On November 25th, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) unveiled the list of IEEE Fellows for the year 2021. Professor Chunming LI from our institute was elected as an IEEE Fellow in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the fields of computer vision and medical image analysis.
Dr. Chunming LI currently serves as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Information and Communication Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). He is also the director of the UESTC-Army Medical University Joint Digital Medicine Laboratory, a part-time professor at Northeastern University, a member and co-founder of the International Society of Digital Medicine, deputy director of the Cross-Disciplinary Committee on Mathematics and Medicine at the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM), vice director of the Intelligent Imaging Branch at the China Society of Image and Graphics, and a committee member of the Qian Xuesen Innovation Committee at the China Academy of Space Technology.
Dr. Chunming LI obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Fujian Normal University and Fudan University in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Connecticut in 2005. From 2005 to 2009, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Medical Imaging Research at Vanderbilt University in the United States. From 2009 to 2014, he worked as a researcher in the Department of Medical Imaging at the University of Pennsylvania, engaging in algorithm and application research in medical image analysis. In September 2014, he joined UESTC as part of the Hundred Talents Program, assuming the roles of professor and doctoral supervisor.
Dr. Chunming LI's primary research areas include algorithmic research and applications in image processing, computer vision, and medical image analysis. He has made significant contributions to the study of image segmentation and level-set methods, publishing several original research papers as the first author. These include five papers with over 1,000 citations each, with one paper on level-set methods published in 2005 having been cited more than 2,700 times to date. Two other papers, cited over 1,800 and 2,000 times respectively, received the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Best Paper Award in 2013 and 2015. Dr. Chunming LI is the only scholar internationally to have received this award twice as the first author. In the 2020 list of 164 highly cited scientists in the field of computer science in China by Elsevier, he ranked 11th. In 2015, Dr. Chunming LI was invited to serve as an associate editor for the top journal IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), and in 2020, he was invited to serve as an associate editor for the top journal Medical Image Analysis. In 2017, he initiated and organized the first International Symposium on Image Computing and Digital Medicine (ISICDM).
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