Faculty Profile
Sheila Hemami
Department: ECE
Title: Professor
Personal Web Site:
http://foulard.ece.cornell.edu/index.php
Degrees earned:
B.S. University of Michigan 1990
M.S. Stanford University 1992
Ph.D. Stanford University 1994
Address:
Office:
332 Rhodes Hall
Ithaca, NY, 14853
Office Phone: (607) 254-5128
Biography:
Sheila S. Hemami received the B.S. degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1990 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1992 and 1994 respectively. During her last year at Stanford, she was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Palo, Alto, California. Upon completing her Ph.D., she joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering department at Cornell where she currently directs the Visual Communications Lab.
She is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Board of Governors. She chaired the IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee, and has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Hemami serves on many program committees and organizing committees in the fields of signal and image processing, compression, and perception.
She has held visiting positions at Princeton University, Rice University (Texas Instruments Distinguished Visiting Professor), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (WISH Distinguished Professor), and Universite de Nantes. In 2001 she visited the Faculte de Sciences, Rabat, Morocco as a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer.
In 1997 she received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. She held the Kodak Term Professorship of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University from 1996-1999. In 2000 she received the Eta Kappa Nu C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award (a national award), and she has won numerous teaching awards at Cornell. She was a finalist for the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer in 2003. In 2005 she received the Alice H. Cook and Constance E. Cook Award at Cornell University for her leadership of the Women in Science and Engineering committee.
Hemami is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi.
Research interests:
Dr. Hemami's research interests broadly concern communication of visual information.
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Selected Publications:
Chandler, Damon M.; Hemami, Sheila S.. Dynamic contrast-based quantization for lossy wavelet image compression. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 14, 397-410 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2004.841196
Gaubatz, M. D.; Chandler, D. M.; Hemami, S. S.. "Spatially-selective quantization and coding for wavelet-based image compression" (Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2005), pages: pp. 209-12.
Sermadevi, Y.; Jun, Chen; Hemami, S. S.; Berger, T.. "When is bit allocation for predictive video coding easy?" (Snowbird, UT, USA, 2005), pages: pp. 289-98.
Tian, Chao; Hemami, Sheila S.. A new class of multiple description scalar quantizer and its application to image coding. IEEE Signal Processing Letters 12, 329-332 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2005.843764
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