Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Mr Tan is currently Deputy Director at the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the HK S.A.R. and Director of the Centre for Research on Intelligent Perception and Computing, CAS Institute of Automation (CASIA).

He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of sciences in developing countries (TWAS) and Corresponding Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He is also Fellow of IEEE and IAPR.

He received his BSc degree in electronic engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1984, and later gained MSc and PhD degrees in electronic engineering from Imperial College London.

From 1989, he joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Reading, before returning to China in 1998 to join the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), CASIA. He was the Director General of CASIA from 2000-2007, the Director of the NLPR from 1998-2013, Deputy Secretary-General of CAS from 2007-2015, and Vice President of CAS from 2015-2016. He has been a professor at CASIA since 1998.

He has published more than 500 research papers in refereed international journals and conferences, and has authored or edited 11 books.