Hong-Kai XIONG is a Cheung Kong Professor and a Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Currently, he is with both Dept. Electronic Engineering and Dept. Computer Science and Engineering. From 2018-2020, he acted as the Vice Dean of Zhiyuan College in SJTU. He received the Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China, in 2003. Since then, he has been with the Department of Electronic Engineering, SJTU. He was an Associate Professor from 2005-2011 and an Assistant Professor from 2003-2005. From 2007 to 2008, he was a Research Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA, USA. During 2011-2012, he was a Scientist with the Division of Biomedical Informatics at the University of California (UCSD), San Diego, CA, USA.
Dr. Xiong’s research interests include signal representation and wavelet analysis, image and video coding, multimedia communication and networking, computer vision, and machine learning. He published over 360 refereed journal and conference papers. He was the co-author of the TOP 1% Paper Award of the 2022 ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia’22), the Top 5% Award at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP’24), the Top 10% Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE Visual Communication and Image Processing (IEEE VCIP’16), the Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE Visual Communication and Image Processing (IEEE VCIP’14), the Best Paper Award at the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (IEEE BMSB’13), and the Top 10% Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (IEEE MMSP’11).
In 2022, Dr. Xiong was granted the First Prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award. In 2021, Dr. Xiong was awarded the First Prize of Natural Science of the Chinese Institute of Electronics. In 2018, he was the recipient of the Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Distinguished Accomplishment Award. In 2017, he received both the Science and Technology Innovative Leader Talent Award, and Shanghai Academic Research Leader Talent Award. In 2014, he received both National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholar Award from Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Talent Award. In 2013, he obtained Shanghai Shu Guang Scholar Award. He was the recipients of Baosteel Excellent Faculty Award in both 2021 and 2017, and the SJTU SMC-A Excellent Young Faculty Awards in both 2010 and 2013. In both 2017 and 2011, he has been granted the First Prizes of the Shanghai Technology Innovation Awards. In 2009, he obtained the New Century Excellent Talent Award from Ministry of Education of China. From 2018-2021, he was the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT). He was elevated to a Fellow the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2023. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.