Shih-Fu Chang is the Richard Dicker Professor at
Columbia University, with appointments in both Electrical
Engineering Department and Computer Science Department. His
research is focused on multimedia information retrieval, computer
vision, machine learning, and signal processing. A primary goal of
his work is to develop intelligent systems that can extract rich
information from the vast amount of visual data such as those
emerging on the Web, collected through pervasive sensing, or
available in gigantic archives. His work on content-based visual
search in the early 90s—VisualSEEk and VideoQ—set the foundation of
this vibrant area. Over the years, he continued to develop
innovative solutions for image/video recognition, multimodal
analysis, visual content ontology, image authentication, and
compact hashing for large-scale indexing. His work has had major
impacts in various applications like image/video search engines,
online crime prevention, mobile product search, AR/VR, and brain
machine interfaces.
His scholarly work can be seen in more than 350 peer-reviewed
publications, many best-paper awards, more than 30 issued patents,
and technologies licensed to seven companies. He was listed as the
Most Influential Scholar in the field of Multimedia by Aminer in
2016. For his long-term pioneering contributions, he has been
awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement
Award, ACM Multimedia Special Interest Group Technical Achievement
Award, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam, the
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, and IBM Faculty Award. For his
contributions to education, he received the Great Teacher Award
from the Society of Columbia Graduates. He served as Chair of ACM
SIGMM (2013–2017), Chair of Columbia Electrical Engineering
Department (2007–2010), the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Signal
Processing Magazine (2006–2008), and advisor for several
international research institutions and companies. In his current
capacity as Senior Executive Vice Dean at Columbia Engineering, he
plays a key role in the School’s strategic planning, special
research initiatives, international collaboration, and faculty
development. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow
of the ACM.
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