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| Nam Ling |
Nam Ling
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Nam LING received a B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Computer Engineering, from U.S.A. Prof. Ling is currently a full Professor with the Department of Computer Engineering and the Associate Dean (Graduate Studies and Research) for the School of Engineering at Santa Clara University (SCU), California, U.S.A. Prof. Ling is also a Consulting Professor and Honorary Advisor to the National University of Singapore. He has served as Visiting Professor/Scientist/Consultant to many organizations. Prof. Ling has more than 110 publications in the fields of video coding, video decoder design, video streaming, and systolic arrays. He is the primary author of the book entitled Specification and Verification of Systolic Arrays. Prof. Ling received the Arthur Vining Davis Junior Faculty Fellowship in 1991 and the SCU Outstanding Achievement Award in Teaching, Research, and Service, in 1992. Prof. Ling was named 1999 Researcher of the Year by SCU Engineering. He received the SCU Award for Recent Achievement in Scholarship in 2002 and the SCU President’s Recognition Award in 2005. He was named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (Circuits and Systems) for the year 2002-2003. Prof. Ling also received the 2003 IEEE ICCE Best Paper Award (First Place Winner) for the work on MPEG-4 face animation. He and his team’s proposal on fast motion estimation method was adopted into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video coding international standard in 2005. Prof. Ling served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I in 2002-03. He is currently a Guest Co-editor for the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems. In 1993 - 1995, Prof. Ling served as the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee (TC) on Microprocessors and Microcomputers. Currently he serves as a member in several IEEE technical committees (TCs) – the VSPC TC, the CASCOMM TC (as Chair-Elect) (both IEEE CAS Society), and the DISPS TC (IEEE SP Society). Prof. Ling was the General Chair of the IEEE Hot Chips Symposium in 1995. He served as Program Co-Chair for DCV’02 and SiPS’00. He was a Track Co-Chair for ISCAS’04, ISCAS’05, and currently is a Track Co-Chair for ISCAS’06. Prof. Ling served in program committees, organizing committees, and as session chairs for many IEEE conferences. He has delivered more than 50 invited/distinguished/keynote colloquia in six different countries. He holds professional memberships in IEEE, ACM, SPIE, and ASEE.
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