Media Management Research Lab

Faculty

Short Bio

Roger Zimmermann is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he is also an investigator with the Interactive and Digital Media Institute (IDMI). Prior to joining NUS in 2007 he held the position of Research Area Director with the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California (USC). He is still affiliated with USC as Adjunct Associate Professor, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1998. His research interests are in the areas of distributed and peer-to-peer systems, collaborative environments, streaming media architectures, georeferenced video search, and mobile location-based services. His work on high-resolution Internet streaming resulted in the Remote Media Immersion system which has been demonstrated on Internet2. Dr. Zimmermann is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of ACM. He has co-authored a book, two patents and more than hundred conference publications, journal articles and book chapters in the areas of multimedia and information management. Dr. Zimmermann is on the editorial board of the ACM Computers in Entertainment magazine and the International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications. He is also an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications journal. He has served on the conference program committees of many leading conferences and he was co-chair of the MMCN 2007 and 2008 conferences.

Ph.D. Students

• Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California.
• Recipient of a WiSE travel grant.
• Presentation of HYDRA at The 2006 Technology Expo organized by the Graduate Technology Alliance, 5 September 2006.
• Teaching Assistant for CSci570 "Analysis of Algorithms," Fall 2005.
• Academic Achievement Award from the USC Office of International Services, Spring 2005 semester.

• Paper presentation at the 19th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2009), Williamsburg, Virginia. June 3-5, 2009.
• Ke passed his GRP on 13 July 2009. Congratulations!
• Ke passed his QE exam on 7 January 2009. Congratulations!
• M.E. Computer Engineering from Tsinghua University, 2006.
• B.E. Electronic Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2003.

• Undergraduate studies at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in Chengdu, Sichuan, P.R. China.

• Undergraduate studies at the Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China.

• Undergraduate studies at Fudan University, P.R. China.

• Undergraduate studies at Northeastern University, P.R. China.

• Undergraduate studies at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, P.R. China.

• Undergraduates studies (B.E. in Communication) at Wuhan University, P.R. China.
• NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS) student.

• Undergraduate studies from the University of Computer Studies (Mandalay), Myanmar.
• Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), 2006.
• Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD.Net), 2006.
• Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD.Net), 2006.
• Associate Member Myanmar Computer Professionals Association (MCPA), Myanmar.

Alumni

• Now with Paypal.
• Kun passed his Ph.D. defense on 15 August 2005. Congratulations!
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award of USC's Computer Science Department for the Fall 2004 semester.
• Kun passed his qualifying exam on 17 May 2004. Congratulations!
• Teaching Assistant for CSci585 "Database Systems," Fall 2003 and 2004.

• Now with Google, Irvine.
• Ph.D. thesis "Supporting Multimedia Streaming among Mobile Ad-hoc Peers with Link Availability Prediction" is available online here.
• Min passed his PhD defense exam on 8 May 2007. Congratulations!
• Internship with Microsoft, 2007.
• Min passed his qualification exam on 30 August 2006. Congratulations!
• Academic Achievement Award from the USC Office of International Services, Spring 2006 semester.
• Imagine Cup 2006 US Finalist.
• Teaching Assistant for CSci402 "Operating Systems," Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Spring 2006 and Fall 2006.
• Recipient of three Intel scholarships.

• Wei-shinn is now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University, Alabama.
• Ph.D. thesis "Location-based Spatial Queries in Mobile Environments" is available online here.
• Wei-shinn passed his Ph.D. defense exam on 30 January 2007. Congratulations!
• Internship with the National University of Singapore, 2007.
• Wei-shinn passed his qualification exam on 3 May 2006. Congratulations!
• Certificate for Outstanding Service to the Viterbi School of Engineering, 2006.
• Chief Financial Officer, USC IMSC Student Council, 2005-2006.
• Certificate for Outstanding Service to the Viterbi School of Engineering, 2005. 
• Teaching Assistant for CSci410 "Translation of Programming Languages," Fall 2005.
• Teaching Assistant for CSci585 "Database Systems," Fall 2003, 2004 and 2006.
• Director of Conferences, USC IMSC Student Council, 2004-2005.
• Academic Achievement Award from the USC Office of International Services, Spring 2004 semester.
• Outstanding Leadership Award from the USC Office of International Services, Spring 2004 semester.
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award of USC's Computer Science Department for the Fall 2003 semester.
• Finance Vice President, USC Computer Science Graduate Organization, 2003-2004.

• Now with IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
• Ph.D. thesis "Scalable Peer-to-Peer Streaming for Interactive Applications" is available online here.
• Leslie passed his Ph.D. defense exam on 7 May 2007. Congratulations!
• Leslie passed his qualification exam on 5 December 2005. Congratulations!
• Selected as one of only 8 students to participate in the 2006 Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Workshop organized by the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY, held on 16-17 October 2006.
• Presentation of PartyPeer at The 2006 Technology Expo organized by the Graduate Technology Alliance, 5 September 2006.
• Summer Internship with Microsoft, 2006.
• Imagine Cup 2006 US Finalist.
• Participant in Rice University's Business Plan Competition, 2006.
• Vice President, CSSA (Chinese Student and Scholars Association), 2005.
• Presentation of AudioPeer at The 2005 Technology Expo organized by the Graduate Technology Alliance, 30 August 2005.
• Finance Vice President, USC Computer Science Graduate Organization, 2004-2005.
• IMSC Industry Award for Excellence in Technology Demonstrations, 2003.

• Now a Research Fellow with the National University of Singapore.
• Ph.D. thesis "Edge Indexing in a Grid for Highly Dynamic Virtual Environments" is available online here.
• Beomjoo passed his Ph.D. defense exam on 12 November 2007. Congratulations!
• Beomjoo passed his qualification exam on 28 November 2005. Congratulations!
• Teaching Assistant for CSci558 "Internetworking and Distributed Systems Laboratory," Spring 2006.
• Summer Internship with Hewlett-Packard in the Streaming Media Systems Group of the Multimedia Communications and Networking Department, 2004.
• IMSC Industry Award for Excellence in Technology Demonstrations, 2003.

• Now with the IBM Silicon Valley Lab, San Jose.
• Ph.D. thesis "MOVNet: A Framework to Process Location-Based Queries on Moving Objects in Road Networks" is available online here.
• Leo passed his Ph.D. defense exam on 23 October 2008. Congratulations!
• Leo passed his qualification exam on 7 May 2007. Congratulations!
• Internship with IBM Silicon Valley Lab, San Jose, 2007.
• Internship with the National University of Singapore, 2007.
• Teaching Assistant for CSci561 "Foundations of Artificial Intelligence," Fall 2005 and 2006.
• Teaching Assistant for CSci585 "Database Systems," Fall 2004.

• Now with Teradata, San Diego, CA.
• Yu-Ling passed her Ph.D. defense exam on 25 March 2009. Congratulations!
• Yu-Ling passed her qualifying exam on 12 November 2007. Congratulations!
• Internship with the National University of Singapore, 2007.
• Recipient of two WiSE travel grants.
• Lab Assistant for ITP 104x "Internet Publishing Technologies," Spring 2006.
• Teaching Assistant for CSci351 "Programming the World Wide Web," Fall 2005.
• Summer 2002 Internship, Natural Language Processing at USC/Information Sciences Institute.