Editorial Staff

Pablo Angueira (M’04, SM’11), received the M.S. and PhD in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) in 1997 and 2002 respectively. He joined the Communications Engineering Department of the University of the Basque Country in 1998, where he is currently a Full Professor. He is part of the staff of the Signal Processing and Radiocommunication Lab (http://www.ehu.es/tsr) where he has been involved in research on digital broadcasting (DVB-T, DRM, T-DAB, DVB-T2, DVB-NGH and ATSC 3.0) for more than 20 years. Pablo Angueira is coauthor of an extensive list of papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and a large number of conference presentations in digital broadcasting. He has also coauthored several contributions to the ITU-R working groups WP6 and WP3.

His main research interests are network planning and spectrum management applied to digital terrestrial broadcast technologies. He is currently involved in research activities related to broadcasting in a 5G environment.

Dr. Angueira is the Chair of the IEEE BTS Publications Committee, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and part of the IEEE BMSB International Steering Committee. He is a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE BTS.

As a Distinguished Lecturer, Yiyan is willing to travel to any BTS Chapters.  Yiyan Wu</strong> (F’2001)received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 1986 and 1990, respectively, all in electrical engineering. In 1990, he worked at Telesat Canada as a Senior Satellite Communication Systems Engineer. In 1992, he joined the Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), Ottawa, where he is currently a Principle Research Scientist. His research interests include broadband multimedia communications, digital broadcasting, and communication systems engineering. He is an IEEE Fellow and an Adjunct Professor of Carleton University, Ottawa. He has the authored or coauthored more than 250 publications. Dr. Wu is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society Administrative Committee and a member of Board of Directors of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) representing IEEE. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BROADCASTING. He has received many technical awards and patents for his contribution to the research and development of digital broadcasting and broadband multimedia communications. Communication Research Centre, Ottawa, ON K2H 8S2 Canada Phone: +1 613 998 2870  yiyan.wu@crc.ca

James E. O’Neal has been involved in broadcast technology for more than half a century, beginning with employment during his early teen years at a commercial radio station (KXAR) in his hometown of Hope, Arkansas. He continued to work in both radio and television operations on a part-time basis throughout his high school and college years, beginning a fulltime broadcast engineering career after receiving his college degree. James worked in broadcast engineering for nearly 37 years before retiring in 2005 and launching a second career as technology editor at TV Technology magazine. He held this position for nearly a decade, and now serves as technology consultant for that publication. More than 30 years of Mr. O’Neal’s broadcast engineering career was spent with U.S. Government television operations, including the United States Information Agency’s Television and Film Service, WORLDNET Television, and VOA-TV. During his association with these organizations, James assisted in launching the USIA’s first global satellite-delivered television network, and was heavily involved in both television facility design and satellite transmission engineering operations. He enjoys researching and writing about broadcasting history and persons who have made important contributions in this field. He is a frequent contributor to TV Technology and its sister publications, Radio World. He enjoys collecting and restoring both consumer radio and television items and commercial broadcasting equipment, including an operating replica of the 1947-vintage small town radio station where he began his broadcasting career. Mr. O’Neal is a 1969 graduate of the University of Arkansas and holds both commercial and amateur radio licenses. He is holds Professional Broadcast Engineer and Broadcast Networking Engineer certification from the Society of Broadcast Engineers. He is a Life Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and a Life Member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. In addition, he serves as a member of the IEEE’s Editorial Advisory Board and is a member of the IEEE’s BTS administrative committee. James serves as editor-in-chief of the BTS’s Broadcast Technology publication and is also the organization’s historian. He also serves on the SMPTE Board of Editors, and is an associate editor of that organization’s Motion Imaging Journal.

Cristiano Akamine received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the State University of Campinas, Brazil, in 2011. He is a Professor with Mackenzie Presbyterian University, where he is a Coordinator of Digital TV Research Laboratory. He is a member of the Board of the Brazilian Digital Terrestrial Television Forum and Society of Brazilian Broadcast Engineers (SET). He works in the ISDB-TB broadcasting standardization and holds several patents, licensing of intellectual property, numerous articles published and has a Brazilian scientific grant of Productivity and Technological Development and Innovative Extension—Level 2 from the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development. He has also served as a reviewer for several periodicals and conferences and has participated as a Guest Editor in the Special Issue Point-to-Multipoint Communications and Broadcasting in 5G of IEEE Communications Magazine and the Special Issue on 5G for Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. His research currently focuses on digital terrestrial broadcasting, software defined radio, channel codes, embedded systems, and 5G

Pablo Angueira (M’04, SM’11), received the M.S. and PhD in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) in 1997 and 2002 respectively. He joined the Communications Engineering Department of the University of the Basque Country in 1998, where he is currently a Full Professor. He is part of the staff of the Signal Processing and Radiocommunication Lab (http://www.ehu.es/tsr) where he has been involved in research on digital broadcasting (DVB-T, DRM, T-DAB, DVB-T2, DVB-NGH and ATSC 3.0) for more than 20 years. Pablo Angueira is coauthor of an extensive list of papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and a large number of conference presentations in digital broadcasting. He has also coauthored several contributions to the ITU-R working groups WP6 and WP3.

His main research interests are network planning and spectrum management applied to digital terrestrial broadcast technologies. He is currently involved in research activities related to broadcasting in a 5G environment.

Dr. Angueira is the Chair of the IEEE BTS Publications Committee, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and part of the IEEE BMSB International Steering Committee. He is a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE BTS.

Giuseppe Araniti(S’03, M’05, SM’15) received the Laurea (2000) and the Ph.D. degree (2004) in Electronic Engineering from the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy. He is an Associate Professor on Telecommunications at University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, where he is a member of the Laboratory for Advanced Researches into Telecommunication Systems (ARTS). His research activities are conducted by cooperating with several national and international research groups, from academia and industries, and the results of such research are reported in about 200 scientific publications. His major area of research is on 5G/6G networks, and it includes personal communications systems, enhanced wireless and satellite systems, traffic and radio resource management, multicast and broadcast services, device-to-device (D2D), machine-type communications (M2M/MTC), and e-Heath and telemedicine. He was co-recipient of several best paper awards, among them the “2022 Scott Helt Memorial Award”: the Best Paper in 2021 of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. He has been involved in the organization of numerous international conferences / workshops / schools such as General Chair, Special Session Organizer, Workshop Chair, TPC Chair, Publicity Chair. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Access Journal, SENSORS-Internet of Things Section, and Guest Editor of special issues. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of IEEE BTS Education committee, Vice-Chair of the Special Interest Group on Social Behavior Driven Cognitive Radio Networks-IEEE Comsoc and he was Vice-Chair of the IEEE BTS-Italy Chapter. He develops a technology transfer activity with industries, and he is co-founder of two SMEs operating in the ICT field (one of them is a University Spin-off). Since 2003 he is involved in several teaching activities, mainly at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, where he is currently teaching Wireless Systems Planning and Radio Mobile Networks. He was Rector's Delegate for relationship with industry and job placement and since February 2021 he is bachelor’s degree coordinator in Computer, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering

Greg Best. Greg attended Missouri Institute of Science & Technology graduating in 1976 with a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering, and received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1980. Greg joined Motorola to work on the first 900 MHz cellphone and later worked at Harris Broadcast (now Gates Radio) with various roles from design engineer to TV Product Manager. Greg moved to the consulting field and currently serves the broadcast and communications industry as the President of Greg Best Consulting Inc. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the field of Electrical Engineering, registered in four states. Greg is a member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCCE), Society of Broadcast Engineers, and served as a past IEEE Broadcast Standards Committee chair. Greg was the recipient of the 2012 IEEE BTS Matti Siukola Memorial Award at the Broadcast Technology Symposium for the best symposium paper.

Lap-Pui Chau received the Bachelor degree from Oxford Brookes University and the Ph.D. degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He was with School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University from 1997 to 2022. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include light-field imaging, computer vision, video analytics for intelligent transportation system, human motion analysis, and metaverse. He is an IEEE Fellow. He was the chair of Technical Committee on Circuits & Systems for Communications of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 2010 to 2012. He was general chairs and program chairs for some international conferences. Besides, he served as associate editors for several IEEE journals and Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE BTS.

<p><strong>Jean-Yves Chouinard</strong> received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Université Laval, Québec, in 1987. From 1979 to 1981, he was a telecommunication engineer for Northern Telecom, Montreal. In 1987, he was a postdoctoral fellow at CNET (Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications) in France. From 1988 to 2002, he was a professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa. In 1996, he was an invited professor at ENST (Télécom-Paris) in France. In 2003, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Laval University where he is currently Associate Dean Academic. His research interests are communication theory and applications, wideband mobile and indoor wireless systems, and channel and source coding for advanced television systems. He is the author or co-author of more than 120 journal and conference papers, co-editor of a book on information theory and its applications and co-author of book chapters on software reconfigurable MIMO wireless communication systems as well as time and frequency synchronization schemes for OFDM-based mobile broadcasting.</p> <p>University of Laval, Québec Canada G1V 0A7 Phone: +1 418 656 2131, ext. 2966</p> <p><a href="mailto:jean-yves.chouinard@gel.ulaval.ca">jean-yves.chouinard@gel.ulaval.ca</a></p>

<p><strong>John Cosmas</strong> (M’86) received his BEng in Electronic Engineering at Liverpool University, UK in 1978 and a PhD in Image Processing at Imperial College, University of London, UK in 1986. He worked for five years in industry first with Tube Investments and then with Fairchild Camera and Instruments. After completing his PhD, he worked for 13 years as a lecturer in digital systems and telecommunications at Queen Mary College, University of London. Since 1999, he has worked for Brunel University, first as a reader and then in 2002 as a Professor of multimedia systems. His current research interests are multimedia broadcast communications systems, which evolved from his longstanding interests in video codecs (MPEG 4/7), and mobile communication systems (DECT/GSM/GPRS/UMTS). Prof. Cosmas currently serves as associate editor for IEEE Trans. Broadcasting. He also contributes to the Digital TV Group’s “Mobile Applications” sub-group and to the Digital Video Broadcast’s Technical Module: Converged Broadcast and Mobile Services (CBMS).</p> <p>Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, United Kingdom Phone: +44 1895 266756</p>

Dazhi He received the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Shanghai jiaotong university, Shanghai, China, in 2009. He is an Associate Professor with the Cooperative Media Network Innovation Center, Shanghai jiaotong University, where he has participated in the national standards for digital terrestrail television (DTMB) and the international standards for digital terrestrail television (ATSC3.0). He had published over 30 SCI articles in the field of satellite and terrestrial broadcasting. His current researches include efficient transmission, collaboration communication and fusion network.

<p><strong>Albert Heuberger</strong> finished his studies of electrical engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen- Nuremberg in 1987 and his PhD from the same university in 2005. He joined the Fraunhofer-Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in 1987 and worked as head of the communication systems department until May 2008. In this position he was responsible for contract research for digital broadcasting transmission. Since June 2008 he has been full professor at the Ilmenau University of Technology and head of the Digital Broadcasting Research Laboratory as well as head of the Fraunhofer research group for Digital Broadcasting. His research interests are transmission systems for digital broadcasting applications with focus on channel modeling and QoS prediction for satellite and terrestrial broadcasting systems. He is also giving lectures at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the German University in Cairo.</p> <p>Director, Fraunhofer-Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Am Wolfsmantel 33, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany</p> Phone: +49 9131 776-1000 albert.heuberger@iis.fraunhofer.de

Shuji Hirakawa received Ph.D. degree from University of Tokyo in 1978. As a Ph.D. student, he pioneered research on “coded modulation”. His ground-breaking work was published in a paper, co-authored with Professor Hideki Imai, in the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology (Vol. IT-23, pp.371-377, 1977.) and was selected as one of seventeen papers to receive IEEE Golden Jubilee Paper Award in 1998. Additionally, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in Japan gave him the honor of IEICE Centennial Milestone in September 2017 identifying their work as one of the origins of “Codec Modulation.”

Dr. Hirakawa joined Toshiba Corporation in 1978. In late 80’s and early 90’s, he was deeply involved in the development of MUSE encoder for analog HDTV transmission. From 1998, his group developed a new broadcasting satellite service (BSS) system for digital sound broadcasting and was adopted by Japanese industrial standardization body (ARIB) as the domestic standard. In ITU-R, he developed Recommendation BO.1130 System E for Japanese BSS (sound) in 1999 and 2000. He left Toshiba Corporation in March 2017 and joined Japanese Standards Association in July 2017.

Dr. Hirakawa has been a key member in many international standardization organizations. He was a vice-chairman of ITU-R WP 6M (multimedia and interactive broadcasting system) and WP 6B (broadcast service assembly and access) until Oct. 2015 for digital broadcasting transmission side standardization. In parallel, he was the Secretary of IEC TC 100 (audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment) from 2004 to 2010 for digital broadcasting receiving side. From 2011 to 2016, he was the IEC Standardization Management Board (SMB) member representing the IEC National Committee of Japan. Currently, he is the Chair of IEC TC 124 (wearable electronic devices and technologies) from June 2017.

In IEEE, he was an editorial board member of the Proceeding of the IEEE from 2006 to 2012. He was the Secretary 2004-05, the Vice Chairman 2006-07 and the Chairman 2008-09 of IEEE Broadcast Technology Japan Chapter. Additionally, he hosted IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB) 2016 in Nara City, Japan.

Dr. Hirakawa is an IEEE Life Fellow and an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.

shuji.hirakawa@ieee.org

<p><strong>Byeungwoo Jeon</strong> received his B.S. degree (Magna Cum Laude) in 1985, M.S. degree in 1987 from the Department of Electronics Engineering, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea, and his Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, in 1992. From 1993 to 1997, he was in the Signal Processing Lab, Samsung Electronics, Korea, where he conducted research and development into video compression algorithms, design of digital broadcasting satellite receivers, and other MPEG-related research for multimedia applications. Since September 1997, he has been with the faculty of the School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, where he is currently a professor. He was a visiting scientist in MIT, USA in 2006-2007, and in Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore in 2010. His research interests include multimedia signal processing, video compression, statistical pattern recognition, and remote sensing. He served as Project Manager of Digital TV and Broadcasting in the Korean Ministry of Information and Communications from 3/2004 to 2/2006, where he supervised all digital TV-related R&amp;D in Korea. Dr. Jeon is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of SPIE, IEEK, KICS, and KSOBE. He was a recipient of the 2005 IEEK Haedong Paper Award in Signal Processing Society, Korea.</p> <p>Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea Phone: +82-31-290-7144 <br />bjeon@skku.edu</p>

Xin Jin (S’03–M’09-SM'11) received the M.S. degree in communication and information system and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering, both from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. From 2006 to 2008, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow with The Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 2008 to 2012, she was a Visiting Lecturer with Waseda University, Japan. In 2012, she joined Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, China, where she is currently a full professor. She is the Distinguished Professor of Pengcheng Scholar. Her current research interests include computational photography and power-constrained video processing and compression. She has published over 150 conference and journal papers. Dr. Jin is an IEEE Senior Member, and a member of SPIE and ACM. She is a TC member of IEEE Visual Signal Processing and Communications Technical Committee. She received the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2016, the first prize of Guangdong science and technology award in 2015 and ISOCC Best Paper Award in 2010.

Jeongchang Kim received the B.S. degree in Electronics, Communication and Radio Engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea, in 2002 and 2006, respectively, both in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. In 2009-2010, he was with the Broadcasting System Research Department at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) as a Senior Researcher. In 2010, he joined the Division of Electronics and Electrical Information Engineering at Korea Maritime and Ocean University (KMOU), Busan, South Korea, where he is currently a Full Professor. In 2017-2018, he was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. His research interests include MIMO, OFDM, DTV transmission/reception, implementation of digital communication systems, and development of IoT platforms. He served as a working group chair of Future Broadcast and Media Standards Forum (FBMF) to standardize PHY specifications of terrestrial UHDTV in South Korea from 2015-2017. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of ETRI Journal.

<p><strong>Junghwan Kim</strong> was born in Seoul, Korea. He received the B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 1975 and the M.S and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA in 1985 and 1988 respectively. Both of his graduate degrees are in the field of Satellite Communications. In September 1988, he joined the faculty of The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, where is currently a Professor and Graduate Director in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department. His special interests in research are: Satellite Communications, Efficient Channel Coding Schemes, Performance Analysis of Radio Modem/Mobile Network, Spread Spectrum System, Modeling and Analysis of Jamming and Interference Effect. Dr. Kim is a member of IEEE and serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.</p> <p>The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606 USA Phone: +1 419 530 8182</p> <p>jkim@UTNET.UToledo.edu</p>

Wei Li (M’05) received the B.E. degree from Shandong University in 1985, the M.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées of Rennes, France, in 1996, all in electrical engineering. In 2001, he joined Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), where his major focus is broadband multimedia systems and digital television broadcasting. He is currently a Research Scientist with CRC. He was a Researcher with Sherbrooke University, Canada, during 1997-98. He was with Motorola Canada Software Centre, Montreal, Canada, from 2000 to 2001, where he conducted research and development in communication networks. Dr. Li served as the Session Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting in 2006, 2007, 2015, 2016, and TPC Chair in 2016. He was the Managing Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BROADCASTING Special Issue on IPTV in Broadcasting Applications in 2009. He also served as a reviewer for several renowned international journals and conferences in the area of broadcasting, multimedia communication, and multimedia processing. He was the BTS IPTV representative at the ITU-T and the Co-Chair of Enhanced TV Planning Team at ATSC.

Bo Liu (M’08, SM’19) received the BEng degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, in 2004. He then received the MEng. and PhD. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He is currently a Senior Lecturer with the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interests include broadcasting techniques, wireless communications and networks, cybersecurity and privacy, location privacy and image privacy, privacy protection and machine learning.

Jon Montalban works as a Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor at the University of the Basque Country since 2016. He has been part of the TSR (Radiocommunications and Signal Processing) research group for more than ten years. He has held visiting research appointments at Communication Research Centre (CRC), Canada, and Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. He was part of one of the international groups that developed the Layered Division Multiplexing technique, currently part of the ATSC 3.0 standard. His current research interests are in the area of wireless communications architectures and networking for 5G and beyond. He is the co-recipient of the Scott Helt Memorial Award to recognize the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting in 2019. He has served as a reviewer for several renowned international journals and conferences in the area of wireless communications and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Access and the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. 

Dr Cristina Hava Muntean is an Associate Professor with School of Computing, National College of Ireland (NCI) and leader of the Usabiliy Lab. Curently, she holds the position of Interim Vice Dean of of Academic Programmes and Research with School of Computing. She holds a B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. degree awarded by Dublin City University, Ireland in 2005.

Dr Muntean has been constantly involved in various research related activities over the past 20 years fostering and promoting research in Ireland and abroad, building academic collaborations with European and Wordwide Universities, leading research projects, supervising PhD and MSc students and publishing in excess of 130 publications in international peer-reviewed books, journals and conferences.

She has broad and extensive research expertise in the ICT domain in general  and in particular in data communication and networking, adaptive and personalised multimedia delivery, end-user Quality of Experience, data analytics and technology enhanced learning. Dr Cristina Muntean was awarded 3 prestigious NCI President’s Awards: Outstanding Contribution to Research, Distinguished Teaching Award, and Assessment Innovation Award, and 6 best papers awards.

Dr Cristina Muntean chaired or served as technical program committee member for top international conferences and acted as reviewer for several journals.  She was the Technical Program Committee Co-Chair at IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting conference (2018) and General Chair for the 14th Information Technology & Telecommunications conference 2015.

<p><strong>Liam Murphy</strong> received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from University College Dublin in 1985, &amp; an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 and 1992 respectively. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science &amp; Informatics at University College Dublin, where he is Director of the Performance Engineering Laboratory. Prof. Murphy has published almost 150 refereed journal and conference papers on various topics, including multimedia transmissions, dynamic and adaptive resource allocation algorithms in computer/communication networks, and software development. His current research projects involve computer network convergence and software performance engineering. Prof. Murphy is a Member of the IEEE (Communications, Broadcasting, and Computer societies) and a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society.</p> <p>University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland Phone: +353 1 716 2914</p> <p>liam.murphy@ucd.ie</p>

<p><strong>Jong-Soo Seo</strong> received the BS degree in Electronic engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1975 and the MS and Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada in 1983 and 1988, respectively. He worked in IDC and CAL, Canada, on the R&amp;D of digital satellite communications and broadcasting systems for six years. From 1990 to 1992, he worked in Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology as a principal researcher. Since 1995, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, where he is a professor. Since 2001 he works as a Director of the Center for Advanced Broadcasting Technology, Yonsei University. His current research interests include terrestrial and satellite mobile multimedia broadcasting and 4th generation mobile communication technologies.</p> <p>Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea</p> <p>Phone: +82-2-2123-2878</p> <p>jsseo@yonsei.ac.kr</p>

<p><strong>Demin Wang</strong> received his B. S. and M. S. degrees in electrical engineering from Shandong University of Technology, China, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and his Ph. D. degree from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) de Rennes, France, in 1992. In 1985, he joined Shandong University of Technology where he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1992 to 1993. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, from 1993 to 1994, and a visiting professor at the Institut de Recherche en informatique en systèmes aléatoires (IRISA) Rennes, France, from 1994 to 1995. Since 1996, he has been with the Communications Research Centre, Canada, where he is currently senior scientist and project leader of video coding and processing. His research interests include image coding and processing, video processing and coding, digital TV and broadcasting. Dr. Wang has published over 80 journal and conference papers and is an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting.</p> <p>Communication Research Centre, Ottawa, ON K2H 8S2 Canada</p> <p>Phone: +1 613 991 5621 </p> <p>Demin.Wang@crc.ca</p>

As a Distinguished lecturer, Hsiao-Chun is willing to travel to Chapters located in North America, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Korea.  Hsiao-Chun Wu received a B.S.E.E. degree from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 1990, and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1993 and 1999 respectively. From March 1999 to January 2001, he had worked for Motorola Personal Communications Sector Research Labs as a Senior Electrical Engineer. Since January 2001, he has joined the faculty in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. In July to August 2007, Dr. Wu was a visiting assistant professor at Television and Networks Transmission Group, Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. From August to December 2008, he was a visiting associate professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, California.  Dr. Wu has published more than 220 peer-refereed technical journal and conference articles in electrical and computer engineering. Among them, more than 160 papers are published diversely in over a dozen of different IEEE or ACM societies. His research interests include the areas of wireless communications and signal processing. Dr. Wu is an IEEE Fellow and currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and a Technical Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine. Besides, he serves as the lead guest editor for a special issue in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2009, and another special issue in Journal of Communications, 2010. He also serves for numerous textbooks, IEEE/ACM/IET/SPIE/EURASIP conferences and journals as technical committee, symposium co-chair and track chair or reviewer in signal processing, communications, circuits and computers. Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA. Phone: + 1 225 578 5530. Email: wu@ece.lsu.edu.

Dr. Yiling Xu received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China. From 2004 to 2013, Dr. Xu was a senior engineer with the institute for multimedia communications research at Samsung Electronics Inc. Since 2013, she joined the Shanghai Jiaotong University and became a professor of the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering. Her research interests include digital broadcasting, IPTV, network convergence, next generation multimedia applications and smart transportation. Dr. Xu holds more than 90 filed patents and 100 standard contributions. She has been an active member in DVB, MEPG, ATSC, 3GPP, OIPF, OMA and FOBTV.

<p><strong>Jinyun Zhang</strong> (F’2008) received the B.Sc. degree in radio electronics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1970. Following her graduation, she was with Tsinghua University for teaching and research until 1984. She received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Ottawa, Canada in 1991. She then joined Nortel Networks for more than 10 years, where she held various management positions and engineering positions in the areas of digital signal processing, wireless communication and optical networks. She was a key contributor for Nortel’s 1st generation, 2nd generation and 3rd generation mobile base stations as well as ultra high speed optical DWDM networks. Since 2001, Dr. Zhang has been the Manager of Digital Communications & Networking Group at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA, USA. Currently, she is leading many new broadband wireless communications and networking research projects that include UWB, ZigBee Ad Hoc, MIMO, broadband multimedia home networking, wireless sensor networking, high speed WLAN, cooperative communications, WiMAX and next generation mobile communications. Dr. Zhang has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications, invented and co-invented more than 70 patent applications, and made numerous contributions to various international standards in the area of wireless communications. Dr. Zhang is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, and served as a TPC member of various IEEE conferences and a technical reviewer for many IEEE publications.</p> <p>Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA</p> <p>Phone: +1 617 621 7595 </p> <p>jzhang@merl.com</p>

<p><strong>Liang Zhang</strong> (SM’07) received the B. S. degree from Chengdu Institute of Radio Engineering in 1982, the M. S. degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1986, and the Dr.-Ing. (Ph. D.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Hannover, Germany in 2000. Dr. Zhang is a Senior Member of IEEE BTS and CAS Societies. He was a recipient of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and the Journal of Real-Time Imaging./p&gt;</p> <p>Advanced Video Systems, Broadcast Technology Research, Communications Research Centre Canada, 3701 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K2H 8S2/p&gt;</p> <p>Phone: +1-613-991-6995</p> <p>liang.zhang@crc.gc.ca</p>

Liang Zhang [M’11, SM’14, F’22] received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the department of electrical and computer engineering from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, in 1998 and 2002. Dr. Zhang is a Senior Research Scientist with the Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and is currently responsible for research program coordination and oversight. His main research areas include convergence of next generation broadband and broadcast systems, spectrum monitoring and data analysis, and spectrum policies. He has been deeply involved in the ATSC 3.0 standardization activities on developing the layered-division-multiplexing (LDM) technology, in-band distribution link (IDL), integrated access and backhaul (IAB), and inter-tower communications network (ITCN).

 

Dr. Zhang is an IEEE Fellow, Chair of IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) Fellows Evaluation Committee, previous Chair of IEEE BTS Distinguished Lecturer Committee, elected member of the IEEE BTS Administrative Committee (AdCom), IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and IET Communications Journal. Dr. Zhang has more than 100 peer-reviewed Journal and conference publications, many technical contributions on Digital Radio Broadcast (DAB) and ATSC 3.0 standards, and received over ten Best Paper Awards from IEEE, IBC and NAB for his work on the next generation ATSC 3.0 and the 5G broadcasting systems.

Geographies that you would be willing to travel to North America, Europe, Asia

As a Distinguished Lecturer, Ce is willing to travel to any BTS chapter. Ce Zhu (M’03–SM’04–F'17) received the B.S. degree from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, and the M.Eng and Ph.D. degrees from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1989, 1992, and 1994, respectively, all in electronic and information engineering. He pursued postdoctoral research at Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995, City University of Hong Kong, and University of Melbourne, Australia, from 1996 to 1998. Dr. Zhu is now a professor with the school of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China. He was with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, for 14 years, where he had been an Associate Professor since 2005. He has held visiting positions at Queen Mary, University of London (UK), and Nagoya University (Japan). His research interests include video coding and communications, video analysis and processing, 3D video,visual perception and applications. Dr. Zhu has served on the editorial boards of seven international journals, including as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and Area Editor of Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier). He has served on technical/program committees, organizing committees and as track/session chairs for over 60 international conferences.  He has also given tutorials at international conferences (e.g. IEEE ISCAS 2015, VCIP 2014, PCM 2014), and has delivered keynote speeches at a few international conferences.  Dr. Zhu is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the IET.  He is a co-receipient of best (student) paper awards at four international conferences (MobiMedia 2011, IIH-MSP 2013, IEEE BMSB 2014 and IEEE ICME 2017).

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