Brief Bio:

Dr. Wen Gao received his Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 1988, and in electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo, in 1991 respectively. He joined the faculty of the Harbin Institute of Technology since 1985, served as lecturer, professor, chairman of department of computer science. He is joining with Insititute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, since 1996, serverd as professor, chief scientist, managing director. From year 2000 to 2004, he was pointed as Professor and Vice President in Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as in University of Science and Technology China. He has published four books and over 300 technical articles in refereed journals and proceedings in the areas of multimedia, data compression, face recognition, sign language recognition and synthesis, image retrieval, and multimodal interface. He has earned three secondary national awards of science and technology achievement in 2000, 2002 and 2003.

    Dr. Gao was visiting scientist in the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, in 1993, visiting scientist in the MIT AI Lab. in 1995, honorary professor in depatment of computer science, City University of Hong Kong from 1995 to 1997. He is adjunct professor in University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, from 2004. He severed as the vice chairman of Chinese Association of Image and Graphics, the vice chairman of Chinese Association of Software Industry, the editor for several journals such as the editor-in-chief of Journal of Computer(in Chinese).

    Dr. Gao is a leader in some national R&D activities since 1992. He served as the chairman of steering committee for intelligent computing system in 863 Hi-Tech programme from 1996 to 2001. He is the head of Chinese delegation to MPEG. He also is the chair of AVS working group which is an entity to make and evaluate the national standard for audio/video coding system.

Selected Publications:


[1] Gaolin Fang, Wen Gao, Debin Zhao. Large Vocabulary Sign Language Recognition Based on Fuzzy Decision Trees. IEEE Transactions on System Man and Cybernetics. Vol. 34, No. 3, pp305-314, May 2004

[2] Xiaoyan Sun, Feng Wu, Li shipeng, Wen Gao, Zhang Yaqin. Seamless Switching of Scalable Video Bitstreams for Efficient Streaming. IEEE transactions on Multimedia. Vol. 6, No. 2, pp291-303, Apr. 2004

[3] Yan Fu, Qiang Yang, Ruixiang Sun, Dequan Li, Rong Zeng, Charles X. Ling, Wen Gao. Exploiting the kernel trick to correlate fragment ions for peptide identification via tandem mass spectrometry. Bioinformatics. Mar. 2004

[4] Wen Gao, Yiqiang Chen, Rui Wang, Shiguang Shan and Dalong Jiang. Learning and Synthesizing MPEG-4 Compatible 3-D Face Animation from Video Sequence. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video technology. Vol. 13, No. 11, pp1119-1128, Nov. 2003

[5] Jun Miao, Hong Liu, Wen Gao, Hongming Zhang, Gang Deng, Xilin Chen. A System for Human Face and Facial Feature Location. International Journal of Image And Graphics. Vol. 3, No. 3, pp461-479, Jul. 2003

[6] Yan Lu, Wen Gao, Feng Wu. Efficient background video coding with static sprite generation and arbitrary-shape spatial prediction techniques. IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. Vol. 13, No. 5, pp394-405, May 2003

[7] Shiguang Shan, Wen Gao, Debin Zhao. Face Identification Based On Face-Specific Subspace. International Journal of Image and System Technology. Vol. 13, No.1, pp23-32, 2003

[8] Gaolin Fang, Wen Gao, Zhaoqi Wang. Incorporating Linguistic Structure into Maximum Entropy Language Models. Journal of Computer Science and Technology. Vol.18, No.1, pp131-136 2003

[9] Yan Lu, Wen Gao, Feng Wu, Efficient video coding with fractional resolution sprite prediction technique, IEE Electronics Letters. Vol. 39, no. 3, pp279-280, 2003