Biography
Weisi Lin is
an active researcher and research leader in
image processing, perception-based signal
modelling and assessment, video compression,
and multimedia communication. He had been
the Lab Head, Visual Processing, Institute
for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore. He
is currently a President’s Chair Professor
in College of Computing and Data Science,
Nanyang Technological University (NTU),
Singapore, where he also serves as the
Associate Dean (Research). He is a Fellow of
IEEE and IET. He has been awarded Highly
Cited Researcher since 2019 by Clarivate
Analytics, and elected for the Research
Award 2023, College of Engineering, NTU. He
has been a Distinguished Lecturer in both
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2016-17)
and Asia-Pacific Signal and Information
Processing Association (2012-13). He has
been an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans.
Neural Networks Learn. Syst., IEEE Trans.
Image Process., IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst.
Video Technol., IEEE Trans. Multim., IEEE
Sig. Process. Lett., Quality and User
Experience, and J. Visual Commun. Image
Represent. He serves as a General Co-Chair
for IEEE ICME 2025 and the Lead General
Chair for IEEE ICIP 2027, and has been a TP
Chair for several international conferences.
He believes that good theory is practical
and has delivered 10+ major systems for
industrial deployment with the technology
developed. He has been the Programme Lead
for the Temasek Foundation Programme for AI
Research, Education & Innovation in Asia,
2020-2024.