Working Experience
Resume (updated Feb. 2012)Member of Technical Staff, Sharp Labs of America, 2000-2002
Assistant Professor, LDCSEE, WVU, 2003-2008
Associate Professor, LDCSEE, WVU, 2009-present
My Top 5 Cited Papers
New Edge-Directed InterpolationEdge-Directed Prediction
Sequential Error Concealment
Image Denoising
Image Demosaicing
Research Demo
Image restoration via low-rank methods
Image denoising via dictionary learning and structural clustering
Deterministic Annealing based image recovery
Collective sensing in the metric space
Projection-based image deblurring
Patch-based video processing
Backward adaptive video coding
Implicit Motion Representation
Image Demosaicing
Sequential Error concealment
New Edge Directed Interpolation
Professional Activities
IEEE Senior Member 2008-Present
Member of Eta Kappa Nu'2013
ICIP'2013 Tutorial Chair
Associate Editor for IEEE TIP, 2010-2013
Member of IEEE IVMSP TC, 2011-2013
Favorite Links
Scientific American
People's archive (great man's stories)
The MY HERO Project
TED (Ideas Worth Spreading)
Favorite Books
Theory of games and economic behavior
Eye, Brain and Vision
On Intelligence
Cybernetics
The Selfish Gene
The Future of the Brain
What is Life?
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
The Life of the Cosmos
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
History of Western Philosophy
Favorite Video
The pleasure of finding things out
Stay hungry, stay foolish
The Character of Physical Law
Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Jeff Hawkins on Brain Science
Favorite Quotes
"If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results. " - Issac Newton
"Nature is not economical of structures but of principles.'' - Abdus Salam
"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living." - Henri Poincaré
Teaching
CS221: Introduction to Algorithms
CpE271: Introduction to Logic Design
EE465: Intro. to Digital Image Proc.
EE467: Intro. to Digital Speech Proc.
EE565: Advanced Image Processing
EE569: Digital Video Processing
Recent PhD Graduates
Congxia Dai'2007 (now with Qualcomm)
Yunfei Zheng'2008 (now with Apple)
Ayman Abaza'2008 (now with WVHTC)
Qiang Hao'2012 (now with General Welfare)
Bits of Wisdom
Songwu Lu's page On Research
Silvia Miksch's page on Research Tips
Richard Hamming You and Your Research
Bai Lu's Blog on scientific research
Stanford EE If I were starting over
Stop the numbers game
How to become a highly-cited author
Research Funding: Less Should be More
Collected Research Tips
Nature Mentoring Tips