Kede Ma is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He received the B.E. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2012, the MASc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Waterloo, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. Prior to joining CityU, he was a Research Associate with Howard Hughes Medical Institute and New York University, from 2018 to 2019.

Dr. Ma’s research interests span perceptual image processing, computational vision, computational photography, and multimedia forensics. In recent years, he primarily focused on image/video quality assessment, based on which better image/video processing algorithms that are much “healthier” for our visual systems can be created.