Biography

 Hamid Rahim Sheikh completed his Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, in 1998 and worked for a few months for And-Or Logic, Islamabad, Pakistan, before joining The University of Texas at Austin in Fall 1999. He joined the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE) in January 2000 as a research assistant. Hamid completed his MS in May 2001 and his PhD in Spring 2004. He currently works with Texas Instruments Inc. in Dallas, Texas. His MS work was on real-time implementation of foveated video coding. During Summer 2001, he interned at Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas, with their Imaging Business Unit on video codecs for TI's Digital Still Camera (DSC) line of processors. His research interests include Human Visual System modeling for image processing and compression, image and video codecs, embedded implementation of image and video codecs and full-reference and no-reference quality assessment for images and video. He enjoys translating Urdu poetry into English, and pestering his parents.

Hamid is a TxTEC Fellow 2001-2002.

Hamid is fluent in Punjabi, Urdu and English.