Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow

Biography: Xiang Bai, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, IEEE/IAPR Fellow, and Associate Editor-in-Chief (A-EIC) of the international journal Pattern Recognition. His research primarily focuses on computer vision, pattern recognition, and multimodal foundation models. He has published over 200 papers in top-tier international journals and conferences such as Nature Machine Intelligence, IEEE TPAMI, and CVPR. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE TPAMI (a leading international journal), Area Chair for top conferences including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, IJCAI, and NeurIPS, and General Chair of ICDAR 2025 (International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition). His honors include the ACL 2024 Best Paper Award, the 2024 Hubei Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award, the First Prize of Hubei Natural Science Award (ranked 1st) in 2023, the First Prize of Natural Science Award of the China Society of Image and Graphics (ranked 1st) in 2021, and the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award in 2019. He is currently a Standing Director of the China Society of Image and Graphics and Director of its Youth Committee.