Biosketch of Prof. Shih-Fu Chang
Prof. Chang received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from U.C. Berkeley in 1991 and 1993 respectively. In 1993, he joined Columbia University Electrical Engineering Department, where he is currently directing Columbia's Digital Video/Multimedia (DVMM) Lab.
 
His group is investigating new technologies for analyzing, searching, protecting, and transmitting multimedia data, with a focus on digital video.  Recent efforts include video content analysis, image/video search, content-based adaptive video transmission, image/video forgery detection, and development of international standards for multimedia metadata. Some publicly deployed research systems from his group are widely used, including VisualSEEk and WebSEEk among the earliest web image search engines, VideoQ as the first motion-based video object search engine, and SARI for JPEG image semi-fragile authentication engine.

Prof. Chang has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including a Navy ONR Young Investigator Award, an IBM Faculty Development Award, an ACM Recognition of Service Award, and a CAREER Award from the NSF. He received a Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in 2000, a Best Paper Award from SPIE VCIP 1995, and a Best Student Paper Award from ACM Multimedia in 1993. Several papers authored by his students and him have also received recognition for best student papers (IEEE ICIP 2004, IEEE CAS YIA 2003, ACM Multimedia 2002 & 2005). In 2004, he is elected as an IEEE Fellow for contributions to digital video and multimedia technologies.

Prof. Chang is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He has worked in various capacity in several media technology companies (IBM, Microsoft, PictureTel, Eastman Kodak, iBeam, and others) and an advisor for several research institutes. He serves as a general co-chair of IEEE Multimedia Conference (ICME) 2004, a general co-chair of ACM Multimedia Conference (2000), and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2001-2.

Chang's group enjoys broad collaboration with industrial partners. He has played a major role and recently served as the director for Columbia's ADVENT University-Industry Research Consortium, which has had more than 20 industrial sponsors.

Through collaboration with industrial partners, Chang and his group have made significant contributions to the development of MPEG-7 (Multimedia Description Schemes) and MPEG-21 (Digital Item Adaptation). Several contributions from his group have been accepted as part of the international standards. In addition, Chang has led several cross-disciplinary projects, including a DAVIC Video on Demand international interoperability test event in 1998, a medical video library under Columbia's Health Care Digital Library supported by NSF (1999-2004), and a K-12 multimedia education project funded by the AT&T foundation.