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, e.g., including 1993 National Nature Science Award, 1995 Leadership Award from International Neural Networks Society (INNS) and 2006 APNNA Outstanding Achievement Award. Conducted research in several areas of Artificial Intelligence over 40 years. Published about 400 papers (including 140+ Journal papers，also published 4 papers on NIPS during 1992-95 and the one in 1992 with Peking university marks the first time a Chinese academic institution entered this topmost AI conference). His influential contributions on Randomized Hough Transform (RHT), RPCL learning, LMSER learning, classifier combination and mixture of experts, and BYY harmony learned are well known and widely followed. Served as EIC and associate editors of several academic journals.