Jiebo Luo

Jiebo Luo is the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Rochester, he was a Senior Principal Scientist with the Kodak Research Laboratories where he conducted and led research and advanced development for over 15 years. His research interests include computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, data mining, computational social science, and digital health. Dr. Luo has authored over 600 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and holds over 90 granted US patents (with an h-index of 128 and a total citation of 60,000+). He was the recipient or co-recipient of the Best Student Paper Award (as the senior author) at the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014 IEEE Multimedia Prize Paper Award, Best Industrial Related Paper Award at the 2018 International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), and Best Long Paper Award at the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Dr. Luo received the 2018 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation in Academic Award, the 2021 ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, and the 2025 IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award.

Dr. Luo is active in the organizing numerous technical conferences, including most notably General Co-Chair of the 2018 ACM Multimedia Conference and 2024 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), and Program Co-Chair of the 2010 ACM Multimedia Conference, 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), and 2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). Dr. Luo served as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2020-2022) and on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Health Data Science, and so on. Dr. Luo is a Kodak Distinguished Inventor, a Fellow of NAI, ACM, AAAI, IEEE, AIMBE, IAPR, and SPIE, as well as a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea.