Ping Tan Professor Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Dr. Tan is a professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before joining HKUST, he served as the director of the XR Lab at Alibaba DAMO Academy from 2019 to 2022, an associate professor at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada from 2014 to 2019, and an assistant and associate professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) from 2007 to 2014.

Dr. Tan received his PhD from HKUST in 2007 and his Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2003 and 2000, respectively.

He specializes in computer vision, computer graphics, and robotics, with a research focus on 3D vision.