About
Zhu Li (
Bio,
CV) is now a professor with the
Dept of Computer Science & Electrical Engnieering (CSEE),
University of Missouri,Kansas City, and the director of the
NSF Center for Big Learning at UMKC . He was an AFRL summer visiting professor at the
US Air Force Academy , Colorado Springs, Summer of 2016-18, 2020, and 2022. He received his PhD in
Electrical & Computer Engineering from
Northwestern University, Evanston in 2004. He was Sr. Staff Researcher/Sr. Manager with with
Samsung Research America's Multimedia Standards Research Lab in Richardson, TX, 2012-2015, Sr. Staff Researcher/Media Analytics Group Lead with FutureWei (Huawei) Technology's Media Lab in Bridgewater, NJ, 2010~2012, and an Assistant Professor with the Dept of Computing, The
Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2008 to 2010, and a Principal Staff Research Engineer with the Multimedia Research Lab (MRL),
Motorola Labs, from 2000 to 2008.
His research interests include image/video, light field and point cloud compression, deep learning based compression schemes, image/video denoising and super-resolution, video hashing and identification, as well as the video communication system issues like joint source-channel coding, rate-distortion optimization and communication resource management. He has 46 issued or pending patents, 100+ publications in book chapters, journals, conference proceedings and standard contributions in these areas. He is an IEEE senior member, Associate Editor-in-Chief (AEiC) for
IEEE Trans on Circuits & System for Video Technology, Associate Editor (2020~) for
IEEE Trans on Image Processing, associated editor for
IEEE Trans.on Multimedia, 2016-19,for
IEEE Trans on Circuits & System for Video Technology, 2015-18, for
Journal of Signal Processing Systems (Springer), 2015~present, steering committee memeber of IEEE ICME, elected member (2014-2017) of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) Tech Committee, elected Vice Chair (2008-2010), Standards Liaison (2014-2016) of the IEEE Multimedia Communication Technical Committee (
MMTC), member of the Best Paper Award Committee, ICME 2010, co-editor for the Springer-Verlag book on "
Intelligent Video Communication: Techniques and Applications", and "
Multimedia Analysis, Computing and Communication,". He received the
Best Poster Paper Award at IEEE Int'l Conf on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Toronto, 2006, and the
Best Paper (DoCoMo Labs Innovative Paper) Award at IEEE Int'l Conf on Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, 2007.
