History and Mission

The Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) is a non-profit organization with the following objectives as its mission:

  • Providing education, research and development exchange platforms for both academia and industry
  • Organizing common-interest activities for researchers and practitioners
  • Facilitating collaboration with region-specific focuses and promoting leadership for worldwide events
  • Disseminating research results and educational material via publications, presentations, and electronic media
  • Offering personal and professional career opportunities with development information and networking

The idea of APSIPA was born in Hawaii in 2007. It was formally incorporated as “Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Limited” in Hong Kong on July 23, 2009. Dr. Sadaoki Furui was elected as the first President.

APSIPA US Local Chapter was established in January 2021 with 10 founding members. It has the following mission statements:

  • To recruit more APSIPA US members through local activities such as seminars, webinars, social events, etc.
  • To cultivate new generation APSIPA leaders in US
  • To support APSIPA related activities such as APSIPA ASC conferences, APSIPA transaction, APSIPA DLP, etc.
  • To promote activities between APSIPA local chapters

Officers 

Chair: Nam Ling, Santa Clara University

Dr. Nam Ling received the B.Eng. degree from the National University of Singapore and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, U.S.A. He is currently the Wilmot J. Nicholson Family Chair Professor (Endowed Chair) of Santa Clara University (U.S.A) and the Associate Dean for Research for its School of Engineering. He is an IEEE Fellow due to his contributions to video coding algorithms and architectures. He is also an IET Fellow. He was named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer twice and was also an APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer. He has delivered more than 120 invited colloquia worldwide and has served as Visiting Professor/Consultant/Scientist for many institutions/companies.

Vice Chair: Yuhong Liu, Santa Clara University

 

Dr. Yuhong Liu is presently Associate Professor at Department of Computer Engineering Santa Clara University. She received her B.S. and M.S. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2004 and 2007 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Rhode Island in 2012. She is the recipient of the 2019 Researcher of the Year Award at School of Engineering, Santa Clara University, and the 2013 University of Rhode Island Graduate School Excellence in Doctoral Research Award. Her research interests include trustworthy computing and cyber security of emerging applications, such as Internet-of-things, blockchain and online social media. She has published over 60 papers on prestigious journals and peer reviewed conferences.

Secretary/Treasurer: Ying Liu, Santa Clara University

 

Dr. Ying Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University. She graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering, The State University of New York at Buffalo. Her main research interests are in deep learning-based image and video processing and coding, coding for machines, point cloud coding, vision-language models, and generative AI. She is a member of IEEE and a member of SPIE. Her research articles are published in prestigious journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), Pattern Recognition (Elsevier), and many flagship conferences. She serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and she also serves as the technical program committee member of multiple international conferences. She is the Secretary/Treasurer of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) US Chapter.

 

Past and Founding Chair: C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California

 

Dr. C.-C. Jay Kuo received his B.S. from National Taiwan University in 1980 and M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT in 1985 and 1987, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He was a Research Assistant Professor at UCLA from 1987 to 1988 and joined the University of Southern California (USC) in 1989, where he is currently a Dean’s Professor and Director of the Multimedia Communication Lab.

His research focuses on multimedia compression, communication, content analysis, and computer vision. Dr. Kuo is noted as the top advisor in the Mathematics Genealogy Project with 134 PhD graduates, 25 postdoctoral fellows, and about 20 current Ph.D. students in his lab. He has co-authored around 250 journal papers, 900 conference papers, 30 patents, and 14 books, and delivered about 550 invited talks.

Dr. Kuo is a Fellow of AAAS, IEEE, and SPIE, and has held numerous editorial positions, including Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. He was President of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association in 2013-2014 and has received several prestigious awards, including the NSF Young Investigator Award and the Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair.