Ping Hu is a Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and an adjunct Professor at VinUniversity. He earned his Ph.D. degree in the Image and Video Computing (IVC) Group at Boston University, advised by Prof. Kate Saenko and Prof. Stan Sclaroff . Before that, he was a research assistant at Nanyang Technological University, advised by Dr. Gang Wang and Prof. Yap-Peng Tan. He received his M.E. degree in Computer Science from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, advised by Prof. Weiqiang Wang. His research interests lie in computer vision and deep learning, with a focus on open-world scene understanding, spatial intelligence, multi-modal learning, and efficient perception and reasoning in complex dynamic environments. He serves as an Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition (JCR-Q1) and ACM Computing Surveys (IF: 28), and has held major conference senior roles, including Area Chair for CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, and ACM Multimedia.