Qing Tian, Professor, PhD (Doctoral) Supervisor, recipient of the Jiangsu Province Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, the Best Scientific Paper Award of the IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), the Youth-May-Fourth Medal of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST, totally 10 teachers of NUIST won this award in this year), the advanced individual in scientific research at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). He was an Academic Visitor at the University of Manchester (UK, 2018-2019).

The research interests of Prof. Qing Tian mainly include artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, pattern recognition, deep learning, computer vision and other AI-related fields. His research is being supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China, etc. He has published over 60 scientific papers at prestigious international journals and conferences, e.g. IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TCSVT, ACM TIST. In addition, he has also been authorized several Chinese invention patents.

So far, several of the graduated master students, supervised by Prof. Qing Tian, have won the Excellent Master's Thesis Award of Jiangsu Computer Society, the Excellent Master's Thesis Award of Jiangsu Artificial Intelligence Society, the Excellent Master's Thesis Award of NUIST, etc.

Prof. Qing Tian is serving on the editorial board of several reputable journals, as well as the PC member for several prestigious international conferences, e.g. AAAI, IJCAI, CVPR, ICPR, PAKDD. He is also serving as the reviewer for top-tier journals and conferences, such as IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TIFS, AAAI, IJCAI, CVPR, ICDM. He is also serving as the Executive Committee Member of the Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Special Committee of China Computer Federation (CCF), and the Machine Learning Special Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, as well as a Senior Member of CCF.

Warmly welcome the overseas students to apply for the PhD or master program under the supervision of Prof. Qing Tian, and the contacting email is: tianqing@nuist.edu.cn.