Zhigang Zhu

• CCNY PRISM Lecture Series on Computer Vision, Robotics and Human-Computer Interaction, 2014 - [Upcoming:  ]
• CCNY PRISM Lecture Series on Computer Vision, Robotics and Human-Computer Interaction, 2010-2013
  
• CCNY PRISM Lecture Series on Computer Vision, Robotics and Human-Computer Interaction, 2004-2009
  

Education

• Ph.D. (CS, with honor ), Tsinghua University, 1997 (Ph.D. Thesis)
• M.E (CS), Tsinghua University, 1991
• B.E. (CS, with honor), Tsinghua University, 1988

Profile 

Honors and Awards

• President's Award for Excellence, The City College of New York, May 2013 (award letter).
  
• Named Herbert G. Kayser Chair Professor of Computer Science in 2012
  
• Recipient of Certificate of Recognition "Salute to Scholars" Award, CUNY , 2004-now (yearly)
  
• Ph.D. thesis selected into the Hundred National Excellent Doctorate Theses in China, 1999
• Recipient of the C. C. Lin Applied Mathematics Scholarship, first prize winner, Tsinghua University, 1997
• Recipient  of the "Outstanding Young Teacher of the Year", Beijing, 1997
• Science and Technology Achievement Award, second class prize, Ministry of Electronics Industry China, 1996
  

Teaching and Advising

Research Projects

Some Current Research Projects ( a more complete list can be found here)

Past Research Projects

Human-Computer (Robot) Interaction: visual interface, augmented reality, and human tracking

Vision Applications: robotics, inspection, transportation, environment and etc. 

Research Sponsored by

AFOSR, AFRL,  ARO,  DARPA, DHS, NCIIA, NSF, NYSIA, GSOE, CUNY CISDD, PSC-CUNY,   CCNY/CUNY   and industry

Publications and Talks

• Publications
  
• Invited Talks
  

Academic Experience

• 08/2012-now, Herbert G. Kayser Chair Professor of Computer Science, City College of New York, CUNY
• 01/2007- now, Professor, Computer Science Department, City College of New York, CUNY
• 09/2002-01/2007,  Associate Professor, Computer Science  Department, City College of New York, CUNY
• 12/2000 - 08/2002,  Senior Research Fellow, Computer Science Department., UMass-Amherst
• 09/1998 - 11/2000, Senior Post Doctoral Research Associate,  CS Dept., UMass-Amherst
• 09/1997 - 09/1999, Director, Information Processing and Application Division, Computer Science Department., Tsinghua University
• 07/1996 -  Associate Professor, CS Dept., Tsinghua University
• 04/1991 - 06/1996, Lecturer/Assistant Professor,  CS Dept., Tsinghua University
  

Current Students

Past Students

Services and Useful Links

• NSF EFRI-REM: Research opportunities for undergraduate STEM students, high school students and STEM teachers in 2015
• IEEE/NSF Workshop on Multimodal and Alternative Perception for Visually Impaired People (MAP4VIP)  (Sponsored by NSF Award #1327236)
  
• NSF I-Corps Award: Transforming 2D Video into an Interactive 3D Viewing Experience
• Multimodal Surveillance: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems, Zhigang Zhu and Thomas S. Huang (Co-Editors), ISBN-10: 1596931841, Artech House Publisher, July 2007 (Artech | Amazon)
  
• IJCV Special Issue on Modeling and Representations of Large Scale 3D Scenes , Guest Editors: Zhigang Zhu and Takeo Kanade
• WMSC2007 - IEEE Workshop on Multimodal Sentient Computing: Sensors, Algorithms, and Systems, Co-General Chairs: Tom Huang and Zhigang Zhu, In Conjunction with CVPR 2007.
  
• Program Chair, CUNY Imaging & Visualization Mini-Conference, May 11th, 2005, CUNY Graduate Center
• Program Co-Chair, The Second IEEE Workshop on Image and Video Registration (IVR'04), July 2, 2004
• Other Professional Activities
• The Computer Vision Homepage
• Computer Vision Online

Contact Information

Office:

NAC 8 / 211

Address:

Department of Computer Sciences 

City College of New York
138th Street at Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031

Tel:

(212) 650-8799

Fax:

(212) 650-6248

Email:

zhu at cs dot ccny dot cuny dot edu