- Senior Research Fellowship in 2004 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
David Zhang graduated
in Computer Science from Peking University. He received his MSc in 1982 and his
PhD in 1985 in both Computer Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology
(HIT), respectively. From 1986 to 1988 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua
University and then an Associate Professor at the Academia Sinica, Beijing. In
1994 he received his second PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has been a Chair Professor at the
Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he is the Founding Director of
Biometrics Research Centre (UGC/CRC) supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government
since 1998. Currently he is Distinguished Presidential Chair Professor in
Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). Over past 40 years, he has been
working on pattern recognition, image processing and biometrics, where many
research results have been awarded and some created directions, including
medical biometrics and palmprint recognition, are famous in the world. So far,
he has published over 20 monographs, 500+ international journal papers and 40+
patents from USA/Japan/China. He has been continuously 8 years listed as a
Global Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics during
2014-2021. He is also ranked about 47 with H-Index 126 at Top 1,000 Scientists
for international Computer Science. Professor Zhang is selected as a Fellow of
both RSC (Royal Society of Canada) and CAE (Canadian Academy of Engineering).
He also is a Croucher Senior Research Fellow, and an IEEE Life Fellow and an
IAPR/AAIA Fellow.
Currently
Prof Zhang’s research interests include biometrics, image processing and pattern recognition.