About Songde Ma’s work
From September 1994 to March 1995, Songde Ma held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Baptist University. At the time, Ma was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
MA Songde graduated from Tsinghua University in 1968 with a Baclelor degree in Automatic Control, received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris VI in 1983 and his Ph.D. in 1986 from the French National in Computer Vision and Image Processing. From 1983 to 1986, he worked as a researcher at the French National Institute of Information and Automation. After returning to China in 1986, he successively served as a researcher at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and as the director, Deputy Director (1992-1997), and Director (1997-2000) of the National Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition. In 1996, he co-founded the Sino-French Joint Laboratory of Information, Automation and Applied Mathematics with the French National Institute of Informatics and Automation, and Ma served as the first Chinese Director. From 2000 to 2006, he served as Vice Minister of Science and Technology and was a member of the Eighth and Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. His research interest includes computer vision, image understanding and search, robotics, and computer graphics.