Chang Wen Chen

Affiliations:

2008-2021

Computer Science and Engineering

State University of New York, Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States

Area:

multimedia communication; multimedia systems; image/video processing; multimedia signal processing

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Bio:

Chang Wen Chen received his BS from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1983, MSEE from the University of Southern California in 1986, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. He is currently Chair Professor of Visual Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before his current position, he served as Dean of the School of Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen from 2017 to 2020. He also served as an Empire Innovation Professor at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York from 2008 to 2021. He was Allen Henry Endow Chair Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2007. He was on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester from 1992 to 1996 and on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1996 to 2003.

He has served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans. Multimedia from January 2014 to December 2016, and the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology from January 2006 to December 2009. He has been an Editor for several other major IEEE Transactions and Journals, including the Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. He has served as Conference Chair for several major IEEE, ACM, and SPIE conferences related to multimedia communications and signal processing. His research has been funded by both government agencies and industrial corporations.

He and his students have received nine (9) Best Paper Awards or Best Student Paper Awards over the past two decades. He has also received several research and professional achievement awards. These include the Sigma Xi Excellence in Graduate Research Mentoring Award in 2003, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2009, the University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar – Sustained Achievement Award in 2012, the SUNY System Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2016, and the University of Illinois ECE Distinguished Alumni Award in 2019.

His research interests include multimedia communication, multimedia systems, mobile video streaming, Internet of Video Things (IoVT), image/video processing, computer vision, deep learning, multimedia signal processing, and immersive mobile video. He is an IEEE Fellow (2005), a SPIE Fellow (2007), and an elected member of the Academia Europaea (2021).
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