Prof. Jane You is currently a professor in the Department of Computing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. You obtained her BEng. in Electronic Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1986 and Ph.D in Computer Science from La Trobe University, Australia in 1992. She was a lecturer at the University of South Australia and senior lecturer (tenured) at Griffith University from 1993 till 2002. Prof. You was awarded French Foreign Ministry International Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1993 and worked on the project on real-time object recognition and tracking at Universite Paris XI. She also obtained the Academic Certificate issued by French Education Ministry in 1994.

Prof. Jane You has worked extensively in the fields of image processing, medical imaging, computer-aided detection/diagnosis, pattern recognition. So far, she has more than 300 research papers published. She has been a principal investigator for two ITF projects (Innovation Technology Fund), four GRF projects (General Research Fund) supported by Hong Kong Government and many other joint grants since she joined PolyU in late 1998. Prof. You is a team member for three successful US patents and three awards including Hong Kong Government Industrial Awards. Her work on retinal imaging led to a US patent issued in 2015, the first runner-up for Innovation Award of Excellence (Hong Kong, 2015), a Special Prize and Gold Medal with Jury’s Commendation at the 39th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (April 2011) and the second place of SPIE Medical Imaging’2009 Retinopathy Online Challenge (ROC’2009)). Her research output on retinal imaging is further evidenced by the technology transfer with clinical applications. Her recent work on smart fetal monitoring was awarded the special prize and Silver Medal at the 44th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (April 2016). Prof. You is also an associate editor of Pattern Recognition and other journals.