Dr. Ling Guan

Dr. Ling Guan received his Bachelor's Degree from Tianjin University, China, Master's Degree from University of Waterloo, Canada and Ph.D. Degree from University of British Columbia, Canada. From 1992 to 2001, he was on the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia. Since 2001, he has been a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Multimedia and Computer Technology, and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. He is the founder and director of Ryerson Multimedia Research Lab and Centre for Interactive Multimedia Information Mining. Dr. Guan has been working on image, video and multimedia signal processing, human-computer interaction, pattern recognition and machine intelligence, and published extensively in the field. He has served on half a dozen editorial boards of IEEE Transactions and Magazines and chaired the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo in Toronto. He played the leading role in the inauguration of IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia in 2000 and served as the Founding General Chair. Dr. Guan is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is an IEEE Circuits and System Society Distinguished Lecturer and a recipient of the 2005 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award.