Chang-Wen Chen#
| Membership Number: | 5620 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=w2HXPUUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6720-234X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - Present, Chair Professor of Visual Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
- 2008 - 2021, Empire Innovation Professor, University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York, USA
- 2017 - 2020, Dean, School of Science and Engineering, CUHK, Shenzhen, China and Deputy Director, Peng Cheng Lab in Shenzhen(on-leave from UB)
- 2015 - present, TUM Ambassador, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- 2012 - present, Honorary Hans Fisher Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- 2010 - 2012, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Technical University of Munich, Germany (a total of six months)
- 2006 - 2012, Grand Master Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, China
- 2003 - 2007, Allen Henry Endowed Chair Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
- 2000 - 2002, Head of Interactive Media Group, David Sarnoff Research Laboratories, USA (on-leave from MU)
- 1996 - 2003, Assistant/Associate Professor, University of Missouri at Columbia (MU), USA
- 1992 - 1996, Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- multimedia signal processing
- multimedia systems
- image/video processing
- multimedia communication
Honours and Awards
- 2019 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ECE Department Distinguished Alumni Award
- 2016 State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
- 2016 Test of Time Award in Computer Networking by Shanghai Computer Society, for the 2009 paper: C. Luo, F. Wu, C. W. Chen, J. Sun, “Compressive data gathering for large-scale wireless sensor networks,” MobiCom 2009
- 2012 University at Buffalo, State University of New York, UB Exceptional Scholar – Sustained Achievement Award
- 2011 Honorary Hans Fisher Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich
- 2010 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (US Senior Scientist Category)
- 2007 Elected to Fellow of SPIE, International Society for Optical Engineering, for contributions to electronic imaging and visual communications
- 2004 Elected to Fellow of IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, for for contributions to digital image and video processing, analysis and communications
- 2003 Sigma Xi Excellence in Graduate Research Mentoring Award, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
