Yu-Jin ZHANG received his Ph.D. in Applied Science from the State University of Liège, Belgium, in 1989. From 1989 to 1993, he was a post-doctoral fellow and research fellow at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. In 1993, he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, where he has been a professor (since 1997) and tenured professor (since 2014) of Image Engineering.
Actively engaged in image engineering education and research, he has published more than 500 research papers and more than 50 books, including the series of textbooks "Image Engineering (I): Image Processing," "Image Engineering (II): Image Analysis," "Image Engineering (III): Image Understanding" and "Image Engineering (bound volume)" (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions); three monographs: "Image Segmentation," "Content-based Visual Information Retrieval" and "Subspace-based Face Recognition," and one dictionary: "AnEnglish-Chinese Dictionary of Image Engineering" (1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions), as well as three edited books: "Advances in Image and Video Segmentation," "Semantic-Based Visual Information Retrieval" and "Advances in Face Image Analysis: Techniques and Technologies."
He is the honorary chairman of supervisors (2020 to present) of the China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG), and one of first Fellow members of the China Society of Image and Graphics (since 2019). He is the current or former deputy editor-in-chief of "Journal of Image and Graphics" and associate editor of "Acta Automatica Sinica," "International Journal of Image and Graphics," "Journal of CAD and Computer Graphics," "Journal of Electronics and Information," "Optical Engineering," "Pattern Recognition Letters" and "Signal Processing." He was the program chair of the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth International Conference on Image and Graphics (ICIG'2000, ICIG'2002, ICIG'2007, ICIG'2009, ICIG'2011, ICIG'2013, and ICIG'2015). He was the program chair of "The Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'2017)."
He has been a senior member of the IEEE since 1999, a Fellow of the SPIE since 2011, and a Fellow of the CSIG since 2019.