My research interests are in the field of signal processing, especially image and video processing, compression, and multimedia communications. I am affiliated with the Multimedia Communications Lab.

Much of my recent research has been focused on multimedia ergonomics. You can learn more about it in the following article.

Current group members:

Research associates:

• Dr. Md. Zulfiquar Ali Bhotto
• Dr. Stephen Makonin
• Carl Qian (on leave)

Students:

• Hanieh Khalilian (Ph.D.)
• Choong-Hoon Kwak (Ph.D.)
• Mehdi Stapleton (M.A.Sc.)
• James Lin (M.A.Sc.)

Former group members:

• Sayed Hossein Khatoonabadi (Ph.D. 2015), Software Engineer at PDFTron
  
• Victor Mateescu (M.A.Sc. 2014, B.A.Sc. 2012), Software Engineer at MDA
  [M.A.Sc. Thesis]
• Simranjit Sidhu (B.A.Sc. 2014), Analogic
  [B.A.Sc. Thesis]
• Simran Sarai (M.Eng. 2014), Broadcom
• Hadi Hadizadeh (Ph.D. 2013), Assistant Profesor at Quchan University of Advanced Technology, Iran
  [Ph.D. Thesis]
• Woong Lim, Ph.D. student at Kwangwoon University, Korea
• Yue-Meng Chen (M.A.Sc. 2007, Ph.D. 2012), Founder and CEO of HiCling
  [M.A.Sc. Thesis] [Ph.D. Thesis]
• Hyomin Choi, LG Electronics, Korea
• Kyung-Yeon Min, LG Electronics, Korea
• Jung-Hak Nam, LG Electronics, Korea
• Zhengguang Xie, Assistant Professor at Nantong University, China
• Lokesh Jindal (MITACS Globalink Summer Intern 2011), NVIDIA
• Xiaonan Ma (M.A.Sc. 2011), AeroInfo Systems
  [M.A.Sc. Thesis]
• Mario J. Enriquez, Senior Manager of New Technologies / Human Factors at Johnson Controls
• Weidang Zhang, Assistant Professor at Zhengzhou University, China
• Vipul Mathur (MITACS Globalink Summer Intern 2010), Juniper Networks
• Mahin Torki (M.A.Sc. 2009), Microsoft
  [M.A.Sc. Thesis]
• S. Mohsen Amiri (M.A.Sc. 2009), Ph.D. student at UBC
  [M.A.Sc. Thesis]
• Myo Tun, Sr. Video Software Engineer at EuclidIQ, LLC
• Sohail Bahmani (M.A.Sc. 2008), PostDoc at Georgia Tech
  [M.A.Sc. Thesis]
• Sunghoon Ivan Lee (B.A.Sc. 2008), PostDoc at Harvard Medical School
  [B.A.Sc. Thesis]

Students' sucess:

• Hanieh Khalilian
• IEEE SPS Student Travel Grant for ICASSP (2015)
• Mehdi Stapleton
• NSERC Alexender Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's (2014)
• Chun Qian
• Best Paper Finalist at ICME 2013
• Hadi Hadizadeh
• News article at the SFU ENSC website (2012)
• Best Paper Runner-up at ICME 2012
• Student Travel Award for ICME 2012
• SFU Sustainability Network Award for Excellence in Research on Sustainability - Graduate Student Category (2012)
• Co-winner of the SFU Sustainability Festival Graduate Student Poster Competition (2011)
• Yue-Meng Chen
• NSERC Alexender Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (2010)
• Xiaonan Ma
• Finalist in the 2009 BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge (2009)

Visitors:

• Pengfei Wan, HKUST (2013)
• Dr. Gene Cheung, National Institute of Informatics, Japan (2012)
• Yunlong Feng, National Institute of Informatics, Japan (2012)
• Dr. Donggyu Sim, Kwangwoon University, Korea (2011-2012)
• Prof. John Crawford, UC Irvine (2008)
• Maxime Taquet, Université Catholique de Louvain (2008), now with Harvard Medical School