Assistant Professor
    Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
    University of Alberta
    Edmonton, AB Canada  T6G 2V4

    Office: W2-031 ECERF
    Phone: (780) 492-9484
    Fax: (780) 492-1811
    Email: vzhao AT ece DOT ualberta DOT ca
       

Ph. D, 2004, University of Maryland, College Park
M.S. and B.S., 1993 - 1999, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China

My research interests

What is new

I was selected to receive the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2008 Young Author Best Paper Award. The paper, co-authored with Prof. K. J. Ray Liu at Univ. of Maryland, is entitled "Behavior Forensics for Scalable Multiuser Collusion: Fairness vs Effectiveness" and appeared in the September 2006 issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. The award will be presented at a ceremony at the IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2009. More (UMD news)...

Our book "Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing" (co-authored with Prof. K. J. Ray Liu, Prof. Wade Trappe, Prof. Z. Jane Wang, Prof. Min Wu) addresses both fundamental and practical issues in multimedia forensics for proactive protection of multimedia intellectual property rights.

Articles about my research on multimedia security and forensics
"Chasing the Pirate", University of Alberta Engineer Alumni Magazine, Winter 2007
"Funding will help track pirates", University of Alberta Folio, June 8, 2007, University of Alberta Express News, June 1 and June 2, 2007

EE 231 Numerical Analysis for Electrical and Computer Engineers (Winter 2009)
EE 338 Discrete-Time Signals and Systems (Fall 2008)
ECE 740 (former ECE 644) Digital Image and Video Processing (Fall 2008)


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