Biography

 Dr. Shizhong Liu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1992 and 1995, respectively, and his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002, specializing in digital image/video processing and communications. His Ph.D research is DCT-domain video foveation and transcoding for heterogeneous video communications, in which a real-time video streaming technology, with optimal visual quality for any given bit rate, was developed. He is now with Physical Optics Corp., focusing on video compression and communications technologies. During the summer of 2002, he worked in Microsoft Research on fast motion estimation and compensation for scalable video coding system. He worked in Tsinghua University as a research engineer on wireless communication system from 1995 to 1996, and Motorola Electronics Ltd. Beijing, China as a software engineer on mobile cellular communication networks from 1996 to 1998. His areas of expertise include digital image/video processing, multimedia communications, wireless communication networks, DSP, VLSI and RF circuit design. He is the author or co-author of 9 technical papers in digital image/video processing and communication field.