Wen Gao

He was awarded the National Technology Innovation Awards by China State Council twice, a first-class award in 2020 and a second-class award in 2006. He was also the recipient of the second-class National Science and Technology Awards by China State Council for five times (in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2012).

Wen Gao is active in national and international academic activities. He has been the founding director of Peng Cheng Laboratory since 2018. He was the vice president of National Natural Science Foundation of China from 2013 to 2018, and the President of China Computer Federation from 2016 to 2020. He was the founding director of NERCVT (National Engineering Research Center of Visual Technology) of Peking University and the Chief Scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) on Video Coding Technology. He was also the chairman of steering committee for Intelligent Computing System in National Hi-Tech Program from 1996 to 2000. He was the founding chair of IEEE 1857 standard working group, which now becomes IEEE DCSC (Data Compression Standard Committee) in IEEE Standard Association. He has been featured by IEEE Spectrum in June 2005 as one of the " Ten-To-Watch " among China's leading technologists. He also served on the editorial board for several journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, ACM Computing Survey, EURASIP Journal of Image Communications, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. He chaired a number of prestigious international conferences on multimedia and video signal processing, such as IEEE ICME 2007, ACM Multimedia 2009, IEEE ISCAS 2013, and also served on the advisory and technical committees of numerous professional organizations.

In 2010, he received the CCF Wang Xuan Award, for “Outstanding contributions in audio video coding theories, standards and applications”.

Wen Gao has joined with the Peking University as a professor since 2006. He worked for the Harbin Institute of Technology as a teaching assistant after his graduation in 1985. He served as a lecturer from 1988 to 1991, and became the full professor in 1991, and head of computer science department in 1993. He was with the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as professor from 1996 to 2006. During his career at CAS, he served as the managing director of ICT from 1998 to 1999, the executive vice president of Graduate School of CAS (now the University of CAS) from 2000 to 2004, the vice president of University of Science and Technology of China from 2000 to 2003.

In 1993, he was a visiting scientist in Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. He was a visiting scientist in Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994.

Wen Gao was born and grew up in Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China. He has dreamed of becoming an engineer since he was a child. He received the BSc degree in computer science from Harbin University of Science and Technology in 1982. He continued his study in Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) and got the MSc degree in computer science in 1985. After two years of academic visit in Japan, he received his first PhD degree in computer science from HIT in 1988. In 1991, he earned his second PhD degree in electronics engineering from University of Tokyo, Japan.

Gao Wen (born in Dalian, Liaoning Province of P. R. China on March 7, 1956) is a Chinese computer engineer, the Boya Chair Professor at Peking University, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is now the Director of Peng Cheng Laboratory.