Dr. Nam Ling, IEEE Fellow
Sanfilippo Family Professor (University Endowed Chair)
Chair, Department of Computer Engineering
Research Collaborator
Associate Professor (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), formerly Visiting Associate Professor (Santa Clara University)
Dr. Jianhua Zheng
Researcher at Hisilicon/Huawei
Dr. Philipp Zhang
Chief Scientist, Hisilicon/Huawei
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Project (Collaboration with Huawei/Hisilicon Technologies):
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Ph.D. students:
News: Setting the Standard for Video Coding
Research Topic:
Intra Prediction
Publication/patent/standard record:
3 conference publication; 6 U.S. patents filed (regular)
passed PhD Prelim Exam and Oral Comprehensive Exam
Research assistant
Research Topic:
Motion Estimation and Mode Decision in HEVC and 3D-HEVC
passed PhD Prelim
Publication record: 4 conference publications
Packard Fellowship Recipient
Research Topic:
View Synthesis in 3D-HEVC
passed PhD Prelim
Research Topic:
3D-HEVC
Publication/patent/standard record:
3 conference publications; 1 U.S. patent granted
passed PhD Prelim Exam
Research Topic:
3D-HEVC
passed PhD Prelim
Research Topic:
Human Attention Region of Interest
Publication record: 1 conference publication
passed PhD Prelim Exam and Oral Comprehensive Exam
Research Topic in Video Coding not yet defined:
Ph.D. students:
3-D Graphics and Visualization:
Undergraduate research students graduated:
Awards received:
News
Current employer: Lytro Inc. Publication record: 2 conference publications
Record: Developed games on iPhone and iPad, sold more than 3,000 games.
Ph.D. Students Graduated:
Dissertation title:
Processing and Storage Models for MPEG-2 Main Level and High Level Video Decoding A Block-Level Pipeline Approach
Date graduated: March 2004 Publication Record (as of January 2008):
4 Journal Publications, 3 Conference Publications
Current employer: Quantenna Communications
Dissertation title:
Generation of Optimized Facial Animation Parameters
Date graduated: December 2003 Publication Record (as of January 2008):
1 Journal Publication, 5 Conference Publications (1 Best Paper Award)
Dissertation title:
Simplified and Fast Full-Pel and Sub-Pel Motion Estimation for Video Coding
Date graduated: December 2005 Publication Record (as of January 2011):
2 Internaional Standards, 8 Journal Publications, 12 Conference Publications
Dissertation title:
Adaptive Rate Control for Advanced Video Coding
Date graduated: March 2006 Publication Record (as of January 2008):
4 Journal Publications, 6 Conference Publications
Dissertation title:
Improved Motion-Compensated Temporal Filtering (MCTF) for
Scalable Video Coding
Date graduated: December 2006 Publication Record (as of January 2008):
2 Journal Publications, 7 Conference Publications
Current employer: Fenwick & West LLP.
Dissertation title:
An Efficient IPB-Picture Transcoder with Joint Pixel and Transform Domain Processing
Date graduated: September 2009 Publication Record (as of December 2013):
3 Journal Publications, 6 Conference Publications
Current employer: Santa Clara University
Dissertation title:
Context Adaptive Rate-Distortion Optimization in Video Coding
Date graduated: June 2010 Publication Record (as of June 2010):
2 international standards, 2 journal publications, and 4 conference publications
Current employer: Vercury Inc.
Miok Kim
Promila Agarwal
Xiang Li
Myung-Je Cho
Rajesh Turlapati
Sylvia N'guessan
Thanh Do
John Judnich
(1) Honorable Mention - CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award 2013;
(2) SCU 2013 Exemplary Pathway Essay Award;
(3) SCU 2013 Award for Research Excellence in Undergraduate Engineering;
(4) SCU 2013 Computer Engineering Outstanding Senior Award;
(5) SCU 2013 Computer Engineering Award for Technical Excellence;
(6) SCU 2013 Engineering Senior Design Presentation Award
Dr. Nien-Tsu (Eric) Wang
Dr. Gunnar Hovden
Dr. Xiaoquan (Bill) Yi
Dr. Minqiang Jiang
Dr. Fengling (Helen) Li
Dr. Maria Pantoja
Dr. Jun Zhang
