Zhu Li is an Assistant Professor with the Dept of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
He received his PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston in 2004.
He was a Principal Staff Research Engineer with the Multimedia Research Lab (MRL), Motorola Labs, 2000~2008.
His research interests include video coding and communication, game theory and optimization decomposition
techniques in multimedia streaming and networking, manifold modeling and machine learning in biometrics,
multimedia analysis, retrieval and mining. He has 12 issued or pending patents, 40+ publications in book
chapters, journals and conference proceedings in these areas.
He is an IEEE senior member, a member of IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and Communication Society
(ComSoc), elected Vice Chair of the IEEE Multimedia Communication Technical Committee (MMTC). He served as TPC chair for the
Entertainment & Multimedia Networking track, IEEE CCNC 2009, TPC co-chair for IEEE Int'l Workshop on Multimedia
Analysis & Processing (IMAP), 2008, as co-chair for "Wireless Multimedia Streaming and Networking" track of
IEEE ICCCN, '07, and as a guest co-editor for Journal of Advances in Multimedia (J-AM) special issue on "Collaboration
and Optimization in Multimedia Communication".
He has served as Technical Program Committee (TPC) members for IEEE Int'l Symp. on
Multimedia (ISM) 05, '06, IEEE Int'l Conf on Communication (ICC)06, '07, '08, IEEE Int'l Conf on
Multimedia & Expo (ICME) '06, '07, IEEE GLOBECOM 06,07 08, and SPIE Symp. on Multimedia Systems
and Applications, 07. He is also an active reviewer for journals IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (T-IP),
IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (T-MM), IEEE Trans. on PAMI, IEEE Trans. on Circuits & Sys. for Video Tech (T-CSVT),
IEEE J-SAC, IEEE Comm. Magazine, and EURASIP Jnl. on Applied Signal Processing.
He received the Best Poster Paper Award at IEEE Int'l Conf on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Toronto,
2006, and the DoCoMo Labs Innovative Paper Award (Best Papaer) at IEEE Int'l Conf on Image Processing
(ICIP), San Antonio, 2007.
He is a marathon runner and triathlon enthusiast, finished 1 full and 3 half-marathons, as well as 8
Olympic distance triathlon events.