Dacheng Tao is an Australian

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...

and academic. He is currently a professor of

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received a PhD in 2007 from the

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under Stephen Maybank, with a thesis titled ''Discriminative linear and multilinear subspace methods''. He was named a

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

(IEEE) in 2015 for his contributions to

pattern recognition Pattern recognition is the task of assigning a class to an observation based on patterns extracted from data. While similar, pattern recognition (PR) is not to be confused with pattern machines (PM) which may possess PR capabilities but their p ...

and

visual analytics Visual analytics is a multidisciplinary science and technology field that emerged from information visualization and scientific visualization. It focuses on how analytical reasoning can be facilitated by interactive User interface, visual interfac ...

. He was awarded an

Australian Laureate Fellowship The Australian Laureate Fellowship is an Australian professorial research fellowship awarded by the Australian Research Council. Fellows are chosen each year for five-year awards. In 2023 8 industry-focused Laureate Fellowships were awarded for the ...

in 2017. In 2018, Tao was also elected a

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of the

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(FAA) for his contributions in

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

computer vision Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...

image processing An image or picture is a visual representation. An image can be two-dimensional, such as a drawing, painting, or photograph, or three-dimensional, such as a carving or sculpture. Images may be displayed through other media, including a pr ...

and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

. He was elected as an

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in 2019 "for contributions to representation learning and its applications". He was selected to the

Global Young Academy The Global Young Academy (GYA) is an international society of young scientists, aiming to give a voice to young scientists across the globe.... Membership strength is capped at 200, and the membership tenure is 5 years. Organization and member ...

. Tao was awarded the Australian Museum's Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science in 2020. He has written over 1200 publications across various Artificial Intelligence fields, including pattern recognition, visual analytics, and statistical learning theory over a career span of around 20 years, averaging 60 papers a year.

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Fellows of the IEEE 2019 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery 1978 births Living people Australian computer scientists Australian people of Chinese descent University of Science and Technology of China alumni Alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London Academic staff of Hong Kong Polytechnic University Academic staff of the University of Technology Sydney Academic staff of Nanyang Technological University Academic staff of the University of Sydney Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science {{Australia-engineer-stub