Guoying Zhao#
| Membership Number: | 6460 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://gyzhao-nm.github.io/Guoying/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3694-206X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021, 09 - present Academy Professor, Academy of Finland & University of Oulu
- 2017, 12 - present Full professor (Tenured), University of Oulu, Finland
- 2022, 06 Visiting Professor, Aalto University, Finland
- 2022, 09 - 2022, 03 Visiting professor, Stanford University, USA
- 2014, 01 - 2017, 11 Associate Professor (Tenure track), University of Oulu
- 2016, 10 - 2021, 12 Visiting Professor, Northwest University, China
- 2016, 06 - 2016, 08 Nokia Visiting Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
- 2013, 07 - 2013, 10 Visiting Research Fellow, Imperial College London, UK
- 2011, 09 - 2017, 01 Academy research fellow of the Academy of Finland
- 2008, 01 - 2011, 05 Postdoctoral Researcher of the Academy of Finland
Fields of Scholarship
- Human behavior understanding
- Machine learning
- Emotion AI
- Face analysis
- Affective computing
- Computer vision
- Image and video processing
- Feature representation
Honours and Awards
- 2022 (Ordinary) Member of Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters (National Academies in Finland)
- 2022 Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), for contributions to facial expression analysis and feature representation
- Selected for four consecutive years (2019 - 2022) to world's top 2% scientists (most widely cited scientists in different disciplines) by Stanford University
- 2021 Wikipedia
- 2021 Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
- 2021 Academy Professor posts for 2021 - 2026 (highest academic position of Academy of Finland, in total 10 Academy professors in Finland covering all disciplines)
- 2020 Fellow of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) , for contributions to video analysis and affective computing
- 2020 leading Chinese talents on science and technology in Europe 2018
- 2017 Finland’s most publishing researcher on AI in 2015 - 2016
- 2016 Nokia Visiting Professor Award
- 2011 Award of Academy research fellowship from Academy of Finland, 2011
