Xiaolin Wu
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Xiaolin Wu got his B.Sc. from Wuhan University, China in 1982, and Ph.D. from University of Calgary, Canada in 1988, both in computer science. Dr. Wu started his academic career in 1988, and has since been on the faculty of University of Western Ontario, New York Polytechnic University (NYU-Poly), and currently McMaster University, where he is a professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Dr. Wu is an IEEE fellow and holds an NSERC senior industrial research chair. His research interests include image processing, data compression, digital multimedia, low-level computer vision, and network-aware visual communication. He has published over 350 research papers and holds four patents in these fields, is an associated editors of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and a past associated editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He also served on technical committees of many IEEE international conferences/workshops on image processing, multimedia, data compression, and information theory. Dr. Wu received numerous international awards and honours, including Velux Fellowship, Nokia Research Fellowship, Monsteds Fellowship, McMaster Distinguished Engineering Professorship, UWO Distinguished Research Professorship, and the 2008 VCIP best paper award.