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SunXiaoyan

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Xiaoyan Sun received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1997, 1999, and 2003, respectively. She joined the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) at the end of 2019. Prior to joining USTC, she was a Senior Researcher with Microsoft Research Asia. She had been an intern in Microsoft Research Asia since 2000 and joined Microsoft Research Asia later in 2003. She was an adjunct professor (Ph.D. advisor) of the University of Science and Technology of China (2015-2019) and a guest professor of Beijing University of Technology (2015-2017).

Her research interests include computer vision, image/video processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Prof. Sun has authored or co-authored over 100 publications in journals and conferences, 10 proposals to standards with one accepted, and hosts over 10 granted US patients. She was a recipient of the Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in 2009 and the Best Student Paper Award of VCIP 2016. Dr. Sun is a TC member of IEEE Multimedia Systems & Applications Technical Committee, Senior Editorial Board for the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, and AE of Signal Processing: Image Communication. She also served as session chair, area chair, and TC co-chair of several international conferences.