Biography

Junhui Hou holds a B.Eng. degree in information engineering (Talented Students Program) from the South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China (2009), an M.Eng. degree in signal and information processing from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, China (2012), and a Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore (2016). He joined the Department of Computer Science at CityU as an Assistant Professor in 2017 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023. Dr. Hou's research interests include visual computing, such as image/video/3D geometry representation, processing and analysis, graph structure learning, and data compression and adaptive streaming. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Study Abroad in 2015 from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) and Early Career Award (3/381) in 2018 from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC).  Dr. Hou is a senior member of IEEE.