Title: Post-Quantum Security Plus Process Policing: Keep Your Data Dark to Hackers, but Transparent to You
Speaker: Short Bio (En-hui  Yang)
Time: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM   Oct  28 ,2016
Venue:North Hall of Northern XiuShan Centre

Introduction  of  Speaker:

En-hui Yang (M'97-SM'00-F'08) received the B.S. degree in applied mathematics from Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, China, and Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 1986 and 1991, respectively.

Since June 1997, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada, where he is currently a Professor and Canada Research Chair in information theory and multimedia compression, and the founding Director of the Leitch-University of Waterloo multimedia communications lab. He held a Visiting Professor position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, from September 2003 to June 2004; positions of Research Associate and Visiting Scientist at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, the University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, from January 1993 to May 1997; and a faculty position (first as an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor) at Nankai University, Tianjin, China, from 1991 to 1992. A Co-Founder of SlipStream Data Inc. (now a subsidiary of BlackBerry), he currently also serves as an Executive Council Member of China Overseas Exchange Association, an Overseas Advisor for the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the City of Shanghai, and a director of Board of Trustees of Huaqiao University, China, and serves on the Overseas Expert Advisory Committee for the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China. His current research interests are: multimedia compression, multimedia transmission, digital communications, information theory, source and channel coding, image and video coding, image and video understanding and management, big data analytics, and information security. 

Dr. Yang is a recipient of several awards and honors, a partial list of which includes the prestigious Inaugural Premier's Catalyst Award in 2007 for the Innovator of the Year; the 2007 Ernest C. Manning Award of Distinction, one of the Canada's most prestigious innovation prizes; the 2013 CPAC Professional Achievement Award; the 2014 IEEE Information Theory Society Padovani Lecture; and the 2014 FCCP Education Foundation Award of Merit. He has exemplified research excellence in both theory and practice. Products based on his early inventions and commercialized by his previous company, SlipStream, received the 2006 Ontario Global Traders Provincial Award. With over 210 papers and more than 200 patents/patent applications worldwide, his research work has benefited people over 170 countries through commercialized products, video coding open sources, and video coding standards. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada: the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada. He served, among many other roles, as a review panel member for the International Council for Science; a General Co-Chair of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory; an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; a Technical Program Vice-Chair of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME); the Chair of the award committee for the 2004 Canadian Award in Telecommunications; a Co-Editor of the 2004 Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; a Co-Chair of the 2003 US National Science Foundation (NSF) workshop on the interface of Information Theory and Computer Science; and a Co-Chair of the 2003 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory. 

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