van der Schaar, Mihaela

Mihaela van der Schaar, Professor

Editor in Chief IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2011-2013
Distinguished Lecturer IEEE Communications Society 2011-2012
Chancellor's Professor
Fellow, IEEE, 2010
Okawa Award, 2006
IBM Faculty Awards, 2005, 2007, 2008
NSF CAREER Award, 2004

Research Group: Networks, Economics, Communication Systems, Informatics and Multimedia Research Lab

Office: 58-109 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.5843, Email

Biography

Mihaela van der Schaar received her Ph.D. degree from Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 2001. Prior to joining the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department faculty on July 1st, 2005, she was between 1996 and June 2003 a senior researcher at Philips Research in the Netherlands and USA, where she led a team of researchers working on multimedia coding, processing, networking, and streaming algorithms and architectures. She was also Philips Research USA representative to the international ISO MPEG standards from 1999 until 2004. From January to September 2003, she was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University. From July 1st, 2003 until July 1st, 2005, she was an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of California, Davis.

Prof. van der Schaar has published extensively on multimedia communications, networking, architectures, systems, compression and processing, and more recently, on her new research interests on network economics and game theory, as well as stream mining. She holds 33 granted US patents and has several more pending. Since 1999, she has been an active participant in the ISO Motion Picture Expert Group (MPEG) standard, to which she has made more than 50 contributions and for which she has received three ISO recognition awards. She also chaired the ad-hoc group on MPEG-21 Scalable Video Coding for three years, and co-chaired the MPEG ad-hoc group on Multimedia Test-beds. She was a guest editor of the EURASIP Special Issue on Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks, and was the general chair of Picture Coding Symposium 2004, the oldest conference on image/video coding. She is a senior member of IEEE, and was also elected as a Member of the Technical Committee on Multimedia Signal Processing, as well as the Technical Committee on Image and Multiple Dimensional Signal Processing of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and the SPIE Electronic Imaging Journal from 2002-2005. Currently, she is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and System for Video Technology, of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and of the newly founded IEEE Signal Processing Society e-Newsletter.

Research Interests

Prof. van der Schaar's research interests spans the theory and design of novel algorithms, standards and systems for multimedia communications, networking, architectures, systems, compression and processing, and more recently, on her research interests include network economics and game theory, as well as stream mining. Please visit her research website http://medianetlab.ee.ucla.edu for more information on her research.

Awards and Recognitions

• 2011 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award
• 2011 Gamenets Conference Best Paper Award
• 2007 Most Cited Paper Award, EURASIP J. Signal Proc.: Image Communication
• 2006 Okawa Foundation Award
• 2006 IEEE Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award
• 2005, 2007, and 2008 IBM Faculty Awards
• 2004 NSF CAREER Award
• 2004 International Standardization Organization (ISO) Recognition Awards
• 2003 International Standardization Organization (ISO) Recognition Awards

Books

• M. van der Schaar and P. Chou, editors, Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks: Compression, Networking, and Systems, Academic Press, 2007.
• M. van der Schaar, D. Turaga, and T. Stockhammer, MPEG-4 Beyond Conventional Video Coding: Object Coding, Resilience and Scalability, Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2006.