Dr. Kai Zhao is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University. Before joining SHU, he conducted postdoctoral research at David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, working on Medical Image Analysis with Prof. Kyung Hyun Sung. Before that, Dr. Zhao was a senior research scientist at Tencent Youtu lab. Dr. Zhao received his Ph.D from Nankai University in 2020, under the supervision of Prof. Ming-ming Cheng. Earlier, he spent 7 wonderful years in Shanghai University where he got BS and MS degrees in 2014 and 2017, respectively, under the supervision of Wei Shen (now professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University).

Dr. Zhao's research interests broadly lie at the intersection of machine learning , computer vision , and medical image analysis . He co-authored over 40 research papers on top-tier venues in the field of AI and computer vision, with over 6,000 citations on Google Scholar. His research on palmprint recognition was highlighted by MIT technology review, and applied to WeChat palm payment. He was an active contributor to open-source projects such as PyTorch and mmdetection.