Jun Cheng

Jun Cheng received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering and information science from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In 2009, he joined the Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency of Science, Technology and Research, Singapore. Earlier, he was with Panasonic Singapore Laboratories for more than two years. He is currently leading the research of fundus and optical coherence tomography image processing and understanding in Ocular Imaging (iMED) Department in the Institute for Infocomm Research. He has developed many algorithms for automated ocular disease detection including glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, pathological myopia. He has authored many publications at prestigious journals/conferences, such as IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention and invented more than ten patents. His research interests include computer vision, image processing, medical imaging, and machine learning. Dr. Cheng received the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award in 2013.