Songde Ma, Professor. He received his B.S. in Automatic Control from the TsingHua University in 1968, Ph.D. degree in University of Paris 6 in 1983 and "Doctorat d'Etat es Science" in France in 1986 in image processing and computer vision. He was the invited researcher in Computer Vision Laboratory in the University of Maryland in USA in 1983. From 1984 to 1986. He was a researcher in Robot Vision Laboratory in INRIA, France. From 1986 to 1998, he was the Research Professor and Director of the National Pattern Recognition Laboratory of Institute of Automation in Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 1996-2000, he was the President of the Institute of Automation in Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2000 to 2006, he was vice-minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. Prof MA was a member of the Expert Committee of the National High Technology Program and the chief scientist of the Project “Image, Voice and Natural Language Understanding” of the National Fundamental Research Program. Prof. Ma obtained the Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1990 and the National Natural Science Award in 2004. He is the author or co-author of over 200 journal and conference papers. His current research interests include computer vision, image understanding and searching, robotics and computer graphics.

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