Xiao-Ping (Steven) Zhang received
B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua
University, in 1992 and 1996, respectively, both in Electronic Engineering.
He holds an MBA in Finance, Economics and Entrepreneurship with Honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of
Business, Chicago, IL.
Since Fall 2000, he has been with the Department
of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson
University), where he is now Professor, Director of Communication and Signal Processing
Applications Laboratory (CASPAL). He has served as Program Director of
Graduate Studies. He is cross appointed to the Finance Department at the Ted
Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University. He was Visiting Scientist at
Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, in 2015 and 2017. His research interests include statistical signal
processing and big data analytics, multimedia content analysis, sensor networks
and IoT, machine learning/AI, and applications in bioinformatics, finance, and
marketing.
Dr. Zhang is Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada,
Fellow of the IEEE, a
registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada, and a member of Beta Gamma
Sigma Honor Society. He is the general co-chair for 2021 IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2021). He is the
general co-chair for 2017
GlobalSIP Symposium on Signal and Information Processing for Finance and
Business, and the general co-chair for 2019
GlobalSIP Symposium on Signal, Information Processing and AI for Finance and
Business. He was an elected member of IEEE International Conference on
Multimedia and Expo (ICME) steering committee. He is the general chair for MMSP2015.
He is Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE
Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. He is Senior Area Editor
for IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing. He served as Senior Area Editor for IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing and Associate Editor for IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and IEEE
Signal Processing Letters. He received 2020 Sarwan Sahota Ryerson
Distinguished Scholar Award – the Ryerson University highest honor for
scholarly, research and creative achievements. He is an IEEE Distinguished
Lecturer for both Signal
Processing Society and Circuits and Systems
Society.
He is the
Chair of Image,
Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (IVMSP TC),
an elected member of Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee
(SPTM TC), Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee (SAM TC), and
Applied Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee (ASPS TC) of IEEE Signal
Processing Society (SPS). He served as an elected member of Multimedia Signal
Processing Technical Committee (MMSP TC), and Industry DSP Technology Standing
Committee (IDSP SC) of (SPS). He is an elected member of Visual Signal
Processing and Communications Technical Committee (VSPC TC), System and
Applications Technical Committee (MSA TC), and Digital Signal Processing
Technical Committee (DSP TC) of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.