Dacheng Tao FAA is an Australian engineer and academic. He is currently a professor of computer science at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received a PhD in 2007 from the University of London under Stephen Maybank, with a thesis titled Discriminative linear and multilinear subspace methods. [1] He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 [2] for his contributions to pattern recognition and visual analytics. He was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2017. [3] In 2018, Tao was also elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) for his contributions in artificial intelligence, computer vision image processing and machine learning. [4] He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to representation learning and its applications". [5] He was selected to the Global Young Academy. [6] Tao was awarded the Australian Museum's Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science in 2020. [7] He has written over 1200 publications across various Artificial Intelligence fields, including pattern recognition, visual analytics, and statistical learning theory over a career span of around 20 years, averaging 60 papers a year. [8]