Highly-cited researcher joins School of Information Technologies - Engineering & IT - The University of Sydney

The Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies has attracted high-profile researcher, Professor Dacheng Tao, who will join the School of Information Technologies on 5 December. In 2015 and 2016 he was ranked by Thomson Reuters as a Highly Cited Researcher for Engineering and Computer Science. In 2015 he received the Australian Scopus -Eureka Prize, and in the same year obtained the ACS Gold Disruptor Award. His research predominantly covers artificial intelligence (AI), with a focus on computer vision, deep learning, and statistical learning, as well as their applications to robotics, neuroscience, medical informatics, and video surveillance. Professor Tao is excited to be joining the university as he believes "it has a history of achieving research excellence, passing frontier knowledge on to students, and for building the base to change lives for the better."