Professional Activities

Senior Area Editor
    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2024–present
   Associate Editors
    • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2022–present
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2019–present
    • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2019–present
    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2019–2023
    • Signal Processing, 2018–2022
    • Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2017–2022
    • Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2016–2022
    • Neurocomputing, 2016–2021
    • Journal of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, 2013–2015
   Guest Editors
    • Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 2019
    • Remote Sensing, 2018
    • International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, 2015
   Chair
    • IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Cognitive Computing, 2015–present
   Area Chairs
    • ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2023-present
    • IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2015–present
    • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2021
  Senior Program Committee Member
    • The 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 2020
   Program Committee Members
    • The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020–present
    • IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2012–present
    • SPIE Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications, 2013–2019
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2015–2018
  Government Grant Reviewers
    • National Science Center of Poland, 2017–2022
    • Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, 2020–present
  Strategy Consulting Committee Member
    • Basic Research Fund of Guangdong Provence for Fundamentals and Applications, 2020–present
  SPIE Scholarship Committee Member, 2015–2019

Awards and Recognitions

    • Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate, 2020 — 2021, 2023 — 2024
    • Top Cited Scholar, Scilit, 2023 — 2024
    • 2022 Highly Ranked Scholar -Prior Five Years, ScholarGPS, 2024
    • World’s Top 2% Scientist”, Stanford University Releases List, 2020 — present. 
    • 2019 China Top 100 Most Influential Articles (Article no. 25), sciencenet.cn, 2020 
    • Third prize of Macao Natural Science AwardMacao SAR Government, 2014 (Co-winner), 2020 and 2024 (Sole winner)
    • Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, 2020
    • Best Editor Award, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2020, 2021
    • Incentive Scheme for Outstanding Academic Staff, University of Macau, 2020
    • FST Research Excellence Award, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, 2017