Prof.
Prof. Weisi Lin
IEEE Fellow/IET Fellow
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Biography:
Lin Weisi is an active researcher in image processing, perception-based signal modelling and assessment,
video compression, and multimedia communication. He had been the Lab Head, Visual Processing, Institute for
Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore. He is currently a President’s Chair Professor in College of Computing and Data Science,
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where he also serves as the Associate Dean (Research). He is a Fellow of
IEEE and IET. He has been awarded Highly Cited Researcher since 2019 by Clarivate Analytics, and elected for the Research Award 2023,
College of Engineering, NTU. He has been a Distinguished Lecturer in both IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2016-17) and Asia-Pacific Signal
and Information Processing Association (2012-13), and an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst., IEEE Trans. Image Process.,
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., IEEE Trans. Multim., and IEEE Sig. Process. Lett., as well as a Senior Editor for IEEE J. Selected Topics in
Sig. Process. He serves as a General Co-Chair for IEEE ICME 2025 and the Lead General Chair for IEEE ICIP 2027, and has been a TP Chair for several international
conferences. He has led the Temasek Foundation Programme for AI Research, Education & Innovation in Asia, 2020-2024, and co-led the Foundational Research Capabilities
(FRC) Study (2025-2027) on Augmented Reality and Industrial Metaverse, NRF, Singapore. He believes that good theory is practical and has delivered 10+ major systems for industrial deployment with the technology developed.