Fan Chen

Fan Chen is currently an assistant professor of Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) since 2010. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D., from Nanjing University (China), Tohoku University (Japan), JAIST (Japan), in 2001, 2005 and 2008, respectively. He was supported by the Japanese Government MEXT Scholarship for foreign students, and received twice the awards for outstanding graduating students from both Nanjing Univ. (2001) and JAIST (2008), respectively. He was a COE Researcher for face recognition (JAIST, 2005–2007), a post-doctoral researcher in TELE, UCL, where he worked for the FP7 APIDIS European project (2008–2010), and an academic visitor to QMUL, UK (2012.02–04). His research interests are focused on statistical inference and optimization techniques related to computer vision, pattern recognition, and multimedia analysis.