Zhigang Zhu

Professor of Computer Science

CS @ CUNY City College and CS @ CUNY Graduate Center
Director, City College Visual Computing Laboratory (CCVCL)
Co-Director, Center for Perceptual Robotics, Intelligent Sensors and Machines (PRISM)

Events Announcements

Multimodal Surveillance: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems, Zhigang Zhu and Thomas S. Huang (Co-Editors), ISBN-10: 1596931841, Artech House Publisher, July 2007 (Artech | Amazon)
IJCV Special Issue on Modeling and Representations of Large Scale 3D Scenes , Guest Editors: Zhigang Zhu and Takeo Kanade

CCNY PRISM Lecture Series on Computer Vision, Robotics and Human-Computer Interaction

Education

Ph.D. (CS, with honor ), Tsinghua University, 1997 (Ph.D. Thesis)
M.E (CS), Tsinghua University, 1991
B.E. (CS, with honor), Tsinghua University, 1988

Profile

Honors and Awards

Recipient of Certificate of Recognition "Salute to Scholars" Award, CUNY , 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Who's Who in America, 2003
Ph.D. thesis selected into the Hundred National Excellent Doctorate Theses in China, 1999
Recipient of the C. C. Lin Applied Mathematics Scholarship, first prize winner, Tsinghua University, 1997
Recipient of the "Outstanding Young Teacher of the Year", Beijing, 1997
Science and Technology Achievement Award, second class prize, Ministry of Electronics Industry China, 1996

Research Projects

Current Research Projects

Adaptive Multimodal Sensing and Processing (New)

Dynamic Pushbroom Stereo Mosaics

Multimodal Remote Hearing

Cooperative Wall-Climbing Robots

NSF CRI: PRISM Center for Research and Education

Past Research Projects

Video Computing: image-based modeling, video stabilization, video mosaicing and video representation

Human-Computer (Robot) Interaction

3D Virtualized Classroom

Vision Applications

Research Sponsored by

AFOSR, AFRL, ARO, DARPA, NSF, NYSIA, GSOE, CUNY CISDD, PSC-CUNY and CUNY

List of Grants

Teaching

Spring 2008, CSc 82200 PhD Seminar Course: Multimodal Sentient Computing

Spring 2008, CSC I6716 Computer Vision

Courses Taught in the Past

Publications and Talks

Academic Experience

01/2007- now, Professor, Computer Science Department, City College of New York, CUNY
09/2002-01/2007, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, City College of New York, CUNY
12/2000 - 08/2002, Senior Research Fellow, Computer Science Department., UMass-Amherst
09/1998 - 11/2000, Senior Post Doctoral Research Associate, CS Dept., UMass-Amherst
09/1997 - 09/1999, Director, Information Processing and Application Division, Computer Science Department., Tsinghua University
07/1996 - Associate Professor, CS Dept., Tsinghua University
04/1991 - 06/1996, Lecturer/Assistant Professor, CS Dept., Tsinghua University

Current Students

   Tadeusz Jordan, undergrad student,CUNY City College
   Wai Lun Khoo, undergrad student,CUNY City College
    Edgardo Molina, PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center
Hao Tang, PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center
    Tao Wang, Ph.D. student, CUNY Graduate Center

Past Students

Yi Feng, Ph.D. student, CUNY Graduate Center
Robert Hill, BA in History, Technical Writer, CCNY, now a Technical Writer and Web Application Developer at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank
    Yu-Chi Hu, Ph.D. student, CUNY Graduate Center
Ye Jing, MS in CS, CCNY
Deepak Karruppiah, Ph.D student in CS, UMass-Amherst
    Chad McKittrick, BS in CS, CCNY, now a Senior Test Engineer at Real-Time Technology Solutions Inc. (RTTS)
   Weihong Li, MS/PhD student, CUNY City College and Graduate Center
    Edgardo Molina, BS in CS, CCNY, now a PhD student in CS at CUNY Graduate Center
    Bing Shen, MS in CS, CCNY, now a software engineer at MBH Trading LLC
Hao Tang, MS in CS, CCNY, now a PhD student in CS at CUNY Graduate Center
    Yifeng Wang, MS in CS, CCNY
    Scott Yu, MS student, CUNY City College
    Li Zhao, MS in CS, CCNY, now a Ph.D. student in Economics at Graduate Center of CUNY.
Hui Zhu, MS in CS, CCNY

Services and Useful Links

Contact Information

Office:

NAC 8 / 210

Address:

Department of Computer Sciences

City College of New York
138th Street at Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031

Tel:

(212) 650-8799

Fax:

(212) 650-6248

Email:

zzhu at ccny dot cuny dot edu