Hong-Kai XIONG is a Distinguished Professor in both Dept. Electronic Engineering and Dept. Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Currently, he acts as the Vice Dean of Zhiyuan College in SJTU. His research interests mainly focus on multimedia signal processing, image and video coding, multimedia communication and networking, computer vision, biomedical informatics, machine learning.

Since he received his Ph.D. degree from SJTU in 2003, he has been with Department of Electronic Engineering in SJTU. During 2007-2008, he was a research scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). From 2011 to 2012, he was a scientist with the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He received 2017 the Science and Technology Innovative Leader Talent Award in Ten Thousand Talents Program, 2016 Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor Award from Ministry of Education, China, 2014 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholar Award from Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2017 Shanghai Academic Research Leader Talent Award, 2014 Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Talent Award, 2013 Shanghai Shu Guang Scholar Award, 2017 Baosteel Excellent Faculty Award, 2009 New Century Excellent Talent Award from Ministry of Education of China, 2010 and 2013 SJTU SMC-A Excellent Young Faculty Awards. He has been granted 2017 and 2011 First Prizes of the Shanghai Technology Innovation Award for research achievements on Network-oriented Video Processing and Dissemination.

Dr. XIONG published over 200 refereed journal and conference papers. His research projects are funded by Natural Science Foundation of China, QUALCOMM, MICROSOFT, and INTEL. He was the recipient of the Top 10% Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE Visual Communication and Image Processing (IEEE VCIP’16), the Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE Visual Communication and Image Processing (IEEE VCIP’14), the Best Paper Award at the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (IEEE BMSB’13), and the Top 10% Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (IEEE MMSP’11). He served as area chair in Technical program committee of ICIP and ISCAS, and TPC members for prestigious conferences such as ACM Multimedia, ICME, and ICASSP. He is the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT). He is a senior member of the IEEE since 2010.

Senior member, IEEE
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
Senior member, Chinese Computer Federation
Senior member, Chinese Institute of Electronics
Council member, Chinese Society of Image and Graphics

2016    Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor   Ministry of Education
2014    National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholar   Natural Science Foundation of China
2017    National Ten Thousand Talent Program for Innovation Leader   The Organization Department of the Central Committee
2016    Youth Science and Technology Innovation Leader   Ministry of Science and Technology
2017    Shanghai Academic Research Leader   Shanghai Science and Technology Committee
2014    Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Talent   Shanghai Association for Science and Technology
2013    Shanghai Shu Guang Scholar   Shanghai Municipal Education Commission
2017    First Prize of the Shanghai Technological Innovation Award   Shanghai People's Government
2011    First Prize of the Shanghai Technological Innovation Award   Shanghai People's Government
2017    Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award   Baosteel Education Foundation
2013    SMC-A Young Faculty Awards   Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2011    SMC-A Young Faculty Awards   Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2009    Excellent Young Talent Program of Trans-Century    Ministry of Education
2014    Best student paper award    IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference (VCIP 2014)
2013    Best paper award    IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB 2013)
2016    Top 10% paper award   IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference (VCIP 2016), 2016
2011    Top 10% paper award   IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (IEEE MMSP 2011), 2011

Principal Investigator:Structured Learning based Signal Processing for Big Image and Video Data: Theory and Technique, sponsored by China NSF, (2018.01-2022.12, 2.9 million RMB).
Principal Investigator:Research on Multimedia Communication, sponsored by China NSF, (2015.01-2019.12, 4 million RMB).
Principal Investigator: Research on Sparse Representation, Structured Processing, and Joint Coding of Multidimensional Visual Space, sponsored by China NSF, (2013.01-2016.12, 2.6 million RMB).
Principal Investigator: Research on Network-Based Video Processing: Theory and Application, sponsored by China NSF, (2017.01-2010.12, 2 million RMB).
Principal Investigator: Research on Distributed Optimization on Mobile Video Delivery Network, sponsored by China NSF, (2016.01-2019.12, 2 million RMB).
Principal Investigator:Research on Sparse Coding with Structured Set Learning towards Video Approximation: Theory and Algorithm, sponsored by China NSF, (2013.01-2016.12, 0.76 million RMB).
Principal Investigator:Research on Multi-scale Generalized Decomposition and Synthesis of Asymmetrical Video Coding, sponsored by China NSF, (2008.01-2010.12, 0.26 million RMB).
Principal Investigator:Network-based distributed coding and transmission with reusable metadata of video signal, sponsored by China MOST, (2006.12-2010.10, 0.75 million RMB).
Principal Investigator:Research on Automatic Video Segmentation and Tracking for Mobile Platform, sponsored by USA QualComm, (2010.03-2019.03, 260,000 US Dollar).
Co-Principal Investigator:Research on Interactive and scalable media over software defined networks, sponsored by Australia Research Council, (2014.01-2016.12, 405,000 US Dollar).