Dr. Hairong Qi

Areas of Interest

• Image Processing and Computer Vision
• Collaborative Information Processing in Sensor Networks

Education

• Ph.D. (1999) in Computer Engineering. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
• M.S. (1995) in Computer Science. Northern JiaoTong University, Beijing, China
• B.S. (1995) in Computer Science. Northern JiaoTong University, Beijing, China

Background
Hairong Qi received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University (NCSU) in 1999, B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Northern JiaoTong University, Beijing, P. R. China in 1992 and 1995 respectively. From 1995 to 1999, she worked at the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (CRIM) and the Center for Advanced Computing and Communication (CACC) at NCSU. Her research then focused on multi-sensor data fusion, image processing and computer vision. She is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her current research projects are in the areas of collaborative processing in sensor networks, hyperspectral image analysis, and automatic target recognition. Dr. Qi's research is supported by NSF, DARPA, ONR, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.

Dr. Qi is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Chancellor's Award for Professional Promise in Research and Creative Achievement, Allen & Hoshall Engineering Faculty Award from UT College of Engineering (COE), the Leon and Nancy Cole Superior Teaching Award from UT COE, and the Science Alliance Faculty Award from UT and Oak Ridge National Lab. She has published around 100 technical papers in archival journals and refereed conference proceedings, including a co-authored book in Machine Vision. Dr. Qi serves on the editorial board of Sensor Letters and Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology. She is also the Associate Editor for Computers in Biology and Medicine. She co-edited a special issue on Distributed Sensor Networks for Real-Time Systems with Adaptive Reconfiguration of Journal of Franklin Institute. Dr. Qi is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Sigma Xi.