MAIN EXPERIENCE

Current Position:

• 2021.09 -, Academy Professor, Academy of Finland and University of Oulu.

• 2017.12 -, Full Professor (Tenured) in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Oulu.

• 2022.06 -, Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University.

• 2010.09 -, Adjunct Professor (Docent) in ''Computer vision, especially dynamic texture and motion analysis'', University of Oulu.

Previous work experience:

• 2022.09 - 2023.03, Visiting Professor, CNS Lab, Stanford University.

• 2014.01 - 2017.11, Associate Professor (Tenure Track), University of Oulu, Finland.

• 2011.09 - 2017.01, Academy research fellow in Academy of Finland.

• 2016.06 - 2016.08, Nokia Visiting Professor, Rotgers Unibersity, US

• 2013.07 - 2013.09, Visiting Research Fellow, Imperial College London, UK

• 2008.01 - 2011.05, Postdoctoral Researcher of the Academy of Finland, Dr. Tech..

• 2005.07 - 2007.12, Senior Researcher (full time), Dr. Tech.: Machine Vision Group, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland.

• 2002.09 - 2005.06, Research Assistant (full time), PhD candidate: Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

• 1999.09 - 2002.06, Research Assistant (full time): CAD Center, North China University of Technology.

Projects as PI or Co-PI (Raised in total ~12 million EUR for my team):

• 2021.09.01-2026.08.31: Academy Professor Grant (highest academic position of Academy of Finland): Towards vision-based emotion AI (EmotionAI).  2 370 539 €. Overall success rate: 3.4%.

• 2024.03-2028.02 (No. ACMod 101130271, funded by funded by European Commission): HORIZON-MSCA-SE-2022: Affective Computing Models: from Facial Expression to Mind-Reading (ACMod). 1 656 000 € (Consortium Coordinator)

• 2025.01-2027.12: HPC project on FaceCanvas. 700 031€. Research Council of Finland (RCF).

• 2023.01-2028.12: Funding to strengthen university research profiles: Profi-7 Hybrid Intelligence (Vice director): 7.85M € (Research Council of Finland & University of Oulu).

• 2022.01-2025.12: Infotech spearhead project: Towards Secure and Reliable Deep Learning Systems against Adversarial Attacks. 336 000 €

• 2024.06-2025.06: MFM Medical Foundation Model: LUMI supercomputer Extreme Scale Access (CSC-IT Center for Science Finland project).

• 2023.02-2025.02: FARIA (The Finnish-American Research & Innovation Accelerator) project: AI-assisted sundown syndrome detection in the Arctic region. Funded by Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland. 85 000 €.

• 2022.01-2024.12: Academy ICT 2023 project: ''Trustable faces: Face data integrity against digital and physical attacks (TrustFace)''. 653 792 €. (Co-PI: Assis. Prof. Xiaobai Li)

• 2022.03.01-2024.02.29: "Forest growth monitoring from UAV imagery with hyperbolic neural network", Mobility cooperation with India, China or Germany, funded by Academy of Finland, 12 990 €.

• 2021.01.01-2022.12.31: AI Forum: Artificial Intelligence Digital Revolution, funded by Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland. 833 333 € (Co-PI, with Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä University, and Turku University)

• 2020.01.01-2022.12.31: Academy ICT 2023 project ''Context-aware autonomous neural network learning'': 571 311 €.

• 2018.09.01-2022.08.31: Academy project ''Micro-gesture analysis with machine learning for hidden emotion understanding (MiGA)'': 857 145 €.

• 2018.09.01-2022.08.31: Spearhead projects ''Towards Reading Micro-Expressions in the Real World'', University of Oulu: 440 000 €.

• 2018.01.01-2019.12.31: Academy ICT 2023 project: Separable Modality Learning. Total appropriation: 438 500€.

• 2018.01.01-2019.12.31: Business Finland funded project: Quantifying Human Experience for Increased Intelligence Within Work Teams and in the Customer Interface. Total appropriation: 318 756€.

• 2016.10.01-2018.09.30: Academy Key Project: Cardiac beat to beat variability analysis from remote videos for health service (CAVA). Total appropriation: 300 000€.

• Business Finland Fidipro Fellow project (2016.01.01-2019.12.31): Facial Behaviour Analysis ''in-the-wild''. (PI: Guoying Zhao, Fidipro Fellow: Prof. Stefanos Zafeiriou)

• Four-year Academy project funding (2014.09.01-2018.08.31) from Academy of Finland for researching ''Computer Vision for Continuous Emotional State Analysis (CV4Emo)''. Overall success rate: 16%.

•  Tenure-track Associate Professor package: 2014.01-2017.11

•  2013: UO/CoE application grant

•  Infrastructure funding ''Test databases and computing devices for machine vision research''.  2014.01-2015.06.

•  Five-year Academy fellow position funding (2011.09.01-2017.01.31) from Academy of Finland for researching Computer vision methods for analyzing human communicative behavior. 19 out of 141.

•  Research costs of Academy Research Fellows (01.09.2011 - 31.01.2015) Academy of Finland for researching Computer Vision Methods for Analyzing Human Communicative Behavior.

•  Research costs of Academy Research Fellows (31.01.2015 - 31.01.2017) Academy of Finland for researching Computer Vision Methods for Analyzing Human Communicative Behavior.

•  Senior Research Fellow Start-up Package from University of Oulu for year 2011-2013 and from the CSE Department and Center for Machine Vision Research for year 2014-2015.

•  Three-year postdoctoral position funding (2008.01.01-2011.05.31) from Academy of Finland for researching Video-based event analysis and person identification. 54 out of 206.

•  Three-year project funding (201601-201812) from Hongkong Research Grants Council for researching Face anti-spoofing to combat mask attacks: A remote photoplethysmography approach (Co-PI. PI: Prof. Pong-chi Yuen from Hongkong Baptist University)

•  Machine Learning Proof of Concept (MLPOC) (2015.12-2016.04) from European Regional Development Fund (Co-PI. PI: Prof. Olli Silven)

• 2016: Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor Award.

• 2014: Traveling grant from University of Oulu.

Projects as project manager or participants:

•   2012.08-2016.02, FiDiPro professor project: Perceptual interfaces for intelligent human-computer interaction (PERCEPT), funded by Tekes

•   2011.08-2013.07, AFFECT: multimodal emotion recognition for affective computing, funded by Tekes

•   2011.09-2015.08, Computer vision with complementary image and video descriptors, funded by Academy of Finland

•   2008.04-2010.03, Joint Research in Face Analysis and Visual Surveillance (JointFavis), funded by Tekes

•   2008.1-2011.12, Texture-based computer vision: methods and applications, funded by Academy of Finland

•   2009.01-2012.12, Affective Human-Robot Interaction, funded by Academy of Finland

2002-2005

• Computer Simulation Research of Digitalized 3D Human Movement: Chinese National Special R&D Plan for Olympic Games (grant No: 2001BA904B08)

• Some Key Technologies of Digital Human: Chinese National High-Tech Research and Development Plan (grant No: 2001AA231031)

• Mathematical Mechanization Methods in Computer Graphics and Computer Vision: Chinese National Key Basic Research Plan (grant No: G1998030608)

• Mathematical Mechanization and Its Application in geometrical modeling: Chinese National Key Basic Research Plan (grant No: 2004CB318000)

• Restoration of Images Scanned from Thick Bound Documents: Youth Foundation of Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant No: 20026180-4)

1999-2002

• Applied VR technology: Chinese National High-Tech Research and Development Plan (grant No: 863-306-ZT03-08-1)

• The Generation System of Stereoscopic Dynamic Images: Chinese National ministry of education Plan