International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM)

Editor(s)-in-Chief Biography

Shu-Ching Chen is an Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), Florida International University (FIU), Miami since August 2009. Prior to that, he was an Assistant/Associate Professor in SCIS at FIU from 1999. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998, and Master's degrees in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Civil Engineering in 1992, 1995, and 1996, respectively, all from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. He is the Director of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory (DMIS) and the Co-Director of the Integrated Computer Augmented Virtual Environment (I-CAVE). His main research interests include multimedia big data, content-based image/video retrieval, multimedia data mining, multimedia systems, and Disaster Information Management. Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 300 research papers in journals, refereed conference/symposium/workshop proceedings, book chapters, and four books.

Dr. Chen was named a 2011 recipient of the ACM Distinguished Scientist Award. He received the best paper awards from 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia and 2016 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. He was awarded the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society's Outstanding Contribution Award in 2005 and was the co-recipient of the IEEE Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award in 2006. He is a fellow of IEEE, AAAS, and SIRI.

He has been a General Chair and Program Chair for more than 60 conferences, symposiums, and workshops. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management, and Associate Editor/ Editorial Board of IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, IEEE Multimedia, and IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine Systems. He served as the Chair of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing. He is Co-Chair of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society's Technical Committee on Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems. He also serves/served as a member of technical program committee for more than 380 professional meetings. Dr. Chen is also the Co-Founder of Bay Area Multimedia Forum.

Yonghong Tian is currently a Professor with the National Engineering Laboratory for Video Technology, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2005, and was also a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota from Nov. 2009 to Jul. 2010. He served as the Hi-Tech Scientist in the Organizing Committee for the Beijing Games of the XXIX Olympiad from Feb. 2006 to Oct. 2008, and currently is one of the consultant specialists of National “New-Generation Artificial Intelligence” Plan Council of China since Mar. 2016. He is a senior member of IEEE, CIE and CCF, a member of ACM.

Dr. Tian’s research interests include machine learning, computer vision, and multimedia big data. He is the author or coauthor of over 150 technical articles in refereed journals such as IEEE TPAMI/TIP/TNNLS/TCSVT/TMM/TKDE, ACM CSUR/TOIS/TOMM, IJCV and Pattern Recognition, and some top-rank conferences such as ICCV/CVPR/AAAI/ACM MM. He has owned more than 40 Chinese and US patents. He was the recipient of two National Science and Technology Awards and three ministerial-level awards in China, and obtained the 2015 EURASIP Best Paper Award for the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. His team was also ranked as one of the best performers in the TRECVID CCD/SED tasks from 2009 to 2012, PETS 2012 and the WikipediaMM task in ImageCLEF 2008.

Dr. Tian is currently the co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM), and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Access. He has served as the Technical Program Co-chair of IEEE ICME 2015, IEEE BigMM 2015, IEEE ISM 2015 and IEEE MIPR 2018, and also the organizing committee member of ACM Multimedia 2009, IEEE MMSP 2011, IEEE ISCAS 2013, IEEE ISM 2016/2017. He also serves/served as a member of the technical program committee for more than 20 academic conferences such as CVPR/AAAI/KDD/ECCV.