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Elected Vice President-Education of IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2026-2028
General Co-Chair, 2024 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW2024), Shenzhen, China, November 24-28, 2024
General Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2024), Niagara Falls, Canada, July 15-19, 2024
Member of IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee (Signal Processing Society), 2024
Member of the NSERC DG Evaluation Group for Electrical and Computer Engineering
Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Nominations and Appointments Committee
Past Chair for IEEE SPS Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee
Highlights
Elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
Elected Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada
Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Award: IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer
Tenure: January 2021 to December 2022
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) Award, 2020
“The DAS program provides substantial and timely resources to researchers who have an established, superior research program that is highly rated in terms of originality and innovation, and who show strong potential to become international leaders within their field.”
Award: IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer
Tenure: January 2020 to December 2021
Award: Sarwan Sahota Ryerson Distinguished Scholar - the Ryerson University highest honor for SRC (scholarly, research and creative activity) achievements, 2020
My perspective article on AI for Finance: “To the Victor Go the Spoils: AI in Financial Markets,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, November 2017.
Feature Article: “Signal Processing for Finance, Economics, and Marketing,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 14-35, May 2017.
Research Interests
My area of interest is signal/information processing and machine learning/AI based theoretical and application research. Currently, my specific interests include the following aspects: Data Science, Multimedia Signal Processing, Statistical Modeling, AI/Machine Learning and Robotics, IoT and Electronic Systems, Wireless Optical Communication and Computing, Smart City, and Applications in Big Data, Finance and Marketing
Selected Publications and Patents (Some e-prints available.)
Conference Organization (Selected)
General Co-Chair, the 46th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021), Toronto, Canada, June 6-11, 2021
General Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing - MMSP2015
Webinars (Selected)
IEEE webinar: Applying Signal Processing and Machine Learning to Finance, Economics, and Marketing, August 21, 2018 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm (EDT)
IEEE webinar: Fundamentals on Signal Processing for Finance and Economics, March 21, 2018 from 11:00am - 12:00pm (EDT)
Tutorials (Selected)
o Tutorial in ISCAS2019: Passive Localization and Tracking for Internet of Things, Half-day, May 26, 2019. [Video Part I] [Video Part II]
o Tutorial in ICASSP2014: Signal Processing for Finance, Economics and Marketing Modeling and Information Processing
Editorship (Selected Current and Past)
Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
Senior Area Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Senior Area Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters