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Work Experience

• Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Aug. 2001 - present.
• Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Aug. 95 - Aug. 2001
• Summer Intern, AT & T Bell Labs, Murray Hill (NJ), June 94 - Aug. 94.
• Research Assistant, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech, Oct. 92 - Mar. 95.
• Summer Intern, Schlumberger Well Services, Austin (TX), June 92 -- Sep. 92.
• Research Assistant, Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center, Georgia Tech,
  July 90 - June 92.
• Summer Intern, Computing Department, Imperial College (London, UK),
  June 88 - Sep. 88.

Professional Achievements and Service

• Director of the Image, Video, and Usability (IVU) and of the Real-time Embedded Signal Processing (RESP) laboratories at Arizona State University.
• Elected Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IMDSP) Technical Committee (2005-present).
• Elected Member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society's Technical Committee (1996-present)
• Member of the Editorial board, Foundation Trends in Signal Processing Journal (2006-present).
• Technical Program Chair, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP) to be held in Cairo, Egypt, in 2009 (2005 - present).
• Technical Track Chair, 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Applications (ISSPA), Sharjah, UAE.
• Technical Track Chair, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2004-2006).
• Main organizer and Technical Program Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM 2005), Scottsdale, AZ, Jan. 2005 (sponsored by Intel).
• Session Chair, "Image Coding" Lecture session, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP), Philadelphia, PA.
• Member of the organizing and steering committee, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP) to be held in Las Vegas, NV, in 2008 (2004-present).
• Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Conference Board (2003-2005).
• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1998-2002)
• Member of the IEEE Signal Processing, IEEE Circuits and Systems, and IEEE Communications Societies
• Member of the technical committee, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2002.
• Member of the technical committee, IEEE International Conference on Circuits & Systems, 2002.
• Organizer and Chair of the Special Session, "Filter Design and Structures," at the Thirty-Six Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems,and Computers, Monterrey, CA, Nov., 2002.
• Publicity Chair, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2000, Vancouver, Canada (1998-2000)
• Vice-chair of the IEEE Signal Processing & Communications Chapter, Phoenix Section (1998-1999)
• Organizer of the Invited Session, "Signal Processing for Interactive Multimedia," Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 1998, Monterey, California
• Publicity Chair, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 1999, Phoenix, Arizona (1996-1999)
• Member of the Organizing Committee, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 1999, Phoenix, Arizona (1996-1999)
• Chair, IEEE Signal Processing & Communication Chapter, Phoenix, AZ (January 1997 - December 1998).
• Registration & Finance Chair, 1998 IEEE Southwest Symp. on Image Analysis and Interpretation .
• Treasurer, IEEE Signal Processing & Communication Chapter, Phoenix, AZ (1996).
• Session Chair, Still and Video Compression , 1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.
• Session Chair, Digital Signal Processing - Filtering and Filter Design I , 1996 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
• Associate Chair of the Technical Committee (Signal Processing Track) of the 1996 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
• Co-organizer of the Special Sessions at the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing.
• Invited Guest Speaker, IEEE Phoenix Section, IEEE Signal Processing & Communication Chapter (September 1995).
• Referee service for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing; IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems; Electronic Letters; Signal Processing (EURASIP); National Science Foundation.
• Member of the Fifth Georgia Tech Graduate Symposium Steering Committee (1994-1995).
• Graduate Welfare Committee Chair at Georgia Tech (1993--1994).
• Senator in the Graduate Student Senate at Georgia Tech (1992--1994).
• Graduate representative to the Administrative Safety Advisory Committee and Faculty Welfare & Security Committee at Georgia Tech (1993--1994).

Professional Societies

• Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
• Member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.