MCL - Key Persons
Abinaya Manimaran received her M.S. in Electrical Engineering at USC in 2019. She received her undergraduate degree from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India in 2014. She was working as a Researcher at TCS Innovation Labs before joining USC. She joined Media Communications Lab in Fall 2018. Her research interests lie in the span of Computer Vision and Machine Learning.
Employment: TuneSplit, USA Alejandro Koretzky received his B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Blas Pascal, Argentina in 2008. He came to USC with a Fulbright-Becar Presidential Fellowship and worked with Professor Kuo doing research on Blind Audio Source Separation. He received his M.S. degree from the University of Southern California in Spring 2015.
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- Thesis Title: Coexistence Mechanisms for Legacy and Next Generation Wireless Networks Protocols, November 2007. Employment: MediaTek, Taiwan / the 83rd PhD from
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- Activities: Participation in the Entrepreneurship Course and the Web Design Course
Aolin Feng received the B.S. degree in electronic information engineering and M.S. degree in information and communication engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2019 and 2022, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. His research interests include image/video coding and quality assessment.
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- Employment: Samsung Electronics, Korea. the 92nd PhD from
Catherine Aurelia Christie Alexander received her Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India in 2022. She is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering at USC. Her research interests include Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and AI for healthcare.
Catherine Aurelia Christie Alexander Master's Student
Chang Xu received the B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2016. He joined the Media Communications Lab as intern during the summer from May 2017 to August 2017. He received his M.S. degree from the University of Southern California with 4.0 gpa in 2018 Fall.
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- Thesis Title: Large - Scale Scene Classification Using Machine Learning Techniques, December 2016
Chengwei Wei is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, advised by Professor Kuo. Chengwei Wei received his bachelor's degree Central South University, China in Jun 2018. He is currently a master student in Electrical Engineering in USC. He joined Media Communications Lab in summer 2019. His research interests include signal processing, natural language processing and machine learning.
Chenhui Yang received his BS and MS degree from National University of Defense Technology, China, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. After he got his PhD degree from ZheJiang University, China, in 1995, he joined the computer science department in Xiamen Univeristy, where he has been appointed as a professor since 2005. From March 1999 to March 2000, he was a visiting scholar in University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory. From August 2014, he was a visiting scholar in USC. His research interest areas cover intelligent multimedia and machine learning, including video-audio analysis, image recognition, 3D reconstruction and simulation, 3D printing, big data and cloud computing. He was also interested in finding computational solutions to some problems proposed from other disciplines or industry, such as intelligent transportation, intelligent security, bioinformatics, health and medical informatics, smart city, computational sociology, etc.
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- Employment: Kronos Research, Taiwan / the 110th PhD from
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- Thesis Title: Light - Weight Multimedia Encryption: Algorithms and Performance Analysis, September 2005
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- Thesis Title: Rate Control Techniques for H.264 / AVC Video With Enhanced Rate - Distortion Modeling, October 2006
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- Thesis Title: Carrier Frequency Offset in Multicarrier CDMA Systems under Correlated Fading, November 2004
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- Thesis Title: Performance Analysis and Transceiver Design for Adaptive Bit - Interleaved MIMO - OFDM Systems, October 2006. Employment: Broadcom, Matawan, NJ, USA / the 73rd PhD from
Gagan Punathil Ellath received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India, in 2019. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Engineering at USC. His research interests include Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Generative AI.
Ganning Zhao received her bachelor's degree in Automation from Guangdong University of Technology, China, in June 2019, and is currently a master student in Electrical Engineering M.S. program. She joined Media Communications Lab in summer 2020 and is currently working on texture synthesis and multimodal sensing data. Her research interests include machine learning and computer vision.
Haiyi Li is currently a Ph.D student in Electrical Engineering at USC. She received her bachelor's degree in Automation Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2022. Her research interests include image processing and machine learning.
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- Thesis Title: Advanced Techniques for Human Action Classification and Text Localization, September 2015 / Employment: Dolby Laboratories, Inc., USA / the 127th PhD from
Hong-Shuo is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, advised by Professor Kuo. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University in 2019. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning.
Hongyu Fu received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Peking University, Beijing, China in July 2017. As a Ph.D. student, he joined Media Communication Lab at University of Southern California, supervised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. His research interests include image processing, computer vision, and machine learning.
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- Employment: Banking Regulatory Commission, Beijing, China / the 72nd PhD from
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- Thesis Title: Dynamic Radio Resource Management for 2G and 3G Wireless Systems, September 2002
Hui Yong Kim received his BS, MS, and Ph.D degrees from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1994, 1998, and 2004, respectively. From 2003 to 2005, he was the leader of Multimedia Research Team of AddPac Technology Co. Ltd. In November 2005, he joined the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Media Research Laboratory of Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) as a senior researcher. From 2006 to 2010, he was also an adjunct professor at University of Science and Technology (UST), Korea. From September 2013, he visited Media Communications Lab at University of Southern California (USC), USA as a visiting scholar. He has many contributions to development of international standards such as MPEG Multimedia Application Format (MAF) and JCT-VC High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). His current research interest is in image and video signal processing and compression for realistic media applications such as UHDTV and 3DTV.
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- Thesis Title: Advanced Techniques for Stereoscopic Image Rectification and Quality Assessment, March 2015
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- Thesis Title: Correspondence - Based Analysis of 3D Deformable Shapes: Methods and Applications, September 2007
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- Employment: EverFocus Electronics Corporation / the 99th PhD from
Employment: Microsoft, USA Jia He received her B.S. and M.S. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China, in 2007 and 2010 respectively. She worked in Realsil Microelectronics (Suzhou) Co. LTD. as system engineer in 2010. She was with Professor Kuo's Media Communications Lab from January 2011 to August 2015. She received her MS degree from the University of Southern California in 2015 Summer.
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- Thesis Title: Theory and Applications of Adversarial and Structured Knowledge Learning, March 2021
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- Thesis Title: Advanced Techniques for Latent Fingerprint Enhancement and Recognition, December 2016
Jiawei Yu received his BEng. degree in Software Engineering from McMaster University, Canada, in 2022. He is currently pursuing his Master's degree in Computer Science at USC. His research interests include surface reconstruction, computer vision, and machine learning.
Jiaxin Yang is currently a Ph.D. student in USC and major in Electrical Engineering. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in June 2020. He joined the MCL lab in summer 2022 and his research interests include image processing and machine learning.
Jintang Xue is currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at USC. He received his bachelor's degree in communication engineering from Shanghai University, China, in June 2021. He joined Media Communications Lab in summer 2022. His research interests include machine learning and image processing.
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- Thesis Title: Experimental Design and Evaluation Methodology for Human - Centric Visual Quality Assessment, September 2015
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- Thesis Title: Semantic Video Object Segmentation for Content - Based Multimedia Applications, November 1999
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- Employment: Korea Communications Commission ( KCC ), Korea / the 62nd PhD from
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- Thesis Title: Storage and Retrieval of Wavelet Compressed Imagery Database, December 1997
Dr. Deng Lei received the B.S. degree from the JiLin university, ChangChun, China in 1998 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China in 2000 and 2006, respectively, all in Computer Science and Engineering. From July 2006 to July 2008, he was post doctor in the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science at the Peking University. Since March 2009, he has been with the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science. He is presently the research assistant professor of Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing. From Jan. 2013 to Jan. 2014, he was a visiting scholar in Media Communications Lab at USC. His research interests are in the areas of visual quality and perceptual coding, video compression, and video algorithm and hardware design. Currently, he is the author or co-author of 20 papers and 10 Chinese patents, and he finished 4 projects sponsored by Chinese governmental foundation or corporation foundation.
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- Thesis Title: Efficient Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks: Modeling and Algorithms, July 2011
Mahtab Movahhedrad received her B.S. and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tabriz and Tehran polytechnics, Iran, respectively. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, advised by Professor Kuo. She joined Media Communications Lab in Fall 2021. Her research interests include image processing, computer vision, and Machine learning.
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- Employment: President, Quantum Dimension, USA
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- Thesis Title: Optical Flow and Motion Compensated Coding, March 1995. Employment: the 7th PhD from
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- Thesis Title: Secure Wireless Communications: Performance Bound Analysis and Unitary Modulation Realization, September 2015
Employment: Amazon, Seattle, WA, USA Peida Han received the B.S. degree in Computer Science Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus in 2020. He is currently pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science at USC. He joined the Media Communications Lab in summer 2021. His research interests include medical image segmentation and computer vision.
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- Employment: National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan / URL: Http: / / Www - Scf.Usc.Edu / Peiyingc / the 108th PhD from
Ping Wang received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Hohai University, Nanjing, China, in 2013; and her M.S. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 2015. She was with Professor Kuo's Media Communications Lab from August 2015 to September 2016.
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- Thesis Title: Green Learning for 3D Point Cloud Data Processing, March 2023
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- Employment: Southbay Technology, Inc., Zhejiang, China / the 102nd PhD from
Qingyang Zhou received the B.E. degree in Communication Engineering from Shanghai University, China in 2018, and the M.S. degree in Control Science and Engineering from Tongji University, China in 2021. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. in Media Communication Lab at USC, supervised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. His research interests include video compression and 3D point cloud compression.
Rui Song received his Bachelor degree in Telecommunications, Master and Ph.D. degrees in Signal and Information Processing from Xidian University, Xi'an, china, in 2003, 2006 and 2009, respectively. From 2013 to 2014, he is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Professor C.C.Jay-Kuo's Group, Ming Hsieh Department, Viterbi School of Electric Engineering, University of Southern California, USA. Since 2010, Dr. Rui Song has been an Associate Professor in School of Telecommunication Engineering at Xidian University, Xi'an, China. He is now a member of Image and Video Processing Lab in State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks, and is responsible for video group. His research interests include video coding algorithms, VLSI architecture design for image and video processing, IP design of video codec IP, Pre- and Post-processing of High Definition Camera. He has published 16 research papers which are indexed by EI or SCI and has got 4 patents. For more detailed information about Professor Rui Song, please refer to:http://web.xidian.edu.cn/songrui/en/index.html.
Runqi Pang received his Bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence from Shandong University. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at USC. His research interests include machine learning, generative AI, and computer vision.
Seyoon Jeong received his BS, MS degrees from Inha University in 1995, and 1997, respectively. He received his Ph.D degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Aug. 2014. In December 1996, he joined the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Media Research Laboratory of Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) as a principal researcher. He has many contributions to development of international standards such as Scalable Video Coding (SVC), High Efficient Video Coding (HEVC). His current research interests are in video coding, super resolution and parallel computing for realistic broadcasting applications such as 3DTV and UHDTV. Email: jsy AT etri.re.kr
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- Thesis Title: Temporal - Spatial Rate Control and Transcoding Techniques for Video Compression, December 2002
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- Thesis Title: Design and Performance Analysis of a New Multiuser OFDM Transceiver System, March 2005
Songbin Li received the Ph.D from the National Network New Media Engineering Research Center (3NMedia), Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Science in 2010 and then he worked as a post-doctor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. His research interests focus on multimedia signal processing especially on multimedia forensics and security, steganography, and steganalysis. He is also interested in some creative technology related to network new media, such as computer animation and film special effects production technology.
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- Thesis Title: Robust Image / Video Transmission With Efficient Error Resilient Codecs, November 1999
Thiyagarajan Ramanathan received M.S. in Electrical Engineering at USC in 2019. He received his Bachelor of Technology Degree in Electronics and Instrumentation from Amrita University, India in 2017. He joined MCL in Fall 2018. His research interests are in the field of Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
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- Thesis Title: Automatic Segmentation, Indexing and Retrieval of Audiovisual Data Based on Combined Audio and Visual Content Analysis, September 1999
Tsung-Shan (Kevin) Yang is currently a Ph.D. student, advised by Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo, in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry and Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2019 and his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from NTU in 2021. His research interests include image understanding and machine learning.
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- Thesis Title: Coding and Optimization for Ultra - Wide - Band Wireless Communications, September 2008. Employment: Air University, Pakistan / the 91st PhD from
Vasileios Magoulianitis received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Thessaly, Greece, in 2015. He is currently pursuing a M.S. degree of the Electrical and Engineering department at USC. He joined the Media Communications Lab under guidance of Professor Kuo in Spring 2020. His research interests lie in the areas of image and video processing, computer vision and machine learning.
Wei Wang received her bachelors in Applied Physics from Northeastern University (CN), and her MS degree in Materials Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2014 and 2016, respectively. She is currently a PhD student in Electrical Engineering in Multimedia Communication Lab, advised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. Her research interests include deep learning and image processing.
Activities: Participation in the Entrepreneurship course, CV course, CG course, the Web Design course, the image processing course
Wen-Jiin Tsai received the Ph.D and B.S. degrees, both in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1997 and 1993, respectively. Since August 2013, she has been a visiting scholar in Media Communications Lab at University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. Her research interests include video codec, video quality assessment and UHD video signal processing.
Wenchao Zheng received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China in June 2014. He is currently a Ph.D. student advised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. He has been been with Media Communications Lab since January 2016. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning.
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- Thesis Title: Progressive Compression and Processing of 3 - D Triangular Meshes, July 2000. Employment: Meta Platforms, Inc., Seattle, WA, USA / the 31st PhD from
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- Thesis Title: Advanced Visual Segmentation Techniques: Algorithmic Design and Performance Analysis, September 2015
Xiaoguang Li received his B.E and Ph. D degrees in electronic engineering and circuit and system from the Beijing University of Technology, Beijing China, in 2003 and 2008 respectively. He is presently an associate professor of the Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology. He was a research assistant at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2006, 2007 and 2009 and a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney from Feb. to Jul. 2012. He was a visiting scholar at Media Communications Lab (MCL) at University of Southern California (USC) under the supervision of Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. His research interests include image super resolution, face hallucination, high dynamic range image processing and medical image analysis.
Employment: Google, USA Xin Zhang received the B.E. in Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China in 2010 and earned her M.S, focusing on speech processing at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2013. She was with Professor Kuo's Media Communications Lab from Nov. 2013 to December 2014. She received her MS degree from the University of Southern California in 2015 Spring.
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- Activities: Participation in the Entrepreneurship Course, the Web Design Course, the Computer Vision Course, the Computer Graphics Course, the Image Processing Course and the CNN Project
Xinyu Wang is currently a first year PhD student in Electrical Engineering. She received the B.S. degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in June 2019. She joined the Media Communications Lab in summer 2021. Her research interests lie in image forensics and machine learning.
Xu Qiu received the B.S. degrees in software engineering from Shandong University, China, in 2011. She was with Professor Kuo's Media Communications Lab from August 2013 to August 2015. She received her MS degree from the University of Southern California in 2015 Summer.
Xuejing Lei received her Bachelor's degree in Automation from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in June 2016, and received her Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from USC in May 2018. She joined Media Communications Lab in 2017 summer and now is a PhD student guided by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. Her research interests include computer vision and deep learning.
Employment: Google, USA Yaqi Shao received her Master's degree in Computer Science at University of Southern California in 2020. She obtained B.S. in computer science and technology from Zhejiang Gongshang University, China in 2018. She joined Media Communications Lab in Spring 2020. Her research interests include computer vision and deep learning.
Yifan Wang received B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Fudan University, China in 2018 and M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Southern California, USA in 2020. He start to purse his Ph.D in Media Communication Lab at USC since 2020 fall. His research interests include image and video compression.
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- Thesis Title: Content - Based Video Analysis, Indexing and Representation Using Multimodal Information, November 2002. Employment: PepsiCo, Purchase, NY, USA / the 40th PhD from
Yixing Wu received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Xidian University. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at USC. His research interests include image processing and AI for healthcare.
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- Thesis Title: Autostereoscopic 3D Display Rendering from Conventional Stereo Sequences, February 2016. Employment: Sookmyung Women 's University, Seoul, Korea. the 134th PhD from
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- Thesis Title: Rate Adaptation and Error Control Techniques for TCP - Friendly Internet Video Transmission, October 2002. Employment: LG Electronics, Seoul, Korea / the 39th PhD from
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- Thesis Title: Power - Efficient Multimedia Applications on Embedded Systems, October 2006. Employment: Broadcom / the 74th PhD from
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- Thesis Title: Performance Analysis and Practical Implementation of Digital Modulation Classification Schemes, November 1995. Employment: Mediatek, Hsinchu, Taiwan / the 9th PhD from
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- Thesis Title: Precoding Techniques for Efficient Ultra - Wideband ( UWB ) Communication Systems, September 2007. Employment: Soundcast Co., Ltd, Hsinchu, Taiwan / the 82nd PhD from
Yuhuai is a graduate student in USC and major in Electrical Engineering. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, China in June 2020. He joined the MCL lab in summer 2022 and his research interests include green learning and image processing.
Yun Cheng Wang received his M.S. degree from USC in 2019 and his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2018, both in Electrical Engineering. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at USC advised by Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo. His research interests include graph neural networks and knowledge graphs.
Zhanxuan Mei received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in June 2018. He is currently a master student in Electrical Engineering at USC. He joined the Media Communication Lab in summer 2020 and is currently working on video compression. His research interests include image processing and video processing.
Employment: Huawei, Shenzhen, China Zhaolei Xiao received her Bachelor degree in Hefei University of Technology in China, 2016. Currently, as a master's student in Electrical Engineering at USC, she joined Media Communications Lab in spring 2018 and guided by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. Her research interests include image processing and deep learning.
Zhehang Ding is a current M.S. student in electrical engineering in USC. He received the B.S. degree in Hangzhou Dianzi University, China in 2015. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning.
Zhengning Wang received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), Chengdu, China, in 2000 and 2007, respectively. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as post-doctoral fellow in the second research institute of Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), where he served as a project leader on the Remote Air Traffic Control Tower. He is currently an associate professor at the school of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). From October 2014, he is visiting Media Communication Lab at University of Southern California (USC), USA as a visiting scholar. His research interests are image and video processing, intelligent transportation system, multimedia communication systems and applications. Email: zhengning.wang AT uestc.edu.cn
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- Thesis Title: Theory and Applications of Bandwidth - Efficient Scheduling for Multicast on - Demand Services, July 2002. Employment: Countrywide, New York, NY, USA / the 36th PhD from
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- Employment: Changjiang Securities, China
Employment: Changjiang Securities, China Zhi Tong received his B.E. degree in Department of Electronic Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2011. He received his M.S. degree in Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California in 2013.
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- Thesis Title: Efficient and Robust Compression of 2D and 3D Graphics, November 1999. Employment: Pacific Invesetment Management Co., Newport Beach, CA, USA / the 26th PhD from
Zijing Chen received her Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at USC. Her research interests include machine learning and computer vision.