Jian Zhang PhD, SMIEEE Conjoint Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia Email: jzhang@cse.unsw.edu.au Principal Researcher, National ICT Australia Locked Bag 6015, UNSW, Sydney, NSW 1466, Australia Office: Room E308, Building L5 Phone: +61 2 8306 0780 Fax: +61 2 8306 0403 Email: jian.zhang@nicta.com.au http://www.nicta.com.au/people/zhangjian

Jian Zhang is a Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Dr Zhang earned his Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from East Normal University, China in 1982; a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Flinders University, South Australia in 1994; and completed a PhD from School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, UNSW@ADFA, Australian Defence Force Academy, at the University of New South Wales in 1997.

In 1997, Dr. Zhang joined the Visual Information Processing Lab, Motorola Labs in Sydney as a senior research engineer and later became a principal research engineer and foundation manager of Visual Communications Research Team, Motorola Labs, Sydney. While at Motorola labs, he worked on a range of research projects including image processing, video coding and communication, image segmentation and multimedia content adaptation. Apart from paper publication from his research output, he was co-author of more than ten patents filed in US, UK, Japan and Australia.

Since 2004, Dr Zhang has been a Principal Researcher with National ICT Australia (NICTA), where is a research leader of Multimedia and Video Communications Research at NICTA Sydney Lab in UNSW Kensington campus. He leads three NICTA research projects in the areas of computer vision, multimedia content analysis and management, and multimedia content indexing and query. His research interests include multimedia content management; video understanding; and video coding and communication. Multimedia content management provides advanced algorithms to manage, index search, and retrieve rich multimedia content. Video understanding is concerned with the automatic or semi-automatic extraction of semantic information from video sequences. Video coding and communication provides an efficient method for video compression and robust transmission. He served as associate editors of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT) and International Journal of Image and Video Processing (Journal of VIP).

PhD scholarships are available to fund high profile PhD candidates in the following areas:

· Image processing

· Multimedia Information Retrieval

· Video coding and transmission over wireless networks

· Computer vision

· Surveillance video content analysis

Ø Jian is the project leader for the following NICTA Research Projects at NICTA Sydney Lab in Kensington

o STaR Sensing and Surveillance project

o Video Content Analysis and Management for Surveillance

o Honours and postgraduate projects list

Ø Publication

Ø Professional Activities

o Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT)

o Associate Editor of International Journal of Image and Video Processing (EURASIP_JIVP)

o Senior member of the IEEE and its Communications, Computer, and Signal Processing Societies.

o Technical Co-Chairs of 2008 IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop (MMSP08)

o Technical Co-Chairs of 2008 IEEE ICIP Workshop on Multimedia signal processing for visual information retrieval (Workshop_ICIP08)

Ø Teaching

o Multimedia Systems (COMP9519) (Lecturer-in-Charge)