Dr. Haofu Liao is currently an applied scientist of the Rekognition & Video Analysis team at Amazon Web Services, Inc. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Jiebo Luo. Prior to that, he received his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA in 2015 and his B.E. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China in 2012. His research interest is in the interdisciplinary field between artificial intelligence and medicine. In particular, his research focuses on deep medical image computing where he designs deep learning-based approaches that are tailored for medical imaging or medical image analysis problems. He has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed papers in medical image computing and computer vision venues, including CVPR, MICCAI, TMI, ICPR. Professor S. Kevin Zhou obtained his PhD degree from University of Maryland, College Park. He is a Professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prior to this, he was a Principal Expert and a Senior R&D director at Siemens Healthcare. Dr. Zhou has published 180+ book chapters and peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, registered 250+ patents and inventions, written two research monographs, and edited three books. His two most recent books are entitled Medical Image Recognition, Segmentation and Parsing: Machine Learning and Multiple Object Approaches, SK Zhou (Ed.) and Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis, SK Zhou, H Greenspan, DG Shen (Eds.). He has won multiple awards including R&D 100 Award (Oscar of Invention), Siemens Inventor of the Year, and UMD ECE Distinguished Aluminum Award. He has been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and Medical Image Analysis, an area chair for CVPR and MICCAI, a board member of the MICCAI Society. Professor Zhou is a Fellow of AIMBE. Jiebo Luo is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, which joined in 2011 after a prolific career of fifteen years at Kodak Research Laboratories. He has been involved in numerous technical conferences, including serving as a program co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2010, IEEE CVPR 2012, ACM ICMR 2016, and IEEE ICIP 2017, as well as a general co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2018. He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Pattern Recognition, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Machine Vision and Applications, and Journal of Electronic Imaging. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Professor Luo is a Fellow of ACM, AAAI, IEEE, SPIE and IAPR.
