Dr Dengsheng Zhang BA, BSc(Math), GCHE(Ed.), PhD(Comp.) Monash, MIEEE Senior Lecturer Phone: +61 3 990 26772 Fax: +61 3 9902 6879 Email: Homepage: http://personal.gscit.monash.edu.au/~dengs/

Professional associations:

1. Member of IEEE

Research interests:

1. Image processing
2. Music classification and annotation
3. Multimedia information processing and retrieval

Biography:

Dr Dengsheng Zhang obtained his PhD in Computing in 2002 from Monash University, Australia. He has also completed the Graduate Certificate of Higher Education and the PhD supervision accreditation in Monash University. He joined Monash University after he completed his PhD in 2002. He is currently a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Information Technology of Monash University, Australia.

Dr Zhang has over 17 years research experience in multimedia information processing and retrieval areas, and has published over 70 refereed international journal and conference papers in his career. As of March 2011, The number of citations on his publications is over 2,000 according to Google Scholar. His h-index is 22 (22 of his papers have been cited at least 22 times) and his g-index is 44+ (44 of his most cited papers have at least 44 citations on average) according to Google Scholar. He has jointly received $250,000 funding from an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant to support his research on music classification. His main research interests include image processing, music classification, and multimedia information processing and retrieval. He has supervised or co-supervised 4 PhD, two masters and one honors students to completion. He has won the 2009 Faculty of Information Technology Early Career Researcher Award for his outstanding research achievement.

Dr Zhang has been a visiting scholar/scientist to a number of prestigious institutions including the State Key Lab of Pattern Recognition of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Radio Engineering and Automation of South China University of Technology; School of Computing & Mathematics of Deakin University, Australia. Dr Zhang is a member of IEEE computer society and serves in the reviewer boards of over 10 international journals including IEEE Transactions on PAMI, TOM, TIP, CSVT and Pattern Recognition. He has also served in the program committees and organization committees of 12 international conferences. Currently, he is the associate editor of WSEAS (The World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society) Transactions on Signal Processing.

Dr Zhang also has over 20 years international teaching experience and has taught extensively in mathematics, science English, database, computer networks, multimedia development, eCommerce, computer systems, business systems, operations management and management science.