Xiaoqing Ding

Xiaoqing Ding is a Chinese electric engineer and a professor and the PhD Supervisor of the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing. She focuses on the fields of facial recognition and multilingual character and document recognition with such languages as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uighur, Arabic, and English. Her technologies have been marketed to many large companies, such as Microsoft Office, and are used worldwide.

She was also awarded the graduate Golden Medal from Tsinghua University.

She was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2011. She was also awarded a fellowship with the International Association for Pattern Recognition.