Professor

Director

Zhenan Sun

• IAPR Fellow
• IAPR TC4 Chair
• National Technological Invention Award

Zhenan Sun is a professor and doctoral supervisor at CASIA, a faculty professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and director of the Tianjin Academy of Intelligent Recognition. He received the B.E. degree in industrial automation from Dalian University of Technology in 1999, the M.S. degree in systems engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent systems from CASIA in 2006. He is an IAPR Fellow and chair of the IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics, secretary-general of the China Biometrics Industry Alliance, and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science. His work on iris and face recognition has been used in mines, banks, public security, and mobile phones. Public CASIA and CSIG profiles credit him with more than 300 papers, more than 50 granted invention patents, a National Technological Invention Award (second class), a China Patent Excellence Award, and a first-class Natural Science Award from the China Society of Image and Graphics.

Interests · pattern Recognition · Computational Vision · Biometric recognition