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Shih-Fu Chang is Richard Dicker Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Director of Digital Video and Multimedia Lab at Columbia University. He has made significant contributions to multimedia search, visual communication, media forensics, and  international standards. He has been recognized with ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, Navy  ONR Young Investigator Award, IBM Faculty Award, ACM Recognition of Service Award, and NSF CAREER Award. He and his students have received many Best Paper Awards, including the Most Cited Paper of the Decade Award from Journal of  Visual Communication and Image Representation. He has worked in different advising/consulting capacities for industry research labs and international institutions. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the American  Association for the Advancement of Science. He served as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2006-8), and Chair of Columbia's Electrical Engineering Department (2007-2010).   

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley (August 1993)
• M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley (May 1991)
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (June 1985)

• Multimedia  
• Computer vision 
• Signal processing  
• Visual search engine  

• Richard Dicker Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University (2011-Date).
• Professor and Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University (2007-Date).
• Director, Columbia ADVENT University-Industry Research Consortium (2000–2003).
• Deputy Director, Image Technology for New Media Center, Columbia University, 1997.
• Visiting Faculty, IBM T.J. Watson Center (2004-6); Microsoft Research Beijing (2006).
• Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, MediaQuest Technologies Inc., 1999-2000.
• Advisory Board Member/Consultant, Eastman Kodak (1998), PictureTel (1998), iBeam (2000-2002), Sekani (2000), SOSi (2000-2002), Chonghwa Telecom Lab, Taiwan (2003, 2005, 2006), InspireWork (2003), Institute of Information Industry, Taiwan (2001-date), Motionbox (2007-date).

S.-F. Chang, W. Chen, H.J. Meng, H. Sundaram, and D. Zhong, "A Fully Automatic Content-Based Video Search Engine Supporting Multi-Object Spatio-Temporal Queries," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 602-615, Sept. 1998.

J. R. Smith, S.-F. Chang, “VisualSEEk: A Fully Automated Content-Based Image Query System,” In ACM Multimedia Conference, Boston, MA, November 1996.

J. R. Smith and S.-F. Chang, "Searching for Images and Videos on the World-Wide Web," IEEE Multimedia Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 12-20, 1997.

M. Naphade, J. R. Smith, J. Tesic, S.-F. Chang, W. Hsu, L. Kennedy, A. Hauptmann, and J. Curtis, “Large-Scale Concept Ontology for Multimedia,” IEEE Multimedia Magazine, 13(3), 2006.

H. Meng and S.-F. Chang, “CVEPS: A Compressed Video Editing and Parsing System,” In ACM Multimedia Conference, Boston, MA, November 1996.

S.-F. Chang and D.G. Messerschmitt, "Manipulation and Compositing of MC-DCT Compressed Video," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Intelligent Signal Processing, pp. 1-11, Jan. 1995.

H. Sundaram, L. Xie, and S.-F. Chang, “A Utility Framework for the Automatic Generation of Audio-Visual Skims”, ACM Multimedia Conference, France, Oct. 2002.

C.-Y. Lin, S.-F. Chang, “A Robust Image Authentication Method Distinguishing JPEG Compression from Malicious Manipulation,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 11(2):153-168, February 2001.

T.-T. Ng, S.-F. Chang, “An Online System for Classifying Computer Graphics Images from Natural Photographs,” In SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, January 2006. Project Site: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/trustfoto (demo site: http://apollo.ee.columbia.edu/trustfoto/trustfoto/natcgV4.html)

J. Wang, E. Pohlmeyer, B. Hanna, Y.-G. Jiang, P. Sajda, and S.-F. Chang, “Brain State Decoding for Rapid Image Retrieval,” ACM Multimedia Conference, Beijing, Oct. 2009.

J. Wang, T. Jebara, S.-F. Chang, “Graph Transduction via Alternating Minimization,” In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Helsinki, Finland, July 2008.

J. Wang, Y.-G. Jiang, S.-F. Chang, “Label Diagnosis through Self Tuning for Web Image Search,” In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Miami Beach, Florida, USA, June 2009.