Yue Gao is an Associate Professor of School of Software at Tsinghua University. His main research interests focus on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Brain Science. He has published over 200 papers in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, 3D Vision, Multimedia, and Medical Image Analysis. Prof. Gao has authored the books " View-based 3-D Object Retrieval" (2014) and " Learning-Based Local Visual Representation and Indexing" (2015). He has been an associate editor for prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He was listed as the Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher and Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researchers.Qionghai Dai is a Professor and the Dean of School of Information at Tsinghua University. He is the member of Chinese Academy of Engineering. His main research interests focus on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Imaging and Brain Science. He has published over 400 papers at Cell, Nature Photonics, Nature Biotechnology, IEEE TPAMI, etc. Prof. Dai has authored the books " View-based 3-D Object Retrieval" (2014), " Learning-Based Local Visual Representation and Indexing" (2015), “3D Video Processing and Communication” (in Chinese, 2016), “Multidimensional Signal Processing: Fast Transform, Sparse Representation and Low-Rank Analysis” (in Chinese, 2016), and “Computational photography: Computational Capture of Plenoptic Visual Information” (in Chinese, 2016). He has been an associate editor for prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. He is the President of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, a Fellow of CAAI and CAA, and recipient of numerous awards, including the National Natural Science Award of China (three times). He was listed as the Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher.
