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David Zhang graduated in Computer Science from Peking University.
He received his MSc in Computer Science in 1982 and his PhD in 1985 from
the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). From 1986 to 1988 he was a
Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University and then an Associate
Professor at the Academia Sinica, Beijing. In 1994 he received his
second PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Currently, he is a Head, Department of Computing,
and a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he is the Founding Director of
the Biometrics Technology Centre (UGC/CRC) supported by the Hong Kong
SAR Government in 1998. He also serves as Visiting Chair Professor in Tsinghua
University, and Adjunct Professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Peking University, Harbin
Institute of Technology, and the University of Waterloo. He is the
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Image and Graphics
(IJIG); Book Editor, Springer International Series on Biometrics (KISB);
Organizer, the first International Conference on Biometrics Authentication
(ICBA); Associate Editor of more than ten international journals
including IEEE Transactions and Pattern Recognition; Technical
Committee Chair of IEEE CIS and the author of more than 10 books and 200
journal papers. Professor Zhang is a Croucher Senior Research Fellow,
Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Fellow of both IEEE and IAPR.