PeopleofSuperintelligence

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Richang Hong

Also known as 洪日昌, Hong Richang

Richang Hong is a computer scientist who applies artificial intelligence to multimedia analysis, multimodal learning and recommendation; his 400-plus papers have more than 30,000 Google Scholar citations. After a doctorate at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2008 and a research fellowship at the National University of Singapore, he won the best paper award at ACM Multimedia 2010 for Dynamic Captioning and joined Hefei University of Technology as a professor in December 2010. His research won the National Natural Science Award second prize in 2015, and in 2019 he coauthored the MMGCN micro-video recommender and received the Anhui Youth May Fourth Medal. He became vice dean of the School of Computer and Information in March 2019 and later served as its dean. Since December 2025, he is a vice president of Hefei University of Technology.

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Timeline

  1. 2008–2010

    A USTC doctorate, then NUS

    He earns a PhD at the University of Science and Technology of China in July 2008. From September 2008 to December 2010, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the National University of Singapore's School of Computing, working as a research fellow with Tat-Seng Chua.

  2. 2010

    Best paper at ACM Multimedia

    At ACM Multimedia 2010 in Florence, he wins the best paper award with Meng Wang, Mengdi Xu, Shuicheng Yan and Tat-Seng Chua. Their paper is "Dynamic Captioning: Video Accessibility Enhancement for Hearing Impairment".

  3. 2010–2015

    Professor at Hefei University of Technology

    In December 2010, he joins the School of Computer and Information at Hefei University of Technology as a professor. From March 2012 to September 2012, he visits Microsoft Research Asia through the Star-Track program. In 2015, he takes a temporary assignment at the information sciences department of the National Natural Science Foundation of China as director of computer application projects.

  4. 2015–2023

    National prizes and best papers

    His research wins the National Natural Science Award second prize in 2015, the Anhui Natural Science Award first prize in 2017 and the Anhui Science and Technology Progress Award first prize in 2020. In 2015, he receives the best paper award at ACM ICMR and a best paper honorable mention from IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. His teaching wins the Anhui Teaching Achievement Award first prize in 2022 and the National Teaching Achievement Award first prize in the graduate category in 2023.

  5. 2016–2022

    Program chair of multimedia conferences

    He is technical program co-chair of the 22nd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling in 2016, the ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service in 2017 and the Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia in 2018. In 2018, his school hosts the Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, and he is in charge of conference affairs. He is an area chair of ACM Multimedia from 2017 to 2022.

  6. 2018–2019

    MMGCN and Highly Cited Researchers

    He appears on Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers list in 2018 and 2019, and receives the Anhui Youth May Fourth Medal in 2019. In 2019, he coauthors MMGCN with Yinwei Wei, Xiangnan He, Xiang Wang, Liqiang Nie and Tat-Seng Chua, published in the proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Nice. The multimodal graph convolution network learns modality-specific representations of users and micro-videos for recommendation.

  7. March 2019

    Leading the computer college

    In March 2019, he becomes vice dean of the School of Computer and Information (School of Artificial Intelligence) at Hefei University of Technology, and later executive vice dean, dean, and dean of the School of Software. In March 2025, as dean, he introduces eight newly recruited faculty members and explains the first-class discipline cultivation plan.

  8. Since December 2025

    Vice president at HFUT

    In December 2025, he becomes a Standing Committee member of the Party Committee and a vice president of Hefei University of Technology. In 2026, he is among the university's representatives at the signing of a cooperation declaration with Clark University. His research covers multimedia, language and vision, social media, and artificial intelligence and data circulation.

Career

  1. Since 2010Hefei University of TechnologyProfessor, Vice Dean
  2. From 2015National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaDirector of Computer Application Projects
  3. 2012Microsoft Research Asia
  4. 2008–2010National University of SingaporeResearch Fellow

Education

  1. 2008University of Science and Technology of ChinaPhD

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Richang Hong. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. Among employers with 30+ full-time cases, OpenAI leads primary technical role H-1B pay at $310,000, and Amazon, Google and Microsoft file 57% of all casesIncludes Microsoft. Across 440,669 certified US H-1B filings from 44 employers (FY2020–FY2026), OpenAI leads primary technical role base pay at $310,000 and xAI leads overall base pay at $290,000.
  3. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Hefei University of Technology. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  4. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Hefei University of Technology. 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.

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  1. Richang HONG's Homepage sites.google.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Hong Richang（Standing Committee Member of the Party Committee and Vice President of Hefei University of Technology, Party Committee Secretary of the Xuancheng Campus and Director of the Xuancheng Research Institute, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor）_Baiduwiki baike.baidu.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. ACM Multimedia 2010 - worldwide premier multimedia conference - 25-29 October 2010 - Florence (I) acmmm2010.unifi.it. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. MMGCN: Multi-modal graph convolution network for personalized recommendation of micro-video - Harbin Institute of Technology scholar.hit.edu.cn. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Three HFUT Professors Recognized in 2019 Highly Cited Researchers List-Hefei University of Technology en.hfut.edu.cn. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. Clark strengthens partnership, launches dual-degree program with Hefei University of Technology clarku.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.