Dr. Siyu Xia is working as an associate professor with the School of Automation at Southeast University, Nanjing, China. He received his BE and MS degrees in automation engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2000 and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligence systems from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2006. His research interests include object detection, applied machine learning, social media analysis, and intelligent vision systems. He was a recipient of the Science Research Famous Achievement Award from the Higher Institution of China in 2015. He has served as a reviewer for many journals, including TIP, TNNLS, TSMCB, TIFS, TMM, and Neurocomputing. He received the Outstanding Reviewer Award for the journal Neurocomputing in 2016. He has also served on the PC/SPC for conferences including CVPR, AAAI, ACM MM, and IJCAI. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.
