PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Xiaoqing Ding

Also known as 丁晓青

As of October 2026, Xiaoqing Ding is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University, where her research covers optical character recognition, face recognition and biometric technology. She graduated from Tsinghua in 1962 with a gold award for excellent students and became a full professor there in 1992. Between 1992 and 2008 she won four of China's National Scientific and Technical Progress Awards. The International Association for Pattern Recognition named her a fellow in 2006, and the IEEE named her a Fellow in 2011.

Works
312
Citations
3,858
h-index
27

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1962

    A gold award at graduation

    She graduates from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University in 1962 with a gold award for excellent students.

  2. 1992

    Full professor at Tsinghua

    She becomes a full professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering in 1992.

  3. 1992–2008

    Four national progress awards

    She wins four of China's National Scientific and Technical Progress Awards, in 1992, 1998, 2003 and 2008.

  4. 2006

    An IAPR fellowship

    The International Association for Pattern Recognition names her a fellow in 2006 for contributions to OCR, face recognition, biometric technology and document image analysis.

  5. 2011

    An IEEE Fellow

    The IEEE names her a Fellow in 2011 for her contributions to multilingual character recognition and face recognition systems.

  6. As of October 2026

    Professor at Tsinghua

    She is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University.

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  1. From Multi-Lingual Character Recognition (Printed, on-line and offline handwritten) to Multi-model Biometric Verification and Identification - Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Xiaoqing Ding | IntechOpen intechopen.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Chronological List of IAPR Fellows – International Association for Pattern Recognition iapr.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Professor Ding Xiaoqing Named 2011 IEEE Fellow-Tsinghua University tsinghua.edu.cn. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Xiaoqing Ding - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 15 October 2026.