Defu Zhang

Defu Zhang 

Currently works in the department of Computer Science at Xiamen University as a professor, Xiamen hundred talents, China and Britain innovate leading talents. He is also a Chief Scientist and Founder of WZPZC E-Commerce Co., LTD and Red trees education. He received his B.S and M.S degree from Department of Mathematics at Xiangtan University, ang got Ph.D from School of Computer Science & Technology at Huazhong University of Science & Technology. From 2008 to 2016, he visited Hong Kong City University, the University of Wisconsin Madison, and Macau University. Besides, he developed an Internet Plus Big Data Platform (http://www.pzcnet.com). He supervised the ACM/ICPC team and his team obtained 3 gold of ICPC-Asia region contest. Research interests include intelligent agriculture, big data and artificial intelligence. He has authored over 50 journal articles, H-index=31. He now focuses on using big data and AI to solve the agriculture problem.

 Title: Identification of rice plant diseases using deep learning