Charles Einolf  worked for Westinghouse for over twenty-seven years, including two years at the Westinghouse Wireless Solutions Company (now iBiquity Digital), and was responsible for the design and development of the advanced electronic systems incorporating sensor, computer, communication and signal processing techniques. In 1996, he took advantage of the opportunity to become involved in digital television, and joined the Advanced Television Technology Center (ATTC) as Deputy Executive Director. He was responsible for its technical programs until the completion, in 2003, of its mission to facilitate the transition to digital television in the United States. During his tenure at ATTC, He became actively involved in the technical aspects of the digital television broadcast industry, including RF, propagation, and reception analysis.  Currently, Dr. Einolf participates in a variety of ATSC specialist and ad hoc groups, including serving as chair of the ATSC T3/S9 Specialist Group on RF Transmission. He also participates in the standards activities of the International Telecommunications Union – Radiocommunications (ITU-R), and is chair of the United States ITU-R Working Party 6P on Content Production and Postproduction.  Dr. Einolf holds a Ph.D. and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is currently the vice-president of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and chairs its Publication Committee. Charlie is also president-elect of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and a life member of its AdCom. He has been awarded the IEEE Centennial and Millennium medals, holds 14 U.S. patents and has published over 30 papers.  An avid swimmer, he recently qualified for the National Senior Olympics and is looking forward to being a competitor in the breaststroke swimming events.

Consultant, Mitchellville, MD 20716-3824  USA
Phone +1-301-806-1544
c.einolf@ieee.org

Yiyan Wu (F’2001)received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 1986 and 1990, respectively, all in electrical engineering. In 1990, he worked at Telesat Canada as a Senior Satellite Communication Systems Engineer. In 1992, he joined the Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), Ottawa, where he is currently a Principle Research Scientist. His research interests include broadband multimedia communications, digital broadcasting, and communication systems engineering. He is an IEEE Fellow and an Adjunct Professor of Carleton University, Ottawa. He has the authored or coauthored more than 250 publications.  Dr. Wu is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society Administrative Committee and a member of Board of Directors of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) representing IEEE. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BROADCASTING. He has received many technical awards and patents for his contribution to the research and development of digital broadcasting and broadband multimedia communications.

Communication Research Centre, Ottawa, ON K2H 8S2 Canada
Phone: +1 613 998 2870   
yiyan.wu@crc.ca

Pablo Angueira (M’IEEE) received the M.S. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of the Basque Country, Spain, in 1997. He received the Ph.D. degree for a study of the urban portable outdoor reception of DVBT signals in single frequency networks in May 2002. In 1998 he joined the Dpt. of Electronics and Telecommunications of the University of the Basque Country, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His research interests include several aspects of network planning for digital broadcasting services: DTV, DAB and DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale).

Bilbao Eng. College (UPV/EHU), Alda.Urkijo S/N. 48013 Bilbao, Spain
Phone: +34 94 601 4001  
jtpanbup@bi.ehu.es

Greg Best is President of Greg Best Consulting, Inc. His firm performs broadcast consulting services for a large variety of customers and serves the RF communications industry in general. Greg earned his BSEE degree from the University of Missouri-Rolla and MSEE degree from Illinois Institute of Technology. Greg has 30 years experience in the design, marketing, and product management of RF communications equipment. His corporate experience includes 16 years with the Broadcast Division of Harris where he was responsible for TV transmitter design and management. While there, he was responsible for coordinating the development of the Platinum Series VHF TV transmitter, as well as many other VHF and UHF TV transmitters. He has also worked for Motorola on the original 800 MHz AMPS cellular phone system transmitter development and for IFR Systems Test and Measurement division developing 3 GHz spectrum analyzers. He has published papers on TV Transmitter Multichannel Sound and others on TV Transmitter Design Architecture. Greg is a registered Professional Engineer, member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers, IEEE, and SBE. Greg currently heads the IEEE DTV RF Measurement Standards activities and serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.

Greg Best Consulting, Inc., Kansas City, MO 64157 USA
Phone: +1 816 792 2913
gbconsulting@kc.rr.com

Lap-Pui Chau received the B. Eng degree with first class honours in Electronic Engineering from Oxford Brookes University, England, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. In June 1996, he joined Tritech Microelectronics as a senior engineer.  Since March 1997, he joined School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as a research fellow, then assistant professor and currently, he is an associate professor. His research interests include streaming media, media coding and compression, and VLSI for media signal processing. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a Chair-Elect of Technical Committee on Circuits & Systems for Communications (TC-CASC), a member of Technical Committee on Multimedia Systems and Applications (TC-MSA), and a member of Technical Committee on Visual Signal Processing and Communications (TC-VSPC) of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He also served as a member of Singapore Digital Television Technical Committee from 1998 to 1999. He has served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and is currently serving as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, and an associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

Nanyang Tech, University,639798  Singapore
Phone: +65 67904239  
elpchau@ntu.edu.sg

Jean-Yves Chouinard received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Université Laval, Québec, in 1987. From 1979 to 1981, he was a telecommunication engineer for Northern Telecom, Montreal. In 1987, he was a postdoctoral fellow at CNET (Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications) in France. From 1988 to 2002, he was a professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa. In 1996, he was an invited professor at ENST (Télécom-Paris) in France.  In 2003, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Laval University where he is currently Associate Dean Academic. His research interests are communication theory and applications, wideband mobile and indoor wireless systems, and channel and source coding for advanced television systems. He is the author or co-author of more than 120 journal and conference papers, co-editor of a book on information theory and its applications and co-author of book chapters on software reconfigurable MIMO wireless communication systems as well as time and frequency synchronization schemes for OFDM-based mobile broadcasting.

University of Laval, Québec Canada G1K 7P4
Phone: +1 418 656 2303
Jean-Yves.Chouinard@fsg.ulaval.ca

John Cosmas (M’86) received his BEng in Electronic Engineering at Liverpool University, UK in 1978 and a PhD in Image Processing at Imperial College, University of London, UK in 1986. He worked for five years in industry first with Tube Investments and then with Fairchild Camera and Instruments. After completing his PhD, he worked for 13 years as a lecturer in digital systems and telecommunications at Queen Mary College, University of London. Since 1999, he has worked for Brunel University, first as a reader and then in 2002 as a Professor of multimedia systems. His current research interests are multimedia broadcast communications systems, which evolved from his longstanding interests in video codecs (MPEG 4/7), and mobile communication systems (DECT/GSM/GPRS/UMTS). Prof. Cosmas currently serves as associate editor for IEEE Trans. Broadcasting. He also contributes to the Digital TV Group’s “Mobile Applications” sub-group and to the Digital Video Broadcast’s Technical Module: Converged Broadcast and Mobile Services (CBMS).

Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1895 266756  
john.cosmas@brunel.ac.uk

Albert Heuberger finished his studies of electrical engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen- Nuremberg in 1987 and his PhD from the same university in 2005. He joined the Fraunhofer-Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in 1987 and worked as head of the communication systems department until May 2008. In this position he was responsible for contract research for digital broadcasting transmission. Since June 2008 he has been full professor at the Ilmenau University of Technology and head of the Digital Broadcasting Research Laboratory as well as head of the Fraunhofer research group for Digital Broadcasting. His research interests are transmission systems for digital broadcasting applications with focus on channel modeling and QoS prediction for satellite and terrestrial broadcasting systems. He is also giving lectures at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the German University in Cairo.

Fraunhofer-Project Group Wireless Distribution Systems / Digital Broadcasting, Am Helmholtzplatz 2, D-98693 Ilmenau, Germany
Phone: +49 3677 69 4280
albert.heuberger@iis.fraunhofer.de

Dr. Shuji Hirakawa received Ph.D. degree from University of Tokyo in 1978.  As a Ph.D. student, he pioneered research on “coded modulation”.  His ground-breaking work was published in a paper, co-authored with Professor Hideki Imai, in the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology (Vol. IT-23, pp.371-377, 1977.) and was selected as one of seventeen papers to receive IEEE Golden Jubilee Paper Award in 1998.  Dr. Hirakawa joined Toshiba Corporation in 1978.  In late 80’s and early 90’s, he was deeply involved in the development of MUSE encoder for analog HDTV transmission.  From 1998, his group developed a new broadcasting satellite service (BSS) system for digital sound broadcasting and was adopted by Japanese industrial standardization body (ARIB) as a domestic standards.  In ITU-R, he developed Recommendation BO.1130 System E for Japanese BSS (sound) in 1999 and 2000.  Dr. Hirakawa has been also a key member in many international standardization organizations.  He was a vice-chairman of ITU-R WP 6M (Multimedia and Interactive broadcasting system) until Oct. 2007 and he is currently the Secretary of IEC TC 100 (Audio, Video and Multimedia Systems and Equipment).  He is an IEEE Fellow, an editorial board of the Proceeding of the IEEE, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, and he has been the Secretary 2004-05, the Vice Chairman 2006-07 and the Chairman 2008-09 of IEEE Broadcast Technology Japan Chapter.

Toshiba Corporation, Shibaura 1-Chrome, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 105-8001 Japan
Phone: +81 3 3457 2480  
Shuji.hirakawa@toshiba.co.jp

Markus Kampmann (M’02, SM’07) received a diploma in electrical engineering from University of Bochum, Germany, in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from University of Hannover, Germany, in 2002. From 1993 to 2001, he was working as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Communication Theory and Signal Processing, the University of Hannover, Germany. Since 2001, he has been working with Ericsson Research in Aachen, Germany, where he is involved in or leading several research projects about multimedia communications funded by the European Union or the German Government. His main research areas are video communications, video streaming and video coding, mobile media transport and delivery and mobile broadcasting. He is an active contributor to 3GPP standardization.
He is serving as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting and was guest editor of the Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting on Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting. He was chairman of the European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EuMob) 2006 and of the International Symposium on Multimedia over Wireless (ISMW) 2007. He is serving as evaluator of ICT proposals for the European Commission and as auditor of ICT projects on multimedia communications. He has published more than 70 research papers and holds over 20 granted or pending patents. Since 2008 he is an adjunct professor at Aachen University of Technology.

Ericsson Research, 52134 Herzogenrath, Germany
Phone: +49 2407 575 7830  
markus.kampmann@ericsson.com

Junghwan Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. He received the B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 1975 and the M.S and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA in 1985 and 1988 respectively. Both of his graduate degrees are in the field of Satellite Communications. In September 1988, he joined the faculty of The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, where is currently a Professor and Graduate Director in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department. His special interests in research are: Satellite Communications, Efficient Channel Coding Schemes, Performance Analysis of Radio Modem/Mobile Network, Spread Spectrum System, Modeling and Analysis of Jamming and Interference Effect. Dr. Kim is a member of IEEE and serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.

The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606 USA
Phone: +1 419 530 8172  
jkim@UTNET.UToledo.edu

Chih-Peng Li received his B.S. degree in Physics from National Tsing-Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, in June 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, NY, USA, in December 1997. From January 1998 to October 2000, he worked for Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies as a Member of Technical Staff. From October 2000 to January 2002, he worked for Acer Mobile Networks Inc. as a manager. Since 2002, he has been with the Institute of Communications Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan. He is now an associate professor. Since August 2005, he was the Chief of the Division of Industry Collaboration, Office of Research Affairs, NSYSU. Since February 2008, he also served as the chapter chair of the IEEE Tainan Section Broadcasting Technology Society. His research interests include wireless communications, signal processing and circuit design, CDMA/OFDM, and data networks.

National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan 804  
Phone: +886-7-5252000 Ext:4480  
cpli@faculty.nsysu.edu.tw

Hui-Ling Lou is a Senior Engineering Director at Marvell Semiconductor in Santa Clara, California, leading teams responsible for the physical layer (PHY) standards, systems, and architecture design and development for the mobile WiMax chip sets, and for investigating next generation wireless technologies. She has also formed teams, practically from ground up, that were responsible for the PHY standards and systems design for Marvell’s first IEEE 802.11n MIMO, Bluetooth and digital FM chip sets. Prior to Marvell, Dr. Lou spent nine years at Bell Laboratories Research in Murray Hill, New Jersey where she performed applied systems research and development for wireless communication systems, including designing the IS-95 CDMA chip sets, investigating joint source-channel coding schemes for efficient multimedia transmission over wireless networks, defining the PHY systems for both the satellite and terrestrial digital radio broadcasting systems that are currently deployed in the United States.  In 1992, Dr. Lou was a Consultant at Amati Communications where she developed a reconfigurable trellis codec chip for the ADSL systems. Dr. Lou completed her MSEE and PhD degrees at Stanford University in 1988 and 1992, respectively.  She has more than sixty patents granted and pending, and is a co-inventor of a patent portfolio that has generated a cumulative royalty of more than $5 million. She has also published more than fifty peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Lou is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. Her interest is in applied systems research using rigorous theoretical grounding to innovate and design cutting-edge digital communication systems.

Marvell Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA
Phone: +1 408 222 9151  
hlou@marvell.com

Gabriel-Miro Muntean (M’02) is a Lecturer with the School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Ireland, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2003 for research in quality-oriented adaptive multimedia streaming over wired networks. He was awarded the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in Software Engineering from the Computer Science Department, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania in 1996 and 1997 respectively. Dr. Muntean’s research interests include QoS and performance issues of adaptive multimedia streaming, and personalised eLearning over wired and wireless networks and with various devices. Dr. Muntean has authored a book and edited two more, along with four book chapters and has published many papers in prestigious international conferences and journals. Dr. Muntean is reviewer for important international journals, conferences and funding agencies.

Dublin City University, Dublin 9 Ireland
Phone: + 353 1 700 7648  
munteang@eeng.dcu.ie

Liam Murphy received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from University College Dublin in 1985, & an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 and 1992 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in Computer Science at University College Dublin, where he is Director of the Performance Engineering Laboratory. Prof. Murphy has published over 100 refereed journal and conference papers on various topics, including multimedia transmissions, dynamic and adaptive resource allocation algorithms, and software development. His current research projects involve mobile and wireless systems, computer network convergence issues, and web services performance issues. Prof. Murphy is a Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society.

University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
Phone: +353 1 716 2914
liam.murphy@ucd.ie

Georgios I. Papadimitriou (M'89, SM'02) received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece in 1989 and 1994 respectively. From 1989 to 1994 he was a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Computer Engineering of the University of Patras and a Research Scientist at the Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece. From 1994 to 1996 he was a Postdoctorate Research Associate at the Computer Technology Institute. In 1997 he joined the faculty of the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where he is currently serving as an Associate Professor. His main research interests include optical networks and wireless networks. Prof. Papadimitriou is Associate Editor of the IEEE Network, the IEEE Communications Magazine, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-Part C, the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, and the IEEE Sensors Journal. He is co-author of the books "Optical Switching" (Wiley, 2007), "Multi iwavelength Optical LANs" (Wiley, 2003) and "Wireless Networks" (Wiley, 2003) and co-editor of the book "Applied System Simulation" (Kluwer, 2003). He is author or coauthor of 150 journal and conference papers. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Aristotle University, Greece
Phone: +30-2310-998221
gp@csd.auth.gr

Jose Manuel Riera was born in 1963 in Aviles, Spain.  He received his MSc degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 1987, and his PhD in 1991, both from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Since 1993 he has been a Professor of radio communications at this University. His research interests are in the areas of radiowave propagation and wireless communication systems, with special interest in satellite communications and broadcasting. He has directed research projects in these fields, both privately and publicly funded. He is the author of more than 100 technical papers, 60 of them published in international journals and conference proceedings or as book chapters.

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Phone: +34-91-3367218
jm.riera@upm.es

Jong-Soo Seo received the BS degree in Electronic engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1975 and the MS and Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada in 1983 and 1988, respectively. He worked in IDC and CAL, Canada, on the R&D of digital satellite communications and broadcasting systems for six years. From 1990 to 1992, he worked in Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology as a principal researcher. Since 1995, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, where he is a professor. Since 2001 he works as a Director of the Center for Advanced Broadcasting Technology, Yonsei University. His current research interests include terrestrial and satellite mobile multimedia broadcasting and 4th generation mobile communication technologies.

Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Phone: +82-2-2123-2878 
jsseo@yonsei.ac.kr

Valentin Trainotti was born in Trento, Italy, in 1935.  He received the Electronic Engineering Degree from the Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, Buenos Aires, Aregentina in 1963.  His post-graduate coursework on antenna measurements and geometric theory of diffraction was completed at California State University in 1981 and Ohio State University in 1985.  He worked from 1963 to 2003 at CITEFA as Chief Engineer of the Antenna & Propagation Division.  His is a part-time Full Professor leading research on Electromagnetic Radiation and Radiating Systems at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires.  He is an IEEE Senior Member, Member of the IEEE BTS Ad-Com, URSI Commission B Argentina Chair, and 1993 IEEE Region 9 Eminent Engineer.  He worked more then thirty years developing and measuring antenna systems for several applications from LF to SHF.

University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Phone: +5411 4334 3529  
vtrainotti@ieee.org

Demin Wang received his B. S. and M. S. degrees in electrical engineering from Shandong University of Technology, China, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and his Ph. D. degree from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) de Rennes, France, in 1992.  In 1985, he joined Shandong University of Technology where he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1992 to 1993. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, from 1993 to 1994, and a visiting professor at the Institut de Recherche en informatique en systèmes aléatoires (IRISA) Rennes, France, from 1994 to 1995. Since 1996, he has been with the Communications Research Centre, Canada, where he is currently senior scientist and project leader of video coding and processing. His research interests include image coding and processing, video processing and coding, digital TV and broadcasting. Dr. Wang has published over 80 journal and conference papers and is an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting.

Communication Research Centre, Ottawa, ON K2H 8S2 Canada
Phone: +1 613 991 5621  
Demin.Wang@crc.ca

Xianbin Wang received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2001. In 2000, he was a Senior R&D  Engineer with the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore (formerly known as Center for Wireless Communications). From December 2000 to July 2002, he was a System Designer at STMicroelectronics, Inc., where he was responsible for the system design for digital subscriber lines and Gigabit Ethernet chipsets. From July 2002 to Dec. 2007, he was with Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, as a Senior Research Scientist. He is now an associate Professor of ECE at University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.  He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Laval University, Laval, QC, Canada. His current research interests include digital signal processing, broadband wireless systems, and communication theory. Dr.Wang is the recipient of the IEEE Scott Helt Memorial Award for the best paper published in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BROADCASTING in 2004.

The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario CANADA N6A 5B9
Phone: +1 519-661 2111 ext. 81298
wang@eng.uwo.ca

Edmund A. Williams  During his 50 year career in broadcasting Mr. Williams worked for Ohio State University Radio and Television, Ohio University Radio and Television, the Public Broadcasting Service, National Association of Broadcasters, and the Advanced Television Test Center. He participated in Emmy Award winning projects including PBS Captioning for the Deaf, Satellite Interconnection, and UHF Improvement. He developed a terrain sensitive broadcast coverage prediction technique (AREAPOP). He conducted lab and field tests for AM Stereo, TV Stereo, Ghost Cancelling, Data Broadcasting, and managed the field testing of Advanced and Digital Television Broadcast systems. He has been a member of NAB, ATSC, IEEE standards committees, and the FCC Advisory Committee for Advanced Television Systems (ACATS).  Mr. Williams produced and presented numerous technical papers for broadcast industry symposia, and conducted demonstrations of high definition television broadcasting for the FCC, Congress, and broadcast industry groups. He participated as engineer and technical seminar presenter on the Harris/PBS DTV Express that toured over 40 cities in the U.S. with a mobile HDTV and digital television demonstration facility. Most recently he was the Editor-in-Chief of the 10th edition of the NAB Engineering Handbook.  Mr. Williams is a Life Senior member of the IEEE and serves on the Broadcast Technology Society AdCom as Technical Activities chair and Associate Editor of the Broadcast Transactions. He is a Fellow and former Governor of the SMPTE and is a Senior member of SBE and SCTE.  Mr. Williams retired from the Public Broadcasting Service in 2004, and holds amateur radio license W8APE.

1510 Loris Loop, The Villages, FL 32162 USA
Phone: +1 352 750 5067
ed.williams@ieee.org

Hsiao-Chun Wu (S’98 M’00 SM’05) received a B. S. E. E. degree from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 1990, and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1993 and 1999 respectively.  From March 1999 to January 2001, he had worked for Motorola Personal Communications Sector Research Labs as a Senior Electrical Engineer. Since January 2001, he has joined the faculty in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. His research interests include detection, estimation and optimization in wireless communications and signal processing. Dr. Wu is an IEEE Senior Member and currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.

Louisianna State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
Phone: + 1 225 578 5530   
wu@ece.lsu.edu

Jinyun Zhang (F’2008) received the B.Sc. degree in radio electronics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1970. Following her graduation, she was with Tsinghua University for teaching and research until 1984. She received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Ottawa, Canada in 1991. She then joined Nortel Networks for more than 10 years, where she held various management positions and engineering positions in the areas of digital signal processing, wireless communication and optical networks. She was a key contributor for Nortel’s 1st generation, 2nd generation and 3rd generation mobile base stations as well as ultra high speed optical DWDM networks. Since 2001, Dr. Zhang has been the Manager of Digital Communications & Networking Group at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA, USA. Currently, she is leading many new broadband wireless communications and networking research projects that include UWB, ZigBee Ad Hoc, MIMO, broadband multimedia home networking, wireless sensor networking, high speed WLAN, cooperative communications, WiMAX and next generation mobile communications. Dr. Zhang has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications, invented and co-invented more than 70 patent applications, and made numerous contributions to various international standards in the area of wireless communications. Dr. Zhang is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, and served as a TPC member of various IEEE conferences and a technical reviewer for many IEEE publications.

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Phone: +1 617 621 7595  
jzhang@merl.com

William Zou has over 20 years experience in all aspects of digital video and audio systems engineering and standards development. His cross-industry experience includes in TV engineering, CATV, TV broadcasting, content distribution over satellite, cable, broadband IPTV and Hollywood movie studios. Since late 1980’s he has been an active participant and contributor in industry-wide DTV standards development including Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), the US FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service (ACATS), Blu-ray Disc Association, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), IEEE, and Standards Committee Telecommunications (T1). He is currently the chair of SMPTE Task Force on 3D to the Home. Mr. Zou is currently employed by DTS responsible for standards and business development. His corporate experience includes working for The Walt Disney Studios, Public Broadcasting Services (PBS), General Instrument/Motorola, Harmonic, Next Level Communications and Tiernan Communications. He is the author or co-author of more than 40 publications and conference papers in the areas of digital video compression, DTV broadcasting, HDTV implementation, content distribution over satellite, cable and IPTV. He is the author of OpenCable Network Interface Specification.  Mr. Zou is a Fellow of SMPTE and Senior Member of IEEE. He serves on the Board of Editor for the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal and Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.

DTS, Inc. Agoura Hills, CA 91301 USA
Phone: +1 818 827 2331
wzou@ieee.org