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Guoying Zhao is an Academy Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland, and a visiting professor at Aalto University and Stanford University. She has held a tenured professorship since 2017 at the Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis (CMVS), progressing from Senior Researcher (2005-2007) to Academy Postdoctoral Researcher (2008-2011), Academy Research Fellow (2011-2017), and Associate Professor (2014-2017) before her full professorship.
- Current affiliations: Academy Professor (University of Oulu), Visiting Professor (Aalto University, Stanford University)
- Academic background: PhD in Computer Science (Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2005)
Her research spans multiple domains in computer science:
- Computer Vision: Facial expression/micro-expression recognition, human motion analysis
- Signal Analysis: Remote physiological signal measurement
- Machine Learning: Multi-modal learning frameworks
With over 340 publications and 31,900 Google Scholar citations (h-index 87), her work has been featured in MIT Technology Review and Finnish national media. She holds editorial leadership in journals like Computer Vision and Image Understanding and chairs major conferences including ACII 2025.
Scientific awards include:
- IAPR Maria Petrou Prize (2024)
- Multiple fellowships (IEEE, IAPR, ELLIS, AAIA)
- Membership in Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2022), Academia Europaea (2023)
Her students and researchers have secured prestigious positions and grants such as Academy of Finland Research Fellowships, Nokia Scholarships, and Tauno Tönning Research Funding.
