Summary
Deng-ping Fan is an academic leader and AI researcher with a decade of experience bridging cutting-edge multimodal and 3D vision research with applied autonomous driving systems. Currently a Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Nankai University, an Adjunct Professor at Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, and a visiting researcher at Tsinghua, he has held postdoctoral and industry research roles at ETH Zürich, IIAI, and Alibaba DAMO Academy. His work emphasizes multimodality models and general intelligence systems, with hands-on team leadership in computer vision and medical AI during his IIAI tenure. Trained as a PhD in Computer Software Engineering from Nankai, he combines deep academic insight with real-world deployment experience, often moving between top universities and fast-paced research labs. Notably, his trajectory shows a rare blend of lab-director responsibilities and direct model development for autonomous driving and 3D vision.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Software Engineering at Nankai University