Honors and Distinctions:

• SIAM Fellow 2020, ACM Fellow 2017, IEEE Fellow 2013.
  
  
• The World's Highly Cited Researchers, ranked by Clarivate Analytics of Thomson Reuters, Since 2016.
  
  
• Top 50 of the World's Most Influential Authors in Computer Science, ranked by Semantic Scholar, reported by Science Magazine, April 2016.
  
  
• National 1000 People Plan Distinguished Scholar of China, 2015-2017.
  
  
• Second Prize of the Best Paper Award of the Journal on Information and Inference, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 2015.
  
  
• Shanghai Academic Leaders Program Award, 2014-2017.
  
  
• Shanghai 1000 People Plan Distinguished Scholar, 2014-2017.
  
  
• Distinguished Speaker of the Year, China Computer Federation (CCF), 2014.
  
  
• Best Research Team of the Year Award, Microsoft Research Asia, 2012.
  
  
• Gold Star Award, Microsoft Corporate, 2011.
  
  
• Sang Uk Lee Best Student Paper Award, Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Xi'an, China 2009.
  
  
• Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, University of Illinois, Spring'01, Fall'02, and Spring'06.
  
  
• Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, Office of Naval Research, 2005.
  
  
• Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award, Honorable Metion, European Conference on Computer Vision, 2004.
  
  
• Young Faculty CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2004.
  
  
• David Marr Best Paper Award, International Conference on Computer Vision, 1999.
  
  
• Regents Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley, 1995.
  
  
• Excellent Student Scholarship, First Prize, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 1994.
  
  
• Champion of the First Mathematical Modeling Contest, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 1994.
  
  

Guest Professorships:

• University of Science and Technology of China (2012 -- 2015);
  
  
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2013 -- 2015);
  
  
• University of Eletronic Science and Technology of China (Nov. 2017 -- Aug. 2019).
  
  

Distinguished Lectures:

• Keynote Speech at the International School on Deep Learning (DeepLearn 2022), United Kingdom, January 2023.
  
  
• Plenary Talk at the Chinese SIAM Conference on Big Data and AI (CSIAM-BDAI), China, 2022.
  
  
• Distinguished Lecture at CS Department, UIUC, December 14, 2022.
  
  
• Distinguished Speaker Series #1 of the Data Science Institute, Hong Kong University, November 25, 2022.
  
  
• ESE Department Colloquium of University of Pennsylvania, November 6, 2022.
  
  
• Distinguished Seminar at ECE Department Seminar, UC Davis, October 7, 2022.
  
  
• Keynote Speech at the 4th International Conference on Robotics and Computer Vision (ICRCV), Wuhan, China, September 25-27, 2022.
  
  
• Keynote Speech at IEEE Fellow Forum of the Global AI Product & Application Expo, Shuzhou, China, September 15, 2022.
  
  
• Keynote Speech at the Forum of Cognitive Intelligence, World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Shanghai, China, September 2, 2022.
  
  
• Distinguished Lecture of the IAS of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, August 5, 2022.
  
  
• Keynote Speech at the Hong Kong Tech Forum on Grand Challenges in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Hong Kong, July 2022.
  
  
• Keynote Speech at the biennial Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) of the Canadian Society of Information Theory, Ottawa, Canada, June 5-8, 2022.
  
  
• Plenary Talk at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Singapore, May 22-27, 2022.
  
  
• Distinguished Colloquium, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, January 28, 2022.
  
  
• Plenary Talk at International Workshop on Mathematical Issues in Information Sciences, Shenzhen, China, December 18-19, 2021.
  
  
• Keynote Speech at Microsoft Faculty Summit, October 19-21, 2021.
  
  
• Digital Futures Distinguished Lecture at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, September 15, 2021.
  
  
• Keynote Speech at the International Conference on Image, Vision and Computing, Qingdao, China, July 23-25, 2021.
  
  
• Keynote Speech at the Annual Meeting of Chinese Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM), China, July 11, 2021.
  
  
• Keynote Speech (Bilibili Video in Chinese) at Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) Conference, June 2, 2021.
  
  
• Keynote Speech at Computational Imaging Conference, January 21, 2021.
  
  
• Keynote at TBSI Workshop on Learning Theory, Shenzhen, China, July 15-16, 2019.
  
  
• Keynote Speech at IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Taichung, Taiwan, December 9-12, 2018.
  
  
• Keynote Speech at Global Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Summit (CCF-GAIR2018), Shenzhen, China, June 29 - July 1, 2018.
  
  
• Distinguished Lecture at the Global Frontiers in Science and Technology forum , the Berkeley Global Science Institute, June 11, 2018
  
  
• Keynote Speech at the 1st Forum on Frontiers of Science and Engineering, organized by Tsinghua Alumni Academia Club (TAAC), Seattle, May 28-30, 2018.
  
  
• Plenary Talk at Dutch Mathematical Congress, Netherlands, April 3-4, 2018.
  
  
• Keynote Speeches at United Nation 12th Internet Govergance Forum, Geneva, December 18, 2017.
  
  
• Keynote Speech at China Workshops on Machine Learning and Applications, Beijing, China, November 3-5, 2017.
  
  
• Plenary Speech at the 9th International Conference on Image and Graphics, Shanghai, China, September 15, 2017.
  
  
• Plenary Speech at the Imaging Summit 2017, Seoul, Korea, July 10, 2017.
  
  
• Keynote Speech at Huawei Inc. the 4th Wireless Algorithm Festival, Shanghai, China, April 22, 2017.
  
  
• Keynote Lecture at Humanware International Symposium, Osaka, January 26, 2017.
  
  
• Keynote Lecture at Symposium of National Deans' Association in Electronics and Information, Beijing, China, November 12, 2016.
  
  
• Plenary talk at IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Jeju Island, Korea, October 11-15, 2015.
  
  
• Plenary talk at IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Torino, Italy, June 29 - July 3, 2015.
  
  
• Keynote Speach at the 10th International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), Hong Kong, China, January 13-16, 2015.
  
  
• Plenary talk at the Foundations of Computational Mathematics Conference, Montevideo, Uruguay, December 11-14, 2014.
  
  
• Plenary talk at SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Hong Kong, May 12-14, 2014.
  
  
• Plenary talk at the French-German Conference on Mathematical Image Analysis, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France, January 13-15, 2014.
  
  
• Plenary talk in the Computer Vision Track, Internationl Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Japan, November 2012.
  
  
• Plenary talk at International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Hongkong, October 2012.
  
  
• Keynote speech at International Conference on Biometrics (BTAS), Washington DC, September 2012.
  
  
• Keynote speech at Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Queensland, Australia, December 2011.
  
  
• Keynote speech at the 3rd International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology, Dalian, China, September 2011.
  
  
• Plenary talk at Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS), Edinburgh, UK, June 2011.
  
  
• Distinguished lecture at 1st Technion Computer Engineering Conference, Technion, Israel, June 2011.
  
  
• Keynote speech at AAAI Symposium on Manifold Learning and its Applications, Arlington, VA. Nov. 11, 2010.
  
  
• Plenary Speaker at Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Huangshan, China, July 2010.
  
  
• Keynote Speaker at the 22th IPPR Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Taiwan 2009.
  
  
• Keynote Speaker at International Workshop on LNLA for Image Processing, Helsinki 2009.
  
  
• Plenary Speaker at Picture Coding Symposium, Chicago 2009.