Prof. Xu Lei, Fellow of IEEE, IAPR Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Lei Xu, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); Zhiyuan Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Department, Chief Scientist of AI Research Institute, Chief Scientist of Brain Sci & Tech Research Centre，Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU); Director of Neural Computation Research Centre in Brain and Intelligence Science-Technology Institute, Zhang Jiang National Lab. Received several national and international academic awards, including 1993 National Nature Science Award, 1995 Leadership Award from International Neural Networks Society (INNS) and 2006 APNNA Outstanding Achievement Award. Elected to Fellow of IEEE in 2001; Fellow of intl. Association for Pattern Recognition in 2002 and of European Academy of Sciences (EAS) in 2003. Served as the EIC and associate editors of several academic journals, e.g., including Neural Networks (1995-2016), Neurocomputing (1995-2017), IEEE Tr. Neural Networks (1994-98). Taken various roles in academic societies, e.g., INNS Governing Board (2001-03), the INNS award committee (2002-03), and the Fellow committee of IEEE Computational Intelligence society (2006-07), and the EAS scientific committee (2014-17).