Ce ZHU

Ce ZHU is a ChangJiang (Cheung Kong) Distinguished Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China, and serves as the Dean of Glasgow College, a joint school between the University of Glasgow, UK and UESTC, China. He is also an affiliate professor of James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK (https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/engineering/staff/index.html/staffcontact/person/33dceded8494). He has been leading the Lab of Advanced Visual Communication & Computing, UESTC, as the Founding Director since 2012. He was with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, for 14 years from 1998 to 2012, where he was a Research Fellow, a Program Manager, an Assistant Professor and then promoted to an Associate Professor in 2005. Additionally, he held visiting positions at Queen Mary University of London (UK) in 2008, and Nagoya University (Japan) in 2011. Previously, he pursued postdoctoral research at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 1995, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and the University of Melbourne, Australia, from 1996 to 1998. He received his B.S. degree from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, in 1989, and his M.Eng and Ph.D. degrees from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, all in electronic and information engineering.

His research interests lie in the general areas of visual information processing, multimedia signal processing and systems, specializing in image/video coding and processing, 3D video, (AI-enabled) visual analysis, perception and applications. He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications, which have received 11,000+ citations (H-index: 56) in Google Scholar. As the lead editor, he has edited three books and contributed five book chapters. He co-authored a book entitled “Tensor Computation for Data Analysis” (Springer) released in 2021. He has filed more than 120 patents (101 granted with 4 transferred). He has contributed 80 proposals (36 adopted) to the JVET, JCT-3V, MPEG IVC, and AVS2 video coding standardizations (mainly on encoding optimization, with proposed techniques adopted in the standard reference software). He is one of the principal drafters of a certified industrial standard in China, namely Video mezzanine coding – Part 1: Scalable ultra high-definition video coding (GY/T 398.1—2024).

Prof. Zhu has served on the editorial boards of a dozen journals, including as an Associate Editor of  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, an Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, an Area Editor of Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier), an Associate Editor of Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (Springer), an Editorial Board Member of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), and an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Signal Processing – Image Processing. He has also served as a Guest Editor of five special issues in international journals, including IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. He has been involved in organizing numerous international conferences, including serving as a General Chair of IEEE BMSB 2021 and a Technical Program Chair of IEEE ICME 2017, at both of which he received Outstanding Leadership Award. He has also delivered three-hour tutorials at international conferences, including at the IEEE ISCAS 2015, IEEE VCIP 2014, PCM 2014, and has also been invited to deliver keynote speeches at a dozen of international conferences.

He is now serving as the Chair of IEEE ICME Steering Committee (2024-2025), and was a member of the Steering Committee (2019-2020). He has served as a Co-Chair of the Interest Group of Multimedia Processing for Communications (MPCIG) of Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications (MMTC), IEEE ComSoc, and a Chair of Special Interest Group on Big Multimedia of Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing, IEEE Computer Society. He was an elected member of the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP-TC, 2015-2020), the Chair of Webmaster Subcommittee of MMSP-TC, IEEE SPS, and an elected member of the Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee (MSA-TC, 2004-2012, 2015-2023), IEEE CASS.

He is a Fellow of IEEE (2017, “for contributions to video coding and communications”), a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA, 2024, “For pioneering and sustained contributions to visual information coding and processing”), a Fellow of the IET (2014), and a Fellow of AAIA (2021). He was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2019-2020), IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (2012-2019), and an APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer (2021-2022). He has received 8 (best) paper awards, including three Best Paper Awards (IEEE HPCC 2022, IEEE BMSB 2014, IIH-MSP 2013), a Best Paper Runner Up Award (IEEE ICME 2020), and three Best Student Paper Awards (IEEE BMSB 2018, IEEE ICME 2017, MobiMedia 2011), and a Best Demo Award (IEEE MMSP 2022). He has been ranked among the Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier each year in the latest six years since 2017. He has also been ranked as one of the World’s Top 2% Scientists since 2020, released by Stanford University.