Biography:Jiebo Luo

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Jiebo Luo
Born1967 (age 58–59)
Yunnan, China
EducationUniversity of Rochester (PhD, 1996)
University of Science and Technology of China (MS, 1992; BS, 1989)
AwardsIEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award (2025)
ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer vision
Machine learning
Data science
InstitutionsUniversity of Rochester
Kodak Research Laboratories
Websitewww.cs.rochester.edu/u/jluo/

Jiebo Luo (Chinese: 罗杰波; born 1967) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and professor of computer science at the University of Rochester. His research covers computer vision, machine learning, and the analysis of multimedia and social media data.[1]

He received the IEEE Computer Society's Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award in 2025[2] and the ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award in 2021.[3]

He is a fellow of AIMBE, NAI, AAAI, ACM, IAPR, IEEE, and SPIE, and a member of Academia Europaea.[1][4]

Career and education

Luo joined the University of Rochester's Department of Computer Science in fall 2011. Previously, he spent more than fifteen years at Kodak Research Laboratories, where he conducted and directed research and advanced development, last holding the position of senior principal scientist.[1] He was also named a Kodak Distinguished Inventor.[5]

He received a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester in 1996.[6] He earned his master's degree in 1992 and bachelor's degree in 1989 from the University of Science and Technology of China, both in electrical engineering.[7]

Research

Luo's research spans signal processing, image processing, computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, data mining, and multimedia. His work also includes multimodal learning, social media analysis, computational social science, and digital health, including medical image computing.[1]

According to his university biography, he has published more than 700 peer-reviewed technical papers and holds at least 98 U.S. patents.[1] As of September 10, 2026, Google Scholar recorded 76,126 citations to his publications, an h-index of 138, and an i10-index of 600.[8]

In 2021, Luo was a principal investigator, alongside Jin Xiao and Kevin Fiscella, on a project to develop AICaries, a smartphone application designed to use artificial intelligence to detect tooth decay in children from photographs.[9]

In 2023, he continued this work as a principal investigator on SMARTeeth (Smart Connected Oral Health Community), a three-year project funded by the National Science Foundation's Smart and Connected Communities program.[10][11] The project aimed to combine the app with community outreach through oral-health centers, mobile vans, and community health workers to improve access to screening and dental care in underserved communities.[12][10]

Also in 2023, Luo led a study that used machine learning to examine media bias in 1.8 million headlines published by nine U.S. news outlets between 2014 and 2022.[13]

Professional service

Conferences and workshops

Luo's conference leadership roles include:[1]

  • 2024: General co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
  • 2023: General co-chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR).
  • 2018: General co-chair, ACM Multimedia.
  • 2017: Program co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
  • 2016: Program co-chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR).
  • 2012: Program co-chair, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
  • 2010: Program co-chair, ACM Multimedia.
  • 2008: General co-chair, ACM International Conference on Content-based Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR).[14]
  • 2007: Co-chair, SPIE Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP).

He was the founding chair of the ACM SIGMM Workshop on Social Media (2009–2011) and the CVPR Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (2006–2009).[7][15] He has also served on IEEE technical committees and on the steering committees for ACM CIVR/ICMR and IEEE ICME. In 2001, he chaired the Rochester chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.[5]

Editorial work

Luo is a deputy editor of BME Frontiers.[16] He was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia from 2020 to 2022.[1][5]

He has served on the editorial boards of Health Data Science and Intelligent Medicine,[17][1] as well as ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Pattern Recognition, and Machine Vision and Applications.[5]

His guest-edited special issues have addressed learning with fewer labels in computer vision,[18] video analytics with deep learning,[19] and deep learning for multimedia computing.[20]

Awards and honors

Paper awards and distinctions

Papers coauthored by Luo have received the following awards and distinctions:

Paper awards and distinctions, by year of recognition
Year Recognition Conference or journal Paper
2026 Best Paper Finalist IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) "PixelDiT: Pixel Diffusion Transformers for Image Generation"[21][22]
2023 Best Student Paper Award IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) "sDREAMER: Self-distilled Mixture-of-Modality-Experts Transformer for Automatic Sleep Staging"[23][24]
2021 Best Long Paper Award North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) "Video-aided Unsupervised Grammar Induction"[25]
2018 Best Industrial Related Paper Award International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) "End-to-end Multi-Modal Multi-Task Vehicle Control for Self-Driving Cars with Visual Perception"[1]
2015 Best Paper Award ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS) "Using User Generated Online Photos to Estimate and Monitor Air Pollution in Major Cities"[1][26]
2014 IEEE Multimedia Prize Paper Award IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) "Tag-Based Image Retrieval Improved by Augmented Features and Group-Based Refinement"[27]
2010 Best Student Paper Award IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) "Visual Event Recognition in Videos by Learning from Web Data"[28]
2008 Best Poster Paper Award ACM International Conference on Content-based Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) "Leveraging Probabilistic Season and Location Context Models for Scene Understanding"[29][30]
1994 Best Student Paper Award SPIE Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP) "On the applications of Gibbs random field in image processing: from segmentation to enhancement"[31][32]

Individual honors

Selected books

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 Luo, Jiebo. "Jiebo Luo's Home Page". University of Rochester. https://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jluo/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Jiebo Luo". https://www.computer.org/profiles/jiebo-luo. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chen, Phoebe (2021-10-22). "ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications". Association for Computing Machinery. https://sigmm.org/news/sigmm_technical_award_2021. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Jiebo Luo". Academia Europaea. https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Luo_Jiebo. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Announcing the New Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia: Prof. Jiebo Luo". September 1, 2019. https://signalprocessingsociety.org/newsletter/2019/09/announcing-new-editor-chief-ieee-transactions-multimedia-prof-jiebo-luo. 
  6. ↑ Zhang, Xupin; Lyu, Hanjia; Luo, Jiebo (2021). "What Contributes to a Crowdfunding Campaign's Success? Evidence and Analyses from GoFundMe Data". Journal of Social Computing 2 (2): 183–192. doi:10.23919/JSC.2021.0010. https://file.sciopen.com/sciopen_public/1411934341878587393.pdf#page=10.  See p. 192 (author biography).
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Jiebo Luo – Biography". Academia Europaea. https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Luo_Jiebo/CV. 
  8. ↑ "Jiebo Luo". Google. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CcbnBvgAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  9. ↑ Black, Karen (2021-02-11). "EIOH Awarded Grant to Build Smartphone APP". University of Rochester. https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/eioh-awarded-grant-to-build-smartphone-app. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Black, Karen (2023-08-24). "NSF Awards UR Computer Science and EIOH Grant to Reduce Oral Health Disparities Using AI". University of Rochester. https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/nsf-awards-ur-computer-science-and-eioh-grant-to-reduce-oral-health-disparities-using-ai. 
  11. ↑ Luo, Jiebo. "Smart Connected Oral Health Community (SMARTeeth): Using AI and Digital Technologies to Close the Gap in Oral Health Disparity" (PDF). https://sccvo.org/sites/sccvo.org/files/2024-04/Luo_2238208_SCC2024-Poster.pdf. 
  12. ↑ Black, Karen (2023-02-08). "Combining Pregnancy and Dental Check Ups". University of Rochester. https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/combining-pregnancy-and-dental-check-ups. 
  13. ↑ Auburn, Luke (2023-07-13). "Study of headlines shows media bias is growing". University of Rochester. https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/study-of-headlines-shows-media-bias-growing-563502/. 
  14. ↑ Luo, Jiebo (2009). "Conference Report: CIVR 2008". International Association for Pattern Recognition. https://iapr.org/members/newsletter/Newsletter09-02/index_files/Page361.htm. 
  15. ↑ "International Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM)". https://www.rose-hulman.edu/~boutell/SLAM06/. 
  16. ↑ "Editorial Board". American Association for the Advancement of Science. https://spj.science.org/page/bmef/editors. 
  17. ↑ "Editorial Board". American Association for the Advancement of Science. https://spj.science.org/page/hds/editors. 
  18. ↑ Liu, Li; Hospedales, Timothy; LeCun, Yann; Long, Mingsheng; Luo, Jiebo; Ouyang, Wanli; Pietikäinen, Matti; Tuytelaars, Tinne (2024). "Editorial: Learning With Fewer Labels in Computer Vision". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 46 (3): 1319–1326. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3341723. https://oulurepo.oulu.fi/handle/10024/48667. 
  19. ↑ Mei, Tao; Corso, Jason; Luo, Jiebo (2017). "Editorial for special section of video analytics with deep learning". Pattern Recognition 68: 333. doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2017.02.033. https://researchwith.stevens.edu/en/publications/editorial-for-special-section-of-video-analytics-with-deep-learni/. 
  20. ↑ Qi, Guo-Jun; Larochelle, Hugo; Huet, Benoit; Luo, Jiebo; Yu, Kai (2015). "Guest Editorial: Deep Learning for Multimedia Computing". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 17 (11): 1873–1874. doi:10.1109/TMM.2015.2485538. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2015/2107/. 
  21. ↑ "PixelDiT: Pixel Diffusion Transformers for Image Generation". NVIDIA Research. https://github.com/NVlabs/PixelDiT/blob/master/README.md. 
  22. ↑ Yu, Yongsheng; Xiong, Wei; Nie, Weili; Sheng, Yichen; Liu, Shiqiu; Luo, Jiebo (2026). "PixelDiT: Pixel Diffusion Transformers for Image Generation". IEEE. pp. 14273–14282. https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026/html/Yu_PixelDiT_Pixel_Diffusion_Transformers_for_Image_Generation_CVPR_2026_paper.html. 
  23. ↑ "IEEE SERVICES 2023 Awards". IEEE Computer Society. https://conferences.computer.org/services/2023/awards/. 
  24. ↑ Chen, Jingyuan; Yao, Yuan; Anderson, Mie; Hauglund, Natalie; Kjaerby, Celia; Untiet, Verena; Nedergaard, Maiken; Luo, Jiebo (2023). "sDREAMER: Self-distilled Mixture-of-Modality-Experts Transformer for Automatic Sleep Staging". IEEE. pp. 131–142. doi:10.1109/ICDH60066.2023.00028. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10224751/. 
  25. ↑ "Best Paper Awards". 2021-06-02. https://2021.naacl.org/blog/best-paper-awards/. 
  26. ↑ Li, Yuncheng; Huang, Jifei; Luo, Jiebo (2015). "Using User Generated Online Photos to Estimate and Monitor Air Pollution in Major Cities". Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/2808492.2808564. https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05028. 
  27. ↑ "Multimedia Prize Paper Award". https://signalprocessingsociety.org/publications-resources/ieee-transactions-multimedia/multimedia-prize-paper-award. 
  28. ↑ "Computer Vision Awards". https://www.thecvf.com/?page_id=413. 
  29. ↑ Luo, Jiebo. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). p. 27. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oq5itBZ3ISggUNCnusXEEwT_BrrLmYEb/view. 
  30. ↑ Yu, Jie; Luo, Jiebo (2008). "Leveraging probabilistic season and location context models for scene understanding". Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 169–178. doi:10.1145/1386352.1386379. https://doi.org/10.1145/1386352.1386379. 
  31. ↑ Chen, Chang Wen (May 2021). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Hong Kong Polytechnic University. p. 5. https://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~chencw/files/CV-CWChen-May2021Leadership.pdf#page=5. 
  32. ↑ Luo, Jiebo; Chen, Chang Wen; Parker, Kevin J. (1994). "On the applications of Gibbs random field in image processing: from segmentation to enhancement". in Katsaggelos, Aggelos K.. 2308. SPIE. pp. 1289–1300. doi:10.1117/12.185954. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.185954. 
  33. ↑ "Jiebo Luo Inducted into the 2025 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows". 2025-03-31. https://aimbe.org/jiebo-luo-inducted-into-the-2025-class-of-the-aimbe-college-of-fellows/. 
  34. ↑ Andreatta, David; Auburn, Luke (2024-12-02). "Art historian and computer scientist earn inaugural Debra Haring Excellence in Research Awards". https://www.rochester.edu/college/research/haring-award/2024-12-02-debra-haring-excellence-in-research-awards.html. 
  35. ↑ "Faculty and Staff Awards". University of Rochester. https://www.hajim.rochester.edu/about/awards.html. 
  36. ↑ "Jiebo Luo receives Riker Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching". University of Rochester. 2024-04-10. https://www.cs.rochester.edu/news-events/news/2024/2024-04-05_luo-rikeraward.html. 
  37. ↑ "Fellows List". National Academy of Inventors. https://academyofinventors.org/search-fellows/. 
  38. ↑ "Elected AAAI Fellows". Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/the-aaai-fellows-program/elected-aaai-fellows/. 
  39. ↑ "2018 ACM Fellows Honored for Pivotal Achievements That Underpin the Digital Age" (PDF). Association for Computing Machinery. 2018-12-05. https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/press-releases/2018/december/fellows-2018.pdf. 
  40. ↑ "Professor Luo receives IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award". University of Rochester. 2018-09-20. https://www.cs.rochester.edu/news-events/news/archive/2018/2018-09-20_luo-ieee-award.html. 
  41. ↑ "2010 IAPR Fellows". International Association for Pattern Recognition. https://old.iapr.org/members/newsletter/Newsletter10-04/index_files/Page717.htm. 
  42. ↑ "SPIE Optics + Photonics 2008: Technical Program" (PDF). SPIE. 2008. p. 24. https://spie.org/Documents/ConferencesExhibitions/Optics-and-Photonics-2008-Final.pdf. 



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