Tang Xiaoou
Tang Xiaoou was a professor of information engineering and associate dean of engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he founded the Multimedia Laboratory in 2001. He co-founded SenseTime in 2014, one of China's prominent AI companies, and served as its chairman. He was best known for his research in computer vision and pattern recognition, including leading a team that developed a face recognition system with record accuracy in 2014 and receiving the Best Paper Award at CVPR 2009. Tang passed away on December 15, 2023, at the age of 55.
“Tang Xiaoou can quickly identify the main contradiction from a disordered, chaotic situation... During my thesis defense he asked me a question related to the industry — how should your work actually be used?”
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