Chang-Wen Chen - Biography#

Prof. Chang Wen Chen is Currently Chair Professor of Visual Computing in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has been an Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York from 2008 to 2021. He served as Dean of the School of Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 2017-2020. While in Shenzhen, he also serves as Deputy Director of Peng Cheng Laboratory, (PCL) a recently established national level research institution in the areas of AI, communication and networking, robotics and quantum computing.

He is among few individuals worldwide who have served as Editor-in-Chief for two different IEEE Transactions, i.e., IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 2014-2016 and EEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2006-2009. He has been an Editor for several other major IEEE Transactions and Journals, including the Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. He has served as Conference Chair for several major IEEE, ACM and SPIE conferences related to multimedia communication and multimedia signal processing, including ACM MM, IEEE ICME, and IEEE ICASSP. He has also served as Vice-President for Administration for IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2015-2017.

He and his students have received nine (9) Best Paper Awards or Best Student Paper Awards. He has published 300+ papers and received 10K+ citations with H-index of 46. According to Google Scholar, he is ranked #4 worldwide in "multimedia communication," #6 worldwide in "multimedia systems," and #4 worldwide in "image/video processing." Several of the mobile multimedia techniques he developed have been implemented in today's smartphone for image/video streaming applications. He has also received several research and professional achievement awards, including the Sigma Xi Excellence in Graduate Research Mentoring Award in 2003, Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2010, the University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar – Sustained Achievement Award in 2012, the State University of New York System Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2016, and the Distinguished ECE Alumni Award from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019. He is an IEEE Fellow since 2004 and an SPIE Fellow since 2007.