Update: Tuesday, Oct 3, 2006

IBM Names Leslie S. Liu as Emerging Leader in Multimedia

Leslie S. Liu, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science, has been selected as one of only eight students from top universities in the US to participate in the IBM organized Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Workshop series. The seminar, organized by Deepak S. Turaga and Gopal S. Pingali, will be held at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center on October 16 and 17 in Hawthorne, New York.

The eight participants were chosen from a number of relevant disciplines across research topics within multimedia. The criteria for the students' selection included recommendations from both IBM researchers and the students' advisors, their research experience and their publication record.

This year's workshop will mark the second installment of the seminar series. Its format has been expanded to one and a half days from last year's successful single day inaugural event, according to Deepak S. Turaga, a research staff member at IBM.

The event will consist of presentations of the students' research, demonstrations of multimedia research currently ongoing at IBM, and several interactive sessions among students and researchers on open and emerging problems in the field, and exciting directions for future research. The students will also have an opportunity to engage in one-on-one meetings with leading IBM Multimedia researchers. The goal, according to Turaga, is to recognize outstanding student researchers in the multimedia area and enable a fruitful dialogue with IBM researchers.

"I am excited about this opportunity and it is an acknowledgment of my work," Liu said about the honor of being selected. "I am especially looking forward to meeting other leading researchers in the multimedia field and to learn about the latest developments at IBM Research."

Liu's research focuses on large-scale interactive media streaming technologies. Research Assistant Professor Roger Zimmermann is his advisor in the Ph.D. program. Liu's most recent work has been presented at the prestigious ACM Multimedia conference, where in 2005 he co-authored a paper on mobile peer streaming and this year he will be demonstrating a peer-to-peer based Massively Multi-player Online Game (MMOG).

Liu is a co-inventor of a peer-to-peer streaming architecture, which is currently being patented (application no. 11/504,536), and he was a member of the USC team that qualified for the US Finals of the Imagine Cup 2006, a world-wide software design competition held at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington. In addition Liu has presented his work at both the 2005 and 2006 Technology Expo, organized by USC's Graduate Technology Alliance, and he is a recipient of IMSC's Industry Award for Excellence in Technology Demonstrations, 2003.

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