Hairong Qi
Hairong Qi (born 1970) is a Chinese computer scientist known for her work in image processing, computer vision, signal processing, sensor networks, and visual sensor networks. She is Gonzalez Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. Education and career. Qi studied computer science at Northern Jiaotong University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1992 and a master's degree in 1995. She came to the US for doctoral study at North Carolina State University, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1999. Her dissertation, "A High-Resolution, Large-Area, Digital Imaging System", was  supervised by Wesley Snyder. She joined the University of Tennessee faculty in 1999, and was named Gonzalez Family Professor in 2014. Books. Qi is the coauthor, with Wesley Snyder, of two books in computer vision: "Machine Vision" (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and "Fundamentals of Computer Vision" (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Recognition. Qi was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2018 "for contributions to collaborative signal processing in sensor networks".