Research Interests:
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   Irene Cheng, PhD, SMIEEE     Scientific Director, Multimedia Research Center (MRC)      Adjunct Professor, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta      Program Director, Master with Specialization in Multimedia, University of Alberta      Multimedia Research Centre     
    
Computing Science Center (CSC 2-25)
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     Brief CV
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Research Visits:
| | TCL Research America San Jose (Jul 2014) | | |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Oct 2010). | Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Centre de Realitat Virtual Barcelona, Spain (May 2010). | La Salle, Barcelona, Spain (Oct 2008/May 2009). | Computational Vision and Robotics Lab., FORTH - HELLAS, Institute of Computer Science (May, Oct 2008). | |
University of California, Riverside Campus Computing Science Dept. (May 2004). | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai India, Computing Science Dept. (Dec 2004). | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia USA, Computing and Information Science (Oct 2006/Feb 2007). | ||
Professional Activities: | |
Faculty of Graduate Study & Research Alumni Reunion Open House Forum Presentation October 2, 2004 |
Faculty of Graduate Study & Research Professional Development for Graduate Students Discussion Panel September 19, 2008 |
(2009 - 2015):
       Student Projects
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International Students Program, (Dec 2005 - Feb 2006):
|        Int'l Students Program Website
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Visiting Scholars/ Research Assistants Supervision
As the Scientific Director of the Multimedia Research Centre, one major responsibility is to supervise and train highly qualified personnel (HQP), including graduates and undergraduates as well as research assistants and visiting scholars. Since 2006, I have supervised or co-supervised over forty HQP. Most of them worked as researchers for the CROME Online/Mobile Multimedia Education Project and a number have since joined industries including City of Edmonton, Aptina (San Jose), Pixelstorms Entertainment Studios (Los Angeles), Bioware (Edmonton), Microsoft (Redmond), SAS (North Carolina), Sols Systems (New York), Octagon Research (Pennsylvania) GREE International (Vancouver), Orion Health (Edmonton) and Smart Technology (Calgary). I have also supervised five visiting scholars from China, Brazil and Mexico in 2013-2014. Another two scholars came from Mexico in September 2014 and Feb 2015 respectively.
Supervisor or co-Supervisor of Graduated students:
MSc Sep 2014 – Feng Chen
(DataGardens Inc. Edmonton)
MSc Jun 2014 – Mahsa Mohammadkhani
PhD Jun 2014 – Amirhossein Firouzmanesh
(DataGardens Inc. Edmonton)
PhD Apr 2013 – Tao Xu
PhD Jul 2012 plus Postdoc till May 2014 – Rui Shen
(Senior Imaging Scientist, Aptina Imaging, San Jose)
PhD Jul 2012 – Hossein Azari
(Senior Software Developer, DataGardens Inc, Edmonton)
MSc Jan 2012 – Abhishek Sen
(Computer Vision Engineer, Sols Systems, New York)
MSc Jul 2011 – Liang Shi
(Associate iOS Engineer, GREE International, Inc, Vancouver)
PhD Jan 2010 – Tao Wang
(SAS Inc., North Carolina, USA/ previous: Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BCCA, Vancouver)
MSc Dec 2009 continuing PhD – Nathaniel Rossol
MSc Jan 2009 – Saul Rodriguez
(Game Programmer, Pixelstorm Entertainment Studios, Los Angeles)
PhD Sep 2008 – Lihang Ying
(IT Enterprise Architecture & Planning, City of Edmonton)
Supervisor Committee or Examiner of students:
MSc Yuchen Wang Sep 2014 – “Tangible Educational Game for Pre-school Children”
PhD candidate AmirAli Sharifi (candidacy Feb 2014) – “Enhancing Perception Using Direct Volume Rendering”
MSc Kyrylo Shegeda, Jan 2014 – “A GPU-Based Framework for Real-time Viewpoint Television”
MSc Garret Hunter, Aug 2013 – “Gesture Recognition Using Hidden Markou Models, Dynamic Time Warping, and Geometric Template Matching”
PhD Xingdong Yang Aug 2013 – “Blurring the boundary between direct and indirect input shared environments”
PhD Matthew Hamilton Mar 2013 – “Realtime time-warped multiscale signal processing for scientific visualization”
PhD candidate Noura Alsufyani (candidacy Jun 2013) – “Evaluation of anatomic surgical outcomes in children with sleep disordered breathing using cone beam computed tomography”
PhD candidate Qiong (Emily) Wu (candidacy Dec 2012) – “Automatic creation of personalized interactive avatar”
Previous Industrial Experience: