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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Co-authored two books and 200+ refereed publications, and holds 24 granted patents on multimedia, security/forensics, and sensing AI. Received paper awards from IEEE, ACM, and EURASIP. Elected IEEE Fellow (2011), AAAS Fellow (2017), and Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI, 2019) for outstanding contributions to multimedia forensics, security, and signal processing.
Research Experience
President-Elect (2022-2023), IEEE Signal Processing Society; Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2015–2017); Technical Committee (TC) Chair, SPS Info. Forensics and Security TC; also elected as members of MMSP TC & IVMSP TC. Major Conference Leadership: General Co-Chair – ICIP 2017 Beijing; Technical Co-Chair – ICIP 2013 Melbourne, Australia; Finance Chair – ICASSP 2007 Hawaii. Journal editor of IEEE JSTSP, T-IP, T-IFS, SPL.
Education
B.E. degree in EE - Automation and B.A. degree in economics, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China (1996, highest honors); Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, Princeton University (2001).
Background
Main research interests: information security and forensics, multimedia signal processing, and applications of data science/machine learning in health, wireless sensing, IoT, and digital humanities. Currently, Univ. Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher & Associate Dean of Engineering. On the ECE faculty since 2001 at the University of Maryland, College Park, and as Full Professor since 2011.
Miscellany
Instrumental to establish and implement the SPS Travel Grant and manage strategic investment in many activities. Lead Organizer, IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2016 on power signatures for media forensics, the first SP Cup effort that brought the synergy of hardware, sensing, and analytics to SPS global undergrad competitions.