Xiwen Zhang

Xiwen Zhang (M'01) received the B.S. degree in chemical equipment and mechanics from the Fushun Institute of Petrol (the Liaoning University of Petroleum and Chemical Technology since March 2002), Fushun, China, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical manufacturing and automation from the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, in 2000. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Since October 2002, he has been with Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, and has been an Associate Research Professor since January 2003. From October 2000 to September 2002, he was a Postdoctorate in computer science and technology at the State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. His research interests include human computer interaction, sketch understanding, computer vision, artificial intelligence, medical image analysis, and understanding of scanned engineering drawings.