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Graduated in Mathematics and PhD in Mathematics (FaMAF- UNC, 2002). Adjunct Researcher CONICET Titular Prof. FaCENA – UNNE Postdoctoral stays: University of Reading (England, 2002-2005, 2017-2019), University of Toronto (2008-2009) Areas of interest: Statistical image processing and modeling, signal processing, data assimilation, inferential statistics Image Source CONICET

Xiao-Ping Zhang received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University, in 1992 and 1996, respectively, both in electronic engineering, and the M.B.A. degree in finance, economics, and entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, USA. Since Fall 2000, he has been with the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, where he is currently a Professor and the Director of the Communication and Signal Processing Applications Laboratory. He has served as the Program Director of Graduate Studies. He is cross-appointed to the Finance Department at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University. He was a Visiting Scientist with the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2015 and 2017, respectively. He is a frequent consultant for biotech companies and investment firms. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of EidoSearch, an Ontario-based company offering a content-based search and analysis engine for financial big data. His research interests include image and multimedia content analysis, machine learning, statistical signal processing, sensor networks and electronic systems, and applications in big data, finance, and marketing. He is an elected member of the ICME Steering Committee. He received the 2020 Sarwan Sahota Ryerson Distinguished Scholar Award, the Ryerson University Highest Honor for scholarly, research and creative achievements. He is the General Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2021. He is the General Co-Chair of the 2017 GlobalSIP Symposium on Signal and Information Processing for Finance and Business, and the General Co-Chair of the 2019 GlobalSIP Symposium on Signal, Information Processing and AI for Finance and Business. He is the General Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2015. He is the Publicity Chair of the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2006, and the Program Chair for International Conference on Intelligent Computing, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He was a Tutorial Speaker at the 2011 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, the 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, and the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. He is a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He has served as a Guest Editor for the Multimedia Tools and Applications and the International Journal of Semantic Computing. He is awarded as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the term from January 2020 to December 2021 by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada.

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