Dr. Mrinal Kumar Mandal

Professional Activities of Dr. Mrinal Kumar Mandal

Outside University

Membership in Professional Organizations

Member of APEGGA - Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Alberta
Senior Member of IEEE
Member of SPIE, ACM, IEICE

Member in different Technical Committees

Founding Chair, IEEE EMBS (Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society) Chapter
Executive Committee of the IEEE Northern Canada Section, Jan-Dec 2003.
SPIE Scholarship Committee,2002-2004.

Journal Editing

Guest co-editor, Special Issue of Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation on Emerging H.264/AVC Video Coding Standard (Expected publication date: Jan-April 2005).
Guest co-editor, Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering on Multimedia Computing and Communications (Expected publication date: January 2005).
Guest co-editor, Special Issue of Real-Time Imaging Journal on Low bit-rate Multimedia Communication (Expected publication date: Fall 2004).

Program Committee Member in different Conferences

22nd Biennial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, Canada, May 31-June 3, 2004.
Internet Multimedia Management Systems, Florida, Sep 2003.
Internet Multimedia Management Systems, Boston, Aug 2002.
ACM Multimedia: 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR-2001), Ottawa, Oct 2001.
Internet Multimedia Management Systems, Denver, Aug 2001.
Internet Multimedia Management Systems, Boston, Nov 2000.

Reviewer

IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence.
IEEE Trans. on Computers.
IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
Optical Engineering Journal.
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.
Journal of Electronic Imaging.
Several National and International Conferences.

Within University

Member

Academic Planning Committee of the ECE Dept., 2001-2004.
Computer Committee of the ECE Dept., 2003-2005.

Some Photos in the Dept. Parties

To be added

Social Activities

I like badminton, soccer, skating, and swimming. Interested in learning skiing. I am an active member of Edmonton Bengali Association, a local Bengali Community. I am also an active member of Ankur Multicultural Association for Performing Arts, a local association that promotes Multiculturalism in Edmonton. I have served as executive member at the following capacities.

Treasurer, Alberta Bangla sammelan, Calgary, April 9-10, 2004.
Secretary, Edmonton Bengali Association, Edmonton, 2000-2001.
Executive Member, Deshantari of Ottawa Carleton, Ottawa, 1997-1998.
Secretary, Deshantari of Ottawa Carleton, Ottawa, 1996-1997.
President, Graduate Student Association of Electrical Engg., Univ. of Ottawa, 1993-1994.