Resume

Education

  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    Ph.D., Dept. of Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing), 08/02 - present
    GPA: 3.93/4.0

  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    M.S., Dept. of Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing), 08/02 – 08/04

  • National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    B.S., Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 10/98 – 06/02
    GPA: 4.0/4.0

Publications

See Research & Publications

Professional Experiences

  • Research Assistant, 01/05 - present
    Signal and Image Processing Institute
    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    Topics of Research: Distributed multimedia compression

  • Teaching Assistant, 01/05 - 01/07
    Dept. of Electrical Engineering – Systems
    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    EE596 - Wavelet (Prof. Antonio Ortega)
    EE586L – Advanced DSP Design Laboratory (Prof. Antonio Ortega)
    EE483 – Digital Signal Processing (Prof. Richard Leahy)

  • Internship, 06/06 – 08/05, 05/05 – 08/05, 08/04 – 12/04
    IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY
    Mentor: Dr. Olivier Verscheure
    Topic: Optimal Quantization for Adapted GMM Based Speaker Verification

Honors

  • IBM Ph.D. Scholarship, 2007

  • Best Student Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2006

  • Provost Fellowship awarded by University of Southern California, 2002, 2003

Graduate Course Works

  • Signal Processing Theory
    Introduction to Digital Signal Processing, Random Process in Engineering, Wavelets,

  • Applied Signal Processing
    Introduction to Digital Image Processing, Selected Topics in Digital Image Processing (Compression), Advanced Digital Signal Processing Laboratory

  • Classification
    Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning

  • Communication and Coding Theory
    Error Correcting Codes, Estimation Theory

  • Computer Science
    Analysis of Algorithms, Multimedia System Design

Selected Course Projects

  • Real Time Tracking Moving Object in a Surveillance System
    Implemented on TMS3206416, with the functionality to identify and zoom in moving objects up to three.

  • Sources Detection in Wavelet Transform Domain
    Detect the number of sources in Wavelet transform domain and compare it with the common method that is in time domain.

  • Sources Detection Using Bootstrap Method
    Apply Bootstrap method to estimate the number of sources in various scenarios.

  • Performance Examination of H. 26L Integer Transform and Proposal of Improved Quantization.

Laboratory Skills

C/ C++/ Matlab/ HTML, assembly programming for Intel 8051,
DSP based real-time system design with TMS320C6711, TMS3206416

Additional Information

U.S. Citizen
Native Mandarin speaker