GAII 2027

Li Cheng

Time: 2026-08-03

Professor Li Cheng is a professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta. He also holds an adjunct position with ASTAR, Singapore, where he has led a group in Machine Learning for Bioimage Analysis at the Bioinformatics Institute. Prior to joining the University of Alberta in 2018, he worked at ASTAR, Singapore, TTI-Chicago, USA, and NICTA, Australia. He received his BSc degree in Computer Science from Jilin University in 1996, his M.Eng. degree from Nankai University in 1999, and his PhD in Computing Science from the University of Alberta in 2004. His research expertise is mainly on computer vision and machine learning. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and AAAI. He has supervised or co-supervised a number of research students and postdocs. Many of them have taken scientist or engineer positions at major tech companies (Google, Nvidia, Bosch, OmniVision, etc.) or hold faculty positions at prestigious universities (e.g., Southeast University of China, China University of Geosciences, University of Adelaide of Australia).