Lei Chen
Dr. Lei Chen is an Associate Professor and Master's Supervisor at the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University. He earned his Ph.D. from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa, Canada, following his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Shandong University. He is a member of the Shandong University Young Scholars Future Plan and the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA). His primary research interests include image processing, computer vision, visual quality assessment, image enhancement, abnormal behavior analysis, digital watermarking, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He currently leads several national and provincial-level projects, including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), a sub-project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. He has also participated in projects funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). To date, he has published numerous papers in leading international journals and conferences, holds several national invention patents, and has served as a reviewer for internationally renowned journals and as an area chair for international conferences. He has also been invited to deliver keynote speeches and invited talks at international conferences on multiple occasions.
