I am currently a Professor and Vice-Chair
of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, at the
University of California, San Diego.
I joined UCSD in July of 1995. Prior to that, I was a Visiting Assistant
Professor of Electrical
Engineering at
the University
of Minnesota, and a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer with the
Information Systems Laboratory at
Stanford University.
I received my Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1993
and my B.S.E.E. from the
California Institute of Technology in 1987.
At UCSD, I was the Director of the
Center for Wireless Communications
from 2006 to 2008. I am also affiliated with the
California Institute for Telecommunications
and Information Technology.
Prof. Ken Zeger and I jointly direct
the
Information Coding Laboratory where we do research on
data compression, coding, and image and video processing.
Conference and Editorial Positions:
Current:
- Senior Editor,
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2010-2012
- Member, Technical Program Committee, QoMex 2011
International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience,
- Member, Technical Program Committee, ICIP 2011
International Conference on Image Processing
- Member, Technical Program Committee, ICME 2011
AVCC Workshop
Former:
- Editor-in-Chief,
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2006-2009
- Member, Technical Program Committee, QoMex 2009, 2010
International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience
- Local Arrangements Co-Chair, IEEE Intl. Conference on Image Processing,
ICIP 2008
- Member, Technical Program Committee, ACIVS (Advanced Concepts for
Intelligent Vision Systems) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Member, Technical Program Committee, Packet Video 2007, 2009.
- Member, Technical Program Committee, Wireless Personal Multimedia
Conference-2006 (WPMC-2006), La Jolla, California, Sep 17-20, 2006.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2003-2005
- Senior Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,
2003-2005
- Program Committe Member, ISSPA 2005 -- the 8th International
Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications,
Aug 29 - Sep 1, Sydney, Australia
- Session Chair for the session on "Image and Video Coding Systems",
37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers,
November 9-12, 2003, Pacific Grove, California.
- Member, Technical Program Committee, ICISP (Intl. Conf. on Image
and Signal Processing), 2002, 2003
- Program Committee Member and U.S. Liaison,
International Symposium on Image/Video Communications over
Fixed and Mobile Networks (April, 2000).
- Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Letters, 1998-2001
- Co-Guest Editor, Special issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas
in Communications on "Error-resilient image and video coding." June 2000
- Session Chair for Image and Video Coding for Wireless Applications,
2nd Annual UCSD Conference on Wireless Communications, March 1999
- Session Chair for Image Quality Evaluation, EUSIPCO'98,
the IX European Signal Processing Conference, September 1998
- Technical Program Chair, 1998 Information Theory Workshop,
February 1998
- Session Co-chair for Lossy Source Coding,
1998 Information Theory Workshop, February 1998
- Session Chair for Wavelet/Progressive Image Compression Algorithms,
31st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 1997
Research:
My research interests are in data compression and image/video
processing.
My current projects are:
- Visibility of packet losses in compressed video
- Fast mode decisions for video compression
- Video-aware packet fragmentation
- Error concealment and forward error correction for 3D compressed video
- Automating cell lineaging for embryogenesis in C. elegans
- Rateless coding tailored for progressive/scalable compressed data
Some of my past projects are:
Publications:
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publication list.
Students and visiting scholars:
- Current:
- Yueh-Lun Chang
- Alan Kang
- Seemeen Karimi
- Kashyap Khambatla
- Mehdi Saleh
- Qing Song
- Madushanka Soysa
- Arash Vosoughi
- Dawei Wang
- Former:
- Jacob Strom,
visiting scholar, 1996
- Mick Barrett, M.S. 1997
- Alan Merriam, M.S. 1997
-
Hakan Persson, visiting scholar, 1997
- Magnus Petterson, visiting scholar, 1997
- Stefan Tjarnlund, visiting scholar, 1997
- Dr. Hyung Hwa Ko, visiting scholar, 1998
- Jon K. Rogers
M.S. 1999
- Jyotsna Somayajula, M.S. 2000
- Dirck Schilling Ph.D. 2001 (now
at ViaSat, Inc.)
- Tamara Musfeldt, M.S. 2001
- Ivana Mikic, Ph.D. 2002
- Yan Ye, Ph.D. 2002 now at InterDigital
- Heidi Buck, M.S. 2002
- Prof. Joong-Hwan Baek, Visiting Scholar (Hankuk Aviation University, Korea), 2001-2002
- Marco Grangetto, Visiting Scholar (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), 2002
- Song Cen Ph.D. 2002
(now at NextWave)
- Laddan Hashemian, M.S. 2003
- Qinghua Zhao, Ph.D. 2004
- Wei Geng, Ph.D. 2004, now at Awarepoint
- Mohammed Mohamedali, M.S. 2004
- Kartikeya Mehrotra, M.S. 2005
- Solmaz Alipour Kivi, M.S. 2006
- Sitaraman Ganapathy, M.S. 2006
- Athanasios Leontaris, Ph.D. 2006 (first at Dolby Labs, then at Apple)
- Yushi Shen, Ph.D. 2006, now at Microsoft Research
- Ramesh Annavajjala, Ph.D. 2006, now at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
- Sandeep Kanumuri, Ph.D. 2006
- Vijay Chellappa, M.S. 2006
- Ryan Lustig, M.S. 2007
- Laura Toni, visiting scholar, 2007
- Milos Tesanovic, visiting scholar, 2007
- Andy Huang, Ph.D. 2008
- Dr. Minjoong Rim, visiting scholar, 2008
- Sheu-Sheu Tan, M.S. 2008
- Greg Fleizach, M.Eng 2009
- Jihyun Shin, M.S. 2009
- Mayank Tiwari, Ph.D. 2010, now at Qualcomm
- Maria Bustamante, M.S. 2010
- Annie Peng, visiting scholar, 2008-2010
- Flora Wang, visiting scholar, 2009-2010
- Seok-Ho Chang, Ph.D. 2010, now at Dankook University, Korea
- Ting-Lan Lin, Ph.D. 2011, now at Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
- Hobin Kim, Ph.D. 2011
- Ghazaleh Esmaili, Ph.D. 2011, now at Qualcomm
- Suayb Arslan, Ph.D. 2012
- Tu Nguyen, Ph.D. 2013
Honors and awards:
- 2012 Best Poster Award at the IEEE Conference on Healthcare Informatics,
Imaging, and Systems Biology, for:
"Evaluation of Segmentation Algorithms in CT Scanning," by S. Karimi,
X. Jiang, P.C. Cosman, and H. Martz.
- IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 Best Paper Award for:
"Adaptive Modulation for OFDM-based multiple description progressive
image transmission" by S. Tan, M.J. Rim, P.C. Cosman, and L.B. Milstein.
- Fellow of the IEEE, 2008
- Powell Faculty Fellowship, 1997-1998
- ECE Department Graduate Teaching Award, 1996
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1996-1999
- National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1994-1995
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1987-1990
- Mabel Beckman Prize (top woman graduate at Caltech), 1987
- Caltech Prize Scholarships, 1984-1986
- Aerospace Corporation Undergraduate Fellowship, 1985-1986
- AT&T Information Systems Scholarship, 1985
- Society of Women Engineers/General Electric Scholarship, 1984-1987
- Member Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi
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