghua University and Prof. M. T. Cheng of Peking University, two founders of the Division of
Information Technical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
See the
2nd paragraph of the editorial http://www.springerlink.com/content/k68031581527q255/fulltext.pdf.
A.
Another series One is a serial annual workshops on
Intelligence Science and Intelligent Data Engineering (IScIDE) as a collective
venue for introducing world frontier researchers to China and for introducing
core researchers from Chinese major universities and research institutions to
international communities.
See IScIDE 10 http://goldentri.hit.edu.cn
IScIDE 11 http://www.iscide2011.org
IScIDE 12 http://iscide2012.seu.edu.cn/
B.
One is a series
of efforts on four special issues on Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering in China, which has been renamed as Frontiers
of Electrical and Electronic Engineering since 2012, for which I
have being serving as the Guest Editor.
·
Volume 5, Number 3 / September
2010, consisting of nine invited survey articles written by
S. Amari, E. Oja, J. Rissanen, A. Yuille, J.Schmidhuber, R. W. Yeung,
Runsheng Chen, Yanda Li, and Lei Xu, on
Emerging themes on information theory and
Bayesian Approach, especially on topics these authors pioneered.
See http://www.springerlink.com/content/1673-3460/5/3/
and the editorial http://www.springerlink.com/content/k68031581527q255/fulltext.pdf
All the authors are IEEE Fellows
or/and Members of National Academy of Sciences.
· Volume 6, Number 1 / March 2011, A special issue on Machine
learning and intelligence science: Sino-foreign interchange workshop IScIDE2010 (A). consisting of fourteen invited survey or research articles.
See http://www.springerlink.com/content/1673-3460/6/1/
and the editorial http://www.springerlink.com/content/428705867371np45/fulltext.pdf
The first half provides an
insightful view for the core achievements by Chinese colleagues, with articles
written by professors from major universities in mainland China.
The second half aims at a much wider
scope of intelligence science (vision system, neural system, human behavior,
and generic issues) for broadening the readers knowledge of this journal,
written by professors from Hong Kong, Taipei, Japan, Europe, and USA.
· Volume 7, Number 1 / March 2012, A special issue on Machine
learning and intelligence science: IScIDE2010 (C). is a supplementary issue of Volume
6, Number 1 / March 2011. The two
special issues may serve as a representative showing window for observing the
achievements of professors in China. Actually, these authors come from more
than 20 major universities in China (including the topmost nine mainland
universities). Among them, eleven professors are recipients of Chinese NSF
Distinguished Young Scholars, while others are also recipients
of various levels of academic honors.
See http://www.springerlink.com/content/2095-2732/7/1/
and the editorial http://www.springerlink.com/content/tp187860405591k1/fulltext.pdf
·
Volume 6, Number 2 / June 2011, A
special issue on Machine learning and intelligence science:
Sino-foreign interchange workshop IScIDE2010
(B). consisting of nineteen invited research articles: the two-third comes from
major universities in mainland China while the rest comes from universities in
Hong Kong (China), England, and Finland. This special issue provides a typical
perspective for international communities to observe the researches of Ph.D
candidates in China.
See http://www.springerlink.com/content/1673-3460/6/2/
and the editorial http://www.springerlink.com/content/ru317153x265p188/fulltext.pdf
