Tang Xiao'ou

Tang Xiao’ou
Tang Xiao’ou
汤晓鸥
	Tang in 2019
Born	24 January 1968; Anshan, Liaoning, China
Died	15 December 2023 (aged 54–55)
Other names	(also spelled as) Xiaoou Tang
Citizenship	People's Republic of China
Alma mater	University of Science and Technology of China (BS); University of Rochester (MS); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD);
Awards	Best Paper Award IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2009;
	Scientific career
Fields	Artificial intelligence; Business
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Microsoft Research; SenseTime; Chinese University of Hong Kong;
Thesis	Transform texture classification (1996)
Doctoral advisor	William Kenneth Stewart
Doctoral students	Kaiming He
Website	CUHK Faculty Page

Tang Xiao’ou (汤晓鸥; 24 January 1968 – 15 December 2023) was a Chinese businessman and computer scientist. He was the founder and chairman of SenseTime, an AI company. He also served as professor of information engineering, associate dean of engineering, and outstanding fellow of engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Tang's research primarily focused on areas such as computer vision, pattern recognition, and video processing. Tang was honored with the Best Paper Award at the 2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. He served as the programme chair in 2009 and the general chair in 2019 for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. His editorial contributions include roles as an Associate Editor for both the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the International Journal of Computer Vision. Additionally, Tang has been recognised as a Fellow of the IEEE.