Rate My Professor Hairong Qi

Hairong Qi is the Gonzalez Family Professor in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a position held since 2014. She previously served as Professor from 2011 to 2014, Associate Professor from 2005 to 2011, and Assistant Professor from 1999 to 2005 in the university's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Qi obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1999, M.S. in Computer Science from Northern Jiaotong University in 1995, and B.S. in Computer Science from Northern Jiaotong University in 1992. As director of the Advanced Imaging and Collaborative Information Processing (AICIP) Lab, her research centers on collaborative signal and information processing in resource-constrained distributed systems, automatic target recognition with advanced imaging, computer vision, smart camera networks, machine learning, and remote sensing. This work has been funded by NSF, DARPA, IARPA, ONR, NASA, and DHS.

Recognized as an IEEE Fellow since 2018 for contributions to collaborative signal processing in sensor networks, Qi has received the NSF CAREER Award (2005), Chancellor’s Award for Research and Creative Achievement (2017), Gonzalez Family Faculty and Staff Award for Excellence in Research (2017), Research Fellow awards from the College of Engineering (2008, 2016, 2020), GRSS Highest Impact Paper Award (2012), and best paper awards at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (2006), ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (2009), and IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (2015). Her major publications include the books Machine Vision (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Fundamentals of Computer Vision (Cambridge University Press, 2017), both co-authored with Wesley E. Snyder. Key papers encompass “Distributed sensor networks - a review of recent research” (Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2001), “Binary tree-based generic demosaicking algorithm for multispectral filter arrays” (IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2006), and “A resilient real-time system design for a secure and reconfigurable power grid” (IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2011).