Professor Shenghua Gao is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining HKU, Professor Gao was a Professor at the ShanghaiTech University, China. He received his B.E. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2008 and his Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University in 2012.

Between June 2012 and August 2014, he worked as a research scientist at UIUC Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore. He joined ShanghaiTech University in 2014. His research interests include 3D reconstruction, image generation, and video understanding. He has been awarded the Microsoft Research Fellowship, ACM Shanghai Young Research Scientist, Shanghai Excellent Academic Leader, Shanghai Teaching Achievements award and National Young Talents award. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers with a total citation count of 14,800+ (source: Google scholar) and an H-index 51. He has served as an area chair for many top-tier AI conferences, including NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, and AAAI. He is a publicity chair of CVPR 2024. He is/was an associate editor for IEEE TPAMI(2023-), IEEE TCSVT (2018-2022) and Neurocomputing(2018-).