He received his PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 2012 under guidance of Prof. Shi-Min Hu, and working closely with Prof. Niloy Mitra. Then he worked as a research fellow for 2 years, working with Prof. Philip Torr in Oxford. Dr. Cheng’s research primarily centers on algorithmic issues in image understanding and processing, including image segmentation, editing, retrieval, etc. He has published over 30 papers in leading journals and conferences, such as IEEE TPAMI, ACM TOG, ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE CVPR, and IEEE ICCV. He has designed a series of popular methods and novel systems, indicated by 5000+ paper citations (1700+ citations to his first author paper on salient object detection). His work has been reported by several famous international media, such as BBC, UK telegraph, Der Spiegel, and Huffington Post. See also: http://mmcheng.net/