Zhigang Zhu received his B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees, all in
computer science from
Dr. Zhu is currently a Herbert G. Kayser Professor
of Computer Science, at The City
College of New York and The CUNY Graduate Center. He is
Director of the City College Visual Computing Laboratory
(CcvcL), and Co-Director of the Center for Perceptual
Robotics, Intelligent Sensors and Machines (PRISM) at CCNY.
Previously he has been an Associate Professor at
Dr. Zhu's research expertise spans the areas
of 3D computer vision, human-computer interaction (HCI),
augmented reality, video representations, multimodal sensing
and processing, and various applications in education,
environment, robotics, surveillance, transportation, security
inspection, art analysis and assistive technologies. He has
published over 130 technical papers in the related fields. His
major research activities include: an integrated visual
navigation approach with panoramic, omnidirectional and stereo
vision sensors; new 3D layered representations for image-based
rendering and robot navigation; novel algorithms and systems
of stereo mosaics for airborne video surveillance; view
planning with heterogeneous visual sensors for distributed and
cooperative robots, and most recently multimodal
(EO/IR/acoustic) moving target detection/identification,
adaptive multimodal sensor designs, and wearable sensing and
display systems for blind and visually impaired people.
At
In 2012 Dr. Zhu is named the Herbert G. Kayser Chair Professor of
Computer Science, a distinction
"in
recognition of his outstanding achievement as a faculty member
in the Grove School of Engineering" at
The City College of New York. In May 2013 Professor Zhigang
Zhu received President's Award for Excellence, The
City College of New York, in the inaugural year of the
President's Awards. Here was the citation for the award from
City College President: "Zhigang Zhu - Professor of Computer
Science in the School of Engineering - was recognized by both
students and colleagues for his sustained commitment to
scholarly work, his multidisciplinary research in Assistive
Technologies for the Blind, his effective integration of
research innovation and undergraduate teaching, his engagement
of underrepresented students in research and education, and
his creation of innovative learning opportunities for students
outside the classroom."
He is the recipient
of CUNY "Certificate of Recognition" yearly from 2004
to now, "Science and Technology Achievement Award" (second
prize winner) from Ministry of Electronic Industry
He has served as a program committee member
of the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference from 1999 to 2003, and
as a Session Chair of the 1999 International Workshop on
Digital and Computational Video, Tampa, Florida, Program
Co-Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Image and Video
Registration (with CVPR'04), July 2, 2004 in Washington DC. He
has reviewed numerous papers for various international
journals and conferences. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a
senior member of the ACM, an Associate Editor of the Machine
Vision and Applications Journal (2006 - now), Technical
Editor, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (09/2010 -
now), and on Editorial Board of ISRN Machine Vision, Hindawi
Publishing Corporation (07/2011 - now). He is Co-General Chair
of the 2013 IEEE/NSF Workshop on Multimodal and Alternative
Perception for Visually Impaired People (MAP4VIP) July 15th,
2013, San Jose, USA , Co-General Chair (with Prof.
Thomas S. Huang) of the 2007 IEEE Workshop on Multimodal
Sentient Computing, in conjunction with CVPR 2007 in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Co-Guest Editor (with Prof. Takeo
Kanade) of Special Issue on Modeling and Representations of
Large Scale 3D Scenes, International Journal of Computer
Vision.
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