Qionghai Dai is a professor in Tsinghua University, and the academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has made pioneering contributions in developing mesoscale intravital fluorescence microscopy, artificial intelligence methods for biomedical applications, and optical computing techniques. He built the world’s first gigapixel fluorescence microscope that achieves cortex-wide neural recording at subcellular resolution in mammals, facilitating the interrogation of neural circuits, as well as many other biological dynamics. He is also leading the direction of neuromorphic optoelectronic computing with distinguished contributions such as diffractive processing unit and all-analog optoelectronic chips, offering a promising avenue for next-generation computing architecture.

Research Directions

Computational Photography, Microscopy, Brain Science, Artificial Intelligence, Single cell data analysis

Education

1994 – 1996 Ph.D., Department of Automatic Control, Northeastern University, Shengyang, China

1991 – 1994 Master, Department of Computer Applications, Northeastern University, Shengyang, China

1987 – 1991 Bachelors, Shaanxi Normal University, Shaanxi, China

Employment

2014 – Present Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China

2008 – 2016 Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China, Associate Department Head

2005 – Present Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China, Full Professor

2002 – 2003 University of California, San Diego, USA, Visiting Scholar

1999 – 2004 Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China, Associated Professor

1997 – 1998 Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China, Post-doctoral Researcher

Present Academic Position

2019 – Present Chairman, Chinese Association for Artificial intelligence

2019 – Present Director, School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

2019 – Present Director, Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University

2017 – Present Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering

2016 – Present Adjunct Professor, School of Life Science, Tsinghua University

2005 – Present Professor, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University

Selected Awards and Honors

2016 The Second Prize of National Technology Progress Award of China [one of the three highest level awards of Chinese government] “Key Technologies and Industrialization of New Generation Stereoscopic Vision”

2014 Spotlight of IEEE TNNLS

2014 Best Paper Award of SPIE Photonics Asia

2013 Best Paper Award, IEEE Computational Cameras and Displays

2013 Spotlight of IEEE TPAMI

2013 Champion of International Aerial Robotics Competition

2013 Chief Scientist of the National Major Instruments Project of China [the highest level project of technology research in China, 13 million US$]

2011 Highlight of the Month of IEEE Multimedia

2012 The First Prize (only two winners in all fields) of National Technology Invention Award of China [one of the three highest level awards of Chinese government] “Stereoscopic video reconstruction and display technology and device”

2010 Chief Scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China [the highest level project of basic research in China, 4 million US$]

2008 The Second Prize of National Technology Invention Award of China [one of the three highest level awards of Chinese government]

2005 Distinguished Young Scholars Fund of NSF of China

Editorial Services

2021 – Present Advisory board member, Patterns

2015 – Present Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Image Proc.

2014 Guest Editor, Multimedia System

2014 Guest Editor, Neurocomputing

2014 – Present Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Neural Net. Learning Syst.

2013 – 2014 Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol.

2013–Present Editorial Board, J. Visual Communication & Image Represent

2012–Present Associate Editor, EURASIP J. Image Video Proc.

2006–2008 Associate Editor, Advances in Multimedia

Committee Memberships

2019 – Present Chairman of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence

2017 – Present Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering

2011 – Present Member of the Council, Chinese Institute of Electronics

2008 – Present Vice Secretary-general, Chinese Association of Automation

2008 – Present Panelist, Chinese NSF Information Science Division

2005 – Present CTS Member, State Administration of Radio Film and Television

2002–Present Member of the Group of Experts, National Development & Reform Commission