Dr. Qi Tian is currently the Chief Scientist in Artificial Intelligence at Huawei Cloud & AI. He was the Chief Scientist in Computer Vision at Huawei Noah’s Ark Laboratory from 2018-2020. Before he joined Huawei, Dr. Tian was a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science, the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He is a fellow of IEEE (2016) , CAAI(2021), and CCF (2023), IEAS Academician (2021), and a Changjiang Chaired Professor of the Ministry of Education of China. He received the 2021 CAAI Wen Wenjun Distinguished Contribution Award.

Dr. Tian received his Ph.D. in ECE from UIUC in 2002. Dr. Tian’s research interests include computer vision, multimedia content analysis, image and video indexing and retrieval, and machine learning, and published over 760 refereed journal and conference papers. His Google citations are over 64800 with h-index of 115. He was the co-author of eight best papers and the corresponding author of his work about Pangu Weather published at Nature Magazine.

Dr. Tian’s research projects were funded by ARO, NSF, DHS, Google, FXPAL, NEC, Blippar, SALSI, CIAS, Akiira Media Systems, HP and UTSA. He received 2017 UTSA President Distinguished Award for Research Achievement and 2010 Google Faculty Research Award. He is the Associate Editor of IEEE TMM, TCSVT, ACM TOMM, MMSJ, and MVA.