Xudong Jiang is currently in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering as Associate Professor (tenured) and Deputy Director of the Centre for Information Sciences and Systems. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, in 1983 and 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of German Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany, in 1997, all in electrical and electronic engineering. From 1986 to 1993, he was a Lecturer at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China where he received two Science and Technology Awards from the Ministry of Electronic Industry of China. From 1993 to 1997, he was with the University of German Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany, as a scientific assistant. From 1998 to 2002, he was with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as a Senior/Research Fellow where he developed a fingerprint verification algorithm that achieved the fastest speed with the second most accuracy in the International Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC2000). From 2002 to 2004, he was a Lead Scientist and Head of the Biometrics Laboratory at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore.

Dr Jiang has published over 200 international conference and journal papers, including 2 papers in Nature Communications and over 60 papers in IEEE journals and Pattern Recognition. He is also an inventor of 7 patents. He served as IFS Technical Committee Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2015 to 2017, Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters for 2 terms from 2014 to 2018, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing for 2 terms from 2016 to 2020 and the founding editorial board member for IET Biometrics from 2012 to 2019. Dr Jiang is currently a Fellow of IEEE and serves as Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Editor-in-Chief for IET Biometrics. Dr Jiang has also been serving as Area Chair of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing for multiple years and Keynote Speaker for multiple international conferences.