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YingLi Tian, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
The City College and Graduate School

City University of New York
Convent Ave. at 140th Street
New York City, NY 10031

Office: Steinman Hall T- 640
Tel: (212) 650-7046
Fax: (212) 650-8249
E-mail: ytian@ccny.cuny.edu

Short Biography:

Dr. Ying-Li Tian is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York since 2008. She received her PhD from the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1996 and her BS and MS from TianJin University, China in 1987 and 1990. She is experienced in computer vision topics ranging from object recognition, photometric modeling and shape from shading, to human identification, 3D reconstruction, motion/video analysis, Multi-sensor fusion, and facial expression analysis.

After she worked in National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Dr. Tian joined the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University as a postdoctoral fellow. She focused on automatic facial expression analysis. From 2001 to 2008, Dr. Tian was a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorn, New York. She focused on moving object detection, tracking, and event and activity analysis. She was one of the inventors of the IBM Smart Surveillance Solutions (SSS) and was leading the video analytics team. She received the IBM Invention Achievement Awards every year from 2002 to 2007. She also received the IBM Outstanding Innovation Achievement Award in 2007. As an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, she co-taught a course on Automatic Video Surveillance (Spring 2008). Dr. Tian has published more than 70 papers in journals and conferences and has filed 28 patents. She is a senior member of IEEE.

Professor Tian receives gift grant from Microsoft Research.