Tan Yap-Peng

Dr. Tan Yap Peng received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, all in Electrical Engineering. He worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (New York), Intel Corporation (Arizona), and Sharp Laboratories of America (Washington) before joining Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 1999. At NTU, he held several leadership roles, including Head of the Division of Information Engineering, Associate Chair (Academic), and Chair of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Deputy Dean and Interim Dean of the College of Engineering, and Associate Vice President (Lifelong Learning – Postgraduate Programmes by Coursework). He was also the Founding Director of the INFINITUS Infocomm Research Centre and President’s Chair in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. His research interests include image and video processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data analytics. A Fellow of the IEEE, Dr. Tan has been actively engaged in professional service. He chaired the IEEE Visual Signal Processing and Communications Technical Committee, the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME) Steering Committee, the Membership Election Subcommittee of the Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee, the Nominations and Elections Subcommittee of the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee, and the IEEE Signal Processing Singapore Chapter. He also served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and IEEE Access; and Editorial Board Member for the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. Dr. Tan has also taken on major conference leadership roles, including General Co-Chair of ICME 2010 and the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2015), Technical Program Co-Chair of ICME 2015, ICME 2018 and the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2019).