Xiang Sean Zhou

Email: xiang.zhou(at)siemens.com, or szhoula(at)gmail.com

Phone: 610-448-4454

The intended pronunciation for "Xiang" is similar to "Sean" as in "Sean Connery" or "Sean Penn".

Research interests:

Computer vision and pattern analysis, multimedia representation and retrieval, machine learning, video analysis and streaming.

A recent book: "Exploration of Visual Data" contains my PhD work at UIUC with Prof Tom Huang, plus some of Dr. Yong Rui's work as well. Buy it here.

Here you can download and take a peek at the "References" and "Index" sections (this is based on a pre-publication version with some minor formatting errors).  

Xiang "Sean" Zhou conducted his PhD study (1998-2002) at Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). He worked as a researcher (2002) and later project manager (2004) at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey. Since June 2005, he has been working for Siemens Medical Solutions, as a senior staff scientist and a program manager at the CAD Solutions Group in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

He publishes in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Optical Engineering, ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, etc., and leading international conferences. He is the principle author of the book "Exploration of Visual Data", published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2003. He was the program co-chair for The Second International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (2003). He was the recipient of several top scholarships and awards from Tsinghua University. In 2001, he was awarded the M. E. Van Valkenburg Fellowship, an award given to one or two PhD students in the ECE department of UIUC each year "for demonstrated excellence in research in the areas of circuits, systems, or computers."