Biographical sketches of authors
Wai-Man Lam
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (lamw@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Lam received his B.Sc. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1987 and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1992. He worked at Thomson Consumer Electronics, Indianapolis, Indiana, for several years, joining the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1996 as a Research Staff Member. He currently manages the Video and Image Communications group. Dr. Lam's principal areas of interest have included digital video processing, embedded devices development, and wireless communications.
Ligang (Larry) Lu
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (lul@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Lu is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in the Video and Image Systems group. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He joined IBM in 1997 and has been working in the areas of visual communication systems and multimedia technologies. From 1995 to 1997, he was with the Thomson Consumer Electronics research center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dr. Lu's research interests include digital video processing, visual communication and multimedia technologies, structured quantizer design, etc. He received the Alan Dumont Award from Rensselaer in 1996 for his academic achievement.
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