engineering

Xiaoqing Ding

Xiaoqing Ding is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Xiaoqing Ding rather than just read about it. In short: 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.

Key takeaways

Xiaoqing Ding belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Xiaoqing Ding to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Xiaoqing Ding from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

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.

Awards Ding was awarded China's most prestigious four National Science and Technology Progress Awards in 1992, 1999, 2003, and 2008. She also won the award for "Best Overall Performing Face Verification Algorithm" in the 2004 Face Authentication Test at International Association for Pattern Recognition's 2004 event and received the better performance in FRVT2006. 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.

References

External links Ding's ResearchGate profile Ding's IEEE profile

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Xiaoqing Ding

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Xiaoqing Ding claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Xiaoqing Ding before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Xiaoqing Ding ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Xiaoqing Ding

In research: Xiaoqing Ding appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Xiaoqing Ding in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Xiaoqing Ding is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 20th-century Chinese engineers, 21st-century Chinese engineers, Academic staff of Tsinghua University, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Xiaoqing Ding outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Xiaoqing Ding in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Xiaoqing Ding means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Xiaoqing Ding out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Xiaoqing Ding in simple terms?

Why does Xiaoqing Ding matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Xiaoqing Ding?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Xiaoqing Ding.