Jian Zhao

Senior Research Scientist, Director of Multimedia Cognitive Learning Laboratory (EVOL), China Telecom Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (TeleAI)

Researcher and PhD supervisor of Institute of Optoelectronics and Intelligence, Northwestern Polytechnical University, corporate supervisor of PhD students of Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Department of Computer Science, Fudan University/Zhejiang University/University of Science and Technology of China, PhD graduate of the National University of Singapore, research areas: multimodal AI Agent, AI+Cultural Tourism, and pro-land security. He has published more than 60 CCF-A papers, including one T-PAMI×2 (IF: 20.8), IJCV×3 (IF: 11.6), and 5 national invention patents authorised by the first inventor. The related technical achievements have been applied in 7 leading enterprises in the technology industry, including China Telecom, Baidu, Ant Gold, Qihoo 360, etc., and have produced significant benefits. He has been selected for the ‘Young Talent Support Project’ of the China Association for Science and Technology and Beijing Municipal Association for Science and Technology, and has presided over 7 projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was awarded the Wu Wenjun Outstanding Youth Award in Artificial Intelligence (2023), the First Prize of Wu Wenjun Natural Science Award in Artificial Intelligence (2/5, 2022), the Lee Hwee Kuan Prize of the Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA) of Singapore (2019), and the ACM Multimedia Unique Best Student Paper Prize (I, 1/208, CCF-A Conference, 2018). 2018), and 8 wins in major international scientific and technical events. He serves as a director of the Beijing Society of Image Graphics, an editorial board member of the internationally renowned journals Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence Advances, and IET Computer Vision, and a guest speaker for special issues of Pattern Recognition Letters, and Electronics, Senior Area Chair of VALSE, Chair of ACM Multimedia 2021, Chair of CICAI 2022/2023, Chair of CCBR 2024, Senior Member of Chinese Computer Society/Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence/Chinese Society of Image Graphics, Science and Technology Talent Award of China Association for Science and Technology, Science and Technology Award of Chinese Society of Electronics, Science and Technology Award of China Telecommunication Association, Science and Technology Award of China Telecommunication Association. He is a senior member of China Computer Science Association, China Artificial Intelligence Society and China Graphics Society, and an expert of China Association for Science and Technology Talent Award, China Electronics Society Science and Technology Award, China Telecom Group Science and Technology Award, China Artificial Intelligence Competition, and Challenge Cup Science and Technology Competition for College Students