His research interests include audio-visual analytics and machine learning with its application in large scale video repositories annotation, search and recommendation, as well as video adaptation, source-channel coding and distributed optimization issues of the wireless video networks. He has 30+ issued or pending patents, 90+ publications in book chapters, journals, conference proceedings and standards contributions in these areas. He is an IEEE senior member, elected member of the IEEE
Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) Technical Committee ,2014-16, elected Vice
Chair of the IEEE
Multimedia Communication Technical Committee (MMTC) 2008~2010, and Standards Liaison, 2014-16.
He is an Associated Editor for IEEE Trans. on
Multimedia, IEEE Trans. on Circuits & System for Video Technology, Springer Journal of Signal Processing Systems, co-editor for the
Springer-Verlag book on "Intelligent Video Communication: Techniques and
Applications". He served on numerous conference and workshop TPCs and was symposium co-chair at IEEE
ICC'2010, and on the Best Paper Award Committee for IEEE ICME 2010.
He received the Best Poster Paper Award from IEEE Int'l Conf on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) at Toronto, 2006, and the Best Paper Award from IEEE Int'l Conf on Image Processing (ICIP) at San Antonio, 2007.
He is a marathon runner and triathlon enthusiast, finished 1 full and 9 half-marathons (best time, 1:45:42, most recent, 1:51:18), as well as 8 Olympic distance triathlon events.