Auteur: Hugo Jair Escalante

Stan Z. Li received a BEng degree from Hunan University, China, a MEng degree from National University of Defense Technology, China, and a Ph.D. degree from Surrey University, United Kingdom. He is currently a chair professor of Westlake University. Before that, he was a professor and the director of Center for Biometrics and Security Research (CBSR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), and was at Microsoft Research Asia, as a researcher from 2000–2004. Prior to that, he was an associate professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include pattern recognition and machine learning, image and vision processing, face recognition, biometrics, and intelligent video surveillance. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences, and authored and edited 8 books. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and is acting as the editor-in-chief for the Encyclopedia of Biometrics. He served as a program cochair for the International Conference on Biometrics 2007 and 2009, and has been involved in organizing other international conferences and workshops in the fields of his research interest. He was elevated to IEEE fellow for his contributions to the fields of face recognition, pattern recognition, and computer vision, and he is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.