Ling Shao received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the M.Sc. degree in Medical Image Analysis and the Ph.D. (D.Phil.) degree in Computer Vision at the Robotics Research Group from the University of Oxford.

Dr. Ling Shao is currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield. Before joining Sheffield University, he worked for 4 years as a Senior Scientist in Philips Research, The Netherlands. His research interests include Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Video Processing. He has published over 70 journal and conference papers and over 10 awarded patents and patent applications.

Ling Shao is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, the International Journal of Image and Graphics, the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and Neurocomputing (Elsevier), and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. He has edited two books and several special issues for journals of IEEE, Elsevier and Springer. He has organized a number of international workshops with ICCV, ACM Multimedia, ACCV and ICME. He has been serving as a Program Committee member for many international conferences, including CVPR, ECCV,  ICIP, ICASSP, ICME, ICMR, BMVC, ACM MM, CIVR, etc., and as a reviewer for many leading journals. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.