Lei Xu

Background

Xu, Lei was born on April 17, 1959 in DuYun, China. Son of ShuiYuan and DieRan (Yue) Xu.

Education

Bachelor in Engineering, Harbin Institute Technology, China, 1981; MEng., Tsinghua U., Beijing, 1984; Doctor of Philosophy, Tsinghua U., Beijing, 1987.

Career

Postdoctoral fellow department mathematics, Peking U., Beijing, 1987-1988; associate professor department mathematics, Peking U., Beijing, 1988-1992; senior research associate department information technical, Lappeenranta (Finland) U. Technology, 1989-1990; research associate department computer science, Concordia U., Montreal, 1990-1991; visiting scientist Robotics Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991-1992; postdoctoral associate department cognition and brain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1992-1993; senior lecturer department computer science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993-1996; professor department computer science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, since 1996; professor Information Science Center and National Laboratory of Perception, Peking U., since 1992. Chairman, member numerous technical committees academic conferences. Presenter in field.

Achievements

• Lei Xu has been listed as a notable Computer scientist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior), New York Academy Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (vice president 1994-1996, president 1996-1997), International Association Pattern Recognition (technical commission on neural networks since 1993), Sigma Xi.

Interests

• Avocations: Chinese classical poetry, Chinese chess, travel, mountainclimbing, history.

Connections

Married AiPing Zhan, July 3, 1984. 1 child, TianYi.

Father:

ShuiYuan Xu

Mother:

DieRan (Yue) Xu

Spouse:

AiPing Zhan

child:

TianYi Xu