Xiao-Ping (Steven) Zhang received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University, in 1992 and 1996, respectively, both in Electronic Engineering. He holds an MBA in Finance, Economics and Entrepreneurship with Honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL.
He is Tsinghua Pengrui Chair Professor, Tsinghua University. He was the founding Dean of Institute of Data and Information (iDI) at Tsinghua SIGS and Chair Professor at Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI). He had been with the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University (Formerly Ryerson University), Toronto, ON, Canada, as a Professor and the Director of the Communication and Signal Processing Applications Laboratory (CASPAL), and has served as the Program Director of Graduate Studies. He was cross-appointed to the Finance Department at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University. His research interests include image and multimedia content analysis, sensor networks and IoT, machine learning/AI, statistical signal processing, and applications in big data, finance, and marketing.
Dr. Zhang is Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Fellow of the IEEE, a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada, and a member of Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. He is the general co-chair for 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2021). He is the general co-chair for 2017 GlobalSIP Symposium on Signal and Information Processing for Finance and Business, and the general co-chair for 2019 GlobalSIP Symposium on Signal, Information Processing and AI for Finance and Business. He was an elected member of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) steering committee. He is the general chair for ICME2024.
He is Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. He is Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He served as Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He was selected as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer by Signal Processing Society and by Circuits and Systems Society.