Prof. Irene Yu-Hua Gu

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Dr. Irene Yu-Hua Gu received Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 1992. From 1992 to 1996, she was Research Fellow at Philips Research Institute IPO, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, post dr. at Staffordshire University, Staffordshire, U.K., and Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K. Since 1996, she has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering (previous name: Department of Signals and Systems), Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, where she has been a Professor since 2004. Her research interests include statistical image and video processing, video object tracking and recognition, machine learning and deep learning, and signal processing with applications. During the last several years her main research focusing has been on biomedical image analysis and deep learning. Dr. Gu was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, and Part B: Cybernetics from 2000 to 2005, and Associate Editor for EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing from 2005 to 2016, Editorial Board of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments from 2011 to 2019. She was elected as the Chair of the IEEE Swedish Signal Processing Chapter from 2001 to 2004. She is a senior member of IEEE. She has coauthored over 200 papers, and has been ranked as the top 50 scientists in the field of Computer Science and Electronics in Sweden in the 6th Edition of 2020 ranking by Guide2Research team.