He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2007. Before that, he received the B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics and M.S. degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Dr. Tan has served as an editorial member of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), an associate editor of the Machine Vision and Applications (MVA). He has served in the program committees of SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia. Dr. Tan received the inaugural MIT TR35@Singapore award in 2012 (among 12 top innovators under 35 from Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand), the Image and Vision Computing Outstanding Young Researcher Award Honorable Mention Award in 2012.