Professor (ECE)

• Primary Appointment Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Education PhD, McGill University, 1989
• Additional Affiliations Center for Information and Systems Engineering
• Honors and Awards 2019-2021 Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society
  2015-2016 Member-at-Large, Conference Board, IEEE Signal Processing Society
  2013 General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance
  2011 ECE Professor of the Year, Boston University
  2010 AVSS Best Paper Award (with K. Guo and P. Ishwar)
  2010 ICPR SDHA Contest Win (with K. Guo and P. Ishwar)
  2008 Fellow, IEEE
  2004-2005 EURASIP Image Communications Best Paper Award
  2001 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Award
  2013- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  2011- Area Editor, EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communication
  2006-10 Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
  2002-2004 Associate Editor, Signal Processing Letters
  1998-2012 Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine
  1996-2000 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
• Classes Taught EK 130 Introduction to Engineering
  EK 131/132 Introduction to Engineering
  EC 416 Introduction to Digital Signal Processing
  EC 500 Special Topics in ECE
  EC 520 Digital Image Processing and Communication
  EC 720 Digital Video Processing
• Areas of Interest Visual sensor networks
  Image and video processing
  Stereoscopic and 3-D imaging
  Digital signal processing