Godwin Shen

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Godwin Shen

Ph.D. student

Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

E-mail: godwinsh@usc.edu

Advisor: Antonio Ortega


Research Interests

  • Energy-Efficient Data Compression for Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Image Compression
  • Wavelet Transforms


Education

  • Sep. 2005-present: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    • Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems
  • Sep. 2005-May 2007: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    • Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, May 2007, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems
  • Sep. 2001-Jun. 2005: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Jun. 2005, Department of Electrical Engineering


Professional Experience

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory: May 2008 – Aug. 2008
    • Intern in Information Processing Group
    • Research in Distributed Data Compression
  • Raytheon Company: May 2003 – Aug. 2005
    • Intern in Systems Engineering
    • System Specification and Test for Air Defense Systems


Fellowships / Awards

  • USC Viterbi School of Engineering Doctoral Fellowship (Sep. 2005-May 2009)
  • NASA Space Grant Award (May 2008-Aug. 2008)
  • NASA Pair Grant Award (Sep. 2004-Jun. 2005)


Skills / Tools

  • Proficient in C/C++, MatLab.
  • Working knowledge of Windows and UNIX systems.


Conference Publications

  • G. Shen and A. Ortega, "Tree-Based Wavelets for Image Coding: Orthogonalization and Tree Selection". To Appear in 2009 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS'09), Chicago, May 2009.
  • G. Shen, S. Pattem and A. Ortega, "Energy-efficient Graph-based Wavelets for Distributed Coding in Wireless Sensor Networks". In Proc. of 2009 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'09), Taipei, April 2009. PDF format
  • G. Shen, S. Narang and A. Ortega, "Adaptive Distributed Transforms for Irregularly Sampled Wireless Sensor Networks". In Proc. of 2009 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'09), Taipei, April 2009. PDF format
  • S. Pattem, G. Shen, Y. Chen, B. Krishnamachari and A. Ortega, "SenZip: An Architecture for Distributed En-route Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks". In Workshop on Sensor Networks for Earth and Space Science Applications (ESSA'09), San Francisco, April 2009. PDF format
  • G. Shen and A. Ortega, "Compact Image Representation Using Wavelet Lifting Along Arbitrary Trees". In Proc. of 2008 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'08), San Diego, October 2008. PDF format
  • G. Shen and A. Ortega, "Joint Routing and 2D Transform Optimization for Irregular Sensor Network Grids Using Wavelet Lifting". In Proc. of the Fifth Intl. Conf. on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'08), St. Louis, April 2008. PDF format
  • G. Shen and A. Ortega, "Optimized Distributed 2D Transforms for Irregularly Sampled Sensor Network Grids Using Wavelet Lifting". In Proc. of 2008 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'08), Las Vegas, April 2008. PDF format


Miscellaneous Publications

  • G. Shen, S. Y. Lee, S. Lee, S. Pattem, A. Tu, B. Krishnamachari, A. Ortega, M. Cheng, S. Dolinar, A. Kiely, H. Xie, "Novel Distributed Wavelet Transforms and Routing Algorithms for Efficient Data Gathering in Sensor Webs". Earth Science and Tech. Conf. (ESTC'08), Adelphi, MD, June 2008. PDF format
  • S. Lee, S. Pattem, G. Shen, A. Tu, B. Krishnamachari, A. Ortega, M. Cheng, S. Dolinar, A. Kiely, H. Xie, "A Distributed Wavelet Approach for Efficient Information Representation and Data Gathering in Sensor Webs". NASA Science and Tech. Conf. (NSTC'07), Adelphi, MD, May 2007. PDF format


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