Dr Dengsheng Zhang BA, BSc(Math), GCHE(Ed.), PhD(Comp.) Monash, MIEEE Senior Lecturer Phone: +61 3 990 26772 Fax: +61 3 9902 6879 Email: Homepage: http://personal.gscit.monash.edu.au/~dengs/

Teaching commitments:

1. BUS9530
2. FIT1001
3. FIT1009
4. FIT2033
5. FIT4022
6. FIT5019
7. FIT5152
8. FIT9005
9. GCO4806
10. GCO2823/3822

Professional associations:

1. Member of IEEE

Research interests:

1. Automatic music classification and annotation
2. Image analysis and retrieval

Biography:

Dr Dengsheng Zhang received his BSc in Mathematics and BA in science English in 1985 and 1987 respectively, both from China. He obtained his PhD in Computing in 2002 from Monash University, Australia. He has also completed the Graduate Certificate of Higher Education and the PhD supervision accreditation in Monash University. He joined Monash University after he completed his PhD in 2002. He is currently a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Information Technology of Monash University, Australia.

Dr Zhang has over 15 years research experience in multimedia information processing and retrieval areas, and has published over 60 refereed international journal and conference papers in his career. The number of citations on his publications is over 1,200 and his h-index is close to 20 according to Google Scholar. He has jointly received $250,000 funding from an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant to support his research on music classification. His main research interests include computer supported cooperative work on Internet (CSCW), multimedia information processing and retrieval. He is currently supervising and co-supervising 4 PhD students working on color, shape, texture, audio retrieval and higher level image retrieval. Three PhDs, one master and one honors student have successfully completed under his supervision or co-supervision. He has won the 2009 Faculty of Information Technology Early Career Researcher Award for his outstanding research achievement.

Dr Zhang has been a visiting scholar/scientist to a number of prestigious institutions including the State Key Lab of Pattern Recognition of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Radio Engineering and Automation of South China University of Technology; School of Computing & Mathematics (now School of Engineering and Information Technology) of Deakin University, Australia. Dr Zhang is a member of IEEE computer society and serves in the reviewer boards of over 10 international journals including IEEE Transactions on PAMI, TOM, TIP, CSVT and Pattern Recognition. He has also served in the program committees and organization committees of 12 international conferences. Currently, he is the associate editor of WSEAS (The World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society) Transactions on Signal Processing.

Dr Zhang also has over 20 years teaching experience and has taught extensively in mathematics, science English, database, computer networks, multimedia development, eCommerce, computer systems, business systems, operations management and management science.