ZHANG, Lei
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. (Tsinghua University)
Lei Zhang is currently a Chair Scientist of Computer Vision and Robotics at International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA) and an Adjunct Professor of Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). Prior to this, he was a Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft, where he has worked since 2001 in Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Microsoft Research (MSR, Redmond), and other computer vision-related product teams. He has led research teams for years, conducting research on computer vision with applications in large-scale image analysis, object detection, and vision-language understanding. His research has led to many practical impacts in Bing Multimedia Search and Microsoft Cognitive Services. He has published more than 150 papers on top conferences and journals and holds more than 60 US-granted patents. He was named as IEEE Fellow for his contribution in large-scale visual recognition and multimedia information retrieval.
