Dr. Yufeng Zheng

Yufeng Zheng is an associate professor of data science in the University of Mississippi Medical Center (Jackson, MS). He received his Ph.D. degree in Optical Engineering/Image Processing from the Tianjin University (Tianjin, China) in 1997. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Louisville (Kentucky) from 2001-2005. Dr. Zheng is the principal investigator of many funded projects such as cybersecurity enhancement with keyboard dynamics, canopy coverage estimation with neural network, multisensory image fusion and colorization; thermal face recognition; and multispectral face recognition. Dr. Zheng holds a utility patents in face recognition, and has edited three books, published six book chapters and more than 80 scientific papers. His research interests focus on bio-inspired image analysis, deep learning convolutional neural network, biometrics, and computer-aided diagnosis. Dr. Zheng is a Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).