PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Q. M. Jonathan Wu

Also known as Jonathan Wu, Qingming Jonathan Wu, Q. M. J. Wu

Jonathan Wu is a computer vision and machine learning researcher at the University of Windsor in Canada, with a research focus on vehicle safety, driver assistance and sensor fusion for autonomous driving. After a PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Wales, Swansea, in 1990, he joined the National Research Council of Canada in 1995 and became a senior research officer and group leader there. He became a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Automotive Sensors and Information Systems at Windsor in 2005, was inducted as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2019, and received the rank of Distinguished University Professor in 2023. His papers include a 2015 extreme learning machine with subnetwork hidden nodes and a 2022 graph network for image manipulation detection. As of October 2026, he is a Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Windsor and, since 2026, an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

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Timeline

  1. 1990

    A PhD at Swansea

    He receives a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Wales, Swansea, in 1990.

  2. 1995–2005

    Group leader at the NRC

    He joins the National Research Council of Canada in 1995 and stays for ten years, becoming a senior research officer and a group leader.

  3. 2005

    Canada Research Chair at Windsor

    In 2005, he becomes Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Automotive Sensors and Information Systems at the University of Windsor. He is also the founding director of the university's Computer Vision and Sensing Systems Laboratory.

  4. 2015

    Extreme learning with subnetwork nodes

    He coauthors "Extreme learning machine with subnetwork hidden nodes for regression and classification" with Y. Yang, published in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics in 2015.

  5. 2019

    Canadian Academy of Engineering fellow

    The Canadian Academy of Engineering inducts him as a fellow at a ceremony in Quebec City in 2019. The election citation praises his development of systems for a wide variety of real-world applications.

  6. January 2022

    Graph networks for manipulation detection

    In January 2022, he is a coauthor of a paper that proposes HGCN-Net, a hierarchical graph convolutional network that locates manipulated regions in images.

  7. 2023

    Distinguished University Professor

    In October 2023, the University of Windsor confers the rank of Distinguished University Professor on him and Ahmet Alpas at Convocation. His research focuses on computer vision systems for active vehicle safety and driver assistance, and on machine learning and sensor fusion for autonomous driving.

  8. As of October 2026

    Distinguished Professor at Windsor

    He is a Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Windsor. Since 2026, he is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

Career

  1. Since 2005University of WindsorTier 1 Canada Research Chair in Automotive Sensors and Information Systems, Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering
  2. 1995–2005National Research Council CanadaSenior Research Officer; Group Leader

Education

  1. 1990University of Wales, SwanseaPhD in electrical engineering

From the biography.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes National Research Council Canada. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  2. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  3. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIWe estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  4. 43% of living people shaping AI work outside their country of birthWe estimate that 43% of living people shaping AI work outside their country of birth (520 of 1,198 people with known birth and employment countries).

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Sources and credits

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  1. The Chair | Engineering Research uwindsor.ca. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Q.M. Jonathan Wu | IEEE CASS ieee-cas.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. Dr. Jonathan Wu | Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) uwindsor.ca. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. UWindsor prof elected to engineering academy | Faculty of Engineering uwindsor.ca. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. [2201.05730] Learning Hierarchical Graph Representation for Image Manipulation Detection arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. Friday ceremonies to recognize two distinguished engineering faculty members | DailyNews uwindsor.ca. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. Jonathan Wu - TrustCAV carleton.ca. Checked 22 October 2026.