Yingli Tian
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Yingli Tian (also published as Ying-li Tian) is a Chinese-American electrical engineer known for her research applying image processing to the analysis of facial expressions and their meanings.[1][2] Her more recent research has focused on assistive technology including the automated recognition of sign language.[3] She is CUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York.[4]
Tian studied precision instrument and opto-electronics engineering at Tianjin University, graduating in 1987. After a master's degree in thermophysical engineering from the same university in 1990, she went to the Chinese University of Hong Kong for doctoral study in electrical engineering, completing her Ph.D. in 1996.[4]
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, and then worked for IBM Research beginning in 2001, before moving to the City College of New York in 2008.[4][5]
