Lefei Zhang, Researcher

Lefei Zhang is Deputy Director of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, a professor and doctoral supervisor, and an Outstanding Supervisor of the China Postgraduate Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition. He was formerly a visiting scholar at the Big Data Institute of University College London and a Hong Kong Scholar at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He conducts research in fields related to artificial intelligence and has published more than 80 SCI journal papers and more than 20 CCF A conference papers, including 3 ESI Hot Papers and 18 ESI Highly Cited Papers. His papers have been cited more than 7,700 times, with an H-index of 39, and his most cited single paper has more than 1,400 citations. He received the IJCAI 2018 Distinguished Paper Award and the ICDM 2018 DELL Workshop Best Paper Award. He has led 5 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (including the Excellent Young Scientists Fund and the General Program), 1 national defense science and technology project and 2 projects of the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation. His awards include the First Prize of the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Award (twice) and the Silver Award of the Hubei Patent Award. He serves as Chair of the IEEE GRSS Wuhan Chapter, Associate Editor of six SCI journals including Pattern Recognition, and Area Chair of the IEEE ICME conference, among other roles.