Ph.D. Research

·     Human and Object Tracking and Verification in Video, 1996-2000,

    Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland, College Park.

    Prof. Rama Chellappa was my advisor, Profs. Larry Davis & Azriel Rosenfeld were

    on my thesis committee.

 

Prior Positions

·     Senior Researcher, SHARP Laboratories of America, 2000-2004.

·     Adjunct Professor, Portland State University, 2003-2004.

 

Synergistic Activities

·   Senior Member of IEEE

·   Co-chair, Special Session on Semantic Sports Video Analysis and Processing, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2003.

·   Invited talk “Handling uncertainties in visual representation and processing”, at Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, January, 2005.

·   Technical Program Chair, 2nd International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics, 2006.

·   Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications 2006, 2007.

·   Technical Program Co-chair, The Second International Workshop on Multimedia Systems and Networking (WMSN’06) (in conjunction with IPCCC 2006).

·   Organizing Committee and Finance Chair, International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, 2006.

·   Technical Program Chair, 3rd International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics, 2007.

·   Organizing Committee and Finance Chair, International Conference on Image Processing, 2008.

·  Research Consultant, SHARP Laboratories of America.

·  Session chairs: ICPR 2006, ICIP 2006, ICASSP 2007, ICASSP 2008, ICASSP 2009.

·  Editorial Board and Area Editor, Signal Processing: Image Communication

·  Editorial Board and Area Editor, Journal of Multimedia

 

Distinction/Awards

·       NSF CAREER Award (2008/2009)

·       SHARP Laboratories of America President’s Award (2004)

·       SHARP Laboratories of America Inventor of the Year Award (2002)

·      SHARP Laboratories of America President’s Award (2001).