Lei Kang

Lei Kang 

Dr., PostDoc Researcher
Computer Vision Center
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
lkang[at]cvc[dot]uab[dot]cat
Edifici O, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

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Biography

Lei Kang received a PhD in Computer Science from Pattern Recognition and Document Analysis Group (DAG) at Computer Vision Center (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and research group at omni:us in Dec. 2020, which was awarded with an Excellent Cum Laude (highest grade) qualification with Industrial mention.

From May 2021 to June 2023, he was a lecturer at Computer Science Dept. of Shantou University, Shantou, China, and a PI of 3 competitive research projects (National Natural Science Foundation of China, STU Incubation Project for the Research of Digital Humanities and New Liberal Arts, and STU grant).

Currently, he is a PostDoc researcher in the Vision, Language and Reading (VLR) Research Group of Computer Vision Center (CVC), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain.

His research interests are document analysis, handwritten text recognition, handwriting generation, human-document interaction and multi-modal multimedia analysis.

Education

  • PhD, Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Dec. 2020.

  • MSc, Laboratory of Future Networks, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), July 2015.

  • BSc, Automation, Jilin University (JLU), July 2012.

Working Experience

  • PostDoc researcher at Computer Vision Center. (June 2023 to present)

  • Lecturer at Shantou University. (May 2021 to June 2023)

  • PhD researcher at omni:us. (April 2017 to June 2020)

Publications

Invited Talks in 2022

  • International Conference on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition, Hyderabad, India, Dec. 2022.

  • MGR Workshop on Handwriting Recognition and Document Analysis, Copenhagen, Mar. 2022.

  • DAGMinar Session, Barcelona, Mar. 2022.

Academic Services

Reviewer of the following journals and conferences:

  • TPAMI, PR, IJDAR, MVAP.

  • ICDAR, DAS.

Teaching

Bachelor courses at Shantou University (May 2021 to June 2023):

  • [CST3402A] Computer Networking (计算机网络) [CN]

  • [JOU2155A] Python for Text Mining [EN+CN]

  • [CST2253A] Programming for the Raspberry Pi [EN+CN]