Stan Z. Li received the PhD degree from Surrey University, UK. He is currently a professor at National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), the director of Center for Biometrics and Security Research (CBSR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA); and co-director of Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Surveillance and Identification in Civil Aviation (CASIA-CAUC). He worked at Microsoft Research Asia as a researcher from 2000 to 2004. Prior to that, he was an associate professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.                                    

His research interest includes pattern recognition and machine learning, image and vision processing, face recognition, biometrics, and intelligent video surveillance. He has published over 200 papers in international journals and conferences, and authored and edited 5 books including "Markov Random Field Modeling in Image Analysis" (Springer, 1^st edition in 1995 and 2^nd edition in 2001).  He is currently an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence  and has been actively participating in organizing a number of international conferences and workshops in the fields of his research interest.

Stan Z. Li is an expert in face recognition, biometrics and intelligent video surveillance. The Eye-CU face recognition system he developed at Microsoft Research Asia was demonstrated by Bill Gate on a CNN interview.  He has been leading several national and international collaboration projects in biometrics and intelligent video surveillance. The AuthenMetric face recognition system and intelligent video surveillance system have been deployed in many applications.  He acted as the program chair for the Asian Biometrics Forum 2006 and a co-chair for the International Conference on Biometrics 2007. He delivered a speech on Biometrics in China, on behalf of the China National Body, at the 2006 ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 meeting in London. He co-edited Handbook of Face Recognition (Springer, 2005), and is acting as editor-in-chief for Encyclopedia of Biometric Recognition (Springer, to be published 2008).