Dr. Nam Ling, IEEE Fellow

Professor, Department of Computer Engineering

Associate Dean for Graduate Research & Faculty Development

Santa Clara University

Ph.D. Candidates (Passed Comprehensive Oral Exam):

Jianpeng (James) Dong

Research Area: Rate Control for Video Coding

Publication Record (as of January 2008): 5 Conference Publications

Jun Zhang

Research Area: Rate Distortion Optimization & Motion Estimation

Co-advisor: Dr. Weijia Shang

Publication Record (as of January 2008): 2 International Standards, 1 Journal Publication, and 2 Conference Publications

Ph.D. Students (Passed Prelim Exam):

Cheng-ling (Ginger) Tseng

Research Area:

Publication Record (as of January 2008): 1 Conference Publication(s)

Maria Pantoja

Research Area: Video Transcoding

Publication Record (as of January 2008): 1 Conference Publication(s)

Yong Chen

Research Area:

Publication Record (as of January 2008):

Xiang Li

Research Area: Video Coding

Publication Record (as of January 2008):

Ph.D. Students:

Pratibha Zalakikar

Research Area:

Publication Record (as of January 2008):

Frank Tseng

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Publication Record (as of January 2008):

Ph.D. Students Graduated:

Dr. Nien-Tsu (Eric) Wang

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

Dr. Gunnar Hovden

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)

Dr. Xiaoquan (Bill) Yi

Dissertation title: Simplified and Fast Full-Pel and Sub-Pel Motion Estimation for Video Coding

Date graduated: December 2005

Publication Record (as of January 2008): 2 Internaional Standards, 5 Journal Publications, 12 Conference Publications

Currently working at: Google

Dr. Minqiang Jiang

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

Dr. Fengling (Helen) Li

Dissertation title: Improved Motion-Compensated Temporal Filtering (MCTF) for Scalable Video Coding

Date graduated: March 2006

Publication Record (as of January 2008): 2 Journal Publications, 7 Conference Publications