Prof. Ping Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Computing and School of Design, PolyU

Prof. Ping Li received his Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computing and an Assistant Professor with the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor at the Macau University of Science and Technology and a Lecturer at The Education University of Hong Kong. He has published over 180 top-tier scholarly research articles (e.g., TVCG, TIP, TNNLS, TMI, TMM, TCSVT, TCYB, TBME, TSMC, TII, AAAI, CVPR, NeurIPS), pioneered several new research directions and made a series of landmark contributions in his areas. He has an excellent research project reported by the ACM TechNews, which only reports the top breakthrough news in computer science worldwide.

More importantly, however, many of his research outcomes have strong impacts to research fields, addressing societal needs and contributed tremendously to the people concerned. His current research interests include image/video stylization, colorization, artistic rendering and synthesis, realism in non-photorealistic rendering, computational art and creative media.