China University of Petroleum (East China) conferred Honorary Professorship on Prof. Moncef Gabbouj on Jun. 9, 2023. At the ceremony, Prof. Wei Baojun, Dean of College of Science, China University of Petroleum (East China) awarded the certificate of honorary professorship to Prof Moncef Gabbouj. Prof. Wei Baojun appreciate Prof. Moncef Gabbouj for his contribution to the international cooperation and exchange of our university and look forward to broader cooperation in teacher visits, scientific research.
Followed this was an acceptance speech by Prof. Moncef Gabbouj. In his speech, Prof. Moncef Gabbouj said he was honored to be awarded honorary Professor of China University of Petroleum (East China), and will make positive contributions to inter-university cooperation and exchanges in the future. During his visit, Academician Moncef Gabbouj also delivered an academic report entitled “Green Learning -- Advances in Neural Networks Based Machine Learning and Applications”.
Moncef Gabbouj received his BS degree in 1985 from Oklahoma State University, and his MS and PhD degrees from Purdue University, in 1986 and 1989, respectively, all in electrical engineering. Dr. Gabbouj is a Professor of Information Technology at the Department of Computing Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland. He was Academy of Finland Professor during 2011-2015. His research interests include Big Data analytics, multimedia content-based analysis, indexing and retrieval, artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern recognition, nonlinear signal and image processing and analysis, voice conversion, and video processing and coding. Dr. Gabbouj is a Fellow of the IEEE and member of the Academia Europaea and the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He is the past Chairman of the IEEE CAS TC on DSP and committee member of the IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing. He served as associate editor and guest editor of many IEEE, and international journals and Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE CASS. Dr. Gabbouj served as General Co-Chair of IEEE ISCAS 2019, ICIP 2020, ICIP 2024 and ICME 2021. Gabbouj is Finland Site Director of the USA NSF IUCRC funded Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI) and led the Artificial Intelligence Research Task Force of Finland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment funded Research Alliance on Autonomous Systems (RAAS).
