Dr. Linmi Tao (University of Beijing)

Prof. Linmi Tao is an associate professor of Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. He received his B.Sc. degree from Department of Biology, Zhejiang University in 1986. He received his M.Sc. in 1991 from Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied visual perception, cognitive science, and published his first research paper "Computational Color Vision" on J. Psychology in 1993. After his graduation, he joined to Prof. Eduardo Renato Caianiello research team in International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, Italy where he studied computational visual perception and finished his postdoctoral program in 1994. Then, he worked as a visiting scholar in the same institute in 1995.

Based on the research experience on cognitive science he hopes to introduce computer sciences and technologies to the researches on visual perception and cognition. He decided to study on computer science, especially on computer vision in 1995. He moved back to China and entered Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University in 1996 as a PhD student.

In 2001, he received PhD degree on computer science from Tsinghua University, and joined to University of Verona, Italy working on project ARROV of the Fifth Framework Programme.

Currently, Linmi Tao teaches two courses: Human Computer Interaction and Patter Recognition, to undergraduate students. His researches cover a brand spectrum on computer vision, image / video processing, also computational cognitive vision, affective computing, bioinformatics based on his cross-disciplinary background. He cooperated with European universities and international companies, such as Intel, Siemens and IBM, in many research projects.

Tsinghua University, located in the northwestern suburbs of Beijing, was established in 1911 on the site of "Qing Hua Yuan" - a former royal garden of the Qing Dynasty. Funded with part of the "Boxer Indemnity," it was at first a preparatory school called "Tsinghua Xuetang" for those students who were sent by the government to study in the United States.

On April 29, 1911, Tsinghua Xuetang began its first term, and from then on the last Sunday of April was set as the school's anniversary. The name was changed to "Tsinghua School" after the 1911 Revolution.

In 1925, a university section was established, offering a four-year program for students. In 1928, its name was changed to "National Tsinghua University," and in the autumn of 1929 a graduate school was set up.

Currently, the university consists of 44 departments distributed in 11 schools, including the schools of sciences, architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, information science and technology, humanities and social sciences, economics and management, law, arts and design, public policy and management, and applied technology. A medical school is currently being established. Tsinghua is developing into a comprehensive university at a breathtaking pace.

With a splendid legacy accumulated over the past 90 years, Tsinghua has retained its character and charm while promoting rigorous scholarship research, ensuring academic and educational prestige in China and abroad. The university currently has over 7,100 faculty and staff, with over 900 full professors and 1,200 associate professors, including 24 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 24 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

The educational philosophy of Tsinghua is to "train students with integrity." Among the over 100,000 students who have graduated from Tsinghua since its founding are many outstanding scholars, eminent entrepreneurs and great statesmen remembered and respected by their fellow Chinese citizens. Hence, to study at Tsinghua is the dream of many Chinese youth. Presently, Tsinghua has over 20,000 students, including 12,000 undergraduates, 6,200 master's degrees candidates and 2,800 doctoral candidates.

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY

Tsinghua University was established in 1911 originally as "Tsinghua School", a preparatory school for students who would be sent by the government to study in universities in the United States. The university section was instituted in 1925 and undergraduate students were then enrolled. The name "National Tsinghua University" was adopted in 1928, and in 1929 the Research Institute was set up.

Currently, the university consists of 44 departments distributed in 11 schools, including the schools of sciences, architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, information science and technology, humanities and social sciences, economics and management, law, arts and design, public policy and management, and applied technology. A medical school is currently being established. Tsinghua is developing into a comprehensive university at a breathtaking pace.

With a splendid legacy accumulated over the past 90 years, Tsinghua has retained its character and charm while promoting rigorous scholarship research, ensuring academic and educational prestige in China and abroad.

Presently, the university has over 2,100 professors, and over 21,000 students. To study at Tsinghua is the dream of many Chinese youths.

Department of Computer Science & Technology is founded in 1958, and has grown to be the strongest and most influential educational institution in the nation. The department currently has 110 faculty members in four institutes, a state key laboratory, and many joint laboratories in collaboration with renowned international corporations, such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft and SUN.

Over 60 courses are taught to about 660 undergraduates and 800 graduate students, who have been awarded top prizes in many national and international contests, and have ranked first many times in the ACM College Student Programming Contest.

The research area of the department covers a broad spectrum in parallel and distributed computing, high performance computer systems, computer networks, software engineering, knowledge engineering, distributed databases, computer graphics and CAD, data security, artificial intelligence, multimedia technology, visualization technology and VLSI design automation etc. Every year the department undertakes over 200 projects from the National Natural Science Foundation, international cooperative projects and significant application projects.

He was the member of Machine Vision Expert Group in the field of Automation in 1990. He is a member of Robot Measurement Committee TC-17 of IMEKO and a standing member of the Council of China Image and Graphic Association. Now he is The Chairmen of Multimedia Technology Committee, Chinese Society of Image and Graphics, Associate Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Image and Graphics. He has received more than five science and technology Progress Prizes issued by the National High-Tech Project Committee in the field of Automation, State Education Committee, Ministry of Electronic Industry, China, respectively, from 1992 to 2001.

Prof. Lianhong Cai is a full professor of Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. She is the leader of the Institute of Human Computer Interactive and Media Integration from 1999-2004, the member of Multimedia Committee of Chinese Graphics and Image Society, the member of Chinese Acoustics Society, and the member of IEEE.

Her major research interests include Human Computer Speech Interactive, Speech synthesis, and TTS, Speech Corpus and multimedia technology. She has taught "The Digital Processing of Speech Signals", "Multimedia Computer Technologies" and so on. She has been undertaking several the national key-tech tasks, 863 high technology projects and National Natural Science Foundation projects. She has been awarded Scientific Progress Prizes and the Invention Prizes from the Ministry of Mechanism and Electronics and the State Education Commission, and some patents. She has published tens of papers and several scientific literatures.