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地点：哈工大新技术楼618室
讲座题目： New Advance in Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
Professor Heng-Da Cheng 简介：
Heng-Da Cheng received Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from
Dr. Cheng has published more than 200 technical papers and is the co-editor of the book, Pattern Recognition: Algorithms, Architectures and Applications (World Scientific Publishing Co., 1991). His research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, artificial intelligence, medical information processing, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, neural networks, parallel processing, parallel algorithms, and VLSI architectures. Dr. Cheng is the general chair of the 9th Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS2006), was the general chair of the 8th Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS2005) general chair. He served as program committee member and session chair for many conferences, and as reviewer for many scientific journals and conferences.
Dr. Cheng has been listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Communications and Media, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's who in Science and Engineering, Men of Achievement, 2000 Notable American Men, International Leaders in Achievement, Five Hundred Leaders of Influence, International Dictionary of Distinguished Leadership, etc. Dr. Cheng is also an Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition and an Associate Editor of Information Sciences.
承恒达博士为美国犹他州立大学计算机系终生教授，电子工程系教授，哈工大计算机学院教授、博士生导师。承恒达教授是IEEE资深成员，美国计算机协会成员，国际权威刊物《模式识别》、《信息科学》副主编，在国际模式识别领域享有较高的威望。
他于1978年被中科院选送出国留学，是结构模式识别之父傅京孙在中国大陆招收并培养的唯一一位博士。1985年获得普渡大学电子工程专业博士学位。曾在美国与戴汝为院士，边肇祺教授等国内模式识别界知名学者同窗学习。近年来承恒达教授多次担任国际著名会议的主席，并将于2005、2006年担任在美国召开的国际信息联合大会主席。
承恒达教授长期从事图像处理，模式识别，计算机视觉，人工智能，医学信息处理，模糊逻辑，进化算法，神经网络，并行计算和VLSI设计等方向的研究，并取得了一系列创新性成果。