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Research Interests

  • Machine learning, image/video processing, pattern recognition & computer vision
    • Image/video coding and communications
    • Image/video inpainting, super-resolution, and denoising/enhancement
    • Semantic segmentation
    • Face & pattern recognition
    • Federated learning
  • Communications
    • Minimum-energy network communications
    • Joint source-channel coding
  • Biomedical engineering
    • Biomedical image processing

Current Research Projects

  • Theory for learning lossless and lossy coding (NSF)
  • Beyond compressed sensing: Analog coding for communications (NSF)
  • Delay and energy: Design tradeoffs in spectrally efficient systems (NSF)
  • Energy demand prediction for electric vehicle charging stations using federated learning (Industry)
  • Screenshot video compression (Industry)

Research Group

  • Current Memebers:
    • Chance Bak (MS student)
    • Yuming Han (PhD student)
    • Riley Kilfoyle (PhD student)
  • Alumni
    • Vladimir Stankovic (post-doc, reader at the University of Strathclyde, UK)
    • Samuel Cheng (MS'99, PhD'04, associate professor at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa)
    • Momin Uppal (MS'06, PhD'10, assistant professor at the LUMS School of Science and Engineering, Pakistan)

    • Pengcheng Pi (PhD'22, jointly supervised with Atlas Wang)
    • Ziwei Xuan (PhD'22, jointly supervised with Krishna Narayanan)
    • Bo Wang (PhD'17)
    • Yifu Zhang (PhD'12)
    • Yu-Bing Chang (PhD'11)
    • Yang Yang (MS'04, PhD'08)
    • Qian Xu (MS'04, PhD'07)
    • Zhixin Liu (PhD'07)
    • Le Zou (PhD'07, jointly supervised with Mi Lu)
    • Yong Sun (PhD'05)
    • Jianping Hua (PhD'04)
    • Shengjie Zhao (PhD'04, jointly supervised with Xiaodong Wang)
    • Tim Lan (PhD'04, jointly supervised with Krishna Narayanan)
    • Zhongmin Liu (PhD'02)

    • Max Lesser (MS'23)
    • Inuk Kang (MS'22)
    • Yixu Chen (MS'21)
    • Deepankar Chandra (MS'20, jointly supervised with Nima Kalantari)
    • Kook Jin Sung (MS'17)
    • Yiding Liu (MS'16)
    • Yan Meng (MS'15)
    • Seoktae (John) Lee (MS'14)
    • Peng Yuan (MS'14)
    • Rengjing Zhang (MS'13)
    • Yaohua Song (MS'12)
    • Chaitanya PolaPragada (MS'08)
    • Praveen Kota (MS'06)
    • Nouman Raja (MS'04)
    • Hui Liu (MS'03)
    • Tianli Chu (MS'02)
    • Cam Barker (BS'02)
    • Muthukumar Shanmuganpillai (MS'01)
    • Jianhong Jiang (MS'01)
    • Anne-Sophie Scheuble (MS'00)
    • Pierre Seigneurbieux (MS'00)
    • Gavin Minami (MS'99)

    • Kaiyang Guo (Oct'17-April'18)
    • Qiwang Chen (Oct'17-Sept'18)
    • Lei Yang (Aug'17-July'18)
    • Jincheng Du, Yuening Li, Yiying Zhang, and Liwu Zhong (Sept'16-Dec'16)
    • Zhuo Li (Mar'16-Mar'17)
    • Zhuo Li, Ziwei Zhu, and Xing Zou (Sept'15-Dec'15)
    • Tao Lu (April'15-March'17)
    • Bochao Zhao (Oct'15-Dec'15)
    • Kai Liu (Feb'15-Feb'16)
    • Zengqiang Yan (Dec'14-Apr'15)
    • Chuting Yao (Oct'14-Jan'15)
    • Lei Yu (Sept'14-Dec'14)
    • Milos Radosavljevic (Oct'13-Jan'14, July'14-Oct'14, Sept'15-Dec'15)
    • Dan Wu (Sept'13-Nov'13)
    • Mang Liao (June'13-Aug'13)
    • Xiaowei Song (Sept'12-Aug'13)
    • Zhongyuan Wang (Apr'12 to May'13)
    • Zongju Peng (Dec'11 to June'12)
    • Rongfang Wang (Sept'11 to Dec'11)
    • Yu-chun Wu (Jan'11 to May'11)
    • Mei Guo (Oct'08 to March'10)