Dr. Shiqian Wu is a full Professor at the School of Information Science and Engineering; Deputy Director, Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Systems (IRIS), Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST), Wuhan; Director, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Real-Time Industrial Systems, Wuhan, China.

Dr. Wu received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2001. Prior to joining WUST, he was an Assistant Professor, Lecturer, and Associate Professor at HUST from 1988 to 1997. From 2000 to 2014, he was a Research Fellow or Research Scientist with Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A-STAR), Singapore.

Prof. Wu has co-authored two books and more than 280 scientific publications (book chapters and journal/conference papers) with more than 6000 citations (Google Scholar). He was recognized as a Most Cited Chinese Researcher (2015~2022, Elsevier). He was the recipient of the BEST 10% PAPER award in ICIP 2015 and the Best Paper Finalist award in ICIEA 2020. His research interests include computer vision, image/video processing, pattern recognition, computational intelligence, robotics, and artificial intelligence.