Pao-Chi Chang

Pao-Chi Chang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1977 and 1979, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1986, all in electrical engineering. From 1986 to 1993, he was a Research Staff Member in the Department of Communications, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, where his work centered on high-speed switching systems, efficient network design algorithms, and multimedia conferencing. In 1993, he joined the faculty of National Central University, Taiwan, where he is presently a Professor in the Department of Communication Engineering. In 1994, he established and has headed the Video-Audio Processing Laboratory (VAPLab) in the Electrical Engineering Department and Communication Department, National Central University. He is the Principle Investigator for many joint projects with the National Science Council (NSC), Institute of Information Industry (III), Chung Hwa Telecommunication Laboratories (TL), and many other companies. His research interests include speech/audio coding, video/image compression, scalable coding, error-resilient coding, digital watermarking and data hiding, and multimedia delivery over packet and wireless networks. He has published more than 70 journal and conference papers in these areas.